The serotonin precursor 5-hydroxytryptophan elevates serum leptin levels in mice.

abstract：:The concentration dependences of the Ca(2+)-sensitizing and the phosphodiesterase-inhibitory effects of levosimendan (the (-) enantiomer of [[4-(1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-4-methyl-6-oxo-3-pyridazinyl)phenyl]hydrazono]propanedinitrile) and its active metabolite, OR-1896 (the (-) enantiomer of N-[4-(1,4,5,6-tetrahydro-4-methyl...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Szilágyi S,Pollesello P,Levijoki J,Kaheinen P,Haikala H,Edes I,Papp Z

更新日期：2004-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolterodine is a new muscarinic receptor antagonist intended for the treatment of urinary urge incontinence and other symptoms related to an overactive bladder. The aim of the present study was to compare the antimuscarinic properties of tolterodine with those of oxybutynin, in vitro and in vivo. Tolterodine effective...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Nilvebrant L,Andersson KE,Gillberg PG,Stahl M,Sparf B

更新日期：1997-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have recently suggested a principal role of adenosine in the pathogenesis of radiocontrast media-induced nephropathy. In the present experiments, we therefore investigated the renal protective effects of 8-(noradamantan-3-yl)-1,3-dipropylxanthine (KW-3902), a potent and selective adenosine A1 receptor ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Yao K,Heyne N,Erley CM,Risler T,Osswald H

更新日期：2001-02-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Deprenyl, used clinically in Parkinson's disease, has multiple pharmacological effects which make it a good candidate to treat neurotoxicity. Thus, we investigated deprenyl's ability to attenuate methamphetamine-induced dopamine neurotoxicity. We also examined deprenyl's effect in changing markers associated with psyc...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Davidson C,Chen Q,Zhang X,Xiong X,Lazarus C,Lee TH,Ellinwood EH

更新日期：2007-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of chronic neuroleptic treatment on the concentrations of homovanillic acid (HVA) and 3,4-dihydroxy-phenylacetic acid (DOPAC) in the rat substantia nigra (SN) and corpus striatum (CS) were determined. Acute haloperidol and alpha-flupenthixol increased HVA and DOPAC in the CS but after chronic treatment no ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Nicolaou NM

更新日期：1980-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:K(+)-channel blocker properties have been reported for mast cell-degranulating peptide (MCD) in the central nervous system, but its action mechanism in mast cells remains unknown. We studied the effect of MCD on the membrane potential of rat peritoneal mast cells using the fluorescent probe bis-oxonol. Unexpectedly, M...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Mousli M,Bronner C,Bueb JL,Landry Y

更新日期：1991-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies show that naringenin promotes insulin sensitivity in fructose-fed rats. This study investigates whether naringenin prevents oxidative events and apoptotic changes triggered in the rat liver by a high fructose diet. Male Wistar rats of body weight 150-180 g were fed either diet containing starch (60% c...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Kannappan S,Palanisamy N,Anuradha CV

更新日期：2010-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Three membrane preparations of rat cortex were used to examine the effects of GABA, bicuculline and bicucine on specific 3H-diazepam binding. In the crude synaptosomal fraction, GABA had no effect on either the maximal binding capacity (Bmax) or dissociation constant (KD) of 3H-diazepam binding. Bicuculline and bicuci...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Chiu TH,Rosenberg HC

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aims to investigate the role of zolpidem in lithium-pilocarpine induced status epilepticus (SE) and probable mechanisms involved in seizure threshold alteration. In the present study, lithium chloride (127mg/kg) was administered 20h prior to pilocarpine (60mg/kg) to induce SE in adult male Wistar rats. Diff...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Eslami SM,Ghasemi M,Bahremand T,Momeny M,Gholami M,Sharifzadeh M,Dehpour AR

更新日期：2017-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe depletion of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) by para-chlorophenylalanine (pCPA, 150 mg/kg per day x3) did not alter the hypophagic effect of d-fenfluramine (1-3 mg/kg i.p.) 1 h after food presentation in 24-h food-deprived rats, and moderately and comparably increased the hypophagic effects of its metabolite, d-norf...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Gibson EL,Kennedy AJ,Curzon G

更新日期：1993-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the selective angiotensin AT2 receptor ligands, CGP 42112B (Nic-Tyr-(N alpha-benzoyloxycarbonyl-Arg)Lys-His-Pro-Ile-OH) and PD 123319 ((s)-1-[[4-(dimethylamino)-3-methyl-phenyl]methyl]-5-(diphenylacetyl+ ++)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydro-1H-imidazo[4,5-c]-pyridine-6-carboxylic...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Macari D,Whitebread S,Cumin F,De Gasparo M,Levens N

更新日期：1994-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of morphine tolerance-dependence and abstinence on 5-HT1A receptors in brain regions and spinal cord of the rat were determined. Tolerance to and physical dependence on morphine was induced in male Sprague-Dawley rats by implanting six morphine pellets (each containing 75 mg of morphine free base) during a...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Gulati A,Bhargava HN

更新日期：1990-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently shown that responses to pressor nerve stimulation in the pithed rat are mediated by α(1A)- and α(1D)-adrenoceptors, with no evidence for α(2)-adrenoceptor involvement, and that responses previously identified as α(2)-adrenoceptor mediated are actually α(1D)-adrenoceptor mediated. We have now re-examin...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Docherty JR

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between morphine tolerance and pituitary-adrenocortical activity was examined. In rats made tolerant to morphine by implantation of morphine-containing pellets, there was a significant reduction in plasma levels of beta-endorphin-like immunoreactivity (beta-END-LI), whereas no significant changes in c...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Antonio Martínez J,Vargas ML,Fuente T,Del Rio Garcia J,Milanés MV

更新日期：1990-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The calmodulin inhibitor 1,3-dihydro-1-[1-((4-methyl-4H,6H-pyrrolo[1,2-a]-[4,1]benzoxazepin - 4-yl)methyl)-4-piperidinyl]-2H-benzimidazol-2-one maleate (CGS 9343B) caused a reversible block of voltage-activated Ca2+, Na+, and K+ currents in differentiated rat pheochromocytoma (PC12) cells. The drug also inhibited nico...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Neuhaus R,Reber BF

更新日期：1992-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The latest findings indicate the huge therapeutic potential of stem cells in regenerative medicine, including the healing of chronic wounds. Main stem cell types involved in wound healing process are: epidermal and dermal stem cells, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs), endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and hematopoietic ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Kucharzewski M,Rojczyk E,Wilemska-Kucharzewska K,Wilk R,Hudecki J,Los MJ

更新日期：2019-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of several pyrolysate mutagens on the benzodiazepine and GABA receptors was investigated. Of amino-gamma-carbolines, Trp-P-1 antagonized the suppressive effect of diazepam on the pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsions and death, whereas Trp-P-2 by itself precipitated seizures and death in male mice. Both Trp...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Muraki T,Yamazoe Y,Kato R

更新日期：1984-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently two tetrapeptide ligands that bind preferentially to the mu-opioid receptor were identified and named endomorphin-1 and endomorphin-2. We examined the ability of these peptides to stimulate G protein activation in human mu-opioid receptor transfected B82 fibroblasts as measured by [35S]GTPgammaS binding to ce...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Hosohata K,Burkey TH,Alfaro-Lopez J,Varga E,Hruby VJ,Roeske WR,Yamamura HI

更新日期：1998-04-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether the Ca2+ channel function in the resting state alters the resting tone in femoral and carotid arteries from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) at early hypertensive stages (6 and 4 weeks of age), and data were compared with findings in age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY). Strips of ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Asano M,Matsuda T,Hayakawa M,Ito KM,Ito K

更新日期：1993-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of endogenous aspartic acid (Asp), glutamic acid (Glu) and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) was investigated in synaptosomes prepared from various regions of the rat brain. The basal release of Asp, Glu and GABA from various regions was 12-35, 24-107 and 15-43 pmol/min per mg protein, respectively. Exposure ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Kamisaki Y,Hamahashi T,Hamada T,Maeda K,Itoh T

更新日期：1992-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized the tachykinin NK(2) receptor-mediated contraction and vectorial ion transport responses in the muscularis mucosae and mucosa of the rat isolated distal colon, respectively. The tachykinin NK(2) receptor-selective antagonist nepadutant (c([(beta-D-GlcNAc)Asn-Asp-Trp-Phe-Dpr-Leu]c(2beta-5beta))) p...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Patacchini R,Cox HM,Ståhl S,Tough IR,Maggi CA

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we have investigated the effects of maternal caffeine intake (1 g/l) on MK-801-induced hyperlocomotion in rat pups. Animals submitted to caffeine treatment during the gestational and lactational period were separated in two groups: caffeine-treated group (up to 21 days old) and washout group (caffeine treatment u...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： da Silva RS,Hoffman A,de Souza DO,Lara DR,Bonan CD

更新日期：2005-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver fibrosis is involved in the progression of most chronic liver diseases. Even though we have made a huge progress in order to understand the pathogenesis of liver fibrosis, however, there is still a lack of productive treatments. Being a traditional Chinese medicine, Platycodin D (PD), an oleanane kind of triterp...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Liu YM,Cong S,Cheng Z,Hu YX,Lei Y,Zhu LL,Zhao XK,Mu M,Zhang BF,Fan LD,Yu L,Cheng ML

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The sciatic nerve in the right thigh was divided in 40 rats and the nerve stumps then sewn together with two microsutures. The treated animals, 20 rats, had daily subcutaneous administration of a bovine cortex ganglioside mixture. The controls, 20 rats, received the solvent alone. At 21 days after nerve division it wa...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Kleinebeckel D

更新日期：1982-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present studies was to investigate the effect of voluntary ethanol consumption for 21 days on the brain beta-endorphin system of C57BL/6 (alcohol-preferring) and DBA/2 (alcohol-avoiding) strains of mice. As expected, C57BL/6 mice consumed a significantly higher quantity of the 10% ethanol solution...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： De Waele JP,Gianoulakis C

更新日期：1994-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Prevention and restoration of hepatic fibrosis from chronic liver injury is essential for the treatment of patients with chronic liver diseases. Vitamin C is known to have hepatoprotective effects, but their underlying mechanisms are unclear, especially those associated with hepatic fibrosis. Here, we analyzed the imp...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Yu SJ,Bae S,Kang JS,Yoon JH,Cho EJ,Lee JH,Kim YJ,Lee WJ,Kim CY,Lee HS

更新日期：2015-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfected Chinese hamster ovary cells expressing human alpha2A-, alpha2B- and alpha2C-adrenoceptor subtypes were used to monitor alpha2-adrenoceptor-stimulated GTP hydrolysis. Incubation with 100 microM (-)-adrenaline resulted in stimulation of pertussis toxin-sensitive GTPase by 380% after activation of the alpha2A...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Jansson CC,Pohjanoksa K,Lang J,Wurster S,Savola JM,Scheinin M

更新日期：1999-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Two reserpine dosage schedules were applied to Wistar rats (a) 5 mg/kg i.p. 6 hr before sacrifice and (b) 5 mg/kg i.p. at 36, 24 and 12 hr prior to sacrifice. Control animals were correspondingly sham-injected. The coeliac-mesenteric ganglion complex was removed and processed either for the Falck-Hillarp fluorescence ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Lever JD,Presley R,Santer RM,Lu KS

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal and human pharmacological studies indicate that the antipsychotic action of cyamemazine results from blockade of dopamine D(2) receptors, its anxiolytic properties from serotonin 5-HT(2C) receptor antagonism and the low incidence of extrapyramidal side effects from a potent 5-HT(2A) receptor antagonistic action...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Benyamina A,Arbus C,Nuss P,Garay RP,Neliat G,Hameg A

更新日期：2008-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to define some of the cellular mechanisms of action of serotonin on cerebral vascular muscle. Application of serotonin to cat basilar artery resulted in a dose dependent depolarization and contraction beginning at 10(-8) M. The correlation coefficient relating the degree of force development ...

journal_title：European journal of pharmacology

authors： Harder DR,Waters A

更新日期：1983-09-16 00:00:00