Pharmacology Department

Department of Clinical Pharmacology

.........................................................................................8 INTRODUCTION................................................................................11 REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE...........................................................14 1. Epidemiology of poisonings……………………………………………………...14 2. Management of acute drug poisonings………………………………...………....15 3. Gast...

From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology

From THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY

Endurance training is a powerful tool to improve both health and performance. Physical activity is now recognized as an effective treatment and prevention therapy for a wide range of diseases. One of the most profound adaptations to endurance training is increased mitochondrial function and content within the exercising muscles. Mitochondrial quality and quantity are closely related to several ...

Trends in vascular pharmacology research in the Department of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava

Research in the Department of Pharmacology started to focus intensively on fetal circulation in the 60s. Results of experiments contributed to clarification of the conversion of fetal circulation type to the adult type: the mechanism of the ductus arteriosus closure, examination of fetal and neonatal pulmonary vessel responses. In the early 80s, increased attention was dedicated to fetal vascul...

Anesthetic Pharmacology Preclinical Pharmacology

Daniel I. Sessler, MD† BACKGROUND: In previous studies, we showed that failure to respond to automated responsiveness monitor (ARM) precedes potentially serious sedationrelated adversities associated with loss of responsiveness, and that the ARM was not susceptible to false-positive responses. It remains unknown, however, whether loss and return of response to the ARM occur at similar sedation ...