The effects of naloxone on the cardiovascular and respiratory effects of centrally administered corticotrophin releasing factor in conscious rabbits.

abstract：:1 Isolated duodenum of the rat, exposed to ultraviolet (u.v.) light in the presence of NO2 ions, responded with reversible relaxation. 2 The photorelaxation response did not seem to involve any known receptor mechanisms and was independent of any ganglionic or neuronal influences. 3 Changes in the ionic environment of...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Dave KC,Jindal MN,Kelkar VV,Trivedi HD

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical ophthalmic formulations of analogues of the endogenous arachidonic acid cyclooxygenase metabolite, PGF2α , are the standard of care treatment for the blinding disease glaucoma. These are the most potent and efficacious medical therapies for lowering intraocular pressure (IOP), the most important risk factor id...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Klimko PG,Sharif NA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Alogliptin, a highly selective dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitor, enhances incretin action and pioglitazone enhances hepatic and peripheral insulin actions. Here, we have evaluated the effects of combining these agents in diabetic mice. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Effects of short-term treatmen...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Moritoh Y,Takeuchi K,Asakawa T,Kataoka O,Odaka H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The chemically novel acetohydroxamic acids, BW A4C, BW A137C and BW A797C, are potent inhibitors of the synthesis of leukotriene B4 (LTB4) from arachidonic acid by human leucocyte homogenates: the concentrations required for 50% inhibition (IC50) were 0.1 microM, 0.8 microM and 0.5 microM respectively. Inhibition w...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Tateson JE,Randall RW,Reynolds CH,Jackson WP,Bhattacherjee P,Salmon JA,Garland LG

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Pancreatic islet transplantation is a promising therapeutic approach for Type 1 diabetes. A major prerequisite for the survival of grafted islets is a rapid revascularization after transplantation. Erythropoietin (EPO), the primary regulator of erythropoiesis, has been shown to promote angiogenes...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Menger MM,Nalbach L,Roma LP,Körbel C,Wrublewsky S,Glanemann M,Laschke MW,Menger MD,Ampofo E

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of a new nonribose ligand (LUF5831) with the human adenosine A1 receptor was investigated in the present study. Radioligand binding experiments were performed in the absence and presence of diverse allosteric modulators on both wild-type (wt) and mutant (T277A) adenosine A1 receptors. Thermodynamic dat...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Heitman LH,Mulder-Krieger T,Spanjersberg RF,von Frijtag Drabbe Künzel JK,Dalpiaz A,IJzerman AP

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Guinea-pig tracheal smooth muscle cells were isolated and maintained in culture for 14-21 days prior to the study of the effect of a selective bradykinin B1 agonist and B2 antagonists upon bradykinin-stimulated phospholipase C and D activities. 2. Bradykinin-stimulated phospholipase C activity was determined by mas...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Pyne S,Pyne NJ

更新日期：1993-09-01 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：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:High resting heart rate is a predictor for total and cardiovascular mortality independent of other risk factors in patients with coronary artery disease. We tested the hypothesis that a reduction of resting heart rate with the cardiac pacemaker I(f) current inhibitor ivabradine prevents the endot...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Drouin A,Gendron ME,Thorin E,Gillis MA,Mahlberg-Gaudin F,Tardif JC

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The thiazolidine carboxylic acid, BML-241, has been proposed as a lead compound in development of selective antagonists at the sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor (S1P3), based on its inhibition of the rise in intracellular calcium concentrations ([Ca2+]i) in HeLa cells overexpressing S1P receptors....

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Jongsma M,Hendriks-Balk MC,Michel MC,Peters SL,Alewijnse AE

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. RS-15385-197 ((8aR, 12aS, 13aS)-5,8,8a,9,10,11,12,12a,13,13a-decahydro- 3-methoxy-12-(methylsulphonyl)-6H-isoquino [2,1-g][1,6]-naphthyridine) was evaluated in a series of in vitro and in vivo tests as an antagonist at alpha 2-adrenoceptors. 2. RS-15385-197 had a pKi of 9.45 for alpha 2-adrenoceptors in the rat cor...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Brown CM,MacKinnon AC,Redfern WS,Hicks PE,Kilpatrick AT,Small C,Ramcharan M,Clague RU,Clark RD,MacFarlane CB

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The vasodilator responses of isolated intrapulmonary arteries (IPA) to P2-receptor agonists were investigated during adaptation to extrauterine life in the piglet. The effect of pulmonary hypertension on the normal response was determined after exposing newborn animals to chronic hypobaric hypoxia (51 kPa) for 3 da...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： McMillan MR,Burnstock G,Haworth SG

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Plasma, peripheral and thoracic lymph concentrations of penicillin V, phenethicillin, carbenicillin, ampicillin, cloxacillin, penicillin G, chloramphenicol and sulphadiazine were determined at various time intervals up to 6 h following intramuscular administration of 50 mg/kg to dogs.2. Peak plasma concentrations o...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Acred P,Brown DM,Clark BF,Mizen L

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Atrial pacing at progressively increasing frequencies was performed on unanaesthetized dogs through electrodes placed aseptically in the wall of the right atrium and exteriorized in the neck region. 2 Heart rate and two atrioventricular conduction (AVC) parameters, namely the Wenckebach Point (one or two systole blo...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Duchene-Marullaz P,Fabry-Delaigue R,Gueorguiev G,Kantelip JP

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Memantine and marijuana smoking have been found to inhibit tremor in parkinsonian patients, although the observed effects were relatively weak. The tremorolytic effects of combinations of memantine and cannabinoids have not been studied. Here, we have evaluated the anti-tremor activity of memanti...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Ionov ID,Pushinskaya II,Frenkel DD,Gorev NP,Shpilevaya LA

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin at therapeutic concentrations does not inhibit the uptake of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) by blood platelets nor induce release of 5-HT from platelets, although platelet aggregation responses to collagen and arachidonic acid (which are dependent on platelet prostaglandin synthesis) are abolished. This does not s...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Drummond AH,MacIntyre DE,Olverman HJ

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study was designed to investigate tolerance to several pharmacological effects of apomorphine. 2. Changes in blood pressure, heart rate, plasma noradrenaline levels, rectal temperature, respiratory rate and retching plus vomiting were compared after administration of apomorphine (200 micrograms kg-1, i....

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Montastruc JL,Llau ME,Senard JM,Tran MA,Rascol O,Montastruc P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effect of the potassium channel openers, NIP-121 and cromakalim, on agonist-induced relaxation of the guinea-pig isolated trachea was investigated and the results were compared with those in the epithelium-denuded trachea. 2. Tracheal strips were incubated with a potassium channel opener or vehicle for 30 min i...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Shikada K,Tanaka S

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:It has been extensively reported that the leading anti-diabetic drug, metformin, exerts significant anticancer effects. This hydrophilic, cationic drug requires cation transporters for cellular entry where it activates its intracellular target, the AMPK signalling pathway. However, clinical resul...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Cai H,Everett RS,Thakker DR

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The subtype of alpha1-adrenoceptor mediating contractions to phenylephrine of the rat thoracic aorta, mesenteric artery and pulmonary artery were investigated by use of antagonists which show selectivity between the cloned alpha1-adrenoceptor subtypes in binding studies. 2. Cumulative concentration-contraction curv...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hussain MB,Marshall I

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Cultured pre-adipocytes accumulate and metabolize zidovudine (ZDV), but its mode of accumulation into these cells is unclear. We investigated the mode of accumulation of [(3)H]-ZDV, and the impact of changes in external pH and modulators of drug transporters on its accumulation and metabolism. E...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Janneh O,Owen A,Bray PG,Back DJ,Pirmohamed M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Inhibitory neurotransmission plays an important role in controlling excitability within nociceptive circuits of the spinal cord dorsal horn. Loss of inhibitory signalling is thought to contribute to the development of pathological pain. Preclinical studies suggest that increasing inhibitory glyci...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Winters BL,Rawling T,Vandenberg RJ,Christie MJ,Bhola RF,Imlach WL

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Depolarization of rat cerebral cortical slices, prelabelled with [3H]-histidine, in high potassium (40 mM KCl) medium stimulated the release of [3H]-histamine. The K+-evoked release of [3H]-histamine was attenuated by incubation in calcium-free medium and prevented by prior incubation of brain slices with the selec...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hill SJ,Straw RM

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Acute SR 58611A (0.25 mg kg-1), was effective in reducing the blood glucose response to a glucose tolerance test (GTT) in normal lean (control) and spontaneously obese/diabetic CBA/Ca mice and to be equipotent to 1.25 mg kg-1 glibenclamide in lean mice. 2. Neither brown (BAT) nor white (WAT) adipose tissue lipogene...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Williams CA,Shih MF,Taberner PV

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:We sought to understand why (-)-cannabidiol (CBD) and (-)-cannabidiol-dimethylheptyl (CBD-DMH) exhibit distinct pharmacology, despite near identical structures. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:HEK293A cells expressing either human type 1 cannabinoid (CB1 ) receptors or CB2 receptors were treated with CBD ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Tham M,Yilmaz O,Alaverdashvili M,Kelly MEM,Denovan-Wright EM,Laprairie RB

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A synthetic oxytocin analogue, [1-N-carbamoyl-hemicystine-2-O-methyltyrosine]-oxytocin (carbamoyl-methyloxytocin), has been tested as an antagonist to the actions of oxytocin and vasopressin on the uterus, the mammary gland and blood pressure.2. The analogue inhibited the response of the isolated rat uterus to both...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bisset GW,Clark BJ,Krejcí I,Polácek I,Rudinger J

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adrenomedullin (AM) has two known receptors formed by the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CL) and receptor activity-modifying protein (RAMP) 2 or 3: we report the effects of the antagonist fragments of human AM and CGRP (AM22-52 and CGRP8-37) in inhibiting AM at human (h), rat (r) and mixed species CL/RAMP2 and CL/...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hay DL,Howitt SG,Conner AC,Schindler M,Smith DM,Poyner DR

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Exposure to an acute stress inhibits gastric emptying and stimulates colonic transit via central neuropeptide Y (NPY) pathways; however, peripheral involvement is uncertain. The anxiogenic phenotype of NPY(-/-) mice is gender-dependent, raising the possibility that stress-induced gastrointestinal...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Forbes S,Herzog H,Cox HM

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The question whether constriction of local vessels is essential for the anti-inflammatory action of glucocorticoids in carrageenin-induced granulomatous inflammation was studied. 2 The vasodilator prostaglandin E1 injection into the granuloma pouch fluid increased the exudation of plasma protein into the granuloma t...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Sugio K,Tsurufuji S

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Baclofen (a GABA(B) receptor agonist) is the most commonly used anti-spasticity agent in clinical practice. While effective when administered spinally or systemically, the development of progressive tolerance represents a serious limitation for its long-term use. The goal of the present study was...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Oshiro M,Hefferan MP,Kakinohana O,Lukacova N,Sugahara K,Yaksh TL,Marsala M

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00