Research area
Brain & sleep
Neuroactive peptides, two of them registered medicines in Russia with evidence bases that never crossed the border, and one named after an effect it may not have.
Semax
ACTH(4-7)-Pro-Gly-Pro, Met-Glu-His-Phe-Pro-Gly-ProA registered Russian stroke medicine almost unknown in the West, with an evidence base that has never left its country of origin.
Brain & sleep
Not FDA-approved; registered in Russia
Selank
TP-7, tuftsin analogue, Thr-Lys-Pro-Arg-Pro-Gly-ProA Russian anxiolytic with a benzodiazepine-like profile, one comparative trial, and a sharply critical write-up in a Western pharmacology journal.
Brain & sleep
Not FDA-approved; registered in Russia
DSIP
delta sleep-inducing peptide, emideltide, Trp-Ala-Gly-Gly-Asp-Ala-Ser-Gly-GluNamed for an effect it may not have. Fifty years on, there is no DSIP gene, no receptor, and the one blinded insomnia trial was negative.
Brain & sleep
Not FDA-approved