The influence of simvastatin on lipase and cholesterol esterase activity in the serum of men with coronary heart disease.

abstract：:Lipid peroxidation increased both in the liver homogenates and in the hepatic mitochondrial fraction of bile duct ligated (BDL)-rats. Although mitochondrial superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity did not change in the liver, glutathione (GSH) levels and glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px) activity decreased in hepatic mitoch...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Alptekin N,Mehmetçik G,Uysal M,Aykaç-toker G

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sesquiterpene lactones (SL) are natural bioactive molecules indicated as potential scaffolds for anti-inflammatory and analgesic drug design. However, their anti-inflammatory applicability remains underestimated since the impact of SL on inflammatory nociception and tissue repair are overlooked. Thus, we used an integ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Silva LP,Santos EC,Borges BA,Veloso MP,Chagas-Paula DA,Gonçalves RV,Novaes RD

更新日期：2020-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Leishmaniases are severe vector-borne diseases affecting humans and animals, caused by Leishmania protozoans. Over one billion people and millions of dogs live in endemic areas for leishmaniases and are at risk of infection. Immune polarization plays a major role in determining the outcome of Leishmania infections: ho...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Varotto-Boccazzi I,Epis S,Arnoldi I,Corbett Y,Gabrieli P,Paroni M,Nodari R,Basilico N,Sacchi L,Gramiccia M,Gradoni L,Tranquillo V,Bandi C

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our preliminary data suggested that 1,4-bis(1-naphthyl)-2,3-dinitro-1,3-butadiene [Viale M, Ottone M, Chiavarina B, Mariggiò MA, Prevosto C, Dell'Erba C, et al. Preliminary evaluation in vitro of the inhibition of cell proliferation, cytotoxicity and induction of apoptosis by 1,4-bis(1-naphthyl)-2,3-dinitro-1,3-butadi...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Dell'Erba C,Chiavarina B,Fenoglio C,Petrillo G,Cordazzo C,Boncompagni E,Spinelli D,Ognio E,Aiello C,Mariggiò MA,Viale M

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the P(2)-purinoceptor antagonist pyridoxal-phosphate-6-azophenyl- 2('),4(')- disulphonic acid (PPADS), the nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor N(G)-nitro- l -arginine (l -NOARG), the K(+)-channel blocker apamin, the pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP) antagonist PACAP(6-38) and the s...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Rózsai B,Lázár Z,Benkó R,Barthó L

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrhythmia can be a serious complication during general anaesthesia of patients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias and using antiarrhythmic drugs. The aim of the present experiments was to establish the way in which lidocaine and verapamil influence haemodynamic parameters of rabbits after midazolam anaesthesi...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Wiktorowska A,Owczarek J,Orszulak-Michalak D

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:There is still a need to develop new effective medications for the treatment of ulcerative colitis, particularly for patients who are intolerant or resistant to first line therapies. This article compared the efficacy and safety of etrolizumab and infliximab in moderate to severe ulcerative colitis. METHODS...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Motaghi E,Ghasemi-Pirbaluti M,Zabihi M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of pediatric diabetes can be challenging. Strict glucose control can be accompanied by hypoglycemia and weight gain. Recently, there have been many developments in insulin preparations and delivery methods which make insulin levels more close to a physiologic pattern. Newly developed rapid/long acting analog...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Kim J,Kim SM,Nguyen HC,Redondo MJ

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1996, Dr. Costa was invited by Prof. Boris Astrachan, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to direct the research of the "Psychiatric Institute, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, at the University of Illinois at Chicago." He was asked to develop a seminal re...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Guidotti A,Grayson DR

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insulinotropic action of the meglitinide analogues KAD-1229, A-4166 and repaglinide was examined in rat pancreatic islets deprived of exogenous nutrient or incubated in the presence of nutrient secretagogues such as D-glucose and the methyl esters of pyruvic acid, succinic acid and glutamic acid. The meglitinide a...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Bakkali Nadi A,Zhang TM,Malaisse WJ

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first studies of histamine and diabetes date back to the 1950s. Since that time the involvement of histamine in diabetes was related to its well known vasoactive properties and permeability leakage effects. In particular, the first evidence for a correlation between histamine and diabetes arose in 1989 when an inc...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Pini A,Obara I,Battell E,Chazot PL,Rosa AC

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies clearly show that there is a relationship between endotoxemia and impaired vascular responsiveness. The aim of this study was to investigate whether treatment with the new potent PARP inhibitor PJ34 could prevent the vascular hyporesponsiveness induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Endotoxemia was induce...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Tasatargil A,Dalaklioglu S,Sadan G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quiescent hepatic stellate cell (HSC) activation and subsequent conversion into myofibroblasts is the central event in hepatic fibrosis pathogenesis. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), another vital participant in liver fibrosis, has the potential to initiate HSC activation, which promotes abundant myofibroblast...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Zhao H,Wang Z,Tang F,Zhao Y,Feng D,Li Y,Hu Y,Wang C,Zhou J,Tian X,Yao J

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the evolving advances in clinical approaches to obesity and its inherent comorbidities, the therapeutic challenge persists. Among several pharmacological tools already investigated, recent studies suggest that melatonin supplementation could be an efficient therapeutic approach in the context of obesity. In th...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Genario R,Cipolla-Neto J,Bueno AA,Santos HO

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular responses to hypoxia are heterogeneous and involve the release of vasodilators substances such as nitric oxide (NO) and prostacyclin (PGI(2)). In vitro studies have shown that Vitamin K(1) modulates the release of arachidonic acid (AA) in vascular cells, and thus inhibits the capacity of blood vessels to synt...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Tirapelli CR,Mingatto FE,De Godoy MA,Ferreira R,De Oliviera AM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atropine (5 mg/kg, s.c., twice daily) had no significant effect on 24-h water consumption on day 1 of treatment; on subsequent days the rats showed a significant increase. Procyclidine (5 mg/kg, s.c., twice daily) had a similar effect, except that the increase in daily water consumption began on the third day of treat...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Alharbi MM,Maickel RP

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Though the AMPA receptor has been implicated in several neurodegenerative processes (epilepsy, ischemia, spasticity), its role in cognition is yet to be clarified. The aim of this study was to assess in the rat the effects of the AMPA receptor antagonist NBQX (3.5, 7, 10, 20 and 30 mgkg(-1), i.p.) on learning and memo...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Pitsikas N,Rigamonti AE,Cella SG,Muller EE

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were treated with furosemide at intraperitoneal doses of 10, 20, and 30 mg kg(-1)day(-1)for 21 days, and some indices of thiamin status (liver, blood and urine thiamin concentrations, erythrocyte transketolase (TK) activity, and thiamin pyrophosphate (TPP) effect, which refers to the increase in TK activity in a ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Ali BH,Al-Qarawi AA

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were designed to evaluate the mechanisms of propofol and adenosine in rat atrial muscle. Atria were suspended in the isolated organ bath system for isometric tension recording and response to propofol and adenosine were tested in the absence and presence of glibenclamide, N(G)-nitro-arginine-methyl-ester (...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Cinel I,Gür S

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this investigation we have examined the effects of indomethacin, an inhibitor of the cyclooxygenase pathway of arachidonic acid, upon the kinetics of the release of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF) and of the expression of TNF gene by lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated human blood monocytes (BM). Following stimu...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Spatafora M,Chiappara G,D'Amico D,Volpes D,Melis M,Pace E,Merendino A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI), regarded as the prodromal stage before the clinical phase of Alzheimer's disease (AD), has been considered for early intervention. Unfortunately, many trials in this stage with drugs with single-target turned out to be little or no effect. Multi-targeting in nature based on the theory ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Zhang J,Yang C,Wei D,Li H,Leung EL,Deng Q,Liu Z,Fan XX,Zhang Z

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diarrhea is a common side effect experienced by cancer patients undergoing clinical chemotherapy, such as with 5-fluorouracil (5-FU). However, the precise mechanisms underlying 5-FU-induced diarrhea remain unclear. In the present study, we examined the role of neutrophil in 5-FU-induced diarrhea. Mice were given 5-FU ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Sakai H,Sagara A,Matsumoto K,Jo A,Hirosaki A,Takase K,Sugiyama R,Sato K,Ikegami D,Horie S,Matoba M,Narita M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic and chronic autoimmune inflammatory disorder affecting multiple joints. Various cytokines, chemokines and growth factors synergistically modulate the joint physiology leading to bone erosion and cartilage degradation. Other than these conventional mediators that are well establi...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Dinesh P,Rasool M

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evodiae fructus is a widely used herbal drug in traditional Chinese medicine. Evodia extract was found to inhibit hERG channels. The aim of the current study was to identify hERG inhibitors in Evodia extract and to investigate their potential proarrhythmic effects. Dehydroevodiamine (DHE) and hortiamine were identifie...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Baburin I,Varkevisser R,Schramm A,Saxena P,Beyl S,Szkokan P,Linder T,Stary-Weinzinger A,van der Heyden MAG,Houtman M,Takanari H,Jonsson M,Beekman JHD,Hamburger M,Vos MA,Hering S

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new class of methylfuroxans and methylfurazans arylthio, arylsulphinyl and arylsulphonyl substituted, characterized by vasodilating and antiaggregatory properties, is described. Vasodilating activity, tested on rabbit aortic rings percontracted with 1 microM noradrenaline, is enhanced by N-oxidation of the furazan r...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Ferioli R,Fazzini A,Folco GC,Fruttero R,Calvino R,Gasco A,Bongrani S,Civelli M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous gasotransmitter hydrogen sulphide (H2S) is an important regulator of the cardiovascular system, particularly of myocardial function. Moreover, H2S exhibits cardioprotective activity against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) or hypoxic injury, and is considered an important mediator of "ischemic preconditioning...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Testai L,Marino A,Piano I,Brancaleone V,Tomita K,Di Cesare Mannelli L,Martelli A,Citi V,Breschi MC,Levi R,Gargini C,Bucci M,Cirino G,Ghelardini C,Calderone V

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxidative stress is related to the progression of renal diseases and modulation of oxidative stress can lead to a reduction in vascular events in patients with chronic renal insufficiency (CRI). Indoxyl sulfate (IS) and xanthine oxidase (XO) are related to impaired neovasculogenesis in CRI. Hydralazine is suggested fo...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Chang TT,Chen JW

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic erectile dysfunction (DED) hugely affected the patients' sexual life quality. However, there are no satisfactory therapeutic methods and intervention targets for this subtype of erectile dysfunction (ED). Inspired by the clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), we found that hirudin, the main ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Yang R,Liu C,Li Q,Wang W,Wu B,Chen A,Wang B,Li W,Chen J

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autism-spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by persistent deficits in social communication and repetitive patterns of behavior. ASD is, however, often associated with medical comorbidities and gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction is among the most common. Studies have demonstrated a corr...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Israelyan N,Margolis KG

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:6-Mercaptopurine is a cytotoxic and immunosuppressant drug. The use of this drug is limited due to its poor bioavailability and short plasma half-life. In order to nullify these drawbacks, 6-mercaptopurine-chitosan nanoparticles (6-MP-CNPs) were prepared and evaluated to study the influence of preparation conditions o...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Kumar GP,Sanganal JS,Phani AR,Manohara C,Tripathi SM,Raghavendra HL,Janardhana PB,Amaresha S,Swamy KB,Prasad RG

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00