A rapid method based on UV spectrophotometry is described for simultaneous determination of salicylates and barbiturates in serum. While barbiturates have no absorbance above 280 m and extracted normal serum has insignificant absorbance, salicylate has a maximal absorbance peak at 296 mjh, which is proportional to concentration. The barbiturate concentration can be calculated from absorbance di...

Barbiturates induce anesthesia by modulating the activity of anionic and cationic pentameric ligand-gated ion channels (pLGICs). Despite more than a century of use in clinical practice, the prototypic binding site for this class of drugs within pLGICs is yet to be described. In this study, we present the first X-ray structures of barbiturates bound to GLIC, a cationic prokaryotic pLGIC with exc...

High dose barbiturates were used to treat intracranial hypertension in 15 patients with nontraumatic brain lesions; (3 hypertensive hemorrhage, 4 subarachnoid hemorrhage, 5 infarction, 2 global anoxia-ischemia and 2 encephalitis). All had persistently raised intracranial pressure (ICP) while being treated with aggressive conventional therapy. The addition of barbiturates caused an initial lower...

In an effort to develop new and possibly better types of barbiturates, suitable for intravenous use, a large number of spiro-barbiturates have been prepared by a ring closure on the 5-carbon atom of the barbituric acid and afforded for pharmacologic study. Spiro(2'-ethyl-3',5'-dimethyl cyclopentane) thio-barbituric acid appears to be the most promising product of a series of 50 analogues. Stoel...

ansemia, was caused by the barbiturates she was taking. Both amylobarbitone sodium and quinalbarbitone sodium, the constituents of tuinal, are closely related chemically to primidone, sodium phenytoin, and phenobarbitone, but a megaloblastic anaemia has not previously been described in association --ith their use. The doses that this patient was taking (gr. 18-20 for 6-8 months) were, however, ...