Minimal Brain Dysfunction and Metals

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Here are some interesting abstracts from a Russian Medical journal on minimal

brain dysfunction in children and the effects of various metals in the body.

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Avdeyenko T.V, Gromova O.A, Burtsev E.M, Fedotova L.E.

A lowered magnesium content is the major metal deficiency status in minimal

cerebral dysfunction in children Vestnik, 1998, 3 (1): 70-72.

The incidence and grade of magnesium deficiency in minimal cerebral

dysfunction (MCD) in children, its

clinical features, and pharmacological correction of magnesium deficiency

with medication Magnesium and Vitamin B6 are discussed.

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Gromova O.A., Burtsev E.M., Avdeyenko T.V.

Metal homeostasis in children with minimal cerebral dysfunction

Vestnik, 1998, 3 (1): 59-64.

We studied homeostasis of 24 metals, using the data of hair tests in 68

children (aged 3-8 years) with

minimal cerebral dysfunction (MCD). The evidence of metal ligand homeostasis

deformation in the evaluated

children was both excessive level content of neurotoxic elements (plumbum,

aluminium, nickel, cadmium) and

deficiency in neuroactive ones (calcium, ferrous, copper, zinc, potassium,

manganese, selenium) with the

prevalence of magnesium deficiency.

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Gromova O.A., Burtsev E.M., Avdeyenko T.V.

Cerebrolysin: New sites of its activity

Vestnik, 1998, 3 (1): 65-69

On the basis of our findings we report a new approach to Cerebrolysin.

Cerebrolysin has proved to be both a

corrector of metal ligand homeostasis and immune-modulating medication

increasing resistance to upper

respiratory tract diseases in children with minimal cerebral dysfunction

which are exposed to frequent

illnesses. The evaluations of Cerebrolysin element composition have

identified in it a significant presence of

structural neuroactive elements (magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus)

and trace elements (zinc,

selenium, ferrous, cobalt, manganese, nickel, chromium, copper, vanadium and

lithium) possessing a certain

pharmacological neuroprotective and, therefore, immune-modulating activity of

the medication.

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Dr Mel C Siff

Denver, USA

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