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[The neurotropic activity of peptide immunomodulators]
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In this animal study, the abstract used four-day monitoring of free group behavior in an open field (Opto-Varimex) to examine peptide immunomodulators. The abstract reports that all studied peptide immunomodulators possessed a neuromodulating effect described as comparable with known drugs, changing the character of the circadian rhythms of motor activity and the dynamics of extinction of the orientation-investigation reaction. Compared with control, the activity of the studied drugs was distributed as follows: ethymizol > cerebrolysin > thymalin > nootropil > thymogen > T-activin > cortexin > dibazol.
Abstract
Four-day monitoring using standard methods of studying free group behavior of animals in an "open field" (Opto-Varimex, USA) showed that all the peptide immunomodulators under study possessed a neuromodulating effect comparable with that of known drugs. They change the character of the circadian rhythms of the animals' motor activity and the dynamics of extinction of the orientation-investigation reaction. In comparison with the control the activity of the drugs under study was distributed as follows: ethymizol > cerebrolysin > thymalin > nootropil > thymogen > T-activin > cortexin > dibazol.
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