[Serum amine oxidase activity in children with mental deficiency]

Correlation between a degree of mental deficiency and an activity of amine oxidase in blood serum as well as therapeutic efficiency of encephabole were found in children with mental deficiency of various genesis. Nootropile decreased the blood serum amine oxidase activity in the patients as well as the drug lowered the monoamine oxidase activity in brain mitochondria of young rats with antenatal hypoxia.