Muscarinic receptors coupled to phosphoinositide hydrolysis and elevated cytosolic calcium in a human neuroblastoma cell line SK-N-SH.

abstract：:Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3), a constitutively acting multi-functional serine threonine kinase is involved in diverse physiological pathways ranging from metabolism, cell cycle, gene expression, development and oncogenesis to neuroprotection. These diverse multiple functions attributed to GSK3 can be explained by...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Rayasam GV,Tulasi VK,Sodhi R,Davis JA,Ray A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Capsaicin, the irritant principle of hot peppers, is a vanilloid agonist known to activate the transient receptor potential channel vanilloid subfamily member 1 (VR1), recently reported to be involved in neurodegeneration. The present study investigated the role of VR1 in a model of global cerebral ischemia in gerb...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Pegorini S,Braida D,Verzoni C,Guerini-Rocco C,Consalez GG,Croci L,Sala M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effect of basal tension (transmural tensions 235 +/- 29 mg wt (low tension: equivalent to approximately 16 mmHg) and 305 +/- 34 mg wt (high tension: equivalent to 35 mmHg)) on rat pulmonary resistance artery responses to endothelin-1 (ET-1) and the selective ET(B)-receptor agonist sarafotoxin S6c (S6c) were stu...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： MacLean MR,McCulloch KM

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid drugs such as morphine and meperidine are widely used in clinical pain management, although they can cause some adverse effects. A number of studies indicate that N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors may play a role in the mechanism of morphine analgesia, tolerance and dependence. Being an antitussive with NMD...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Chen SL,Huang EY,Chow LH,Tao PL

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effect of ondansetron, a selective 5-hydroxytryptamine3 (5-HT3) receptor antagonist, was studied in morphine-addicted rats. Morphine-dependence and tolerance, induced by drinking increasing concentrations of morphine sulphate in 5% sucrose solution for 3 weeks, were demonstrated by the naloxone-precipitated wit...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Hui SC,Sevilla EL,Ogle CW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Effects of phorbol esters on the cytosolic Ca2+ level ([Ca2+]i) and muscle tension in the intestinal smooth muscle of guinea-pig taenia caeci were examined. 2. 12-Deoxyphorbol 13-isobutyrate (DPB, 1 microM) did not change the [Ca2+]i and tension in resting muscle. 3. In high K(+)-stimulated muscle, 1 microM DPB tra...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Mitsui M,Karaki H

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhalation of cyclopropane in dogs, by the closed circuit method, for a fixed period, produced an emetic response during recovery from anaesthesia. Bilateral surgical ablation of the emetic chemoreceptor trigger zone of the area postrema rendered the dogs refractory to several times (3-6) the threshold emetic dose of ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Badola RP,Bhargava KP,Dixit KS,Ratra CK

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the modulation of synaptic transmission by adenosine A(1) receptors in the hippocampus of aged (24 months) and young adult rats (6 weeks). The adenosine A(1) receptor agonist, N(6)-cyclopentyladenosine, was less potent (P:<0.05) to inhibit synaptic transmission in aged (EC(50)=53 nM) than young adult (EC(5...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Sebastião AM,Cunha RA,de Mendonça A,Ribeiro JA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Previous patch clamp studies of oesophageal circular muscle cells showed that nitric oxide (NO) modulated the opening of Ca2(+)-activated K+ channels involved in mediating the inhibitory junction potentials (i.j.ps). This study clarified the role of Ca2+ release from the superficial sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in t...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Cayabyab FS,Daniel EE

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Superoxide dismutase (SOD, 60 u ml-1) or ferricytochrome c (70 microM) significantly inhibited thrombin-stimulated platelet adhesion to gelatin-coated plastic, whereas catalase (1000 u ml-1) or mannitol (1 mM) had no effect. 2. The platelet aggregation induced by low concentrations of thrombin (causing less than 45...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Salvemini D,de Nucci G,Sneddon JM,Vane JR

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Sublesional osteoporosis predisposes individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) to an increased risk of low-trauma fracture. The aim of the present work was to investigate the effect of treatment with resveratrol (RES) on sublesional bone loss in spinal cord-injured rats. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:Co...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Wang HD,Shi YM,Li L,Guo JD,Zhang YP,Hou SX

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of purinergic stimulation on action potential, force of contraction, 86Rb efflux and 45Ca uptake were investigated in guinea-pig left atria. 2. Adenosine exerted a negative inotropic effect which was antagonized by adenosine deaminase but enhanced by dipyridamole. 3. The negative inotropic effect of ade...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Jahnel U,Nawrath H

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Caffeine, 0.6-20.0 mM, altered the duration of the action potential recorded from kitten papillary muscles; low concentrations shortened and high concentrations prolonged the action potential.2. Caffeine, 20 mM, prolonged the action potential by delaying the final phase of repolarization.3. Caffeine, 2.0-20.0 mM in...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Clark A,Olson CB

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study characterizes and classifies alpha 1-adrenoceptor-mediated vasoconstriction in the isolated perfused kidney of rat using quantitative receptor pharmacology and compares the results to radioligand binding studies (made in cloned alpha 1-adrenoceptor subtypes, native alpha 1A-adrenoceptors in submax...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Blue DR Jr,Bonhaus DW,Ford AP,Pfister JR,Sharif NA,Shieh IA,Vimont RL,Williams TJ,Clarke DE

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The consumption of green tea (Camellia sinensis) has been shown to have many physiological and pharmacological health benefits. In the past two decades several studies have reported that epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the main constituent of green tea, has anti-infective properties. Antiviral activities of EGCG wi...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Steinmann J,Buer J,Pietschmann T,Steinmann E

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The aggregation of α-synuclein is connected to the pathology of Parkinson's disease and prolyl oligopeptidase (PREP) accelerates the aggregation of α-synuclein in vitro. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a PREP inhibitor, KYP-2047, on α-synuclein aggregation in cell lines ov...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Myöhänen TT,Hannula MJ,Van Elzen R,Gerard M,Van Der Veken P,García-Horsman JA,Baekelandt V,Männistö PT,Lambeir AM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two splice isoforms of rabbit alpha(1a)-adrenergic receptor (AR), (named alpha(1a)-OCU.2-AR and alpha(1a)-OCU.3-AR) have been isolated from the liver cDNA library in addition to the previously reported isoform (alpha(1a)-OCU.1-AR). Although they have the identical splice position with human alpha(1a)-AR isoforms, the ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Suzuki F,Taniguchi T,Takauji R,Murata S,Muramatsu I

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a potent vasodilator, implicated in the pathogenesis of migraine. CGRP activates a receptor complex comprising, calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CLR) and receptor activity-modifying protein 1 (RAMP1). In vitro studies indicate recycling of CLR●RAMP1 is ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： McNeish AJ,Roux BT,Aylett SB,Van Den Brink AM,Cottrell GS

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelial 5-HT receptor mediating relaxation of pig pulmonary artery has been characterized using the selective 5-HT(2B) receptor agonist BW 723C86 and a variety of structurally diverse 5-HT receptor antagonists. If arterial rings with intact endothelium were precontracted with prostaglandin F(2alpha) (3 microM)...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Glusa E,Pertz HH

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Intracellular microelectrode recording techniques were performed on mouse spinal cord and cerebral hemisphere neurones grown in primary dissociated cell culture. The effects of several anxiolytics applied by local pressure ejection on responses to gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) evoked by iontophoresis were investig...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： De Deyn PP,Macdonald RL

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neurogenic responses to transmural electrical stimulation were examined in endothelium-denuded extrameningeal (vertebral and carotid) and intrameningeal (spinal, basilar and middle cerebral) arteries isolated from dogs. 2. In the extrameningeal arteries, transmural electrical stimulation produced a phasic contracti...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Kohno Y,Saito T,Saito H,Aoyama H,Nojyo Y,Kigoshi S,Muramatsu I

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The beneficial effect of 5-HT6 receptor antagonism in cognition remains controversial. This study has been undertaken to reassess the cognition enhancing properties of acute vs subchronic treatment with the selective 5-HT6 receptor antagonist SB-271046 in unimpaired rats, as well as against scopo...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Marcos B,Chuang TT,Gil-Bea FJ,Ramirez MJ

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Inflammation associated with the tumour microenvironment (TME) plays a critical role in the cancer development, and immunotherapeutic strategies that aim to modulate the immune response in cancer have been crucial. In this study, a Methotrexate-loaded (MTX) poly (lactic-co-glycolic acid)-based (P...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Cavalcante RS,Ishikawa U,Silva ES,Silva Júnior AA,Araújo AA,Cruz LJ,Chan AB,Araújo Júnior RF

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxynitrite, a potent oxidant formed by the reaction of nitric oxide and superoxide causes thymocyte necrosis, in part, via activation of the nuclear enzyme poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase (PARS). The cytotoxic PARS pathway initiated by DNA strand breaks and excessive PARS activation has been shown to deplete cellular e...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Virág L,Szabó C

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:An innovative chemical approach, named peptide welding technology (PWT), allows the synthesis of multibranched peptides with extraordinary high yield, purity and reproducibility. With this approach, three different tetrabranched derivatives of nociceptin/orphanin FQ (N/OFQ) have been synthesized ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Rizzi A,Malfacini D,Cerlesi MC,Ruzza C,Marzola E,Bird MF,Rowbotham DJ,Salvadori S,Guerrini R,Lambert DG,Calo G

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Des-Arg9 bradykinin (DAB), a classical B1-kinin receptor agonist was without effect when applied to the basolateral surface of rat isolated colon epithelium. Three hours after tissues were isolated DAB caused, after a delay of up to 2 min, a maintained increase of short circuit current (SCC). 2. The SCC increase in...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Teather S,Cuthbert AW

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The electrical activity of guinea-pig pelvic ganglion cells following iontophoretically applied cholinergic drugs, alone and during orthodromic nerve stimulation via the hypogastric nerve, has been recorded intracellularly.2. Iontophoretic application of nicotine (Nic) and acetylcholine (ACh) reduced membrane resis...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Holman ME,Muir TC,Szurszewski JH,Yonemura K

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The role of alpha- and beta-adrenoceptor subtypes in the regulation of plasma glucose and immunoreactive insulin (IRI) levels has been investigated in normal conscious fasted rats by employing selective agonists and antagonists. 2. Adrenaline (0.2 mg kg-1)-induced hyperglycaemia was abolished by the selective alpha...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： John GW,Doxey JC,Walter DS,Reid JL

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The modulation of the gamma-aminobutyric acidA (GABAA) receptor by reduced metabolites of progesterone and deoxycorticosterone has been compared with that produced by depressant barbiturates in: (a) voltage-clamp recordings from bovine enzymatically isolated chromaffin cells in cell culture, and (b) an assay of the...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Peters JA,Kirkness EF,Callachan H,Lambert JJ,Turner AJ

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We synthesized a small-molecule opioid receptor-like 1 (ORL1) receptor agonist, 2-{3-[1-((1R)-acenaphthen-1-yl)piperidin-4-yl]-2,3-dihydro-2-oxo-benzimidazol-1-yl}-N-methylacetamide (W-212393), and investigated its effect on the circadian body temperature rhythm of rats. W-212393 has high affinity for ORL1 receptors i...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Teshima K,Minoguchi M,Tounai S,Ashimori A,Eguchi J,Allen CN,Shibata S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00