[Effect of neuropeptides modulating memory on the background and evoked electrical activity of the cerebral cortex in...

The encephalographic correlations of behavioural activity of oligopeptides from the group of memory neuromodulators and similar substances (arginine-vasopressin, a fragment of adrenocorticotropine ACTH4-7 and four its analogues, leu-enkephalin and melanostatine) were studied in rabbits. The encephalogram was activated by these drugs. The fraction of low-frequency components decreased, that of high frequency increased, the amplitude decreased. The effect of ACTH4-7 and vasopressin on the parameters of visual summary evoked potential was dose-dependent. Neuropeptides reduced the latent period and increased the amplitude of summary potentials or depressed these parameters depending on dose. The effects of vasopressin were long-term in nature and lasted for several weeks. The effects of fragments of ACTH and leu-enkephalin lasted for several hours.