Studies on the effect of MDMA ('ecstasy') on the body temperature of rats housed at different ambient room temperatures.

abstract：:The relaxin family peptides, although structurally closely related to insulin, act on a group of four G protein-coupled receptors now known as Relaxin Family Peptide (RXFP) Receptors. The leucine-rich repeat containing RXFP1 and RXFP2 and the small peptide-like RXFP3 and RXFP4 are the physiological targets for relaxin...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Halls ML,van der Westhuizen ET,Bathgate RA,Summers RJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The GABA-B receptor agonists baclofen and 3-aminopropylphosphinic acid (3-APPi) have antitussive activity in the cat and guinea pig. The purpose of this study was to investigate the sites of action of these GABA-B receptor agonists to inhibit the cough reflex. 2. Single intracerebroventricular (i.c.v.) cannulas wer...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bolser DC,DeGennaro FC,O'Reilly S,Chapman RW,Kreutner W,Egan RW,Hey JA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The role of sodium-calcium exchanger in acetylcholine (Ach)-induced hyperpolarization of intact endothelial cells was studied in excised rat aorta. The membrane potential was recorded using perforated patch-clamp technique. 2. The mean resting potential of endothelial cells was -44.1+/-1.4 mV. A selective inhibitor...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bondarenko A

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:1. Microvascular permeability in the mesentery and consequent leakage of protein into the peritoneum of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and normotensive rats (NTR) was measured in vivo by the extravasation of Evans blue dye. 2. In sensitized NTR, challenge with antigen produced extensive increases in dye extrava...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Kwasniewski FH,Tavares de Lima W,Bakhle YS,Jancar S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology, Ryberg et al. present convincing in vitro evidence that the orphan GPCR, GPR55, is a cannabinoid receptor. GPR55 was activated by a range of plant, synthetic and endogenous cannabinoids and blocked by the non-psychoactive phytocannabinoid, cannabidiol. Their experi...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Pertwee RG

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Increasing evidence suggests that an overactive endocannabinoid system (ECS) may contribute to the development of diabetes by promoting energy intake and storage, impairing both glucose and lipid metabolism, by exerting pro-apoptotic effects in pancreatic beta cells and by facilitating inflammation in pancre...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Gruden G,Barutta F,Kunos G,Pacher P

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Saponins isolated from Panax notoginseng (Burk.) F.H. Chen have been shown to relieve thrombogenesis and facilitate haemostasis. However, it is not known which saponin accounts for this haemostatic effect. Hence, in the present study we aimed to identify which saponins contribute to its haemostat...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Gao B,Huang L,Liu H,Wu H,Zhang E,Yang L,Wu X,Wang Z

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 A study was made of desensitization in chronically denervated and in normally innervated mouse soleus muscles. 2 Very high concentrations of acetylcholine produced small contractions of the innervated muscles; these were reduced in size when the addition was repeated 1 min after wash-out. 3 Desensitization in innerv...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hall MT,Maleque MA,Wadsworth RM

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Suramin is a clinically prescribed drug for treatment of human African trypanosomiasis, cancer and infection. It is also a well-known pharmacological antagonist of P2 purinoceptors. Despite its clinical use and use in research, the biological actions of this molecule are still incompletely unders...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Chi Y,Gao K,Zhang H,Takeda M,Yao J

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The interactive effects of different metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptor subtypes to regulate phosphoinositide turnover have been studied in neonatal rat cerebral cortex and hippocampus by use of agonists and antagonists selective between group I and II mGlu receptors. 2, The group II-selective agonist 2R,4R-4-a...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Mistry R,Golding N,Challiss RA

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:781094 (2-(2(1, 4-benzodioxanyl))-2-imidazoline hydrochloride) is a potent competitive inhibitor of the aggregatory responses of human platelets induced by adrenaline (pA2 = 7.3) and UK-14304. 781094 is a more potent inhibitor of the pro-aggregatory response to clonidine than of that to methoxamine. The alpha 2/alpha ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Kerry R,Scrutton MC

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Nateglinide, a novel oral hypoglycemic agent, rapidly reaches the maximum serum concentration after oral administration, suggesting that it is rapidly absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this work is to clarify the intestinal absorption mechanism of nateglinide by means of in vitro studies. 2 We exami...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Okamura A,Emoto A,Koyabu N,Ohtani H,Sawada Y

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Weighed stripped vasa deferentia were incubated in Holman's solution containing (a) [14C]-sorbitol 0.014 mm, (b) [3H]-noradrenaline ([3H]-NA) 12.31 nM, (c) [3H]-tetrahydrocannabinol ([3H]-delta1-THC) 1 mug/ml for 5, 10, 20 and 30 minutes. 2 Tissues were washed, dissolved in Protosol, counted by standard scintillatio...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Egan SM,Graham JD,Lewis MJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Partial agonists of the beta2-adrenoceptor which activate adenylyl cyclase are widely used as bronchodilators for the relief of bronchoconstriction accompanying many disease conditions, including bronchial asthma. The bronchodilator salmeterol has both a prolonged duration of action in bronchial tissue and the abil...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： January B,Seibold A,Allal C,Whaley BS,Knoll BJ,Moore RH,Dickey BF,Barber R,Clark RB

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Tyrosine kinases have been proposed as regulators of voltage-operated calcium channels. The effects of a range of structurally different inhibitors of protein tyrosine kinases (PTK) were examined on voltage-operated calcium channel currents (I(Ba)) and pp60(c-src) kinase (c-src) activity in vitro. 2. I(Ba) was meas...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Wijetunge S,Lymn JS,Hughes AD

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Effects were studied of 6-(3-dimethylaminopropionyl) forskolin (NKH477), a water-soluble forskolin derivative and of dibutyryl-cyclic AMP, a membrane-permeable cyclic AMP analogue on noradrenaline (NA)-induced Ca2+ mobilization in smooth muscle strips of the rabbit mesenteric artery. The intracellular concentration...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Ito S,Suzuki S,Itoh T

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of different K+ channel blockers were studied on nitric oxide (NO)-mediated non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) relaxations in the canine ileocolonic junction. 2. The non-selective blockers of K+ channels, 4-aminopyridine (4-AP) and tetraethylammonium (TEA) and the blocker of large conductance Ca(2+)-...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： De Man JG,Boeckxstaens GE,Pelckmans PP,De Winter BY,Herman AG,Van Maercke YM

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have existed on Earth for three billion years or so and have become adept at protecting themselves against toxic chemicals. Antibiotics have been in clinical use for a little more than 6 decades. That antibiotic resistance is now a major clinical problem all over the world attests to the success and speed of ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bennett PM

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In Ca-free solution, the contractile response of guinea-pig taenia caecum to 10(-4) M carbachol was mediated through muscarinic receptors and was reduced time-dependently by desensitization with 10(-4) M carbachol, but not 10(-4) M histamine. On the other hand, the response to 10(-4) M histamine was shown to be med...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hishinuma S,Uchida MK

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of pinacidil on noradrenaline-induced tone, smooth muscle membrane potential and 42K- and 86Rb-efflux from isolated mesenteric resistance vessels (internal diameter 200 microns) of the rat have been studied. 2. Pinacidil (0.3-10 microM) produced concentration-dependent suppression of noradrenaline-induc...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Videbaek LM,Aalkjaer C,Mulvany MJ

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Measurements were made of the in vivo formation of inositol phosphates in the brains of C57/B1/601a mice treated acutely or chronically with lithium chloride (LiCl). 2. A single injection of LiCl (10 mEquiv kg-1, s.c.) 18 h before death increased the accumulation of [3H]-inositol phosphates ([3H]-Ins P's) in the br...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Whitworth P,Heal DJ,Kendall DA

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Positive modulators of small conductance Ca(2+)-activated K(+) channels (SK1, SK2, and SK3) exert hyperpolarizing effects that influence the activity of excitable and non-excitable cells. The prototype compound 1-EBIO or the more potent compound NS309, do not distinguish between the SK subtypes a...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hougaard C,Eriksen BL,Jørgensen S,Johansen TH,Dyhring T,Madsen LS,Strøbaek D,Christophersen P

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Moclobemide (MB) is an antidepressant drug that selectively and reversibly inhibits monoamine oxidase-A. Recent studies have revealed that antidepressant drugs possess the characters of potent growth-promoting factors for the development of neurogenesis and improve the survival rate of serotonin (5-hydroxytrytamine...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Chiou SH,Ku HH,Tsai TH,Lin HL,Chen LH,Chien CS,Ho LL,Lee CH,Chang YL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:N-arachidonoyl 5-HT (NA-5HT) has anti-nociceptive effects reported to be mediated by inhibitory actions at the transient receptor potential vanilloid receptor 1 (TRPV1) and fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). Anandamide and N-arachidonoyl dopamine (NA-DA), endocannabinoids that activate TRPV1 or a...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Gilmore AJ,Heblinski M,Reynolds A,Kassiou M,Connor M

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The spasmogenic and spasmolytic effects of beta-lipotropin (LPH) fragments and one analogue were investigated on different parts of the gastro-intestinal tract of guinea-pig and rat in vitro.2 Changes in muscle tone were observed in colon and rectum and to a lesser extent in jejunum and ileum of both species. Rat co...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Nijkamp FP,Van Ree JM

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of several agonists of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) were studied in adult rat striatal slices by measuring (i) KCl (30 mM)-induced output of previously taken up D-[3H]-aspartate (Asp), (ii) forskolin (30 microM)-induced adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) accumulation and (i...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Lombardi G,Alesiani M,Leonardi P,Cherici G,Pellicciari R,Moroni F

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Endotoxaemia causes an enhanced formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which contribute to the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) in septic shock. Here we investigate (i) the effects of endotoxin on the expression of two isoforms of superoxide dismutase (SOD), namely Cu/Zn-SOD (cytosol) and Mn-SOD (mito...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Leach M,Frank S,Olbrich A,Pfeilschifter J,Thiemermann C

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Chromosomal instability is not only a hallmark of cancer but also an attractive therapeutic target. A diverse set of mitotic kinases maintains chromosomal stability. One of these is monopolar spindle 1 (Mps1, also known as TTK), which is essential for chromosome alignment and for the spindle asse...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Choi M,Min YH,Pyo J,Lee CW,Jang CY,Kim JE

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Highly vascularized ovarian carcinoma secretes the putative endocannabinoid and GPR55 agonist, L-α-lysophosphatidylinositol (LPI), into the circulation. We aimed to assess the involvement of this agonist and its receptor in ovarian cancer angiogenesis. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Secretion of LPI by t...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hofmann NA,Yang J,Trauger SA,Nakayama H,Huang L,Strunk D,Moses MA,Klagsbrun M,Bischoff J,Graier WF

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00