Dual effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine on the release of gamma-aminobutyric acid from myenteric neurones of the guinea-pig ileum.

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

authors： Hollywood MA,Sergeant GP,Thornbury KD,McHale NG

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this issue, BJP is proud to publish an Endothelium Themed Section to celebrate the life of Robert F. Furchgott, who died on May 19th 2009. It is 30 years since he discovered endothelium-derived relaxant factor and a decade since he was awarded the Nobel Prize for this work. His discovery has led to an array of new ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： McGrath JC

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Endothelial cell damage in glomeruli and kidney arterioles appears to play a pivotal role in glomerular inflammatory diseases. Glomerular endothelial cells, a specialized microvascular cell type involved in the regulation of glomerular ultrafiltration, die by apoptosis in response to tumour necrosis factor-alpha (T...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Messmer UK,Winkel G,Briner VA,Pfeilschifter J

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The fall in arterial blood pressure with bradycardia that occurs on injection of clonidine into the cerebral ventricles and into the cisterna magna is attributed to an action on ;chemosensitive zones' situated at the ventral surface of the brain stem. This conclusion is based on the following results obtained in ca...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bousquet P,Guertzenstein PG

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha2-adrenoceptor function in mesenteric arteries of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) was investigated by comparing membrane potential changes in response to adrenergic agonists in preparations from female SHR, Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) and normotensive Wistar rats (NWR). Resting membrane potential was found to be...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Feres T,Borges AC,Silva EG,Paiva AC,Paiva TB

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism underlying the LTC(4)-induced contraction of guinea-pig taenia coli was determined using the simultaneous measurements of [Ca(2+)](i) and force in whole muscle preparations. Additional experiments were performed in receptor coupled permeabilized preparation. For comparison purposes, the contraction which...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Ieiri S,Nishimura J,Hirano K,Suita S,Kanaide H

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The effects of raising or lowering [Ca(2+)](o) or [Mg(2+)](o) on potential changes evoked by 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and by the nicotinic agonist, 1,1-dimethyl-4-phenyl piperazinium (DMPP) have been investigated.2 Changes in membrane potential were measured at the ganglion or in postganglionic axons by the sucros...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Nash HL,Wallis DI

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prejunctional effects of clonidine and phenylephrine were studied in guinea-pig isolated atria by means of field stimulation of the sympathetic nerve terminals during the cardiac refractory period, in the presence of 1 microM atropine. Clonidine (10-100 nM) produced a dose-dependent decrease in the stimulus-inotro...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Ledda F,Mantelli L

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a devastating disease characterized by increased pulmonary arterial pressure, which progressively leads to right-heart failure and death. A dys-regulated renin angiotensin system (RAS) has been implicated in the development and progression of PH. However, the role o...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bruce E,Shenoy V,Rathinasabapathy A,Espejo A,Horowitz A,Oswalt A,Francis J,Nair A,Unger T,Raizada MK,Steckelings UM,Sumners C,Katovich MJ

更新日期：2015-05-01 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 presence of the histamine H₄ receptor (H₄R) was previously reported in benign and malignant lesions and cell lines derived from the human mammary gland. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of H₄R ligands on the survival, tumour growth rate and metastatic capacity of breast cancer...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Martinel Lamas DJ,Croci M,Carabajal E,Crescenti EJ,Sambuco L,Massari NA,Bergoc RM,Rivera ES,Medina VA

更新日期：2013-09-01 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：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Protocatechuic acid (PCA) is plentiful in edible fruits and vegetables and is thus one anti-oxidative component of normal human diets. However, the molecular mechanisms involved in the chemopreventive activity of PCA are poorly understood. Here, we investigated the mechanism(s) underlying the ant...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Lin HH,Chen JH,Chou FP,Wang CJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of adenosine A1 receptor stimulation on basal and histamine-stimulated levels of intracellular free calcium ion concentration ([Ca2+]i) have been investigated in primary astrocyte cultures derived from neonatal rat forebrains. 2. Histamine (0.1 microM-1 mM) caused rapid, concentration-dependent increase...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Peakman MC,Hill SJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Although CB(1) receptor activation evokes neuroprotection in response to cannabinoids, some cannabinoids have been reported to be peroxisome proliferator activated receptor (PPAR) ligands, offering an alternative protective mechanism. We have, therefore, investigated the ability of a range of can...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Sun Y,Alexander SP,Garle MJ,Gibson CL,Hewitt K,Murphy SP,Kendall DA,Bennett AJ

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of the metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) antagonist, L-2-amino-3-phosphonopropionate (L-AP3) on phosphoinositide turnover in neonatal rat cerebral cortex slices has been investigated. 2. At concentrations of < or = 300 microM, L-AP3 inhibited total [3H]-inositol phosphate ([3H]-InsPx) and Ins(1,4,...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Mistry R,Prabhu G,Godwin M,Challiss RA

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Experiments were designed to determine whether endothelium-dependent relaxing factor(s) released by acetylcholine from the canine femoral artery influences the membrane potential of coronary arterial smooth muscle. 2. The membrane potential was recorded in small canine coronary arteries (internal diameter less than...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Feletou M,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The study was designed to test the hypothesis that nitric oxide (NO)-releasing compounds increase guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic GMP) production in human polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) and concomitantly inhibit PMN functions, i.e. leukotriene B4 (LTB4) synthesis, degranulation, chemotaxis and sup...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Moilanen E,Vuorinen P,Kankaanranta H,Metsä-Ketelä T,Vapaatalo H

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) relaxes circular smooth muscle of the rabbit isolated jugular vein at very low concentrations (mean pIC50 against histamine-induced contraction = 9.34). This effect is not blocked by the EP1-receptor antagonist, AH 6809 (2 microM). 2. From a group of prostaglandin E analogues examined, 16,16...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Lawrence RA,Jones RL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The interactions between N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluRs) were investigated in striatal slices, by utilizing intracellular recordings, both in current- and voltage-clamp mode. 2. Bath-application (50 microM) or focal application of NMDA induced a transient membrane depolariz...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Pisani A,Calabresi P,Centonze D,Bernardi G

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The responses of excitatory junctions on locust skeletal muscle fibres to iontophoretically applied L-glutamic acid and DL-ibotenic acid, a rigidly extended analogue of glutamate, were recorded by means of intracellular microelectrodes.2 Iontophoresis of L-glutamate to junctional sites produced transient depolarizat...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Clark RB,Gration KA,Usherwood PN

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Dehydrodiconiferyl alcohol (DHCA), a lignan compound isolated from Cucurbita moschata, has previously been shown to contain anti-adipogenic and antilipogenic effects on 3T3-L1 cells and mouse embryonic fibroblasts. As some of phytochemicals derived from natural plants show anti-inflammatory or an...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Lee J,Choi J,Kim S

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 A method is described for repeated sampling of plasma noradrenaline (NA) in freely moving rats. Na concentration does not change during the day or after adrenalectomy. 2 Exogenous NA has a half-life of 1.5 min; drugs which block neuronal and extra-neuronal uptake lengthen this to 6.3 min. 3 Swim-stress leads to a st...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Benedict CR,Fillenz M,Stanford C

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is an incretin hormone that regulates insulin biosynthesis and secretion in a glucose-dependent manner and has been reported to induce vasodilatation. Here, we examined the possible vasorelaxant effect of GLP-1 and its underlying mechanisms. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Bangshaab M,Gutierrez A,Huynh KD,Knudsen JS,Arcanjo DDR,Petersen AG,Rungby J,Gejl M,Simonsen U

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RSD 921 is a novel, structurally unique, class I Na+ channel blocking drug under development as a local anaesthetic agent and possibly for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The effects of RSD 921 on wild-type heart, skeletal muscle, neuronal and non-inactivating IFMQ3 mutant neuronal Na+ channels expressed in Xeno...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Pugsley MK,Goldin AL

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of treatment with rolipram, a specific phosphodiesterase IV inhibitor, on learning and memory function and on the cyclic AMP/PKA/CREB signal transduction system were examined in rats with microsphere embolism (ME)-induced cerebral ischaemia. Sustained cerebral ischaemia was induced by the injection of 900 ...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Nagakura A,Niimura M,Takeo S

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Excessive production of nitric oxide (NO) by inducible NO synthase (iNOS) is thought to underlie the vascular dysfunction, systemic hypotension and organ failure that characterize endotoxic shock. Plasma levels of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and C-type natriu...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Panayiotou CM,Baliga R,Stidwill R,Taylor V,Singer M,Hobbs AJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) We determined the effects of long-term treatment with aminoguanidine (AG), an inhibitor of advanced glycation end products, on the mechanical properties of the arterial system in aged Fisher 344 rats, using the aortic impedance analysis. (2) Normotensive rats were treated from 18 to 24 months with AG (1 g/l-1 in d...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： Chang KC,Hsu KL,Peng YI,Lee FC,Tseng YZ

更新日期：2003-09-01 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. The functional role of the nitric oxide (NO)/guanosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic GMP) pathway in experimental myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion was studied in rat isolated hearts. 2. Rat isolated hearts were perfused at constant pressure with Krebs-Henseleit buffer for 25 min (baseline), then made ischa...

journal_title：British journal of pharmacology

authors： du Toit EF,McCarthy J,Miyashiro J,Opie LH,Brunner F

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00