It was synthesized by M/s Rhone Poulence Laboratories of Paris, to meet the demand for a drug that will be effective in the prcvention and/or treatment of surgical shock, This was sought to be achicved by damping out the homeostalic regulating reactions including those under the control of the hypothalamus, by Ihe use of a suitable pharmacodynamic agent, supplemented by induced hypothermia. CPZ...

IN INDLA cataract surgery is a major problem. We consider any person above 60 years of age as a potential cataract patient if he is not one already. Through lack of education, the cooperation of the patient in intra-ocular surgery is not all one would like it to be, and it is therefore best not to rely on the patient's cooperation but to administer suitable sedatives. Chlorpromazine promises to...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Salicylate and chlorpromazine exert differential effects on the chemokine release from mast cells. Since these drugs are amphiphilic and preferentially partitioned into the lipid bilayers of the plasma membranes, they would induce some morphological changes in mast cells and thus affect the process of exocytosis. METHODS Employing the standard patch-clamp whole-cell recording ...

The effect of carboxylic acids on the permeation of chlorpromazine was investigated through a dimethyl polysiloxane nonpolar membrane. The permeability of the diffusate, at pH 5.8, increases considerably in the presence of carboxylic acids or phosphate, probably due to an ion-pair formation between the relative anions and chlorpromazine.

We studied the effect of chlorpromazine on fluid accumulation caused by purified heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in suckling mice. We found that chlorpromazine inactivated ST itself in vitro, but did not inhibit the activity of ST in the intestines.

A fatal case of agranulocytosis due to chlorpromazine is reported. Mechanisms other than immunological are generally believed to be responsible for chlorpromazine-induced agranulocytosis. However, the demonstration of a drug-specific leuco-agglutinin in the serum of this patient suggests that an immunological mechanism was responsible for the agranulocytosis.

When tested as a microbial model for mammalian drug metabolism, the filamentous fungus Cunninghamella elegans metabolized chlorpromazine and methdilazine within 72 h. The metabolites were extracted by chloroform, separated by high-performance liquid chromatography, and characterized by proton nuclear magnetic resonance, mass, and UV spectroscopic analyses. The major metabolites of chlorpromazin...