Nadejda N.Pshenkina 

Ph.D., biological science

Tel: +7 (812) 234 09 25
Fax: +7 (812) 234 37 47
E-mail: pshenkina@mail.ru

DATE OF BIRTH: September, 2   1954

POSITION: Leading  researcher, Department of Ecological Physiology

MAILING ADDRESS:
Department of Ecological Physiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine,
Pavlov street, 12, 197376,  St.-Petersburg, RUSSIA

EDUCATION:
1972-1978: Leningrad (St.-Petersburg) State University, Faculty of Biochemistry.
1985: Ph.D. thesis, Biochemistry.
1998: Senior researcher, speciality "Biochemistry".

WORK:
1972 – 1995 - the Scientific research institute of Military Medicine, Russian Federation.
(1972-1976: Laboratory assistant; 1976-1978: Senior laboratory assistant; 1978-1983: Junior researcher;  1983-1991: Research scientist; 1991-1995: Senior research scientist).
Since 1995 up-to-date - Senior research scientist.
Chief of the scientific-research group, Perfluorocarbons Research laboratory, the Medical Military Academy, named by S.M. Kirov, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
Since 2005 up-to-date - Leading researcher.
Department of ecological physiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, the Russian Academy of Medical Science.

RESEARCH INTERESTS, FIELDS OF EXPERTISE:
• Mechanisms of biological actions of radiation and highly toxic chemical substances;
• Biochemical mechanisms of non-specific resistance of an organism to action of injuring factors;
• Metabolic regulation of apoptosis;
• Not gas-carrying effects of artificial blood substitutes on the base of perfluorocarbon emulsions;
• Biotransformation of xenobiotics in an organism;
• Drugs interactions with serum albumin;
• Pharmacokinetics and drugs interference;
• Preclinical study of safety and harmlessness of new medical products.

NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS: More than 70.

Prozorovskii VB, Velikova VD, Pshenkina NN, Vasilenko ET. The comparative clinico-experimental characteristics of aminostigmine and galanthamine used for treating poisonings by choline-blocking substances //Eksp Klin Farmakol. 1996 Jan-Feb;59(1):64-7. Russian.

Legeza VI, Shagoian MG, Panov AN, Pshenkina NI, Buriakova LV, Turlakov IuS. The role of the endogenous opioid system in the mechanisms of the development of early postradiation autonomic and behavioral disorders // Radiats Biol Radioecol. 1995 Mar-Apr;35(2):195-9. Russian.

Bandman AL, Vasilenko ET, Pshenkina NN. Certain biochemical and behavioral effects of morphine in rats following amyzil administration // Biull Eksp Biol Med. 1981 Feb;91(2):185-8. Russian.

April 2006