Abstract：
:1. The effects of inhaled platelet-activating factor (PAF) on responsiveness of the human nasal airway were examined in normal subjects by measuring nasal airway resistance in response to histamine and bradykinin at 2, 6, 24, 48 h and 7 d after PAF administration. Eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) in nasal secretions was also measured. 2. Intranasal aerosol administration of PAF, 30 or 60 micrograms per nostril to normal human subjects induced an increased responsiveness to inhaled histamine, 50 to 400 micrograms and bradykinin, 100 micrograms per nostril at 2, 6 and 24 h following PAF treatment. However the effect was not apparent at 48 h or 7 days after PAF administration. 3. Intranasal administration of lyso-PAF, 60 micrograms by aerosol did not increase the reactivity of the nasal airway in response to histamine, 200 micrograms. 4. There was no difference in the time course of the PAF-induced hyperresponsiveness to histamine or bradykinin. 5. PAF-induced nasal hyperresponsiveness at 2 and 6 h was associated with increases in the ECP concentration of the nasal lavage fluid. 6. Vitamin E pretreatment of subjects resulted in the attenuation of the PAF-induced hyperresponsiveness to histamine, and a decrease in ECP levels of the nasal lavage fluid. 7. The results suggest that in the human nasal airway, PAF induces a non-specific hyperresponsiveness which is accompanied by eosinophil activation in the nasal cavity. Free radical production induced by PAF may contribute to the hyperresponsiveness and the activation of eosinophils.
journal_name
Br J Pharmacoljournal_title
British journal of pharmacologyauthors
Austin CE,Foreman JCdoi
10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb13779.xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1993-09-01 00:00:00pages
113-8issue
1eissn
0007-1188issn
1476-5381journal_volume
110pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:1. We have investigated the effects of the selective phosphodiesterase (PDE) type 4 inhibitor, rolipram (0.01-1 microM) on cytosolic Ca2+ fluxes in FMLP-activated human neutrophils, as well as on superoxide production by, and release of elastase from, these cells. 2. Cytosolic Ca2+ fluxes were measured by use of fura-...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0701849
更新日期：1998-06-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1973.tb08153.x
更新日期：1973-01-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0706115
更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Voltage-operated sodium channels constitute major target sites for local anaesthetic-like action. The clinical use of local anaesthetics is still limited by severe side effects, in particular, arrhythmias and convulsions. These side effects render the search for new local anaesthetics a matter of...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjp.2008.255
更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 Rat isolated perfused hearts with the right sympathetic nerves attached were loaded with [3H]-(-)-noradrenaline. The nerves were stimulated with up to 40 trains of 10 pulses every min at 1 Hz, and the evoked increases of [3H-]noradrenaline overflow into the perfusate, of right atrial tension development and ventricu...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1983.tb10502.x
更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 Uniaxial cyclic stretch leads to an upregulation of cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 through increases in the intracellular Ca(2+) concentration via the stretch-activated (SA) channel and following nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) activation in human fibroblasts. However, the signaling mechanism as to how the elevated Ca(2+...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0706182
更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The effects of palytoxin (PTX) isolated from Palythoa tubercurosa were tested on the isolated intra-arterially perfused spinal cord of the frog. The resting and evoked potentials were recorded by means of a sucrose-gap technique. 2. PTX caused a marked depolarization of both ventral and dorsal roots. The minimum ef...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1980.tb10975.x
更新日期：1980-01-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1111/bph.12009
更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1 Twenty-two compounds classified as antidepressants, metabolites of antidepressants or putative antidepressants were assayed for their ability to antagonize the binding of (-)-[3H]-quinuclidinyl benzilate to muscarinic receptors in homogenates of human caudate nucleus. 2 Sixteen of these compounds were assayed for th...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The present study was designed to characterize the positive inotropic response to DPI 201-106 in isolated papillary muscle strips obtained from heart failure patients undergoing surgery. 2. The positive inotropic responses to isoprenaline and milrinone and cardiac beta-adrenoceptor density were also determined. 3. ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1989.tb16892.x
更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. N-methyl-gamma-aminobutyrate (N-methylGABA), N-methylglycine, N-methyltaurine and N-methylbeta-alanine diminished the frequency of spontaneous spike discharges in guinea-pig cerebellar slices. Usually a weak excitatory effect preceded the inhibition. 2. The inhibitory effects of N-methylGABA and N-methylbeta-alanin...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1977.tb07720.x
更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Fenclozic acid (2-(4-chlorophenyl)thiazol-4-ylacetic acid; I.C.I. 54,450; "Myalex") is one representative of a new class of compounds with antiinflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic properties as evidenced by its activity in a variety of tests in rats, mice and guinea-pigs.2. In tests of short duration the potency...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1969.tb08290.x
更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The effect of trimebutine on the voltage-dependent inward Ca2+ current was investigated by the whole-cell voltage-clamp technique in single smooth muscle cells from rabbit ileum. 2. Trimebutine (3-100 microM) reduced the Ca2+ current in a concentration-dependent manner. The inhibitory effect on the Ca2+ current was...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1993.tb13823.x
更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. It has recently been shown that both alpha(1)- and alpha(2)-adrenoceptors mediate vasoconstriction in the canine external carotid circulation. The present study set out to identify the specific subtypes (alpha(1A), alpha(1B) and alpha(1D) as well as alpha(2A), alpha(2B) and alpha(2C)) mediating the above response. ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0703915
更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We studied the effects of the novel Na(+)/Ca(2+) exchange inhibitor KB-R7943, 2-[2-[4-(4-nitrobenzyloxy)phenyl]ethyl]isothiourea methanesulphonate, on the native nicotinic receptors present at the bovine adrenal chromaffin cells, as well as on rat brain alpha(3)beta(4) and alpha(7) nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (A...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0703519
更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. In vivo microdialysis in halothane-anaesthetized rats and synaptosomal [3H]-noradrenaline uptake studies in vitro were used to evaluate the effects of imidazole (medetomidine) and imidazoline (clonidine and UK 14,304) alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonists on extraneuronal levels of noradrenaline in the frontal cortex. 2. L...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1995.tb14962.x
更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The pharmacological characteristics of RP 67580, a non-peptide tachykinin NK1 receptor antagonist, and its effects on a reflex response evoked by stimulation of primary afferent fibres, were examined in isolated neonatal spinal cord preparations of the rat. Potentials were recorded extracellularly from a lumbar ven...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb17116.x
更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. The uptake and release of (3)H-digitoxigenin by electrically driven, guinea-pig isolated atria (frequency 180/min) has been determined for two different medium concentrations of the genin. Both concentrations-1 x 10(-7) and 5 x 10(-7) g/ml.-caused a pronounced increase in contractile force.2. The uptake of (3)H-dig...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1968.tb08490.x
更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. We compared the relaxant effect of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating peptide (PACAP) 1-27 with that of a newly developed PACAP 1-27 analogue, [Arg15,20,21Leu17]-PACAP-Gly-Lys-Arg-NH2, in the guinea-pig trachea and primate bronchi in vitro (n = 4-5). 2. In the guinea-pig trachea precontracted by a submaximally ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0701310
更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Cyclo-oxygenase (COX) inhibitors potentiate opioid inhibition of GABAergic synaptic transmission in rat periaqueductal grey (PAG) (Vaughan et al., 1997). In the present study, the relative contribution of cyclo-oxygenase-1 (COX-1) and COX-2 inhibition to this phenomenon was examined by use of whole-cell patch clamp re...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0701818
更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. In cortical slices from rat brain incubated in a medium containing the irreversible cholinesterase inhibitor, soman (0.005 mM) and a high concentration of KCl (25 mM), atropine exerts a stimulating action on the release of acetylcholine (ACh).2. Two possible explanations for this action were examined. Atropine migh...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1971.tb07068.x
更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The gastrointestinal (GI) tract is exposed to a large array of proteases, under both physiological and pathophysiological conditions. The discovery of G protein-coupled receptors activated by proteases, the protease-activated receptors (PARs), has highlighted new signaling functions for proteases in the GI tract, part...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0705750
更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Macrophage elastase (MMP-12) is involved in the inflammatory process of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of this study was to investigate in mice the effect of MMP-12 inhibition on the inflammatory process induced by cigarette smoke (CS) or by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) exposure of the air...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/bjp.2008.180
更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Certain 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO) inhibitors exhibit anti-carcinogenic activities against 5-LO overexpressing tumour types and cultured tumour cells. It has been proposed therefore that 5-LO products significantly contribute to tumour cell proliferation. To date, the relationship between the inhibito...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2010.00915.x
更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. [125I]-Tyr4-bombesin exhibited saturable binding to pancreatic acinar cells. 2. Preincubation of cells at 37 degrees C with 0.03 nM-1 microM-bombesin for 10 min followed by acid or neutral washes reduced subsequent binding of [125I]-Tyr4-bombesin in a concentration-dependent manner by up to 90%. 3. In cell suspensi...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1994.tb13187.x
更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Emesis is a multi-system reflex, which is usually investigated using in vivo models. The aim of the study is to compare the response induced by emetic compounds across species and investigate whether dogs, ferrets and rats are all similarly predictive of humans. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH:A systemati...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.2011.01669.x
更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) is an autacoid that decreases proteoglycan synthesis, increases metalloprotease production by cultured chondrocytes, and can modulate some of the actions of interleukin-1 on cartilage. The objective of the present study was to characterize the subtype of prostaglandin E2 receptor present in ...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1996.tb15580.x
更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The effects of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitor (ACEI) ramiprilat, the angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist (AT(1)A) candesartan, and the combination of both drugs on infarct size (IS) resulting from regional myocardial ischaemia were studied in pigs. Both ACEI and AT(1)A reduce myocardial IS by a brad...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0703544
更新日期：2000-09-01 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
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1476-5381.1989.tb12572.x
更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00
abstract：:1. Protein phosphorylation is involved in the induction of nitric oxide synthase II (NOS II, iNOS) in several types of animal cells. Here we have investigated the possible involvement of major protein kinases in the induction of NOS II expression in human DLD-1 cells. 2. In DLD-1 cells, interferon--gamma alone induced...
journal_title：British journal of pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1038/sj.bjp.0701782
更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00
