Diphenhydramine has been in medical use for 35 years as an antihistamine and hypnotic. We evaluated the pharmacokinetic parameters, which are not only important for disposition studies, in the serum of 10 volunteers who received a single dose of 31 mg diphenhydramine. For this purpose a suitable capillary GC-method was developed, which has a detection limit of 2 micrograms/l (serum); the calibr...

The subject of durability of drugs is a very important problem investigated by researches. The method of accelerated aging is very often used for stability testing. It involves the influence of temperature, humidity, and light exposure. The aim of this work is estimation of contents of diphenhydramine in its standard solutions undergoing the impact of external factors, that is, temperature and ...

AIMS Infection is a serious complication of pacemaker (PM) systems. Although the rate of infection has been debated, the figures are largely unknown. We therefore studied the incidence of PM infection and its associated risk factors in the Danish population. METHODS AND RESULTS Since 1982, all PM implantation and removal procedures performed in Denmark have been prospectively recorded in the ...

The development of EEC sleep-spindles in prematurely-born and full-term infants was studied to test an hypothesized impact of experience (longer extrauterine existence) upon innate maturational factors (EEG development). The age of otiset of sleep spindles and achievement of mature spindle quality occurs approximately 4 weeks earlier in prematurely-born infants than in full-term infants. Sleep ...

Previous electrophysiological and behavioural studies implicate esterase 6 in the processing of the pheromone cis-vaccenyl acetate and various food odorants that affect aggregation and reproductive behaviours. Here we show esterase 6 has relatively high activity against many of the short-mid chain food esters, but negligible activity against cis-vaccenyl acetate. The crystal structure of estera...

Skin whealing associated with localized frostbite is a well recognized phenomenon and has been described in detail by Lewis and his co-workers (1, 2). Although no positive evidence of histamine liberation in frostbite has been advanced, it has been postulated that histamine or a histaminelike sulbstance is involved in the formation of these lesions (2). Recently. Frommel and Picquet have report...

Diphenhydramine is an H1 histamine receptor antagonist, yet it also has a clinically useful local anesthetic effect. We found that diphenhydramine inhibits the neuronal Na(+) current, and the inhibition is stronger with more positive holding potentials. The dissociation constant between diphenhydramine and the inactivated Na(+) channel is approximately 10 microM, whereas the dissociation consta...

BACKGROUND Although hypotheses about the therapeutic mechanism of action of light therapy have focused on serotonergic mechanisms, the potential role, if any, of catecholaminergic pathways has not been fully explored. METHODS Sixteen patients with seasonal affective disorder who had responded to a standard regimen of daily 10000-lux light therapy were enrolled in a double-blind, placebo-contr...

A single, rapid flow-through optosensor spectrofluorometric system is proposed for the determination of diphenhydramine in different pharmaceutical preparations. This sensor was developed in conjunction with a monochannel flow-injection analysis system with fluorometric solid-phase transduction. Diphenhydramine was directly injected into a carrier stream of ethanol/water, 50% (v:v), and transit...