The effect of qualitatively different nutrition on various indicators of the functional status of the parasympathetic nervous system and blood proteins in students during an examination period
Kerimova, M.G.; Akhmedov, I.R.
Voprosy Pitaniia 6: 17-20
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8833 PMID: 2629248 Document Number: 334672
The investigations were conducted on two groups of students of the Baku Naval School (15 subjects in each group). It was shown that in the presence of traditional nutrition containing mainly meat and grain products and characterized by insufficient content of animal protein and milk products, the psychoemotional and mental stress by the end of the examination session, as compared to the period of the current studies, resulted in a significant growth of acetylcholine-like substances, alpha- and gamma-globulins, a tendency to an increased acetylcholinesterase concentration in their blood, most manifest on the day of passing the 3d examination, and a tendency to elevated cholinesterase activity on the day of passing the 4th examination; a significant decrease of protein content and albumin levels. Due to nutrition correction (mainly by the protein component) shifts in the content of protein and albumin levels, alpha- and gamma-globulins, acetylcholine-like substances in the blood were recorded by the end of the examination session, and were appreciably close to the values in the period of the current studies.