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High-Dose Flu Vaccine has Increased Immunogenicity in HIV Patients.

Tags: 2013, Department of Internal Medicine, Dose-Response Relationship, Double-Blind Studies, Human, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Infectious Disease Alert, Influenza Vaccine, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ohio, RANDOMIZED controlled trials, Watkins Richard R

Clinical impact of temporary therapy interruptions on anticoagulation control in patients treated with warfarin.

This retrospective cohort study was completed to describe the impact of short-term therapy interruptions on anticoagulation control in patients receiving warfarin. Patients seen in a pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic were included if they…

Efficacy of Higher-dose Oseltamivir in Adults with Influenza A and B.

Tags: 2014, Department of Internal Medicine, Dose-Response Relationship, Infectious Disease Alert, Influenza – Drug Therapy, Influenza A Virus, Influenza B Virus, Multicenter Studies, NEOMED College of Medicine, Oseltamivir – Adverse Effects, Oseltamivir – Therapeutic Use, Prospective Studies, Treatment Outcomes, Watkins Richard R

Steroids Increase the Risk for Community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia...Smit J, Kaasch AJ, Sogaard M , t al. Use of glucocorticoids and risk of community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia:A population-based case-control study. Mayo Clin Proc 2016 :91:873-880.

The article discusses case-control study revealing an increased risk for developing community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia (SAB) with the use of systemic glucocorticoids. Topics discussed include data collected from a population-based…

Tags: 2016, Bacteremia – Risk Factors, Community-Acquired Infections – Risk Factors, Denmark, Department of Internal Medicine, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Glucocorticoids – Adverse Effects, Infectious Disease Alert, NEOMED College of Medicine, Staphylococcal Infections – Risk Factors, Staphylococcus aureus, Watkins Richard R

Reexamining interstitial radiotherapy for PCa.

Tags: *Brachytherapy/adverse effects/instrumentation/methods/trends, *Radioisotopes/adverse effects, 1994, Contemporary urology, Dose-Response Relationship, Forecasting, Humans, Male, Prostatectomy, Prostatic Neoplasms/diagnostic imaging/*radiotherapy, Radiation, Summers J L, Treatment Outcome, Ultrasonography

A comparative analysis of monoaminergic involvement in the spinal antinociceptive action of DAMPGO and DPDPE.

The antinociceptive properties of intrathecally (i.t.) administered [D-Ala2,

Acute and subchronic effects of methylenedioxymethamphetamine [(+/-)MDMA] on locomotion and serotonin syndrome behavior in the rat.

Specific behaviors comprising the serotonin syndrome (low body posture, forepaw treading, headweaving) and the autonomic signs of piloerection and salivation were determined and analyzed with locomotor activity in response to MDMA at three doses…

The role of dopamine and serotonin receptors in the mediation of the ethanol interoceptive cue.

The drug discrimination paradigm was used to evaluate the contribution of dopamine or serotonin receptors in the mediation of the stimulus properties of ethanol. Briefly, rats were trained to discriminate between ethanol (600 mg/kg, IP) and water…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Conditioning, Cues, Discrimination (Psychology)/*physiology, Dopamine/drug effects/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Operant/physiology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin/drug effects/*physiology, Signs S A

Use of TFMPP stimulus properties as a model of 5-HT1B receptor activation.

Recent evidence indicates that when 1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)piperazine (TFMPP) is used as a training drug in the drug discrimination paradigm it produces a stimulus effect that is site-selective at the 5-HT1B receptor. The present study sought to…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Biological, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Male, Models, Norfenfluramine/pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Vehicles, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Piperazines/*pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin/*drug effects/physiology, Serotonin/pharmacology

Time-dependent effect of ethanol upon discrimination behavior.

The discriminative stimulus properties produced by ethanol were employed to demonstrate differences in discriminative performance over time in rats trained at different postinjection times. Thus, one group of rats was trained to discriminate between…

Tags: 1989, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Animals, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Time Factors

Temporal differences in behavioral effect of fenfluramine and norfenfluramine.

Ten male rats were trained to discriminate the anorectic drug d,l-fenfluramine (2.0 mg/kg intraperitoneally administered) from its vehicle using a food-reinforced (fixed-ratio 10 schedule) two-lever operant task. Once learned, the fenfluramine…

Tags: 1990, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Injections, Intraperitoneal, Male, Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Stereoisomerism

Stability of the stimulus properties of drugs over time.

Three separate groups of rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus effects of either 600 mg/kg ethanol (n = 5), 0.8 mg/kg d-amphetamine (n = 8) or 1.0 mg/kg

Tags: *Discrimination (Psychology), 1989, Animals, Boja J W, Dextroamphetamine/*pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Piperazines/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D, Signs S A

Serotonergic-dopaminergic mediation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy").

A series of three experiments were conducted to investigate the possible serotonergic and dopaminergic mediation of the discriminative stimulus properties of the "designer" drug MDMA. In Experiment 1, rats trained to discriminate 1.5 mg/kg (+/-)-MDMA…

Rats become acutely tolerant to cathine after amphetamine or cathinone administration.

The drug discrimination paradigm was used to evaluate in rats the ability of the discriminate response to either 0.8 mg/kg d-amphetamine or 0.8 mg/kg l-cathinone to generalize to 2.4-6.0 mg/kg of the active cathinone metabolite d-norpseudoephedrine,…

Tags: 1990, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Amphetamine/*pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Inbred Strains, Male, Phenylpropanolamine/*pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Psychotropic Drugs/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/pharmacology

Lack of generalization of nisoxetine with amphetamine in the rat.

Rats were trained to discriminate between the stimulus properties of intraperitoneally administered d-amphetamine (0.8 mg/kg) and its vehicle in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task. Once trained, doses of the norepinephrine reuptake inhibiting…

Tags: *Discrimination (Psychology), 1988, Animals, Boja J W, Conditioning, Dextroamphetamine/*pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fluoxetine/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Norepinephrine/antagonists & inhibitors, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Reference Values, Schechter M D

Interaction of ethanol and tetrahydro-beta-carboline (THBC) in a discriminative task.

Rats (n = 10) were trained to discriminate between ethanol (600 mg/kg, IP) and its vehicle, or between THBC (20 mg/kg) and its vehicle in a two-lever food-motivated operant task. Once the discriminative training criterion was attained, rats in each…

Tags: 1988, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Animal/drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Carbolines/*pharmacology, Conditioning (Psychology)/drug effects, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Interactions, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Signs S A

Functional consequences of fenfluramine neurotoxicity.

Male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to discriminate the anorectic drug d,l-fenfluramine (2.0 mg/kg intraperitoneally administered) from its vehicle using a food-motivated (fixed-ratio 10 schedule) two-lever operant task. Once trained, doses of 0.5,…

Tags: 1990, Animals, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*toxicity, Inbred Strains, Male, Nervous System Diseases/*chemically induced/psychology, Operant/drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Reinforcement Schedule, Schechter M D

Effect of MDMA neurotoxicity upon its conditioned place preference and discrimination.

Experiments were conducted to investigate the functional consequences of a neurotoxic regimen of MDMA administration upon two behaviors, conditioned place preference and drug discrimination. Rats were trained to discriminate 1.5 mg/kg MDMA from its…

Dopaminergic nature of acute cathine tolerance.

Cathine is a psychoactive constituent in the leaves of the Khat shrub which are habitually ingested for their stimulatory effects in many parts of the world. Rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus effect of intraperitoneally administered 4.8…

Tags: 1990, Alkaloids/pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/pharmacology, Appetite Depressants/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dopamine/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Generalization (Psychology)/drug effects, Inbred Strains, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Phenylpropanolamine/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/pharmacology

Discriminative stimulus effect of phenylephrine.

Rats were trained to discriminate phenylephrine in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task by increasing the i.p. administered training dose from 0.8 to 2 mg/kg. Stable discrimination to 2 mg/kg phenylephrine was established and testing of 0.5-2.5…

Comparison of anorectic drugs in rats trained to discriminate between satiation and deprivation.

Eight male rats were trained to discriminate between the internal states produced by food deprivation of 3 hours (satiation) and that produced by food deprivation of 27 hours duration (deprivation). One lever, in a two-lever operant chamber, had to…

Tags: *Food Deprivation, 1990, Amphetamine/*pharmacology, Analysis of Variance, Animals, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Life sciences, Male, Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology, Rats, Satiation/*drug effects, Schechter M D

CGS 10746B is able to attenuate the effects of amphetamine: further evidence for dopaminergic mediation.

Previous results indicate that agents which either decreases synthesis or block postsynaptic dopamine receptors will attenuate the discriminative stimulus produced by d-amphetamine. CGS 10746B has been reported to decrease dopamine release without…

Tags: 1988, Alkaloids/pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/*pharmacology, Apomorphine/pharmacology, Boja J W, Cocaine/pharmacology, Conditioning, Dextroamphetamine/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dopamine/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Male, Operant/drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/*pharmacology

Advantages and disadvantages of a rapid method to train drug discrimination.

In an effort to reduce the often extensive period of time needed to train rats to discriminate between a drugged and nondrugged state, a fast training regimen was employed with 1.5 mg/kg 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) used as the training…

Tags: 1988, 3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Male, Methods, N-Methyl-3, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D

Guggulsterone antagonizes farnesoid X receptor induction of bile salt export pump but activates pregnane X receptor to inhibit cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene.

Bile acids activate a nuclear receptor, farnesoid X receptor (FXR), that induces bile salt export pump (BSEP) but inhibits cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) gene transcription in the liver. Guggulsterone, a plant sterol that lowers serum…

Inverse agonist properties of the FG 7142 discriminative stimulus.

A two-lever, food-motivated discrimination was established between the benzodiazepine receptor partial inverse agonist FG 7142 (5.0 mg/kg) and its vehicle. The FG 7142 discriminative stimulus was pharmacologically characterized by testing trained…

Tags: 1991, Animals, Appetite Depressants/*pharmacology, Carbolines/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, GABA-A/drug effects, Generalization, Inbred Strains, Leidenheimer N J, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Reinforcement Schedule, Schechter M D, Stimulus/drug effects

Inverse agonist properties of the THBC discriminative stimulus: asymmetrical generalization with FG 7142.

Male rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus properties of the beta-carbolines 1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline (THBC) (15.0 mg/kg) or FG 7142 (5.0 mg/kg) from vehicle in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task. Consistent with the…

Tags: 1991, Animals, Avoidance Learning/drug effects, Carbolines/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, GABA-A/*drug effects, Generalization, Inbred Strains, Leidenheimer N J, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Stimulus/*drug effects

Discriminative stimulus properties of CGS 9896: interactions within the GABA/benzodiazepine receptor complex.

Male rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus effects of CGS 9896 (30.0 mg/kg) from its vehicle. Once trained, discriminative performance was observed to be dose-responsive in the 3.75-30.0 mg/kg range and analysis of the dose-response curve…

Time and dose dependency of the suppression of pulmonary metastases of rat mammary cancer by amiloride.

Amiloride is an inhibitor of urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA), an essential component of the plasminogen/plasmin enzyme system. Inhibition of uPA prevents the conversion of plasminogen to tumor cell surface bound plasmin which is required for…

The antinociceptive effects of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in the rat.

The antinociceptive effects of MDMA and morphine were examined in rats using the tail-flick and hot-plate analgesiometric tests. MDMA, in the dose range of 1.5-6.0 mg/kg IP, produced a dose-dependent elevation in hot-plate latency, but did not…

Age-related changes in the spinal antinociceptive effects of DAGO, DPDPE and beta-endorphin in the rat.

These studies were designed to investigate how the aging process alters the spinal antinociceptive efficacy of mu (mu), delta (delta) and epsilon (epsilon) opioid receptor agonists administered intrathecally (i.t.) in rats. Various doses of the mu…

Testosterone causes direct relaxation of rat thoracic aorta.

Several recent studies have provided evidence that gonadal steroid hormones can exert acute (nongenomic) effects on both neural and vascular tissues. This study examines the acute effects of testosterone (T) on vascular reactivity of the rat thoracic…

Regulation of human sterol 27-hydroxylase gene (CYP27A1) by bile acids and hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha (HNF4alpha).

Mitochondrial sterol 27-hydroxylase (CYP27A1) catalyses sterol side-chain oxidation of bile acid synthesis from cholesterol, and the first reaction of the acidic bile acid biosynthetic pathway. Hydrophobic bile acids suppress human CYP27A1 gene…

Tags: *DNA-Binding Proteins, 2003, Base Sequence, Basic Helix-Loop-Helix Leucine Zipper Transcription Factors, Bile Acids and Salts/*pharmacology, Binding Sites/genetics, Cell Line, Chen Wenling, Chenodeoxycholic Acid/pharmacology, Chiang John Y L, Cholestanetriol 26-Monooxygenase, Cloning, Cultured, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear/genetics/metabolism, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, DNA, DNA/chemistry/genetics, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, gene, Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects, Genetic/*genetics, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4, Humans, Luciferases/genetics/metabolism, Molecular, Molecular Sequence Data, Mutagenesis, Mutation, NEOMED College of Medicine, Phosphoproteins/genetics/*metabolism, Promoter Regions, Receptors, Recombinant Fusion Proteins/genetics/metabolism, Response Elements/genetics, Sequence Analysis, Site-Directed, Steroid Hydroxylases/*genetics, Transcription Factors/genetics/*metabolism, Transfection, Tumor Cells

Norfenfluramine, the fenfluramine metabolite, provides stimulus control: evidence for serotonergic mediation.

Nine male rats were trained to discriminate 1.4 mg/kg norfenfluramine (NF) from its vehicle using a two-lever, food-motivated, operant discrimination task. Once trained, the rats showed a dose-dependent decrease in responding on the

Tags: 1988, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Boja J W, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin/pharmacology, Serotonin/physiology, Time Factors

Increased drug sensitivity in the drug discrimination procedure afforded by drug versus drug training.

Rats were trained to discriminate norfenfluramine (NF) 1.4 mg/kg from its vehicle or amphetamine (AMPH) 0.8 mg/kg or pentobarbital (PB) 6.0 mg/kg in order to determine the role that drug combination training plays in the rate of learning and…

Tags: 1990, Amphetamine/pharmacology, Animals, Boja J W, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Inbred Strains, Male, Norfenfluramine/pharmacology, Pentobarbital/pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Rats, Reinforcement Schedule, Schechter M D

Behavioral effects of N-ethyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDE; "EVE").

Eight male rats were trained to discriminate 2.0 mg/kg

Tags: 1987, 3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Boja J W, Discrimination (Psychology), Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Inbred Strains, Legislation, Male, N-Methyl-3, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Time Factors, United States

Time-dependent changes in norepinephrine-induced left ventricular dysfunction and histopathologic condition.

BACKGROUND: Intense activation of the sympathetic nervous system or administration of high concentrations of catecholamines diminishes myocardial contractility and produces infarct-like lesions throughout the heart. This study was conducted to…

Anti-Inflammatory Mechanism Involved in Pomegranate-Mediated Prevention of Breast Cancer: the Role of NF-kappaB and Nrf2 Signaling Pathways.

Pomegranate (Punica granatum L.), a nutrient-rich unique fruit, has been used for centuries for the prevention and treatment of various inflammation-driven diseases. Based on our previous study, a characterized pomegranate emulsion (PE) exhibited a…

Tags: 10-Dimethyl-1, 2-benzanthracene/toxicity, 2017, 9, Animal Studies, Animals, Anti-Inflammatory Agents/*pharmacology, anti-inflammatory effects, Anticarcinogenic Agents/pharmacology, Apoptosis/drug effects, Bhatia Deepak, Bishayee Anupam, Breast Neoplasms, breast tumor, Cell Transformation, Chemoprevention, COX-2, Cyclooxygenase 2/genetics/metabolism, DMBA, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Experimental/*prevention & control, Female, Gene Expression Regulation, HSP90, HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins/genetics/metabolism, I-kappa B Kinase/genetics/metabolism, Inflammation Mediators, Mammary Neoplasms, Mandal Animesh, Neoplasms – Prevention and Control, Neoplastic, Neoplastic/drug effects, NF-E2-Related Factor 2/genetics/*metabolism, NF-kappa B/genetics/*metabolism, NF-kappaB, Nrf2, Nutrients, Physical Education and Training, Plant Preparations/*pharmacology, Pomegranate, Punica granatum, Punicaceae/*chemistry, Rats, Signal Transduction

Tags: *Drug Resistance, *Practice Guidelines as Topic, 2005, Anti-Bacterial Agents/*therapeutic use, Bacterial, Department of Internal Medicine, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Administration Schedule, Drug Prescriptions/standards, Drug Utilization, File Thomas M Jr, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Professional Practice/*standards, Treatments in respiratory medicine, Unnecessary Procedures

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