Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) ligands are widely used in patients with insulin resistance and diabetes. Because coronary artery disease is a major complication for such patients, it is important to determine the effects of PPARgamma activation on arteriosclerosis. Long-term inhibition of endothelial NO synthesis by administration of N(omega)-nitro-L-arginine methy...

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are a widely prescribed group of drugs, known to be responsible for many cases of gastroduodenal ulcers by inhibiting cyclo-oxygenase (1). The incidence of side effects while taking NSAID therapy is high, and has been reported to approach 70% in patients receiving long-term therapy. The most frequent complications are those involving the gastroduod...

Development of teratocarcinoma does not impair immunization of mice against Listeria monocytogenes. Endotoxin injection a short time before tumor cell inoculation allows the growth of teratocarcinoma in non syngenic mice despite immune stimulation. In contrast with this absence of impaired systematic immunity, teratocarcinoma cells were found to repulse macrophages in vitro. This effect on macr...

objective: solenostemon monostachyus is used in traditional medicine for the treatment of various ailments such as ulcer, hypertension, pains and inflammatory diseases. evaluation of anti-inflammatory and analgesic activities of s. monostachyus aerial parts was carried out to ascertain its uses in traditional medicine. materials and methods: the aerial parts of s. monostachyus was cold extracte...

Antiinflammatory properties of polyphenols in natural products, traditional medicines, and healthy foods were recently attributed to highly soluble metabolites produced by the microflora of the intestines rather than the polyphenols themselves. To provide experimental basis for this hypothesis, we measured antiinflammatory properties of ferulaldehyde (FA), a natural intermediate of polyphenol m...

Objective: To evaluate the effects of Centella asiatica (CA) upon pain (antinociception) and inflammation in rodent models. Material and Methods: The antinociceptive activity of the water extract of CA (10, 30, 100 and 300 mg/kg) was studied using acetic acid-induced writhing and hot-plate method in mice. The antiinflammatory activity of CA was studied in rats by prostaglandin E 2 -induced paw ...

calcium mobilization is known to be an important factor in the activation of cells involved in inflammation,so,calcium-channel antagonists are be expected ti exhibit antiinflammatory activity.in the present study,we evaluateted the antiinflammatory effects of two calcium channel blockers,verapamil and nifedipine on adjuvant induced chronic in flammation in rat paw.sixty adult male rats were div...

Glucocorticoids (GCs) are the most commonly used antiinflammatory and immunosuppressive drugs. Their outstanding therapeutic effects, however, are often accompanied by severe and sometimes irreversible side effects. For this reason, one goal of research in the GC field is the development of new drugs, which show a reduced side-effect profile while maintaining the antiinflammatory and immunosupp...

Diclofenac has been conjugated with different antioxidants having antiulcerogenic activity with the objective of obtaining diclofenac-antioxidant mutual prodrugs as safer NSAIDs devoid of ulcerogenic side-effects. The synthesized derivatives are screened for their antiinflammatory, analgesic and antiulcer activity. The mutual prodrugs show retention of antiinflammatory activity with reduced ulc...