Pyrimidines in medical practice

More than 20 years ago, one of us (N. V. Lazarev) came to the idea of the urgent need to find drugs whose main pharmacological property would be the ability to accelerate regeneration processes, especially reparative. The history of these searches and the thoughts underlying them have already been repeatedly covered in monographs and collections (N. V. Lazarev, 1950; books edited by N. V. Lazarev, 1951, 1960, etc.). This article presents in a very concise form, on the one hand, the results of studying the effects on the body of pyrimidine derivatives, which include the most effective stimulators of regenerative processes identified so far, and on the other, various therapeutic tasks, the resolution of which has become more feasible thanks to the use of pyrimidines.