Prevention by dexrazoxane of down-regulation of ryanodine receptor gene expression in anthracycline cardiomyopathy in the rat.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Although picrotoxin is a well-established antagonist of GABA(A) receptors, detailed studies of its action on inhibitory synaptic transmission have not previously been made. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Electrophysiological techniques were used to study the action of picrotoxin on inhibitory postsynapti...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Korshoej AR,Holm MM,Jensen K,Lambert JD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Irritable bowel syndrome is characterized by visceral hyperalgesia commonly associated with stress and inflammatory processes. We investigated the role of tachykinin NK2 receptors in the ability of trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid (TNBS) and stress to enhance the sensitivity of the rat rectum to distension using a select...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Toulouse M,Coelho AM,Fioramonti J,Lecci A,Maggi C,Buéno L

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Two quinozalinediones, FG9041 and FG9065, which had previously been shown to displace binding to the quisqualate receptor, were tested on rat neocortex and frog spinal cord in vitro against depolarizations induced by quisqualate, kainate and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA). In both preparations effects of quisqualate w...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Fletcher EJ,Martin D,Aram JA,Lodge D,Honoré T

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Platelet-activating factor (PAF), an inflammatory mediator, plays an important role in mediating intestinal injury. However, it remains unclear whether PAF has a function in the intestine. The production of PAF by normal intestine and by unstimulated intestinal epithelial cell lines suggests that PAF may have a reg...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Tan XD,Chang H,Qu XW,Caplan M,Gonzalez-Crussi F,Hsueh W

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is an excitatory neuropeptide with central and peripheral cardiovascular actions. Intrathecal PACAP increases splanchnic sympathetic nerve activity and heart rate, but not mean arterial pressure (MAP). We hypothesize that the three PACAP ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Inglott MA,Lerner EA,Pilowsky PM,Farnham MM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In mouse pancreatic beta-cells the regulation of the diazoxide-sensitivity of the adenosine 5'-triphosphate-dependent K+ channel (K-ATP-channel) was examined by use of the patch-clamp technique. 2. In intact beta-cells incubated at 37 degrees C in the presence of 3 mM D-glucose, diazoxide did not affect the single ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Schwanstecher C,Dickel C,Ebers I,Lins S,Zünkler BJ,Panten U

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of baclofen, the GABAB-agent, on the potassium-evoked release of endogenous 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) from slices of mouse frontal cortex has been investigated. The release of endogenous 5-HT evoked by addition of K+ (35 mM) was inhibited by (+/-)-baclofen in a dose-dependent manner with an IC50 of 0.1 mic...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Gray JA,Green AR

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The effects of isoprenaline, propranolol and phosphodiesterase inhibitors on (3)H-transmitter overflow elicited by low frequency nerve stimulation were determined in the isolated perfused spleen of the cat.2 (-)-Isoprenaline (0.14, 1.4, and 14 nM) produced a concentration-dependent increase in [(3)H]-transmitter ove...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Celuch SM,Dubocovich ML,Lander SZ

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:delta 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol (delta 9-THC) was injected into the preoptic area of the anterior hypothalamus or into the third or fourth cerebral ventricle of the conscious mouse through a chronically implanted cannula and the effects on body temperature and oxygen consumption rate were measured. At an ambient temperat...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Fitton AG,Pertwee RG

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:beta-Amyloid peptide (Abeta) is implicated in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease by initiating a cascade of events from mitochondrial dysfunction to neuronal death. The metabolic enhancer piracetam has been shown to improve mitochondrial dysfunction following brain aging and experimentally i...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Kurz C,Ungerer I,Lipka U,Kirr S,Schütt T,Eckert A,Leuner K,Müller WE

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a salient feature of all solid tissues within the body. This complex, acellular entity is composed of hundreds of individual molecules whose assembly, architecture and biomechanical properties are critical to controlling the behaviour and phenotype of the different cell types residing...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hastings JF,Skhinas JN,Fey D,Croucher DR,Cox TR

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of the BJP, Green et al. suggest that animal data could not be used to predict the adverse effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in humans and that MDMA did not produce 5-HT neurotoxicity in the human brain. This proposal was, however, not accompanied by a review of the empirical evidence i...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Parrott AC

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The sodium channel is a primary target for treating central nervous system disorders such as epilepsy. In this study the anticonvulsant effect of BmK IT2, a sodium channel-specific neurotoxin, was evaluated in different animal models of epilepsy. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Experiments were performed ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Zhao R,Zhang XY,Yang J,Weng CC,Jiang LL,Zhang JW,Shu XQ,Ji YH

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:To study the importance of endothelium-derived contracting factors (EDCFs) in arteries of rats with type I diabetes. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Rat femoral arteries were collected four or twelve weeks after induction of diabetes with streptozotocin. Rings, with or without endothelium, were suspended ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Shi Y,Feletou M,Ku DD,Man RY,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The activity pattern of analogues of the enkephalins was determined in four parallel assays, the inhibition of the electrically evoked contraction of the guinea-pig ileum and mouse vas deferens at 36 degrees C and the inhibition of [(3)H]-naltrexone and [(3)H]-leucine-enkephalin binding at 0 to 4 degrees C in homoge...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Kosterlitz HW,Lord JA,Paterson SJ,Waterfield AA

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The involvement of peripheral nitric oxide (NO) in febrigenic signaling to the brain has been proposed because peripherally administered NO synthase (NOS) inhibitors attenuate lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced fever in rodents. However, how the unstable molecule of NO can reach the brain to trigger fever is unclear....

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Steiner AA,Rudaya AY,Ivanov AI,Romanovsky AA

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Losigamone is a novel anticonvulsant the mechanism of action of which is not known. This study investigated the effect of losigamone on spontaneous, NMDA- and AMPA-induced depolarizations in the cortical wedge preparation of the DBA/2 mouse (which are susceptible to sound-induced seizures) and on endogenous amino a...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Srinivasan J,Richens A,Davies JA

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The bladder urothelium is now known to have active properties. Our aim was to investigate the contractile properties of the urinary mucosa in response to the tachykinin neurokinin A (NKA) and carbachol. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Discrete concentration-response curves for carbachol and NKA were obtai...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Sadananda P,Chess-Williams R,Burcher E

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. 5-Hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) is known to produce a number of different effects in the gastrointestinal tract of various species, and has been proposed to play a key role in a number of intestinal disorders in man, including irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), although the receptors involved have yet to be established. Th...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Borman RA,Tilford NS,Harmer DW,Day N,Ellis ES,Sheldrick RL,Carey J,Coleman RA,Baxter GS

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Down's syndrome is a common genetic cause of intellectual disability, for which there are no drug therapies. Mechanistic studies in a model of Down's syndrome [Ts65Dn (TS) mice] demonstrated that impaired cognitive function was due to excessive neuronal inhibitory tone. These deficits were normal...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Colas D,Chuluun B,Warrier D,Blank M,Wetmore DZ,Buckmaster P,Garner CC,Heller HC

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dimebolin (latrepirdine), a compound with multiple potential drug targets, is being evaluated in clinical trials for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and preliminary results suggest it can slow the disease process. There is also evidence that dimebolin directly improves aspects of cognition. Here we...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Webster SJ,Wilson CA,Lee CH,Mohler EG,Terry AV Jr,Buccafusco JJ

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This study was undertaken to evaluate in vivo the influence of amiodarone on the effects of triiodothyronine (T3) in brown adipose tissue (BAT) which are independent of thyroid hormone synthesis and of the conversion of thyroxine (T4) to T3. Thyroidectomized rats were given a replacement dose of T3 (0.5 mg kg(-1) p...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Adli H,Bazin R,Perret GY

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This study compares a cyclo-oxygenase inhibitor (aspirin), a 5-HT2 antagonist (ZM170809) and a combined thromboxane synthase inhibitor/receptor antagonist (ZD1542) as adjuncts to tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA). 2. Application of an anodal current (332 +/- 4.1 microA) to the stenosed left circumflex coronary a...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： McAuliffe SJ,Moors JA,Jones HB

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. To see if arachidonic acid (AA) plays a role in the sustained suppression of voltage-gated calcium channel currents produced by muscarinic receptor stimulation by carbachol (CCh), the effects of AA on membrane currents were examined in whole-cell voltage-clamped smooth muscle cells of the guinea-pig ileum. 2. In ce...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Unno T,Komori S,Ohashi H

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The rat respiratory muscle diaphragm has markedly lower sensitivity than the locomotor muscle extensor digitorum longus (EDL) to the new acetylcholinesterase (AChE) inhibitors, alkylammonium derivatives of 6-methyluracil (ADEMS). This study evaluated several possible reasons for differing sensiti...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Petrov KA,Yagodina LO,Valeeva GR,Lannik NI,Nikitashina AD,Rizvanov AA,Zobov VV,Bukharaeva EA,Reznik VS,Nikolsky EE,Vyskočil F

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of a new kind of volatile anaesthetic, sevoflurane (Sev), on gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA)-gated chloride current (Icl) in single neurones dissociated from the rat hippocampal CA1 area were examined using the nystatin perforated patch recording configuration under the voltage-clamp condition. All drugs...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Wu J,Harata N,Akaike N

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The recently discovered benzodiazepine receptor exists in high concentration in the cerebral cortex. We have, therefore, examined the effects of diazepam and chlordiazepoxide on cortical neurone responses to excitatory and inhibitory amino acids and acetylcholine, in the cortex of rats anaesthetized with urethane.2 ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Assumpção JA,Bernardi N,Brown J,Stone TW

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We studied the effects of various K+ channel blockers on the vasodilator responses of guinea-pig isolated basilar arteries to nitrergic nerve stimulation, the nitric oxide (NO) donor sodium nitroprusside (SNP), and the membrane permeable guanosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic GMP) analogue 8-bromo-cyclic GMP ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Jiang F,Li CG,Rand MJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:YM471, (Z)-4'-[4,4-difluoro-5-[2-(4-dimethylaminopiperidino)-2-oxoethylidene]-2,3,4,5-tetrahydro-1H-1-benzoazepine-1-carbonyl]-2-phenylbenzanilide monohydrochloride, is a newly synthesized potent vasopressin (AVP) receptor antagonist. Its effects on binding to and signal transduction by cloned human AVP receptors (V(1...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Tsukada J,Tahara A,Tomura Y,Wada Ki,Kusayama T,Ishii N,Yatsu T,Uchida W,Taniguchi N,Tanaka A

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Histamine release by compound 48/80 was substantially reduced in a time-dependent manner (maximum at 30 min) by pre-incubating mast cells in calcium-free medium at 37 degrees C but not at 2 degrees C. This effect was optimal at pH 7.0 to 7.5. 2. The re-introduction of calcium (0.1 to 3 mmol/l) restored histamine re...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Garland LG,Payne AN

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00