Altered relaxant responses to adenosine and adenosine 5'-triphosphate in the corpus cavernosum from men and rats with diabetes.

abstract：:Effects of schisandrin B enantiomer ((+)Sch B and (-)Sch B) treatment on the reduced cellular glutathione (GSH) level and susceptibility to menadione-induced toxicity were investigated and compared in AML12 hepatocytes. (+)Sch B or (-)Sch B treatment at 6.25 micromol/l produced a time-dependent change in cellular GSH ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Chiu PY,Leung HY,Poon MK,Mak DH,Ko KM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of triamterene (TA) on its phase I and phase II metabolites, p-hydroxytriamterene (OH-TA) and p-hydroxytriamterene sulfuric acid ester (OH-TA ester), on sodium transport in the isolated frog skin. While TA applied to the inside (corial side) surface had no effects on potential difference (PD) an...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Kramer HJ,Rörig M,Völger KD

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-o-, and p-octopamine were tested for beta- and alpha-adrenergic activity in rats. When compared to DL-isoproterenol, a beta-adrenergic agonist, all three isomers failed to show significant beta-adrenergic activity as assessed by intiation of thirst and by increase in tail skin temperature. All three isomers increas...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Fregly MJ,Kelleher DL,Williams CM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phencyclidine (PCP; 10 mg/kg, s.c.) produced a marked diuresis which occurred without significant changes in solute excretion. This diuresis occurred predominantly within 2 h of PCP injection, and was blocked by pretreatment with vasopressin. The maximum diuresis corresponded temporally to a significant fall in plasma...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Zerbe RL,Bayorh MA,Quirion R,Kopin IJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The histamine levels in rat plasma treated with various new trypanocidal diamidines and diimidazolines were evaluated by HPLC and fluorometric detection. Equimolar doses (10 mumol/kg) of the new compounds raised the plasma histamine level to a much smaller degree than pentamidine or diminazene. ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Steinmann U,Estler CJ,Dann O

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of alpha-adrenergic agonists on 45Ca efflux from slices of rat liver were studied and the results compared to earlier studies on the rabbit aorta. Norepinephrine and phenylephrine (PE) cause a stimulation of 45Ca efflux which was due to alpha 1-receptor activation. The mitochondrial uncoupler dinitrophenol...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Lynch CJ,Deth RC

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of nisoldipine on myocardial performance and large coronary artery diameter, resistance and cross-sectional area were studied in rabbit hearts in situ. Changes in mean internal diameter of coronary artery segments were visualized using color arteriography; changes were computer-calculated. Nisoldipine had ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Saito T,Saeed M,Bing RJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：: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：:This study was designed to determine whether pyrazinoylguanidine (PZG) can attenuate diabetic nephropathy in streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic rats. Diabetes was induced within 1 week after a single intraperitoneal dose of STZ (45 mg/kg in 0.05 mol/l sodium citrate buffer). Diabetic rats were divided into five gro...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Follansbee MH,Beyer KH Jr,Griffith JW,Vesell ES

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells from different locations are shown to vary in their histochemical, ultrastructural, cytochemical and functional properties. The clinical consequences of this heterogeneity and possible reasons for its origin are discussed. ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Pearce FL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardioprotective effects of (2S,3R,4S)-N'-benzyl- N"-cyano-N-(3,4-dihydro-2-dimethoxymethyl-3-hydro- xy-2-methyl-6-nitro-2H-benzopyran-4-yl)-guanidine (KR-31372) were evaluated against ischemic/reperfusion injury in isolated rat hearts in vitro and in anesthetized rats and dogs in vivo. In isolated perfused rat he...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Lee BH,Seo HW,Yoo SE

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc acexamate (NAS-501), an anti-ulcer agent, has been reported to prevent various acute experimental gastric mucosal lesions and duodenal ulcers in rats. In order to clarify the mechanisms by which NAS-501 exhibits the anti-ulcer effects, we investigated the anti-oxidative effects of NAS-501 in vitro and in vivo. NA...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Tsutsui Y,Nakamura Y,Yamaguchi S,Kawanaka N,Sato M

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the isolated guinea pig vas deferens, 10(-4) M cocaine shifts to the left (13.5-fold at the EC50 level) the concentration-effect curve and increases the maximum response to noradrenaline, whilst supersensitivity to phenylephrine, an amine with a low affinity for the neuronal uptake, was smaller (4.1-fold) and the m...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： DeMoraes S,Capaz FR

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The systemic and coronary hemodynamic effects of the nitrovasodilator, pirsidomine, were compared with SIN-1, nitroprusside, and nitroglycerin. Four groups consisting of 32 experiments were performed in 17 conscious dogs chronically instrumented for measurement of aortic and left ventricular pressure, left ventricular...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Arkonac BM,Kersten JR,Wynsen JC,Nijhawan N,Warltier DC

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In organ transplantation, ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI) has been implicated in delayed graft function (DGF) as well as in short- and long-term complications. Using an autotransplant pig kidney model, changes in renal function and morphology were determined after different periods of cold ischemia in kidneys preser...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Baumert H,Faure JP,Zhang K,Petit I,Goujon JM,Dutheil D,Favreau F,Barrière M,Tillement JP,Mauco G,Papadopoulos V,Hauet T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin had a dual action on the epididymal half of rat vas deferens. It potentiated electrical stimulated contraction and exerted a direct contractile effect on the muscle. The potentiation of electrically stimulated response may be mediated by presynaptic facilitation of neurotransmitter release. Muscular contra...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Sum CS,Cheung WT

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:Macitentan is a novel dual endothelin receptor antagonist with sustained receptor binding in clinical development for pulmonary arterial hypertension. The present study compared the pharmacokinetics and safety of macitentan in healthy Caucasian and Japanese subjects and explored the potential sex differ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Bruderer S,Marjason J,Sidharta PN,Dingemanse J

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of sennosides is discussed in view of the results obtained during the last years. Rhein anthrone is to be considered as the ultimate active form produced by microorganisms in the colon. Several contributions of this senna symposium bring complementary information of utmost interest. ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Lemli J

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The neurotransmitters participating in the nerve-mediated contraction of the guinea pig seminal vesicle (GPSV) have not been firmly established. There is debate as to the mediating role of norepinephrine and acetylcholine. METHODS:We have used longitudinally and circularly oriented strips of GPSV and a...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Benko R,Szombati V,Bartho L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supplementation of antioxidants such as vitamin E and vitamin C as health promotion food is popular recently. Epidemiological studies supported the beneficial effect of these antioxidants because oxygen free radicals have been linked to the process of diseases and aging. The present study evaluated the effect of alpha...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Huang W,Chan P,Chen Y,Chen C,Liao S,Chin W,Cheng J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the effects of ghrelin against the gastric damage induced by intragastric administration of 0.6 N HCl and the involvement of histamine H₃ receptors (H₃Rs) were investigated in conscious rats with selective H₃R ligands. Intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of ghrelin (40 μg/kg) significantly reduced (...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Adami M,Pozzoli C,Leurs R,Stark H,Coruzzi G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When guinea pig isolated trachea is contracted with either carbachol or methacholine, relaxant concentration-response curves to isoprenaline, salmefamol and fenoterol were shifted to the right, compared with curves obtained with either spontaneous or histamine-induced tone. Carbachol and methacholine also reduced the ...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Hutson PA,Carpenter JR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The calcium channel antagonist, nifedipine (0.1 microM), only slightly inhibited the response to the full alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist, (-)-norepinephrine, in rat aorta, but nearly completely inhibited the response to the partial alpha 1-adrenoceptor agonist, (-)-dobutamine, indicating that (-)-norepinephrine primaril...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Oriowo MA,Ruffolo RR Jr

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：:Several experiments suggested that vaccines might inhibit liver drug-metabolizing enzymes, an assumption in agreement with other findings obtained with most immuno-enhancing agents. A direct, non-specific activation of macrophages with subsequent release of interleukin 1 may account for this inhibition. The purpose of...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Descotes J,Guillermin A,Evreux JC

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the bioavailability of a new oromucosal formulation of flurbiprofen 8.75-mg lozenges, developed by Alfa Wassermann S.p.A. (test drug) to that of marketed flurbiprofen 8.75-mg lozenges (Benactiv Gola®, reference drug). METHODS:This was an open, randomised, two-period, crossover, pharmacokinetic (PK) stu...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Matzneller P,Burian A,Martin W,Annoni O,Lauro V,Tacchi R,Brunner M,Zeitlinger M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imatinib and AMN107 are protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors which reduce KIT autophosphorylation with similar potency. This report describes the cellular uptake of these compounds in two human gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST)-derived cell lines (GIST882 and GIST GDG1), which both express constitutively activated K...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Prenen H,Guetens G,de Boeck G,Debiec-Rychter M,Manley P,Schoffski P,van Oosterom AT,de Bruijn E

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Distinct signal transduction pathways have been shown to regulate injury responses and regeneration in peripheral nerves. In the present investigation, the time courses of the induction of phospho-MAPK/ERK1/2 and of phospho-STAT3 were investigated in the dorsal root ganglia (DRG) and in the sciatic nerve of rats follo...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Donnerer J,Liebmann I,Schicho R

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transketolase activity (TKA) of the white and red blood cells of oral contraceptive users was studied in an unselected sample population. Compared with healthy controls of corresponding age, the white cell TKA in the oral contraceptive groups was lowered in about 30%. The red cell TKA was lowered in about 15% of...

journal_title：Pharmacology

authors： Markkanen T,Himanen P,Peltola O

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00