sovietrx beta

bromantane

An adamantane actoprotector (Ladasten in Russia) studied for work capacity under extreme conditions, later caught by WADA after the 1996 Atlanta positives.

Actoprotector · Soviet military-pharmacology line · N-(2-adamantyl)-N-(p-bromophenyl)amine

identity
bromantane / ladasten 2D structure from PubChem
formula

C₁₆H₂₀BrN


label bromantane / ladasten line actoprotector school Soviet military-pharmacology

iupac N-(2-adamantyl)-N-(p-bromophenyl)amine

pubchem CID 4660557

2D structure from PubChem open data (CID 4660557). Archive label only.

Key takeaways

What it is

Bromantane is the adamantane face of the actoprotector line: N-(2-adamantyl)-N-(p-bromophenyl)amine, marketed in Russia as Ladasten.

Soviet claims framed an “activation without tachycardia” profile; WADA’s ban after 1996 Atlanta positives is part of the public paper trail, not a clinical grade.

We feature it beside bemitil because the archive repeatedly pairs the two under heat-plus-load stress, while their proposed mechanisms diverge.

What the literature describes

Themed chapters drawn only from papers already mapped on this dossier. Archive map. No medical advice.

Endurance and behavioural load tests

Swim and stress-test papers report longer endurance under bromantane versus control in animal models of physical load.

Russian full text

Behavioural work in CD-1 mice describes effects on attention-resilience phenotypes in maze tests.

Russian full text

Immunomodulatory and cytokine readouts

Immunomodulatory papers appear in the PubMed map, including work on lymphocyte subpopulation shifts under ladasten.

PubMed

Reference compound in actoprotector screens

Comparative actoprotector screens treat bromantane / ladasten as a reference compound when testing newer adamantane and related scaffolds.

PubMed

Research trail

Pharmacology and sports-medicine literature mix Russian lab series with international doping-control and analogue papers. The endurance and anxiolytic-activation story is densest in Russian sources; the WADA / Atlanta trail is a separate public-record layer this archive also maps.

Open limits

Russian full-text papers

CyberLeninka full text from the archive corpus.

12 from corpus · more on Papers

Also on PubMed

8 curated · off-topic actoprotector-screen rows removed

Still open

Reviewed against the archive corpora on 2026-09-19. Source-grounded. No clinical claims. Archive / history / research only. No medical advice. No dosing, synthesis, sourcing, or health claims.

← back to the beta landing page