[The effect of spirobromin and prospidin on acute and chronic inflammation in rats].

The effects of new antitumor drugs spirobromin and prospidin on acute (carraghenin-induced rat paw edema) and chronic ("pellet granuloma") inflammation in rats were studied. The drugs were found to exert the anti-inflammatory effect on the model of chronic proliferative inflammation but to produce no significant changes in the degree of the acute inflammatory reaction. Spirobromin is superior to prospidin by the power of the anti-inflammatory effect. The electron microscopic studies showed that spirobromin and prospidin decrease the activity of fibroblasts in the focus of chronic inflammation.