we have measured the competitive antagonistic effect of chlorpheniramine in bronchi of 8 normal and 12 asthmatic subjects. classical pharmacological theory states that the degree of competitive antagonism depends only upon 1) antagonist concentration at the receptor, and 2) receptor affinity. delivery and affinity also influence agonist responsiveness, but measurement of bronchial antagonism al...

glutamate dysregulation may be involved in the neuropathology of schizophrenia. memantine, a drug approved by the fda for the treatment of moderate to severe alzheimer's disease, acts as a partial uncompetitive nmda receptor antagonist. the aim of this study was to examine the efficacy of memantine as an adjunctive treatment to olanzapine in patients with schizophrenia. in this double-blind, pl...

Stem cell factor (SCF) triggers cell growth by binding to cell surface c-kit receptors. Soluble forms of several cytokine receptors have been described and may play a role in the modulation of cytokine activity in vivo. For these reasons, we investigated whether human hematopoietic cells produce soluble c-kit receptors. The human leukemia cell lines OCIM1 and MO7e display approximately 80,000 a...

introduction: in order to develop a radiolabeled calcitonin (ct) derivative for receptor imaging studies, ct was successively labeled with 67ga-gallium chloride. methods: the best results of the conjugation were obtained by the addition of 0.5 ml of a ct nasal pharmaceutical solution (1100 iu) to a glass tube pre-coated with dtpa-dianhydride (0.01 mg) at 25°c with continuous mild stirring for 3...

Background: Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) has recently become a major problem in developed countries especially in immune compromised HIV infected individuals. Cytokines, their genes and receptors have been implicated in the protective immunity, pathophysiology and development of tuberculosis.   Material & Methods: In the present study the genotype frequencies of a number of polymorphic genes co...

Taste perception plays an important role in animal’s detection of nutrients, conveying key dietary information, fundamental for its growth and survival. Because alternative terrestrial ingredients are known to affect the feeding rainbow trout (RT, Oncorhynchus mykiss), we aimed assess importance taste receptors detection. Using self-feeders, examined behavior (30 days a trial followed by 10 pre...

background: pulmonary tuberculosis (ptb) has recently become a major problem in developed countries especially in immune compromised hiv infected individuals. cytokines, their genes and receptors have been implicated in the protective immunity, pathophysiology and development of tuberculosis.   material & methods: in the present study the genotype frequencies of a number of polymorphic genes co...

introduction: the etiology of male breast cancer is unclear, but hormonal levels may play a role in development of this disease. it seems that the risk of male breast cancer related to increased lifelong exposure to estrogen or reduced androgen. the aim of this study was to investigate the expression of the steroid hormone receptors including estrogen receptor (er) and progesterone receptor (pr...

Objective(s) The effect of testosterone on anxiety-like behaviors has been the subject of some studies. There is evidence that testosterone modulates anxiety via GABA (gama aminobutyric acid) and GABAergic system. The involvement of GABAC receptors in those effects of testosterone on anxiety-like behaviors of the rats was investigated in the present study. Materials and Methods A group of ra...