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Mountain ash (Sorbus aucuparia L.) is a prominent representative of phenolic medicinal plants. A widespread and cultivated plant, it has a sufficient raw material base not only of fruits, but also of other parts of the plant (leaves, flowers); it is a promising source of biologically active complexes for the development of new medical drugs. In the work, the content of the main groups of phenolic compounds in plant extracts from fruits, leaves and flowers of S. aucuparia L. was determined. Extracts were obtained using the original technology with acidified 95% ethanol. The content of the sum of phenolic compounds was determined, as well as the content of anthocyanins, flavonoids, phenolic acids, tannins. The effect of these phenol-containing complexes on the development of transplanted tumors (Lewis lung carcinoma, lung cancer-67) and the effectiveness of cyclophosphane treatment were studied. It was revealed that the use of plant complexes leads to a significant inhibition of the development of metastases in the lungs, as well as an increase in the antitumor and anti-metastatic activity of cyclophosphane in combined treatment. The new data obtained are of interest for further study of these phenol-containing complexes in order to create drugs based on them to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy for malignant neoplasms.

We studied the effect of an anthocyanin-containing complex from Sorbus aucuparia L. on the main indicators of erythropoiesis in the blood and bone marrow of mice against the background of doxorubicin treatment. It was shown that administration of an anthocyanincontaining complex from S. aucuparia L. prevented the development of anemic syndrome by stimulating regeneration of the erythroid lineage of hematopoiesis after its devastation by single administration of the cytostatic.

The results of studying the effect of the anthocyanin-containing complex from Sorbus aucuparia L. on the main indicators of erythropoiesis in the blood and bone marrow of mice with Lewis lung carcinoma against the background of doxorubicin administration were presented. It was shown that administration of the anthocyanin-containing complex from S. aucuparia L. to animals with the tumor prevented the development of anemic syndrome by promoting regeneration of the erythropoiesis after its depletion caused by single administration of a cytostatic agent.

The results of studying the effect of the anthocyanin-containing complex from Sorbus aucuparia L. on the main indicators of erythropoiesis in the blood and bone marrow of mice with Lewis lung carcinoma against the background of doxorubicin administration were presented. It was shown that administration of the anthocyanin-containing complex from S. aucuparia L. to animals with the tumor prevented the development of anemic syndrome by promoting regeneration of the erythropoiesis after its depletion caused by single administration of a cytostatic agent.

We studied the effect of an anthocyanin-containing complex from Sorbus aucuparia L. on the main indicators of erythropoiesis in the blood and bone marrow of mice against the background of doxorubicin treatment. It was shown that administration of an anthocyanincontaining complex from S. aucuparia L. prevented the development of anemic syndrome by stimulating regeneration of the erythroid lineage of hematopoiesis after its devastation by single administration of the cytostatic.

The composition of phenolic compounds of rowanberry (Sorbus aucuparia L.) fruit extracts prepared with 40% ethanol and 95% acidified ethanol was studied. The differences in the content of flavonoids, including anthocyanins, and phenolic acids were shown. It was found that the antimetastatic activity of cyclophosphamide was most efficiently increased by the rowanberry fruit extract in 95% acidified ethanol enriched in anthocyanins. The aim of the present research was to investigate the effect of hydroalcoholic extracts of rowanberry fruit on the development of Lewis lung carcinoma and the antitumor activity of cyclophosphamide and to reveal the most effective extract containing a phenolic complex for its further study as a promising drug.

The effects of Fructus Sorbi aucupariae extract, originally saturated with anthocyans, on the development of Lewis lung carcinoma and B-16 melanoma in C57Bl/6 mice and the efficiency of cyclophosphamide treatment were studied. Antitumor activity of the extract and potentiation of the antimetastatic activity of the cytostatic were demonstrated. Studies on melanoma B-16 model revealed an increase in the counts of stromal progenitor cells in the tumor node and their accelerated maturation after treatment with the extract. No effects towards the tumor stem and committed cells were detected.

S. A. Geras'kin t, L. M. Zimina 2, V. G. Dikarev 1, N. S. Dikareva ~, V. L. Zimin 2, D. V. Vasii'ev 1, L. D. Blinova 2, N. V. Isaikina m, and E. B. Nesterov 1 t All-Russia Research Institute of Agricultural Radiology and Agricultural Ecology, Obninsk, Kaluga oblast, 249020 Russia 2 Laboratory of Regional Ecological Monitoring, Khlopin Radium Institute Production Association, Sosnovyi Bor, Leningrad oblast, 188537 Russia Received December 14, 1999