Vestnik Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk SSSR · 1990
Effectiveness of geriatric preparations containing natural metabolites in studies on animals of different age
By Zapadniuk VI, Kuprash LP, Zaika MU et al.
The new geriatric agent Rikavit which contains natural metabolites, is described. Experimental trials have shown that this drug causes prolongation of the average and maximal life-span and normalization of the age-related changes in metabolic indices in experimental animals. It has also been found to increase the resistance of an aging organism to the hazardous effects (hypoxia, physical and medicamentous loads) and its adaptive potentials.