[Anti-influenza effect of bacterial RNAse and the pharmacokinetic basis of its administration in experimental studies]. / Protivogrippoznoe deistvie bakterial'noi RNKazy v éksperimente i farmakokineticheskoe obosnovanie sposoba vvedeniia ee v organizm.

Anti-influenzal action of bacterial and pancreatic RNAases was studied. It was shown in ovo that the RNAases had distinct virus inhibiting activity with respect to various strains of the grippe A virus and did not practically differ by their activity from remantadin but unlike it had inhibitory action on the grippe B virus. The anti-influenzal activity of bacterial RNAase in contrast to pancreatic one was detected not only in experiments with developing chick embryos but also in albino mice with lethal influenzal infection. The index of the animal protection by the preparation amounted to 54-90 per cent depending on the virus infecting dose and RNAase administration route, the lifespan of the animals being increased by 2.4 to 3.8 days. It was shown that the anti-influenzal effect of bacterial RNAase correlated with high levels of the exogenic enzyme in blood of the animals after the preparation intravenous administration. Elimination of RNAase was observed already within the first 4 hours after the experiment start. Intranasal administration allowed to increase the residence time of RNAase in blood up to 8 hours at the account of its gradual absorption from the administration site and the preparation availability increased more than 2-fold. The results provided the basis for recommending the intranasal route of bacterial RNAase administration for use in further investigation of RNAase antiviral activity.

[Inactivation characteristics of polyene macrolide antibiotics]. / Nekotorye osobennosti inaktivatsii polienovykh makrolidnykh antibiotikov.

Roseofungin, a pentaen was used as an example in investigation of certain characteristics of inactivation of polyenic antibiotics. An inactivation product of the antibiotic having no antiviral or antimycotic activity was isolated by TLC and column chromatography on Sefadex LH-20. UV, IR and EPR spectroscopy showed that this product was cys-tetraen without conjugation of the lactone carbonyl to the polyenic system.

[Antiviral action of carbonyl-conjugated pentaene macrolides]. / Protivovirusnoe deistvie karbonil-kon"iugirovannykh pentaenovykh makrolidov.

Clear antiviral activity of carbonyl-conjugated pentaene macrolides, such as flavofungin, mycothicin, brunefungin and flavopentin was shown on models with infectious and oncogenic viruses. The antibiotics were active against influenza A and B virus. The effect was most pronounced in the in vitro and in ovo systems. On a model of experimental influenza infection of mice with the lethal outcome, antiinfluenzal activity of flavofungin was comparable to that of remantadin. However, unlike the latter one flavofungin and brunefungin inhibited the growth of influenza B virus. The drugs had a pronounced inhibitory effect on variolavaccine virus and prevented formation of foci of cell neoplastic transformation infected with various strains of Rous sarcoma virus.