Glycyrrhizin treatment ameliorates post-traumatic stress disorder-like behaviours and restores circadian oscillation of intracranial serotonin.

abstract：:1. To investigate whether the difference in the SA gene expression in the kidneys is causally related to the pathogenesis of hypertension, we reassessed the expression of the SA gene in the kidneys of the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), its stroke-prone substrain (SHRSP) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat from different...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ishinaga Y,Nabika T,Shimada T,Hiraoka J,Nara Y,Yamori Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of endogenous and exogenous acetylcholine (ACh) on nitrergic relaxations elicited by electrical field stimulation (EFS) were studied in guinea-pig endothelium-denuded basilar artery preparations precontracted with 1 mumol/L prostaglandin F2 alpha and a possible role of K+ channels in mediating the effec...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Jiang F,Li CG,Rand MJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present brief review examines some of the new developments in the area of circadian rhythm research. 2. The discovery of the mouse clock and m-per genes and their similarity to other clock genes like per and tim has provided new insight into the control of rhythms in vertebrates. In mice, these genes are expres...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kennaway DJ

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aim of the present study was to assess the protective effect of Sargassum polycystum (sulphated polysaccharide) extract against paracetamol-induced DNA strand breaks and modulation of membrane-bound phosphatases, protein thiols and inorganic cations during toxic hepatitis. 2. Seaweed extract (200 mg/kg per day ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Raghavendran HB,Sathivel A,Yogeeta RS,Devaki T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urapidil had blocking activity on alpha 1-adrenoceptors in the rat isolated caudal artery (pA2 congruent to 7) and in the anaesthetized rat. Urapidil had no clonidine like agonistic activity on alpha 2-adrenoceptors in preparations of the guinea-pig ileum (prejunctional) or dog saphenous vein (post-junctional). Urapid...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Verberne AJ,Rand MJ

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Amino acid neurotransmitters are critical for controlling the activity of most central neurons, including sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPN), the spinal cord neurons involved in controlling blood pressure and other autonomic functions. 2. In studies reviewed here, SPN were identified either by retrograde traci...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Llewellyn-Smith IJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This study was designed to elucidate the effects of guar gum, a dietary fibre, on changes in prostanoid contents induced by 1,2-dimethylhydrazine, a carcinogenic agent, in rat colonic mucosa. 2. Prostanoid contents were determined using high performance liquid chromatography; five prostanoids, namely 6-keto-prostag...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kanamori S,Sugiyama S,Goto H,Hayakawa T,Shimomura Y,Ozawa T

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Pulmonary veins are the most important focus for the initiation of atrial fibrillation. Diabetes mellitus may be associated with hypertonicity and increased occurrence of atrial fibrillation. 2. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether hypertonicity alters the electrophysiological characteristics...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Lee SH,Chen YC,Cheng CC,Higa S,Chen YJ,Chen SA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Although it is well established that hypertension is the main risk factor for stroke, the complexity of cerebrovascular problems related to hypertension is not generally appreciated. 2. Hypertension can cause stroke through many mechanisms. A high intraluminal pressure will lead to extensive alteration in endotheli...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Johansson BB

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. An antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) is a short strand of deoxyribonucleotide analogue that hybridizes with the complementary mRNA in a sequence-specific manner via Watson-Crick base pairing. Formation of the ASO-mRNA heteroduplex either triggers RNase H activity, leading to mRNA degradation, induces translational ar...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Chan JH,Lim S,Wong WS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In the present study, we attempted to clarify whether the antidiabetic drug miglitol, an alpha-glucosidase inhibitor, has a protective effect against anginal ischaemia. We had reported previously that miglitol reduces myocardial infarct size through inhibition of glycogenolysis during ischaemia in rabbits. However,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Uno Y,Minatoguchi S,Arai M,Wang N,Chen XH,Hashimoto K,Lu C,Takemura G,Fujiwara H

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Ventilatory measurements and functional residual capacity (FRC) were recorded from anaesthetized rats and ferrets using a whole body plethysmograph. Simulation of aspects of human chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) was attempted by making animals acutely hypoxic or hypoxic and hypercapnic by causing them to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Austin CA,Wach RA,Bee D,Finlay M,Emery CJ,Suggett AJ,Barer GR

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Dexamethasone (Dex)-induced hypertension is characterized by endothelial dysfunction associated with nitric oxide (NO) deficiency and increased superoxide (O2-) production. Atorvastatin (Ato) possesses pleiotropic properties that have been reported to improve endothelial function through increased availability of N...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Mondo CK,Yang WS,Zhang N,Huang TG

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Ethamsylate (diethylammonium 2,5-dihydroxybenzene sulfonate, Dicynene), a systemic haemostatic agent with an unknown mechanism of action, was tested for anti-inflammatory activity using the carrageenan-induced rat paw oedema test. 2. Ethamsylate was shown to be an effective anti-inflammatory agent with a time cours...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Gard PR,Trigger DJ

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of 14 lignocaine homologues on the maximum upstroke velocity (Vmax) of the action potentials (AP) were studied in guinea-pig papillary muscles. These drugs possess one, two or three methyl groups in different positions: an ortho-chloro, -carbomethoxy or -ethyl group instead of an ortho-methyl group; or ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Hamamoto T,Ichiyama M,Takahashi Y,Ban T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. There is mounting evidence that a wide range of antidepressants share the common feature of increasing hippocampal neurogenesis. The specificity of this association has suggested that an ability to increase neurogenesis might be a useful paradigm to screen for compounds with antidepressant activity. 2. The hope of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Nandam LS,Jhaveri D,Bartlett P

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Endothelin mediates its effects in a variety of renal cells via a multiplicity of intracellular signalling pathways. 2. Stimulation of phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC), resulting in the activation of inositol trisphosphate and diacylglycerol, can be detected even at picomolar concentrations of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Nord EP

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. 125I-351A, a tyrosyl derivative of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor lisinopril, was used as a radioligand, and radioinhibitor binding and displacement assays have been established. 2. The in vitro potency of a range of ACE inhibitors against rat ACE was determined using the radioinhibitor binding d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Johnston CI,Cubela R,Jackson B

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacological actions of 2,6-di-tert-butyl-4-(3-hydroxy-2-spiropentylpropyl)-phenol (BSPP), a putative presynaptic GABA(B) receptor modulator, were examined in electrically stimulated rat neocortical brain slices preloaded with [3H]-GABA or [3H]-glutamic acid. At 10 mmol/L, BSPP inhibited the release of [3H]-GAB...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Parker DA,Marino V,Ong J,Puspawati NM,Prager RH

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In the present study, we investigated aqueous extracts of Anoectochilus formosanus (AFE) for antihyperglycaemic and anti-oxidant effects in diabetic rats induced by streptozotocin (STZ). 2. Diabetic rats were randomly divided into groups and treated orally by gavage with vehicle (distilled water) or AFE (1 and 2 g/...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Shih CC,Wu YW,Lin WC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Enzymatic bioremediation is potentially a rapid method of removing environmental pesticide residues. Applications include the treatment of residues resulting from agricultural production and processing industries, such as the treatment of irrigation waters, surface-contaminated fruit and vegetables and spent dip li...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Sutherland TD,Horne I,Weir KM,Coppin CW,Williams MR,Selleck M,Russell RJ,Oakeshott JG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. When six female seropositive rheumatoid patients were given placebo therapy for 48 h, their plasma kininogen level, 9.2 +/- 0.7 microgram bradykinin equivalents (bk eq) per ml, was found to be 59% greater than that of a group of eight healthy female volunteers (5.8 +/- 0.5 microgram/ml). 2. When the rheumatoid pati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Sharma JN,Zeitlin IJ,Brooks PM,Buchanan WW,Dick WC

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Insulin-liposomes of four different lipid combinations were given intragastrically to normal rats on twenty occasions and to diabetic rats on 164 occasions. 2. Normal rats showed no hypoglycaemic response to either sonicated or unsonicated liposomes. 3. Diabetic rats failed to respond to sonicated liposomes but six...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Shenfield GM,Hill JC

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Quantitative autoradiography and homogenate radioligand binding of [125I]-Bolton Hunter substance P ([125I]-BHSP) were used to compare brain NK1 receptors in young (2 months) and aged (18-20 months) rats. 2. The autoradiographic distribution and density of [125I]-BHSP binding sites was similar in all cortical regio...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Geraghty DP,Maguire CM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Synthetic human endothelin was injected intravenously over the range 1.5-50 micrograms to examine its cardiovascular actions in conscious sheep. 2. Mean arterial pressure increased by 9-21 mmHg within 30-120 s over the range 5-50 micrograms endothelin. The increase in blood pressure was associated with increased ca...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Scoggins BA,Spence CD,Parkes DG,McDonald M,Wade JD,Coghlan JP

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent in vitro experiments have indicated that human resistin increases the number of lipoprotein particles secreted by the human hepatocytes and also influences their quality, in terms of generating more proatherogenic lipid particles. The aim of this study is to investigate associations of plasma resistin and perip...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Joksić J,Sopić M,Spasojević-Kalimanovska V,Gojković T,Zeljković A,Vekić J,Andjelkovic K,Kalimanovska-Oštrić D,Jelić-Ivanović Z

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Intermittent bursts of activity are a robust feature of the discharges of sympathetic nerves. There are at least two major mechanisms producing such discharges: (i) phasic inputs influencing sympathetic circuits; and (ii) oscillators embedded within sympathetic networks. The functional significance of patterned and...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Gilbey MP

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has been considered as a multi-factorial metabolic syndrome. MicroRNA-375 (MiR-375) was significantly up-regulated in serum of NAFLD patients and the role of miR-375 was addressed as a putative biomarker of NAFLD progression. However, the specific function of miR-375 in the pr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Lei L,Zhou C,Yang X,Li L

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Despite the array of sophisticated imaging techniques available for biological applications, none of the standard biomedical techniques adequately provides the capability to measure motion and flow. Those techniques currently in use are particularly lacking in spatial and temporal resolution. 2. Herein, we introduc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Fouras A,Dusting J,Sheridan J,Kawahashi M,Hirahara H,Hourigan K

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. It has previously been shown that perfusion with high O2-affinity-erythrocytes decreases venous PO2 (PVO2) and decreases O2 uptake (VO2) in contracting muscle at the same O2 delivery (arterial O2 concentration x flow). A linear VO2-PVO2 relationship has been obtained with a VO2-axis intercept, suggesting that, duri...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kohzuki H,Misawa H,Kishi T,Ohga Y,Sakata S,Takaki M

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00