Intermittent Hypoxic Training as an Effective Tool for Increasing the Adaptive Potential, Endurance and Working Capacity of the Brain.

This review is devoted to the phenomenon of intermittent hypoxic training and is aimed at drawing the attention of researchers to the necessity of studying the mechanisms mediating the positive, particularly neuroprotective, effects of hypoxic training at the molecular level. The review briefly describes the historical aspects of studying the beneficial effects of mild hypoxia, as well as the use of hypoxic training in medicine and sports. The physiological mechanisms of hypoxic adaptation, models of hypoxic training and their effectiveness are summarized, giving examples of their beneficial effects in various organs including the brain.

Neuroprotective properties of l-carnosine in the brain slices exposed to autoblood in the hemorrhagic stroke model in vitro.

Neuroprotective properties of L-carnosine have been studied in our in vitro model on olfactory cortex slices of hypertensive rats under a long autoblood (blood clot) influence. Application of L-carnosine (5 mg/ml) on slices before autoblood influence leads to restoration of the activity of glutamatergic and GABA-ergic receptors inhibited in the presence of autoblood and interferes with swelling of slices. L-carnosine protects a bioelectric activity of nervous cells in case of long influence of autoblood and also renders an anti edema effect.