abstract：:All beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs that have been described share the common property of being competitive inhibitors. They differ in their associated properties, the presence or absence of cardioselectivity, membrane stabilizing activity, and partial agonist activity. Recently some beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Prichard BN

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Ten consecutive patients with hypertriglyceridaemia who adhered to a low carbohydrate diet without complete control of serum triglycerides were started on chenodeoxycholic acid 750 mg daily and followed monthly for 6 months. Nine of these patients were then followed for a further month on placebo capsules and therea...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Bateson MC,Maclean D,Evans JR,Bouchier IA

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Mianserin does not affect the uptake of biogenic amines into rat brain, in contrast to tricyclic antidepressants which block amine uptake. 2 Mianserin increases the turnover of noradrenaline (NA) in rat brain after acute or chronic administration, whereas tricyclic antidepressants reduce turnover of NA and 5-hydroxy...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Leonard BE

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The cardiovascular responses of mianserin hydrochloride and tricyclic antidepressant drugs were investigated using non-invasive methods of cardiac investigation. A study of the interaction of mianserin and antihypertensive drug therapy is reported. 2. In six normal volunteers, mianserin hydrochloride 20 mg was show...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Burgess CD,Turner P,Wadsworth J

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Fifty-four depressive in-patients aged 18-45 yr, were treated at random, in double-blind conditions, with mianserin 60 mg daily or imipramine 150 mg daily in three divided doses for 4 weeks. Nitrazepam and diazepam were also allowed if necessary. 2. There was no significant difference in antidepressant efficacy bet...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Pichot P,Dreyfus JF,Pull C

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Data from a comprehensive drug surveillance programme are analysed to provide details of procainamide use and toxicity in medical wards of teaching hospitals in five countries. 2 Out of a total of 488 recipients 9.2% had one or more adverse effect attributed to the drug; common effects being arrhythmias, gastro-inte...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Lawson DH,Jick H

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Quadruple chemotherapy with cytotoxic drugs in advanced (Stage IIIB) Hodgkin's disease causes a fall in the blood lymphocyte count with recovery 1 month after stopping treatment. 2 No selective effect on the T or B lymphocyte populations was shown. ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Clay A,Swain A,Trounce JR

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 As part of a prospective study on the use of digoxin in a general practice, plasma digoxin concentrations were measured in all patients receiving the drug. 2 A low mean plasma digoxin concentration was observed, suggesting a cautious approach to digitalization. 3 The correlation between plasma digoxin concentration ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Holt DW,Williamson JD,Volans GN

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The human isolated basilar artery has been used as a model to investigate the aetiology of cerebral arterial spasm associated with rupture of intracranial aneurysms. 2. The isolated artery is contracted by 5-hydroxytryptamine, noradrenaline, six prostaglandins and cerebrospinal fluid from patients with ruptured ane...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Boullin DJ,Mohan J

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Dose response relationships for salbutamol and a new bronchodilator drug NAB 365 have been obtained in patients with reversible airways obstruction. These show that the latter is about one hundred times more potent than the former. 2. NAB 365 has a very long half-life. The implications of this are discussed. ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Kamburoff PL,Prime FJ,Schmidt OP

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In 48 patients with chronic asthma who had been receiving treatment with beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol (BDA) at a daily dose of 400 microgram for several years, observations were made on the effect of increasing the dose to 800 microgram daily for 6 months. 2. There was subjective improvement in 37 of the 48 ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Chatterjee SS

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Six healthy volunteers received single doses of either nomifensine 100 mg, nomifensine 50 mg or placebo at weekly intervals in a randomized double-blind crossover study. 2. Subjects were subjected to a simulated test of car driving at night. 3. Testing lasted about 1.5 h and consisted of measuring responses to ligh...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Hindmarch I

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Double-blind controlled comparisons of nomifensine with placebo, imipramine, desipramine, viloxazine, nortriptyline, a combination of amitriptyline and chlordiazepoxide, and diazepam have been carried out in various parts of the world. 2. Dosage ranged from 50-225 mg daily, and treatment lasted from 2-26 weeks. 3. ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Habermann W

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effect of nomifensine on the uptake of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) into human platelet-rich plasma has been studied. 2. A significant inhibition of DA uptake was observed at nomifensine 10(-6) M. 3. 5-HT uptake was significantly inhibited only at nomifensine 10(-4) M or more. 4. These results a...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Ehsanullah RS,Turner P

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods of expressing the effects of beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs on exercise heart rate have been evaluated using a standardised exercise test. In six normal subjects given atropine (0.04 mg/kg) on two separate occasions, the mean +/- s.e. mean exercise heart rate rose by 10.3 +/- 1.8 beats/min and by 11.0 +/- 1....

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Carruthers SG,Shanks RG,McDevitt DG

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred different drug advertisements from each of seven leading medical journals have been assessed. Information about drug interactions, adverse reactions, mode of action, absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and cost was seldom provided in UK journals. A requirement should exist that drug advertiseme...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Morgan AH,Jeffers TA,Petrie JC,Walker W

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new anti-spasticity agent, brolitene, has been assessed in patients with spasticity of spinal or cerebral origin. Twenty-seven patients were entered in a double-blind cross-over trial lasting 6 weeks, using a fixed dose of six tablets (1200 mg brolitene) per day. Clinical assessment failed to show any therapeutic ef...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Perkin GD,Aminoff MJ

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The haemodynamic effects of labetalol 50 mg intravenously were studied in 13 hypertensive patients at rest in the supine and upright positions and during exercise using percutaneous right heart and brachial artery catheterization. 2 Labetalol induced immediate significant reductions in systolic and diastolic blood p...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Koch G

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The effect of labetalol has been assessed in an open clinical trial in 19 patients with sub-optimal control of blood pressure on other therapy, and in a placebo-controlled cross-over study. Most patients were taking a diuretic before the trial and they continued to do so during the trial. 2 In the open trial, labeta...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Bolli P,Waal-Manning J,Wood AJ,Simpson FO

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Seventeen men, aged 45-57 yr, with essential hypertension showed obvious and, in the standing position, dose-related reductions in blood pressure during treatment with oral labetalol with weekly dose increments. 2 Pulse rate changes were not related to dose but reduced compared with pre-treatment values. 3 No postur...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Andersson O,Berglund G,Hansson L

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three hypothalamic regulatory hormones, thyrotrophin-releasing hormone (TRH), luteinizing hormone/follicle-stimulating hormone-releasing hormone (LH/FSH-RH) and growth hormone-release inhibiting hormone (GH-RIH) given intravenously had no effect on the electroencephalographic response known as the contingent negative ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Ashton H,Millman JE,Telford R,Thompson JW,Davies TF,Hall R

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a double-blind trial the effects on ventilatory function (FEV1), heart rate and blood pressure of oral pirbuterol and oral salbutamol in various single doses were studied in ten patients with chronic asthma. Pirbuterol (15 mg) and salbutamol (4 mg) produced equal peak levels of bronchodilatation. There was no signi...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Willey RF,Grant IW,Pocock SJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The pharmacodynamic profile of single oral doses of prorenoate potassium (40 mg) and spironolactone (100 mg), as judged by reversal of the effects of fludrocostisone on the urinary electrolyte composition, was compared to that of placebo in a double-blind crossover study in six healthy subjects. 2 Both drugs showed ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Ramsay LE,Shelton JR,Tidd MJ

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A single oral dose of sotalol (160 mg) was administered to control subjects with normal renal function and patients with chronic renal failure in the interdialysis period to estimate the elimination kinetics of the drug. Sotalol concentrations in body fluids were measured fluorimetrically using a modified Garrett and ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Tjandramaga TB,Verbeeck R,Thomas J,Verbesselt R,Verberckmoes R,Schepper PJ

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The beta-adrenergic blocking potencies of practolol, ICI 66082, tolamolol, acebutolol, H 93/26, H 87/07, pindolol and Ro 3-4787 were compared with that of propranolol, on human and rat adipocytes. 2. A good correlation was found between the potencies on adipocytes of the two species but not between our results and ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Harms HH,Van der Meer J

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Relative rates of absorption of enteric and non-enteric preparations of prednisolone were measured in five renal transplant recipients. 2. The absorption of the enteric coated preparation is delayed and the peak plasma concentration is much lower than that attained using the same dose of the uncoated material. 3. T...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Hulme B,James VH,Rault R

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Two studies were carried out on acutely psychotic patients receiving chlorpromazine (100 mg) 8-hourly. 2 In the pilot study on five patients, plasma chlorpromazine concentrations fell over the course of 3 weeks of treatment and parallel changes were noted in the plasma half-life of antipyrine, salivation rate and ha...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Loga S,Curry S,Lader M

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Infusion of isoprenaline into dorsal hand veins preconstricted with noradrenaline produced vasodilatation in four subjects out of five which was reversed by addition of propranolol. It is confirmed that beta-adrenoceptors are present in the hand veins of most subjects. 2 Addition of either propranolol or practolol t...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： White CB,Udwadia BP

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Comparison of phenytoin clearance showed a marked increase in people over 65 years of age compared with people under 45 years of age. 2 This difference was apparent if phenytoin was given orally or intravenously. 3 Phenytoin clearance correlated inversely with phenytoin binding and plasma albumin, both of which were...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Hayes MJ,Langman MJ,Short AH

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The bronchodilating efficacy and the degree of beta2-adrenoceptor selectivity of rimiterol, salbutamol and isoprenaline were determined in seven subjects who exhibited histamine-induced bronchoconstriction. 2 Rimiterol, 0.5 (high dose) and 0.05 (low dose) mug kg-1 min-1, salbutamol, 0.3 and 0.03 mug kg-1 min-1, isop...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Marlin GE,Turner P

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The relationship between serum quinidine levels and rate-corrected QT (QTc) interval after administration of single identical doses of quinidine was assessed. Quinidine concentrations were determined by a modification of Hamfelt & Malers' (1963) method. The significance and clinical application of our findings is di...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Edwards IR,Hancock BW,Saynor R

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Norfenfluramine is thought to be the major active metabolite of fenfluramine in man. Therefore its in vitro effect on lipogenesis in human adipose tissue from twelve patients was investigated. 2 Although inhibition of lipogenesis was demonstrated, the concentrations of norfenfluramine necessary (>1 mM) were much hig...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Ashwell M

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The effect of the addition of probenecid to oral and rectal regimes of indomethacin was studied in three groups of rheumatoid arthritic patients. 2 The addition of probenecid increases plasma levels of indomethacin given both orally and rectally and significantly reduces the clinical parameters of joint inflammation...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Brooks PM,Bell MA,Sturrock RD,Famaey JP,Dick WC

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The effect of RX 72601, neostigmine plus atropine, or saline on neuromuscular blockade with (+)-tubocurarine was studied in a double blind trial in four healthy male volunteers. 2 The methods used to assess neuromuscular function were voluntary grip strength and indirectly evoked muscle twitches. The muscarinic acti...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Dettmar PW,Metcalf G,Smith MH,Gillett GB,Hedges A,Richens A

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 A controlled trial of charcoal haemoperfusion as an early treatment for paracetamol overdose showed no benefit. 2 The plasma clearances of paracetamol by the charcoal column were variable and disappointingly small (range 4-119 ml/minute). The cumulative amounts removed were also low, mean 1.4 g (range 0.2-5.2 g). 3 ...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Gazzard BG,Willison RA,Weston MJ,Thompson RP,Williams R

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 The absorption of effervescent aspirin was studied in normal volunteers of both sexes under varied conditions of activity in both fasting and non-fasting states. 2 Moderate activity resulted in no significant changes in absorption compared with that at rest. 3 In non-fasting subjects the absorption was reduced but t...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Volans GN

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1 Measurements have been made of steady state serum phenytoin concentration, serum half-life of (14)C-labelled phenytoin, and the urinary ratio of the major metabolite of phenytoin to the unchanged drug (p-HPPH: DPH ratio) in epileptic patients on and off sulthiame therapy. 2 Starting sulthiame treatment produced an i...

journal_title：British journal of clinical pharmacology

authors： Houghton GW,Richens A

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00