Abstract：
:HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors (statins) have now become one of the most powerful pharmacological strategies in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Originally, the cardioprotective effects of statins were thought to be mediated through lipid lowering actions. However, it has now become increasingly clear that the beneficial effects of statins are not related to the lipid lowering effects, but rather to a number of pleiotropic actions. Of particular interest, statins have been shown to increase bioavailability of nitric oxide and protect against vascular inflammation and cardiac cell death in a number of cardiovascular disease states. In this present issue of the British Journal of Pharmacology, Zhao and colleagues provide a novel mechanism of action for statins with the observation that simvastatin reduces myocardial 'no-reflow' after ischemia and reperfusion by activating the mitochondrial K(ATP) channel. The findings of the present study have very profound implications for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. This commentary discusses the implications of these findings and how they relate to the established cardioprotective actions of statins.
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Br J Pharmacoljournal_title
British journal of pharmacologyauthors
Calvert JW,Lefer DJdoi
10.1038/sj.bjp.0706863subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2006-10-01 00:00:00pages
229-31issue
3eissn
0007-1188issn
1476-5381pii
0706863journal_volume
149pub_type
杂志文章abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Fibrosis, a pathological accumulation of collagen in tissues, represents a major global disease burden. Effective characterization of potential antifibrotic drugs has been constrained by poor formation of the extracellular matrix in vitro, due to tardy procollagen processing by collagen C-protein...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00387.x
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this issue MacMillan and McCarron in 2010 demonstrated that the phospholipase C (PLC) inhibitor U-73122 can potently inhibit Ca(2+) release from isolated smooth muscle cells independent of its effect on PLC. Their data suggest that the PLC inhibitor can block the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum calcium ATPase pu...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 评论,杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2010.00795.x
更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Initiation of 60 min ischaemia to rat isolated hearts produced a depression in developed tension and heart rate. Subsequent reperfusion caused a greatly exacerbated creatine phosphokinase (CPK) efflux and limited functional recovery. Sulphinpyrazone (100 ng ml-1 and 1 microgram ml-1) significantly reduced CPK release,...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1984.tb10138.x
更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Botulinum toxin (Type A) depressed or abolished transmission from postganglionic nerves to smooth muscle of isolated preparations of guinea-pig and mouse vas deferens. The time course of blockade was 2 to 6 times slower than that observed with the same concentration of the same batch of toxin on the rat diaphragm. Spo...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1973.tb08343.x
更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 The effects of electrical stimulation, changes in external ion concentrations and various drugs on acetylcholine release from the myenteric plexus were measured by bioassay in the presence of physostigmine and by recording the responses of the longitudinal muscle. In preparations from the guinea-pig, the acetylcholi...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1978.tb17319.x
更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The function of transporters in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) has been characterized, but less is known about cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzyme function in these cells. Given that cytokines are dysregulated in many diseases, the purpose of this work was to assess the impact of cytokines on...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2008.00050.x
更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effects of vasoactive substances on mean circulatory filling pressure (MCFP), an index of total body venous tone, were determined in conscious rats. Cumulative doses of saline (0.9% w/v NaCl solution), methoxamine (alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist), B-HT920 (alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist) noradrenaline and vasopressin,...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1986.tb10272.x
更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The vascular effects of endothelin and localization of endothelin-like immunoreactivity were characterized in isolated cerebral arteries of dogs. 2. Endothelin-like immunoreactivity was detected in a few populations of endothelial cells of dog basilar artery. 3. Endothelin-1, endothelin-2 and endothelin-3 contracte...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1991.tb12312.x
更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. A number of superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetics were examined both biochemically for their ability to inhibit the superoxide-catalyzed reduction of cytochrome c and nitro blue tetrazolium, and functionally for their ability to mimic authentic Cu/Zn SOD in restoring nitrergic neurotransmission in bovine retractor pe...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0701809
更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Different 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) receptor subtypes mediate different behavioural responses. Compounds acting at more than one 5-HT receptor exert behavioural effects which may be the result of response competition or a specific interaction between pathways within the CNS. Therefore the mutual interaction betwee...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1990.tb14138.x
更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Treatment of rat mesangial cells with interleukin 1 beta (IL-1 beta) or tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha) has been shown to induce a macrophage-type of nitric oxide (NO) synthase. Here we report that adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) is another mediator that triggers induction of NO synthase ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb13019.x
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Inhibitory junction potentials (IJP) are responsible for smooth muscle relaxation in the gastrointestinal tract. The aim of this study was to pharmacologically characterize the neurotransmitters [nitric oxide (NO) and adenosine triphosphate (ATP)] and receptors involved at the inhibitory neuromus...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00454.x
更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Daily i.p. administration, for eight days, of the cholinesterase inhibitor disulfoton to rats produced mild to moderate signs of intoxication (tremors, incontinence and diarrhoea) but no deaths.2. Segments of ileum taken from the treated rats were subsensitive to carbachol but the vas deferens and the uterus did no...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1973.tb08350.x
更新日期：1973-07-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb13063.x
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 The effects of the prostaglandin synthetase inhibitor, indomethacin and the prostaglandin antagonist SC-19220 (1-acetyl-2-[8-chloro-10,11-dihydrodibenz (b,f) (1,4)oxazepine-10-carbonyl] hydrazine), were examined on the tone of the guinea-pig isolated tracheal preparation and on the responses of the preparation to pr...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1974.tb09724.x
更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The effect of frusemide, ethacrynic acid and indanyloxyacetic acid was investigated on spontaneous calcium-activated chloride (ICl(Ca)) and potassium currents (IK(Ca)) in rabbit portal vein cells with the perforated patch technique. 2. Frusemide (0.3-1.0 x 10(-3) M) reduced the amplitude of spontaneous transient in...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb14994.x
更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The experiment investigated the effects of psychotropic drugs on enzymes in vitro.2. Chlorpromazine inhibits mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase in concentrations of 1.4x10(-4)M and above. No effect was observed below this concentration.3. A sharp inflection in the [unk]/drug plot was also seen with chlorpromazine (...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1969.tb10582.x
更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA, 0.1 to 1 mM) had no significant effect on the amplitude, rise time, half decay time or frequency of miniature endplate potentials (m.e.p.ps) at the frog or mouse neuromuscular junctions in vitro. 2 Addition of GABA (1 mM) to preparations previously treated with 11 mM K+-Ringer did not ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1980.tb10937.x
更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. SB 206553 (5-methyl-1-(3-pyridylcarbamoyl)-1,2,3,5-tetrahydropyrrolo[2 ,3-f]indole) displays a high affinity (pK1 7.9) for the cloned human 5-HT2C receptor expressed in HEK 293 cells and the 5-HT2B receptor (pA2 8.9) as measured in the rat stomach fundus preparation. SB 206553 has low affinity for cloned human 5-HT...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1996.tb15208.x
更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Desensitization of the myocardial beta-adrenergic signal transduction pathway is an important mechanism which is involved in the progression of hypertensive heart disease. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the differential effects of chronic pharmacotherapy with an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE)-inh...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0701615
更新日期：1998-02-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0702123
更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:N-ethylmaleimide (NEM) has been reported to interact with the GTP-binding Ni-protein; we have examined its effect on adenosine receptor binding in feline cortical membranes and on adenosine-receptor mediated effects on cyclic AMP accumulation in rat hippocampal slices. Treatment of cortical membranes with NEM (100 mic...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1985.tb08922.x
更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 The effects of 4-Chloro-m-Cresol (4-CmC) were examined on heterologously expressed wild type (WT), Paramyotonia Congenita (R1448H) and Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis (M1360V) mutant alpha-subunits of human muscle sodium channels. 2 Block of rested sodium channels caused by 4-CmC was concentration-dependent with an ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0702896
更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:alpha5IA (3-(5-methylisoxazol-3-yl)-6-[(1-methyl-1,2,3-triazol-4-yl)methyloxy]-1,2,4-triazolo[3,4-a]phthalazine) is a triazolophthalazine with subnanomolar affinity for alpha1-, alpha2-, alpha3- and alpha5-containing GABA(A) receptors. Here we have evaluated the relationship between plasma alpha5...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00216.x
更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In moderate-to-severe asthma, adding an inhaled long-acting β2 -adenoceptor agonist (LABA) to an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) provides better disease control than simply increasing the dose of ICS. Acting on the glucocorticoid receptor (GR, gene NR3C1), ICSs promote anti-inflammatory/anti-asthma gene expression. In vi...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1111/bph.13628
更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Tyramine 10(-4)M significantly increased release of noradrenaline-7-(3)H (NA-7-(3)H) from rat vas deferens in vitro.2. Neither cocaine 10(-5)M nor imipramine 10(-7)M-10(-6)M significantly reduced tyramine-induced release of NA-7-(3)H.3. Increasing the exposure time to cocaine and imipramine from 10 to 20 min or pre...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1969.tb08305.x
更新日期：1969-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 Noradrenaline and clonidine were applied by microiontophoresis to single neurones in the cerebral cortex and medullary reticular formation of anaesthetized rats.2 Of a total of 247 neurones studied, 79% of medullary units and 60% of cortical units responded in the same manner to both noradrenaline and clonidine. The...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1974.tb10670.x
更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Nicotine can activate primary afferent nociceptors, one result of which is to increase neurogenic plasma extravasation. In this study we have demonstrated a novel proinflammatory effect of sub-nanomolar nicotine, mediated by peripheral action at sensory neurons. This action is normally masked by adrenal medulla-der...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0704031
更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterases (PDEs) that specifically inactivate the intracellular messengers cAMP and cGMP in a compartmentalized manner represent an important enzyme class constituted by 11 gene-related families of isozymes (PDE1 to PDE11). Downstream receptors, PDEs play a major role in controlling the sign...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2011.01729.x
更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Relaxing effect of loop diuretics, piretanide and furosemide in comparison with acetylcholine (ACh) was investigated in guinea-pig isolated mesenteric resistance arteries. 2. Concentration-response curves to ACh (0.001 - 10 microM) and diuretics (0.0001 - 1 microM) were constructed in noradrenaline (10 - 30 microM)...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0703693
更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00
