Actoprotectors
Soviet military and sports pharmacology (Vinogradov tradition). Small molecules studied for physical work under stress and low oxygen.
The actoprotector line grew out of Soviet military and sports pharmacology associated with V. M. Vinogradov and the Kirov Military Medical Academy tradition (Leningrad). The programme treated work capacity, hypoxia, and heat/load stress as experimental endpoints in animal and human military literature. Featured on this site: bemitil, ademol, and bromantane.
Bemitil (2-ethylthiobenzimidazole) is the older benzimidazole reference. Bromantane is the adamantane-class compound later listed on the WADA monitoring programme. Ademol is a Ukrainian registration outside the Soviet military and space programmes; it is now discontinued. Ethomersol appears among the wider archive compounds.
This archive maps that literature to sources. It recommends no use, dose, route, or schedule.