Feasibility of novel atomic-molecular resuscitation tools.

Complex multifactor diseases are characterized by enhanced formation of toxic free radicals. The developed apparatuses based on electron paramagnetic resonance or nuclear magnetic resonance electrodialysis are therapeutic tools playing the role of atomic-molecular "artificial kidney" excreting anion and cation radicals from the organism. These tools can be used in medicine in combination with drug therapy to protect cells from toxic action of free radicals produced during metabolic neutralizing deactivation of exogenous toxic substances invading the organism.

Magnetic heterogeneity of biological systems.

In biological systems nonuniformity of magnetic susceptibility, magnetic heterogeneity, is a reflection of their physical-chemical and morphological heterogeneity, A characteristic value of heterogeneity is delta K approximately 10(-6)-10(-7) CGS units, a quantitative measurement of susceptibility of cells and other small objects, may give qualitatively new information about their life processes. Patterns and features of movement of small biological objects and liquids affected by magnetic forces were studied. A method was developed for measuring magnetic susceptibility of single microobjects based on observation of movement of the objects in a strong heterogeneous field with parameters (formula: see text) grad H2/2 approximately 10(9)-10(10) Oe2/cm.

Modes and classes of modes of action of physiologically active substances of receptor type under conditions of screening.

Questions of the identification of the type of pharmacological activity of physiologically active substances (PAS) with a receptor type of action under conditions of screening are examined. IN accordance with current concepts of the theory of the recognition of modes, the type of action of PAS was identified by establishing a set of criteria ("vectors of modes") characteristic of the effect of known substances and by selecting methods of comparing them with the vectors of the modes of the compounds being tested. Test parameters recorded by the the functional multiparametric method permitting identification of the type of the effects and an evaluation of their quantitative manifestations with the framework of a single experimental approach were used as the unknown set of criteria.

Prostaglandins, steroids and reception (an attempt to model the structure of the active centers of adrenoreception).

On the basis of numerous results of investigations on adrenergic systems, an orientational model of the adrenoreceptor (AR) is postulated. Its active center includes low-molecular-weight components--prostaglandins (PGE, PGF), steroids (cortisone, hydrocortisone), S+-adenosylmethionine, Ca, Mg, and Mn ions. Appraisal of the stereospecific characteristics of such a functional unit of AR explains the difference in the nature and magnitude of the effects of interaction of the catecholamines, their agonists and antagonists will the so-called alpha- and beta-AR.

Criteria for selection of physiologically active substances (pharmacometry under screening conditions).

The problem of quantitative evaluation of the pharmacological influence of physiologically active substances with receptor action on the organism under conditions of screening is discussed. A vector-significant criterion, based on a functional multiparameter method (FMM), is suggested as the basic characteristic of effectiveness of action. This criterion permits an evaluation of the latitude of the permissible physiological effect, the threshold of subtoxicity, and the selectivity of the action of the substance according to the dominant activity.