G. A. Shakhmurova, V. Syrov, Z. Khushbaktova
May 25, 2010
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Pharmaceutical Chemistry Journal
Abstract
The phytoecdysteroids ecdysterone and turkesterone isolated from Rhaponticum integrifolium and Ajuga turkestanica herbs, respectively, increase the adaptation capacity of mice under immobilization-induced stress conditions. These compounds prevent involution of the thymicolymphatic system, decrease trophic disorders in gastric mucosa, prevent an increase in the weight of adrenal glands and a decrease in them of the content of ascorbic acid and cholesterol (to a much greater degree than does T-activin), and stimulate immunogenesis in animals with experimental immune deficiency developed on the background of immobilization-induced stress.