Theme II: new drugs Imidazoline receptor agonist drugs.

Session II: What’s New in Contraceptive Drugs?

In both males and females, multiple signals are integrated in the hypothalamus to set the reproductive axis to the favorable conditions necessary for fertility and successful mating. Photoperiod, food availability, temperature, stress, and hormonal cues are some of the varied signals used by mammalian species to activate or suppress gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) secretion from the hypot...

New antiepileptic drugs. II. Clinical use.

The imidazoline receptor in control of blood pressure by clonidine and allied drugs.

Clonidine, moxonidine, and rilmenidine are centrally acting antihypertensive agents that lower arterial pressure by inhibiting the tonic activity of sympathoexcitatory neurons in the rostral ventrolateral medulla. Competing hypotheses have been put forward by different investigators to explain the sympathoinhibition evoked by "imidazoline drugs": either via central actions at α2-adrenergic rece...

Damned Drugs (Part II)

after ^th her husband in London where he had several grocer's shops. Six years by marriage Mrs. Bartlett gave birth to a stillborn child, and she was so upset later ls event that she decided she would never have any more children. Four years Ge and her husband made the acquaintance of a young Wesleyan minister, bef0 ^yson, for whom they both conceived a great admiration. It was not long j^.^L^e...

NEW DRUGS DRUG NEWS NEW DRUGS Eyedrops for Bacterial Conjunctivitis

NEW DRUGS Eyedrops for Bacterial Conjunctivitis The FDA has approved besifloxacin ophthalmic suspension 0.6% (Besivance, Bausch & Lomb), a topical eyedrop for patients with nonviral bacterial conjunctivitis. Bacterial forms of conjunctivitis are common in childhood, but they can occur in people of any age. Symptoms can include reddened eyes, swelling, eyelids sticking together, itching, waterin...