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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The original peptide complex affects the prostate tissue oxygen consumption rate in rats
1 Kazan State Medical University, Kazan, Russia
2 Mother and Child Clinic, Kazan, Russia
3 Bekbotov Nazran Central District Hospital, Magas, Russia
4 Republican Center for Disaster Medicine and Emergency Care, Magas, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Alexey O. Lobkarev
Daurskaya 34А, Kazan, 420087, Russia; ur.liam@verakboloa
Author contribution: Lobkarev AO — concept, research procedure, material processing, manuscript editing; Muzhekhoev AA, Dzhandigov RB, Evloev MK, Korigov IA — literature review, statistical processing, manuscript writing.
Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Kazan State Medical Academy (protocol No. 3/05 dated 06 May 2015). Animals were kept and handled in accordance with the requirements of the Declaration of Helsinki.
Despite the successful practice of using the Russian-made original peptide complex (OPC), the complex pharmacodynamics is poorly understood. The study aimed to assess the effect of taking OPC on the prostate tissue oxygen consumption rate (OCR) in white outbred rats. The experiments involved 65 adult male white outbred rats (age 6 months, body weight 410.8 ± 2.7 g). The rats were kept under standard vivarium condition, each in a separate cage; the diet and drinking regime were standard. The difference in animal housing was that animals of the experimental group (n = 49) received OPC throughout 20 days before the day of the experiment: every day 0.35 mg (0.85 mg/kg) of the drug were dissolved in 20 mL of the drinking water the animals drank from the trough. The drug was not administered to the control group (n = 16). A prostatectomy was performed. The prostate tissue OCR was measured using the DKTP-03 optical dissolved oxygen sensor with a thermoelectric converter. The О2 concentration readings (ConО2) in mg/L were recorded every minute throughout 60 min. Significant intergroup differences in ConО2 values in the end of the experiment were found (р < 0.05). It has been shown that OPC increases the prostate tissue OCR in white outbred rats.
Keywords: innovations, original peptide complex, prostate, demography, oxygen consumption rate