“…In our experiments of the last five years, synthetic (pyridoindoles) and natural substances (polysaccharides: glucomannan, beta-glucan; endogenous molecules: coenzyme Q 10 and carnosine; different substances and products of plant origin) with immunomodulatory and antioxidative effects were assessed in monotherapy by using experimental adjuvant arthritis (AA). These active substances decreased the progression of AA when administered to arthritic rats over the period of 28 days (Bauerova et al ., 2005a ; 2005b ; 2008a ; 2008b ; 2009 ; Drabikova et al ., 2009 ; Drafi et al ., 2010 ; Jančinova et al ., 2009 ; Kogan et al ., 2005 ; Mačičkova et al ., 2010 ; Poništ et al ., 2010 ; Sotnikova et al ., 2009 ; Štrosova et al ., 2008 , 2009 ). Recently we focused on combined therapy with Mtx and confirmed the potent effect of this drug in several experiments administered along with an appropriate antioxidative substance (Bauerova et al ., 2010 ; Jančinova et al ., 2010 ; Rovensky et al ., 2009a ).…”