The aim of this study was to prepare a pentazocine (PTZ) matrix-type transdermal drug delivery system (TDDS) using acrylic pressure-sensitive adhesives. Among the five Duro-Tak adhesive polymers tested (87-9301, 87-2677, 87-201A, 87-2196, 87-2852), in vitro dissolution studies demonstrated the highest PTZ release flux from the Duro-Tak 87-9301 matrix. In addition, the effects of permeation enha...

The convulsant activity of pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) , is mainly due to' its ability to selectively antagonize GABA mediated post synaptic inhibition in the mammalian brain though a direct excitatory effect on neuronal membranes cannot be ruled out as a contributory factor (1). Furthermore there are reports which indicate that 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) and norepinephrine (NE) playa modulatory ro...

Experiments using male CD1 mice were carried out to investigate the effects of subchronic (daily administration for 8 days) pretreatments with drugs enhancing GABAergic transmission (diazepam, 10 mg/kg, ip; gabapentin, 100 mg/kg, po; or vigabatrin, 500 mg/kg, po) on pentylenetetrazol (PTZ)-induced seizures, 24 h after the last injection. Subchronic administration of diazepam reduced latencies t...

background and objective: epilepsy is a common disease in communities. since there is no cure for it and current treatments are not effective for every patient, new method for medical treatment of epileptic patients is necessary. as nmda receptors antagonists are the most prominent anti-epileptic drugs, in this study we synthesized and investigated anti-epileptic effect of a new piperidine deri...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study to elicit effects of pure quercetin in pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and picrotoxin induced seizures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Each animal group was divided into six groups and composed of six rats. Rats were assigned to the following experiments and groups (G): (G1) PTZ 45 mg/kg + DMSO; (G2) PTZ 45 mg/kg + 5 mg/kg quercetin; (G3) PTZ 45 mg/kg + 10 mg/kg quercetin; (G4)...

Three Keggin-based metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) containing multi-nuclear silver subunits, [Ag7(ptz)5(H2O)2][H2SiMo12O40] (1), [Ag8(ptz)5(H2O)2][AsW12O40] (2) and [Ag7(ptz)5(H2O)][HAsMo12O40] (3) (ptzH = 5-(4-pyridyl)-tetrazole), have been synthesized under hydrothermal conditions by changing the inorganic polyanions. The new compounds have been characterized by elemental analyses, TG analyse...

OBJECTIVES the aim of our study was to evaluate the activity of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and the levels of glutathione (GSH), malondialdehyde (MDA), and nitric oxide (NO) in liver and kidney tissues in a rat model of convulsive seizure induced by single and repeated doses of pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) and sound stimulation with key ringing. MATERIALS AND METHODS male Wistar adult rats (n=48),...

Epilepsy affects 1% of the global population, with around 2.4 million new diagnoses annually. Approximately 80% individuals epilepsy reside in low- and middle-income countries, a prevalence 8.2 per 1000 sub-Saharan Africa 8 Nigeria. This study evaluated anticonvulsant properties methanol leaf extract Opilia celtidifolia (MEC) mice chicks. The median lethal dose (LD50) was determined acute MEC w...

INTRODUCTION In clinical trials comparing telavancin (TLV) with vancomycin for treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia, TLV demonstrated lower clinical cure rates than vancomycin in patients who had mixed gram-positive and -negative infections and were concomitantly treated with either aztreonam (ATM) or piperacillin/tazobactam (PTZ). Here, we investigated therapeutic interactions between TLV ...

Epilepsy is a common and often deleterious neurological condition. Emerging evidence has demonstrated the roles of innate immunity and the associated inflammatory processes in epilepsy. In a previous study, we found that Toll‑like receptors (TLRs) are upregulated and promote mossy fiber sprouting (MFS) in an epileptic model. As downstream effectors of TLRs, the activating transcription factor 3...