β3 adrenergic receptor activation relaxes human corpus cavernosum and penile artery through a hydrogen sulfide/cGMP-dependent mechanism.

abstract：:The hepatoprotective effects of acetylbergenin were examined against D -galactosamine (GalN)-induced liver damage in rats, compared with that of bergenin reported previously. Acetylbergenin was synthesized from acetylation of bergenin, isolated from Mallotus japonicus, to increase lipophilic and physiological activiti...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Lim HK,Kim HS,Choi HS,Oh S,Jang CG,Choi J,Kim SH,Chang MJ

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Psoriasis is one of the most common skin disorders characterized by erythematous plaques that result from hyperproliferative keratinocytes and infiltration of inflammatory leukocytes into dermis and epidermis. Recent studies suggest that IL-23/IL-17A/IL-22 cytokine axis plays an important role in the pathogenesis of p...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Nadeem A,Al-Harbi NO,Al-Harbi MM,El-Sherbeeny AM,Ahmad SF,Siddiqui N,Ansari MA,Zoheir KM,Attia SM,Al-Hosaini KA,Al-Sharary SD

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in women. Both Epidemiological and experimental studies indicate a positive correlation between alcohol consumption and the risk of breast cancer. While alcohol exposure may promote the carcinogenesis or onset of breast cancer, it may as well enhance the prog...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Wang Y,Xu M,Ke ZJ,Luo J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have demonstrated that any beneficial effects of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors (statins), of which simvastatin (Merck Sharp & Dohme) is an example, on coronary events are linked to their hypocholesterolemic properties. The in vivo effects of simvastatin treatment ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Pioruńska-Stolzmann M,Pioruńska-Mikołajczak A

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of compartment evolved in the contexts of radioactivity, physiology, pharmacology and tracer kinetics. Recently compartmental models have been compared with 'physiological models', even though in most cases the same, or stricter hypotheses, are necessary for the validity of these latter models. This paper ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Rescigno A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by hyperglycemia and several associated biochemical abnormalities. Diabetes leads to multiorgan complications that collectively reduce life expectancy. Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are nested within bone marrow (BM) niches whence they can be mobilized to the per...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Albiero M,Fadini GP

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer, the most prevalent cancer in women, remains the second in the list of cancer mortality, the majority of these fatalities resulted from estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) positive disease. ERα is well known for its function on breast cancer initiation and development and has become the most successful biomark...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Zhao Y,Zhao C,Lu J,Wu J,Li C,Hu Z,Tian W,Yang L,Xiang J,Zhou H,Deng Z,Huang J,Hong K

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen adult hypertensive patients of both sexes, classified as having 'medium' (total lipid profile 240-300 mg dl(-1)), and 'high' (total lipid profile >300 mg dl(-1)) baseline values, underwent serum lipids, lipoproteins and plasma fibrinolytic parameters evaluations after 3 months of cilnidipine treatment. Patient...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Ahaneku JE,Sakata K,Urano T,Takada Y,Takada A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the impact of benzodiazepine receptor agonist, midazolam and antagonist, flumazenil, on the rat frontal cortex slices oxygen consumption (QO(2)), in presence and absence of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA). QO(2) was polarographically determined, using the biological oxygen monitor. As it was pre...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Obradović DI,Savić MM,Andjelković DS,Ugresić ND,Bokonjić DR

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) have been shown to improve cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in the general population as well as in patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD). Statins' beneficial effects have been attributed to both cholesterol-lowering and cholesterol-independent "pleiotropic" properties. By their...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Kassimatis TI,Goldsmith DJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancer immunotherapy has come of age with the advent of immune checkpoint inhibitors. In this article we review how agonists for receptors of the innate immune system, the Toll-like receptors and the RIG-I-like receptors, impact anticancer immune responses. Treatment with these agonists enhances the activity of antica...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Bourquin C,Pommier A,Hotz C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is a major cause of chronic liver disease worldwide that afflicts human health. With the in-depth study of the disease, its pathogenesis has gradually become clear. Although great breakthroughs have been made in the research of ALD, the research and development of drugs related to ALD has...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Hu S,Li SW,Yan Q,Hu XP,Li LY,Zhou H,Pan LX,Li J,Shen CP,Xu T

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocoa contains flavonoids with antioxidant properties. The aim of this study was to ascertain the effect of cocoa intake on oxidative stress associated with a model of chronic inflammation such as adjuvant arthritis. Female Wistar rats were fed with a 5% or 10% cocoa-enriched diet or were given p.o. a quercetin suspen...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Ramos-Romero S,Pérez-Cano FJ,Ramiro-Puig E,Franch A,Castell M

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using cultured human keratinocytes, the present study investigates the role of nitric oxide (NO) in the mediation of the antiproliferative effects of ultraviolet light A (UVA). UVA treatment of cells (3-21 J cm (-2)) caused a time- and dose-dependent increase in nitrite formation in a micromolar range. This effect was...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Podhaisky HP,Klapperstück T,Riemschneider S,Wohlrab W

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of signaling cascades involved in the induction, promotion, and progression of cancer, although advanced in recent years, is still incomplete. Tracing the imbalance of the impaired, physiologically-essential cellular signaling that drives the neoplastic process is a complex issue. This review discuss...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Al-Wadei HA,Ullah MF,Al-Wadei MH

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite our insufficient understanding of the exact molecular mechanisms of general anesthetics and sedatives, every year millions of children are treated with these drugs in a seemingly safe manner. However, increasing evidence particularly from animal studies has suggested the possibility for deleterious effects in ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Ward CG,Loepke AW

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eltanolone is the lipid emulsion formulation, for intravenous use, of the steroid anaesthetic 5-beta-pregnanolone. We have screened this agent in malignant hyperthermia susceptible (MHS) Landrace swine to assess its potential to trigger the Malignant Hyperthermia (MH) syndrome in MHS subjects or to influence halothane...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Harrison GG,Dyer RA,Llewellyn RL,James MF

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) is a serious age-dependent human neurodegenerative disease, with multiple debilitating symptoms, including dementia, psychosis and significant motor deficits, but with little or no effective treatments. This comparative ligand autoradiographical study has quantified histamine H3 recepto...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Lethbridge NL,Chazot PL

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptive responses to stress are critical to enhance physical and mental well-being, but excessive or prolonged stress may cause inadaptability and increase the risks of psychiatric disorders, such as depression. GABABR signaling is fundamental to brain function and has been identified in neuropsychiatric disorders. K...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Deng SL,Hu ZL,Mao L,Gao B,Yang Q,Wang F,Chen JG

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A favourable option to management symptoms during menopausal transition is menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) but relation among MHT and risk of melanoma is controversial. This study aims to identify, analyse and present the evidence surrounding post-menopausal exogenous hormone therapy and the risk for melanoma in wome...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Tang X,Zhang H,Cui Y,Wang L,Wang Z,Zhang Y,Huo J,Cai J,Rinaldi G,Bhagavathula AS,Xiaopeng Y

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male weanling Wistar rats were fed a 4% cholestyramine diet and used as a model to demonstrate that a reduction in serum low density lipoproteins stimulates de novo cholesterogenesis leading to DNA synthesis and cell proliferation. Feeding this diet resulted in a decrease in serum very low density lipoproteins and low...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Kazanecki ME,Melhem MF,Spichty KJ,Kelly RH,Rao KN

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With more than four decades of clinical research and 25 years of clinical trials, much is known about the natural history of T1D before and after clinical diagnosis. We know that autoimmunity occurs early in life, that islet autoimmunity inevitably leads to clinically overt disease, and that some immune therapies can ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Lord S,Greenbaum CJ

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steroids (aldosterone and testosterone) and peptides of cerebral origin (angiotensin II and the tachykinins) control the salt intake of the rat. They arouse or suppress the behaviour and produce life-long enhancements of NaCl intake. Need-induced salt intake (salt appetite or salt hunger), which is the consequence of ...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Epstein AN

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New quick-acting blood schizontocides are needed to contain the spread of multiple drug resistant strains of P. falciparum and for the treatment of the cerebral malaria cases. A multiple drug resistant strain of P. yoelii nigeriensis resistant to mefloquine (128 mg/kg x 6 days), quinine (300 mg/kg x 7 days) and chloro...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Dutta GP,Bajpai R,Vishwakarma RA

更新日期：1989-07-01 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：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Thymidylate synthase (TS) expression levels appear to be related to response to 5-fluorouracil-(5-FU)-based chemotherapy in colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. Three polymorphisms have been proposed as modulators of TS expression: a tandemly repeated sequence (2R/3R) in the 5' UTR, a SNP (G>C) w...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Vignoli M,Nobili S,Napoli C,Putignano AL,Morganti M,Papi L,Valanzano R,Cianchi F,Tonelli F,Mazzei T,Mini E,Genuardi M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chrysin, a natural flavone compound found in plants, has anti-inflammatory activity that has been previously explained in part by the suppression of promoter activities of pro-inflammatory enzymes, cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). Here we present evidence that several chrysin deriva...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Cho H,Yun CW,Park WK,Kong JY,Kim KS,Park Y,Lee S,Kim BK

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:Rapid technological advances in genetics have created conceptual chaos regarding the genetics of drug response. Terms for differing concepts are used interchangeably: pharmacogenetics with pharmacogenomics, personalized medicine with personalized prescription. Biomarker has many definitions. The author prefers the con...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： de Leon J

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antidepressants, especially tricyclic agents (TCAs), are increasingly used in geriatric patients since depression is a common mood disorder in the elderly and the size of elderly population is increasing. Notwithstanding the importance of kinetics to better use of drugs, its study in the elderly (regarding TCAs) is no...

journal_title：Pharmacological research

authors： Furlanut M,Benetello P

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00