Comparative effects of pranidipine with amlodipine in rats with heart failure.

abstract：:The purpose of these studies was to evaluate the effects of the peptidoleukotriene (LT) receptor antagonist, ICI 198615, on the vasopressor responses produced by LTC4, LTD4 and LTE4. Conscious, normotensive rats were prepared with arterial and venous catheters for measurement of changes in arterial blood pressure and ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Smith EF 3rd,Slivjak MJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies revealed an apparent bimodal distribution of adrenal xenobiotic-metabolizing activities in outbred guinea pigs. High activities were characteristic of most animals but a minority had very low rates of metabolism. The present studies were done to determine the basis for this distribution. Among the enzyma...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Colby HD,Huang Y,Jiang Q,Voigt JM

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of two structurally dissimilar aldose reductase inhibitors, Zopolrestat and Sorbinil, were investigated on the sodium-dependent, myo-inositol (MI) cotransporter in rat lenses maintained in either normal (5.5 mmol/l) or high sugar medium (35.5 mmol/l glucose or 30 mmol/l galactose). MI influx was compared t...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Beyer-Mears A,Diecke FP,Mistry K,Cruz E

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of myocardial adenylate cyclase from two age groups (10-11 and 18-19 weeks old, respectively) of male spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and their age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) was examined. Stimulation of the enzyme by isoproterenol and 5'-guanylyl-imidodiphosphate (GMP-PNP) was dec...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Chiu TH

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the antihypertensive effect of 5-HT1A agonist (buspirone) and 5-HT2B antagonists (SB204741 and SB200646) in deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt-induced hypertensive rats. Experiments were divided into two sets: in the first set, sham-operated control and DOCA-treated hypertensive rats received busp...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Shingala JR,Balaraman R

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:34 experienced marijuana users were divided into four equated groups of eight subjects each based on recognition memory test performance. One week later each group was retested following administration of marijuana containing 0, 5, 10 or 15 mg delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol. A dose-related effect of marijuana on pulse ra...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Miller L,Cornett T,Drew W,McFarland D,Brightwell D,Wikler A

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:We studied the effect of the combined treatment with an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (ramipril) and eplerenone compared with ramipril alone in streptozocin-induced diabetic rats. METHODS:Wistar rats were divided into 4 groups: nondiabetic controls, streptozocin-treated diabetic rats (5...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Mavrakanas TA,Cheva A,Kallaras K,Karkavelas G,Mironidou-Tzouveleki M

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) to phenobarbital-induced cytochrome P-450 (PB-P-450) show different patterns of inhibition of PB-P-450 catalyzed aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH), 7-ethoxycoumarin deethylase, benzphetamine demethylase and ethylmorphine demethylase. The inhibition constants vary depending on the ind...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Fujino T,West D,Park SS,Gelboin HV

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of dietary taurine on lipid secretion and ketone body production were examined in the livers of Wistar and Sprague-Dawley rats fed high-cholesterol diets. The weight gain of the Sprague-Dawley rats tended to be higher than that of the Wistar rats, although food intake was comparable between the strains. Th...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Yamamoto K,Yoshitama A,Sakono M,Nasu T,Murakami S,Fukuda N

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antinociceptive effect in mice (hot-plate test) of caerulein (0.15 mg/kg s.c.) was many times more resistant to naloxone than that of morphine (2 mg/kg s.c., equipotent with the caerulein dose). The ED50 (mg/kg s.c.) of naloxone (given simultaneously with an agonist) was with morphine 0.01 and with caerulein 0.07....

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Zetler G

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid antagonists have been shown to prevent the occurrence of lethal arrhythmias following coronary reperfusion. In this study, we have examined the effect of a new, long-lasting, potent opioid antagonist, nalmefene, and congeners in the prevention of reperfusion arrhythmias in dogs. Nalmefene given at a dose of 1 m...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Caldwell RW,Nagarajan R,Chryssanthis A,Tuttle RR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) is a nuclear receptor that regulates lipid metabolism. Recently, PPARgamma was reported to be a negative regulator in the immune system. Eosinophils also express PPARgamma, however, the role of PPARgamma in eosinophil functions is not well understood. Surfac...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Matsuwaki Y,Ueki S,Adachi T,Oyamada H,Kamada Y,Yamaguchi K,Kanda A,Hamada K,Kayaba H,Chihara J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphetamine is a sympathomimetic and psychotropic drug which is extensively metabolized in liver and in brain. One of its major metabolites, p-hydroxyamphetamine, is accumulated by cortical and striatal synaptosomes. In order to learn whether p-hydroxyamphetamine can be further metabolized to a catecholamine, a sensit...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Hoffman AR,Sastry BV,Axelrod J

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetraethylammonium chloride (TEA) at concentrations over 10(-3) mol/l produced a concentration-dependent contraction in the isolated canine coronary artery. We investigated mechanisms of the contractile response and the effects of various vasodilators on the contraction. While phentolamine, propranolol, guanethidine, ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Nishio M,Kigoshi S,Muramatsu I

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Danthron infused intravenously in rats shows a complex dose-dependent pattern of metabolism and excretion. The metabolites, particularly the more polar ones, are in general excreted predominantly in bile, to a lesser extent in urine. They can be separated as metabolite groups according to polarity and molecular size o...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Sund RB,Junker T,Malterud KE

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present study were to investigate the pharmacological effects induced by Tityus serrulatus venom (TsV) and its fractions and to compare with the effects induced by pure alpha (TsTX-V) and beta (TsTX-I) toxins isolated from TsV on rat retractor penis muscle (RPM). TsV, fractions X, XI, XIIa, XIIb (0.01-...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Bomfim JH,de Godoy MA,Giglio JR,de Oliveira AM,Arantes EC

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In anesthetized rats intravenously infused, norepinephrine (NE) was accumulated by the heart, the spleen and the lung in a dose-related manner. With the lower dose of NE (2.5 mg/kg) the organ/blood ratios were more than unity and were generally greater than with higher doses (5 and 10 mg/kg), indicating that accumulat...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Sivaramakrishna N,Gulati OD

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Our study aimed to investigate the effect of amlodipine on bone metabolism in orchidectomized rats. METHODS:Eight-week-old rats were divided into three groups. The sham-operated control group (SHAM) and the control group after orchidectomy (ORX) received the standard laboratory diet (SLD). The experimental group a...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Gradosova I,Zivna H,Palicka V,Hubena S,Svejkovska K,Zivny P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to investigate the effects of fluid administration on survival in endotoxemic or septicemic male Sprague-Dawley rats. Endotoxemia was induced by intravenous injection of Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and septicemia produced by cecal ligation and puncture (CLP). In endotoxemi...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Smith EF 3rd,Slivjak MJ,Egan JW,Gagnon R,Arleth AJ,Esser KM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal lithium clearance, tissue lithium levels, serum lithium concentration, and body temperature were determined in rats given lithium alone or combined with haloperidol (0.5-1 mg/kg). A slight increase in serum lithium concentration occurred in one of the three groups given lithium plus haloperidol. Haloperidol fail...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Smith DF,Shimizu M,Schou M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an ongoing debate about possible advantages of the coadministration of caffeine with cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors in the treatment of pain. There are results suggesting interference by caffeine with COX expression and activity in rat immune cells. In the present study, we have used, therefore, human endoto...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Ulcar R,Schuligoi R,Heinemann A,Santner B,Amann R

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cimetidine and two new histamine H2-receptor antagonists, oxmetidine and SKF 93479, on histamine-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity was studied in guinea pig gastric mucosal cells. Histamine stimulated the enzyme activity in concentration-dependent fashion. The concentration-response curve of histamin...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Cheret AM,Scarpignato C,Lewin MJ,Bertaccini G

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intracerebroventricular injection of the cholecystokinin-A receptor antagonist L-364,718, at the doses of 0.5, 5, 10 or 20 micrograms/mouse, while having no effect on pain threshold (hot plate, 51 degrees C), antagonized the analgesic activity of morphine (10 mg/kg i.p.). This effect was obtained with a dose of 10...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Poggioli R,Vergoni AV,Sandrini M,Barbafiera L,Marrama D,Bertolini A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of rutin on potassium oxonate-induced hyperuricemia and renal dysfunction in mice. METHODS:Rutin was administered orally 1 h after oxonate at doses of 25, 50 and 100 mg·kg(-1). Serum uric acid levels and kidney function parameters were assayed. Mouse uro...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Chen YS,Hu QH,Zhang X,Zhu Q,Kong LD

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The H2-antagonist tiotidine inhibited the H2-receptor-mediated, histamine-induced increase in cyclic AMP in dispersed mucosal cells from guinea pig stomach (Ki, 4 X 10(-8) M). The radiolabeled [3H]-tiotidine bound specifically and reversibly to the same cells with a half-maximal binding occurring at 5 X 10(-7) M tioti...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Batzri S,Harmon JW

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of bepridil on the low voltage-activated T-type Ca2+ channel (CaV3.2) current stably expressed in human embryonic kidney (HEK)-293 cells were examined using patch-clamp techniques. Bepridil potently inhibited ICa,T with a markedly voltage-dependent manner; the IC50 of bepridil was 0.4 micromol/l at the holding...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Uchino T,Lee TS,Kaku T,Yamashita N,Noguchi T,Ono K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A controlled, double-blind study was made of the efficacy and safety of a new hypnotic, zopiclone, on the preoperative night's sleep by a Joint Study Unit Group of the anesthesiology departments in 6 national hospitals. The following results were found: (1) zopiclone 7.5 and 10 mg and nitrazepam 10 mg were significant...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Momose T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Isoniazid (ISO) has been reported to inhibit the hepatic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) and to cause a disulfiram (DIS)-like reaction, albeit there are no reports demonstrating increased blood acetaldehyde levels after co-administration of ISO with alcohol. The aim of our study was to clarify whether the...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Karamanakos PN,Pappas P,Boumba V,Vougiouklakis T,Marselos M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the specific conditions reported for the separate tests delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) did not elicit a mutagenic response in microbial and eukaryotic in vitro test systems. THC treatment to histidine auxotrophs of Salmonella typhimurium strains TA 98 (susceptible to frame shift mutation) and TA 100 (suscepti...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Zimmerman AM,Stich H,San R

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of choleresis produced by atropine (4-10(-4)M) on the biliary elimination of 3H-ouabain and on the biliary clearance rate of 14C-erythritol were studied in the isolated perfused rat liver. The increased bile flow produced by atropine was associated with decreased level of 3H-ouabain in the bile. The cumulative...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Nevasaari K,Alakare B,Kärki NT

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00