Phenotropil (Phenylpiracetam)
Phenotropil is a nootropic drug, has a pronounced antiamnestic effect, has a direct activating effect on the integrative activity of the brain, promotes memory consolidation, improves concentration of attention and mental activity, facilitates the learning process, increases the speed of information transfer between hemispheres of the brain, increases the resistance of brain tissue to hypoxia and toxic effects, has anticonvulsant action and anxiolytic activity, regulates the processes of activates and inhibition of the central nervous system, improves mood.
Phenotropil has a positive effect on the metabolic processes and blood circulation of the brain, stimulates redox processes, increases the energy potential of the body through the utilization of glucose, improves the regional blood flow in the ischemic areas of the brain. Increases the content of norepinephrine, dopamine and serotonin in the brain, does not affect the level of GABA, binds neither to GABA nor to GABAB receptors, does not have a significant effect on spontaneous bioelectrical activity of the brain.
Phenotropil has no effect on respiration and cardiovascular system, shows an unexpressed diuretic effect, has anorexigenic activity in course use.
The stimulating effect of phenothropil is manifested in its ability to exert a moderately pronounced effect on motor reactions, in increasing physical performance, in pronounced antagonism to the catalepytic action of neuroleptics, and in the weakening of the expression of the hypnotics of ethanol and hexenal.
Psycho-stimulating effect of phenylpiracetam prevails in the ideator sphere. Moderate psychostimulant effect of the drug is combined with anxiolytic activity, improves mood, has some analgesic effect, increasing the threshold of pain sensitivity.
Adaptogenic action of phenothropil is manifested in increasing the body's resistance to stress in conditions of excessive mental and physical exertion, fatigue, hypokinesia and immobilization, at low temperatures.
Against the background of taking Fenotropil, there is an improvement in vision, which is manifested in an increase in the severity, brightness and fields of vision.
Phenotropil improves the blood supply of the lower extremities.
Phenotropol stimulates the production of antibodies in response to antigen administration, which indicates its immunostimulating properties, but at the same time it does not promote the development of immediate type hypersensitivity and does not change the allergic skin inflammatory reaction caused by the introduction of a foreign protein.
In the course of the use of Fenotropil, drug dependence, tolerance, and "withdrawal syndrome" do not develop.
The action of phenotropil appears with a single dose, which is important when using the drug in extreme conditions.
Phenotropil does not have teratogenic, mutagenic, carcinogenic and embryotoxic properties. Toxicity is low, the lethal dose in an acute experiment is 800 mg / kg.
