Atomoxetine acts as an NMDA receptor blocker in clinically relevant concentrations.

abstract：:1. The effects of beta-adrenoceptor blockade on the changes in plasma renin activity (PRA) following angiotensin enzyme (ACE) inhibition were investigated in pentobarbitone-chloralose anaesthetized dogs. 2. ACE-inhibition, with enalapril (2 mg kg-1), caused a significant reduction in systemic arterial blood pressure (...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Cambridge D,Whiting MV,Butterfield LJ,Allan G

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burimamide, an H(2)-receptor blocking agent, has been shown capable of blocking the uptake and metabolism of [(14)C]-histamine, both in the guinea-pig isolated atrium and in murine neoplastic mast cells. This occurs even at concentrations far below the dose range capable of blocking the positive chronotropic effect of...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Fantozzi R,Mannaioni PF,Moroni F

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NO is a neurotransmitter released from enteric inhibitory neurons and responsible for modulating gastrointestinal (GI) motor behaviour. Enteric neurons express nNOS (NOS1) that associates with membranes of nerve varicosities. NO released from neurons binds to soluble guanylate cyclase in post-junctional cells to gener...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Sanders KM,Ward SM

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Midkine (MK) is a heparin-binding growth factor or cytokine and forms a small protein family, the other member of which is pleiotrophin. MK enhances survival, migration, cytokine expression, differentiation and other activities of target cells. MK is involved in various physiological processes, such as devel...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Muramatsu T

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Adrenoceptors can associate with cardiac caveolae. To investigate the function of vascular caveolae, adrenoceptor-mediated effects were compared in the saphenous artery of caveolin-1 knockout (cav-1KO) and wild-type (WT) mice. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Electronmicroscopy was used to detect caveolae....

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Neidhold S,Eichhorn B,Kasper M,Ravens U,Kaumann AJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The noradrenaline concentration in the lung was less than 0.5 mug/g in eight animal species.2. In the cat, dog, rabbit and goat, tyramine produced a fall in pulmonary resistance, which was reduced by the administration of either reserpine or cocaine. Although an infusion of noradrenaline increased the content of th...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Aviado DM,Sadavongvivad C

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine whether inhibition of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase (PDE) modulates the stimulated generation of the cytokines, interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-13, from human basophils. This was addressed by evaluating the effects of both nonselective and selective inhibitors of PDEs on...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Eskandari N,Wickramasinghe T,Peachell PT

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the rabbit isolated pulmonary artery, neither the ETA receptor antagonist, BQ-123 (10 microM), nor the ETB receptor antagonist, BQ-788 (10 microM), inhibited the contractions induced by 1 nM endothelin-1 (ET-1). However, the combination of BQ-123 and BQ-788 completely inhibited the ET-1-induced contraction. In cont...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Fukuroda T,Ozaki S,Ihara M,Ishikawa K,Yano M,Nishikibe M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The distribution and some pharmacological properties of centrally located dextromethorphan high-affinity binding sites were investigated by in vitro autoradiography. 2. Sodium chloride (50 mM) induced a 7 to 12 fold increase in dextromethorphan binding to rat brain in all areas tested. The effect of sodium was conc...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Meoni P,Tortella FC,Bowery NG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Idioventricular rate responses and adrenoceptor number have been examined in normal Langendorff hearts perfused at 70 cmH2O and in 'ischaemic' hearts perfused at 10 cmH2O. 2. In hearts perfused at normal pressure, ventricular rate responses to phenylephrine in the presence of propranolol were biphasic with low conc...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Butterfield MC,Chess-Williams R

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinin, angiotensin II, arginine vasopressin (AVP) or des-amino-D-arginine vasopressin (DDAVP) were administered by intravenous infusion to 10 healthy men. The concentration of 6-oxo-prostaglandin F1 alpha (6-oxo-PGF1 alpha), the stable hydrolysis product of prostacyclin (PGI2), was measured in plasma using gas ch...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Barrow SE,Dollery CT,Heavey DJ,Hickling NE,Ritter JM,Vial J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Immunomodulatory tetracyclines are well-characterized drugs with a pharmacological potential beyond their antibiotic properties. Specifically, minocycline and doxycycline have shown beneficial effects in experimental colitis, although pro-inflammatory actions have also been described in macrophag...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Garrido-Mesa J,Rodríguez-Nogales A,Algieri F,Vezza T,Hidalgo-Garcia L,Garrido-Barros M,Utrilla MP,Garcia F,Chueca N,Rodriguez-Cabezas ME,Garrido-Mesa N,Gálvez J

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) Rapid desensitization of ligand-gated ion channel receptors can alter the apparent activity of receptor modulators, as well as make detection of fast-channel activation difficult. Investigation of the antagonist pharmacology of ATP-sensitive homomeric P2X3 receptors is limited by agonist-evoked fast-desensitizatio...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Neelands TR,Burgard EC,Uchic ME,McDonald HA,Niforatos W,Faltynek CR,Lynch KJ,Jarvis MF

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intraperitoneal and intracerebral injections of methyl beta-carboline-3-carboxylate (beta CCM) and intracerebral injections of RO 15-1788 were given to rats. The performance of the rats in the social interaction test was measured to determine if changes in social interaction induced by beta CCM were mediated in part b...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hindley SW,Hobbs A,Paterson IA,Roberts MH

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:We previously demonstrated that paracetamol has to be metabolised in the brain by fatty acid amide hydrolase enzyme into AM404 (N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z-eicosatetraenamide) to activate CB1 receptors and TRPV1 channels, which mediate its analgesic effect. However, the brain mechanisms sup...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Barrière DA,Boumezbeur F,Dalmann R,Cadeddu R,Richard D,Pinguet J,Daulhac L,Sarret P,Whittingstall K,Keller M,Mériaux S,Eschalier A,Mallet C

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In urethane-anaesthetized guinea-pigs, under spontaneous respiration, indomethacin (1 mg kg-1 i.v., 10-45 min) approximately doubled the bronchoconstrictor effect (increase in airways resistance, R(aw)) of equieffective doses of histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT), but not that of acetylcholine or leukotriene ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Mitchell HW,Adcock J

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Recent studies have shown that sodium butyrate and other short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) can prevent inflammation in colon diseases. Our aim was to elucidate whether sodium butyrate and SCFAs regulate the inflammatory responses in different neural inflammation models in cell cultures. 2. Inflammatory responses to L...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Huuskonen J,Suuronen T,Nuutinen T,Kyrylenko S,Salminen A

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 A 3 min intracoronary infusion of adenosine (50 mug/min) produced a significant decrease in coronary artery perfusion pressure, left ventricular systolic pressure and myocardial O2 consumption in the isolated supported heart preparation of the dog perfused at a constant coronary blood flow. Heart rate was controlled...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Gross GJ,Hardman HF,Warltier DC

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The effects of general anaesthetics on the responses of neurones to iontophoretically applied L-glutamate have been examined in slices of the guinea-pig olfactory cortex in vitro. 2 Concentrations of pentobarbitone, ether, methoxyflurance, trichloroethylene and alphaxalone that are known to depress synaptic transmis...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Richards CD,Smaje JC

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The venom of the green mamba, Dendroaspis angusticeps, was tested for effects on neuromuscular transmission and skeletal muscle contractility in isolated phrenic nerve-hemidiaphragm preparations of the rat and mouse, chick biventer cervicis muscle preparations and in aneural cultures of embryonic chick skeletal musc...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Barrett JC,Harvey AL

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of prostacyclin (PGI2) on isolated segments of guinea-pig terminal ileum was studied by recording the changes in isometric tension. In these preparations PGI2 (1 nM-1 microM) caused a concentration-dependent increase in muscle tension. This effect was rapid and short-lasting. PGI2-induced contr...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Gaion RM,Trento M

更新日期：1983-10-01 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. The irritant fungal terpenoid isovelleral caused protective eye-wiping movements in the rat upon intraocular instillation and showed cross-tachyphylaxis with capsaicin, the pungent principle in hot pepper. 2. Isovelleral induced a dose-dependent calcium uptake by rat dorsal root ganglion neurones cultured in vitro ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Szallasi A,Jonassohn M,Acs G,Bíró T,Acs P,Blumberg PM,Sterner O

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Electrically-evoked contractions in different regions of the rabbit isolated pulmonary artery have been investigated using stimulation parameters generally assumed to stimulate nerves selectively. 2. In extrapulmonary artery, trains of stimuli (10 Hz; pulse width 0.1 ms) evoked monophasic contractions. In contrast,...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Jackson VM,Trout SJ,Cunnane TC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT)1A receptor agonist, 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino)tetralin (8-OH-DPAT), has been shown to label 5-HT reuptake sites. 2. To study the functional consequences of this property, the effects of 8-OH-DPAT were compared with those of the 5-HT reuptake inhibitors, paroxetine and clomipramine...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Assié MB,Koek W

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of the two enantiomers, quinidine and quinine, were studied on depolarization- and agonist-induced isometric contractions in rat isolated thoracic aortic rings. 2. Quinidine or quinine (10(-6)M-3 x 10(-4)M) produced a concentration-dependent relaxation of 80 mM KCl-contracted rings, the pD2 values being...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： del Pozo BF,Pérez-Vizcaíno F,Villamor E,Zaragozá F,Tamargo J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We aimed to determine whether there are any changes in responsiveness of the mesenteric arterial beds to phenylephrine (Phe) and KCl in exercise-trained rats, and whether vascular endothelium and/or vascular smooth muscle play a role in these changes. 2. Adult male rats were subjected to a swimming schedule every d...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Jansakul C,Hirunpan P

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrically-evoked contractions of the rat vas deferens were selectively inhibited by beta-endorphin, the preparation being much less sensitive to enkephalins and narcotic analgesic drugs. However, introduction of D-Ala in position 2 of [Leu]-enkephalin enhanced the activity of the opioid peptide to the order of ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Lemaire S,Magnan J,Regoli D

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resting blood flow, arterio-venous glucose and oxygen (A-V)O2 differences, glucose uptake and oxygen consumption by a segment of the upper jejunum were measured in anaesthetized dogs. Systemic arterial pressure was also measured. The effect of nicotine infusion (25 micrograms kg-1 i.v., over 10 min) on these measureme...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Grayson J,Oyebola DD

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The above article, published by the British Journal of Pharmacology in October 2015 (https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bph.13259), has been retracted by agreement between the authors, the journal Editor in Chief and John Wiley & Sons Limited. The retraction has been agreed owing to the discovery...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

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更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00