USING HEPTAPEPTIDE FOR TREATING ESSENTIAL TREMOR AND METHOD OF TREATING TREMOR

摘要

FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutics. ^ SUBSTANCE: there are offered agent and method of treating essential tremor (ET). The drug preparation Selanc on the basis of heptapeptide of general formula Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg-Pro-Gly-Pro is offered as the agent for treating it. Using the preparation enables higher clinical effectiveness in ET ensured by correction of neuropsycological disorders and less manifested kinetic tremor. ^ EFFECT: improvement of dynamic praxis (patients could repeat 2-3 series of movements independently), direct and complicated choice behaviour is shown; in two weeks after the termination of treatment a long-term positive effect has been noted. ^ 3 cl, 5 ex