[The pharmacological mechanisms of the radioprotective effect under whole-body conditions and the prospects of the search for radioprotectors].

On the basis of the current views of the pharmacological agents action and the analysis of the structural and functional mechanisms of the radioprotection realization a unitary hypothesis of the radioprotective effect development has been formulated. Three stages of its development in animals and humans have been distinguished. The proposed hypothesis allows to substantiate a strategy of the search for new antiradiation drugs.