[New possibilities in searching for immunomodulators among compounds with a steroid structure]

It was shown that a phytosteroid ecdisterone which is the principle of a new tonic drug ecdisten in doses of 5-20 mg/kg is able to stimulate the primary immune reaction slightly effecting the indices of T-cell immunity activity and phagocyte functions. On increasing ecdisterone dose to 50 mg/kg inhibition of the number of antibody cells in the mouse spleen was marked.