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1.
Dokl Biochem Biophys ; 491(1): 81-84, 2020 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32483757

ABSTRACT

Using electrophysiology, the effect of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) ligands on acetylcholine-induced depolarization in the neurons of Helix lucorum snail was studied. It was found that the α-conotoxin PnIA [R9, L10], a selective antagonist of α7 nAChR, and α-cobratoxin (antagonist of α7 and muscle-type nAChR) suppressed neuronal depolarization. Fluorescence microscopy showed staining of the neurons with fluorescently labeled α-bungarotoxin; this staining was reduced by pretreatment with α-cobratoxin. Induced depolarization was also suppressed by α-conotoxin RgIA, a selective inhibitor of α9 nAChR. In contrast to Lymnaea stagnalis nAChR, which are weakly sensitive to neurotoxin II and α-conotoxin GI, antagonists of muscle-type nAChR, H. lucorum receptors were most effectively inhibited by these antagonists. The results obtained, as well as the previously found sensitivity of the receptors studied in this work to muscarinic receptor ligands, indicate an unusual atypical pharmacological profile of H. lucorum nAChR.


Subject(s)
Neurons/metabolism , Receptors, Cholinergic/metabolism , alpha7 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor/metabolism , Acetylcholine/metabolism , Animals , Binding Sites , Bridged Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic/pharmacology , Bungarotoxins/metabolism , Helix, Snails , Ligands , Microscopy, Confocal , Microscopy, Fluorescence , Neurotoxins/metabolism , Pyridines/pharmacology , Signal Transduction
2.
Bull Exp Biol Med ; 167(4): 464-466, 2019 Aug.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31493256

ABSTRACT

The anticonvulsant effect of ethosuximide (T-type calcium channel blocker) was evaluated in Krushinsky-Molodkina rats predisposed to audiogenic epilepsy. Ethosuximide given with drinking water (300 mg/kg/day) over 45 days slightly reduced proneness to audiogenic epilepsy and increased locomotor activity of the animals at the periphery of the open field. Neonatal administration of ethosuximide (3-4 mg per animal, from 2 to 10 days of life) insignificantly modulated the parameters of audiogenic epilepsy in these animals at the age of 1.5 months and reduced manifestation of audiogenic myoclonic convulsion that developed after long daily sound presentation started at the age of 3 months. The findings attested to a weak anticonvulsant effect of ethosuximide on tonic convulsions with its predominant effect on convulsions with forebrain focus location.


Subject(s)
Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use , Epilepsy, Reflex/drug therapy , Ethosuximide/therapeutic use , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Male , Rats
3.
Dokl Biol Sci ; 481(1): 125-127, 2018 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30171462

ABSTRACT

The latency of tonic seizure in response to loud sound (in rats of the Krushinsky-Molodkina strain with audiogenic epilepsy) had been slightly (although statistically significantly) longer after chronic uridine injections (100 mg/kg, i.p., three times a day during 9 or 12 days). The recovery time from the tonic seizure was shorter after 12 days of injections in comparison to the 9-day injection period. At the same time, the intensity of tonic seizures provoked by loud sound did not change after chronic uridine injections. The lack of uridine anticonvulsive effect demonstrated in the audiogenic epilepsy model contradicts the anticonvulsant effects of uridine in experiments with other seizure models, in which the epileptic foci were localized in the forebrain structures.


Subject(s)
Anticonvulsants/therapeutic use , Epilepsy, Reflex/drug therapy , Seizures/drug therapy , Uridine/therapeutic use , Acoustic Stimulation , Animals , Rats
4.
Dokl Biol Sci ; 472(1): 1-3, 2017 Jan.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28429263

ABSTRACT

Using the audiogenic seizure prone Krushinsky-Molodkina rat strain, it was demonstrated that short-term (5 min) exposure of 14-day-old pups to an elevated temperature (42°C) resulted in a significant decrease in audiogenic seizure severity at the age of 1 month. Presumably, this effect is determined by the activation of the heat-shock protein system (stress proteins).


Subject(s)
Epilepsy, Reflex/physiopathology , Epilepsy, Reflex/therapy , Heat-Shock Response , Hyperthermia, Induced , Animals , Animals, Newborn , Rats
5.
Dokl Biol Sci ; 467(1): 55-8, 2016 Mar.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-27193875

ABSTRACT

Anxiety (Anx) and depression (Dp) levels were evaluated in rats of 4 lines: 2 of them (KM and "4") exhibited audiogenic seizures (AS), and 2 (Wistar and "0") had no AS. In KM rats (with AS), Anx and Dp levels were higher than in Wistars (without AS), while in "4" and "0" rats with the related genetic background but contrasting in AS severity, Anx and Dp indices were not different. Fluoxetine treatment exerted antidepressant effect in all rat lines irrespective of its effect on AS. Thus, phenotypic expression of AS is not directly associated with the mechanisms of Anx and Dp development.


Subject(s)
Anxiety , Depression , Epilepsy, Reflex , Fluoxetine/pharmacology , Animals , Anxiety/drug therapy , Anxiety/physiopathology , Depression/drug therapy , Depression/physiopathology , Epilepsy, Reflex/drug therapy , Epilepsy, Reflex/physiopathology , Rats , Rats, Wistar , Species Specificity
6.
Biofizika ; 36(2): 327-9, 1991.
Article in Russian | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1892908

ABSTRACT

Normal and cataractal decapsulated lenses of man were studied by NMR method-spin echo to obtain information concerning efficient coefficients of self diffusion, times of spin-spin relaxation of water protons (T2) and water content in the lens (c) at 25 degrees C in the course of cataractogenesis. It has been found that the values T2 and c at 25 degrees C are much higher in the nuclei of completely turbid lenses than in the transparent ones; the self-diffusion coefficients in the turbid lenses were also higher. At -9 degrees C a significant decrease of the content of undestroyed by frost (bound) water was observed at the stage of mature cataract as compared to transparent lenses. It is suggested that the most specific differences between the nuclei of transparent and completely turbid lenses are related to increased diffusion mobility of water molecules, apparently, at the expense of damaged plasmic membranes of the lens fibres noted during cataract development.


Subject(s)
Cataract/physiopathology , Diffusion , Lens, Crystalline/physiopathology , Water/metabolism , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Reference Values
7.
Antibiot Med Biotekhnol ; 32(12): 890-4, 1987 Dec.
Article in Russian | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-3125786

ABSTRACT

Stability of azlocillin in aqueous solutions at pH 1.5-12.5 was studied at various temperatures. It was shown that degradation of the antibiotic proceeded as an irreversible first order reaction. Dependence of 1gk on the reverse temperature was described by the Arrhenius equation. The highest levels of azlocillin stability in solutions were observed at pH about 6.0. In solid state azlocillin was stable under the effect of the environmental factors. In the atmosphere of oxygen and carbon dioxide and on exposure to light the quality parameters of the antibiotic powder maintained at the control levels.


Subject(s)
Azlocillin/pharmacology , Azlocillin/antagonists & inhibitors , Azlocillin/radiation effects , Carbon Dioxide/pharmacology , Drug Interactions , Drug Stability , Hydrogen-Ion Concentration , Light , Mathematics , Nitrogen/pharmacology , Oxygen/pharmacology , Powders , Solutions , Temperature
8.
Antibiot Med Biotekhnol ; 32(8): 583-5, 1987 Aug.
Article in Russian | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2823693

ABSTRACT

Kanamycin B content in kanamycin preparations was determined with column chromatography and PMR spectroscopy. It was shown that coincidence of the results obtained with both the procedures in analysis of the preparations subjected to additional recrystallization was satisfactory. With the use of nonrecrystallized preparations the admixtures interfered with the results in using the developed procedure.


Subject(s)
Kanamycin/analogs & derivatives , Kanamycin/analysis , Anion Exchange Resins , Chromatography, Ion Exchange/methods , Drug Contamination , Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy , Resins, Synthetic
9.
Biofizika ; 30(4): 671-4, 1985.
Article in Russian | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-4052470

ABSTRACT

Water proton spin-spin relaxation times (T2) and the content of bound, "non-freezable" at -9 degrees C water in both normal human lenses and human lenses of different stages of cataract progression (cataracta incipiens, nondum matura, mature hypermatura) were measured by NMR spin echoes method. By the stage of cataracta nondum matura, increase of bound water content and simultaneous, almost half decrease of the relaxation time (T2), were observed. However, on the following stages of cataract evaluation (almost mature, mature cataracts) a gradual decrease of bound water content is noted, but only for the mature cataract stage the water content significantly differs from that of the normal one. On the stage of hypermature cataract the presence of two unexchanged with each other fractions of water is found. The obtained data are explained by lens protein reconstructions during the cataract progression.


Subject(s)
Body Water/analysis , Cataract/metabolism , Lens, Crystalline/analysis , Cataract Extraction , Humans , Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy , Time Factors
13.
Biochim Biophys Acta ; 590(2): 194-201, 1980 Apr 02.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-6768386

ABSTRACT

It is shown that in bacterial chromatophores the pronounced changes in the free water content with a proton spin-spin relaxation time (T2) of 10(-3)--10(-2) s does not influence the efficiency of electron transfer from the photosynthetic reaction centre to the membrane pool of secondary acceptors. An abrupt inhibition of this process occurs only after the loss of the water with faster proton spin-spin relaxation time (T2 of 10(-4) s). The process is reversible. The water fraction in question is obviously bound to the chromatophore proteins and forms the primary hydration layer.


Subject(s)
Bacterial Chromatophores/metabolism , Rhodospirillum rubrum/metabolism , Electron Transport , Kinetics , Light , Photosynthesis , Water/metabolism
16.
Biofizika ; 21(1): 44-9, 1976.
Article in Russian | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1252533

ABSTRACT

It has been shown that mobility of protons in different groups of linear polyethylenimine (LPEI) is sensitive to the formation of H-bonds between amino groups of a polymer. Upon hydration of LPEI most of direct bonds between amino groups are substituted by the bonds via water molecules. This results in a conformational change of the polymer. Similar process may also occur in biopolymers.


Subject(s)
Polyethyleneimine , Polyethylenes , Molecular Conformation , Protons , Water
19.
Farmakol Toksikol ; 38(2): 202-5, 1975.
Article in Russian | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1227890

ABSTRACT

With application to the skin of an albino female-rat over the whole period of its pregnancy of the repellent diethyltolueneamide (DETA) in doses of 100 and 1000 mg/kg the overall embryonal fatality was found to go up, the size and weight of the rattlings to be down; there was recorded a lagging development of the newborns and a high postnatal death rate. The preparation could easily overcome the placental barrier, it was demonstrable in the placenta, fetuses, as well as in the bodies of newborn rattlings, even 3 months after their birth.


Subject(s)
Benzamides/toxicity , DEET/toxicity , Embryo, Mammalian/drug effects , Administration, Topical , Animals , Body Weight/drug effects , DEET/analysis , Dose-Response Relationship, Drug , Embryo Implantation/drug effects , Embryo Loss/chemically induced , Female , Fetal Death/chemically induced , Maternal-Fetal Exchange/drug effects , Pregnancy , Rats , Time Factors
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