Pharmacodynamic effects

The ability of heparin to complex ions and simple bases is important in various pharmacological preparations. The decontraction or spasmolytic action of the isolated atropinized guinea-pig ileum after histamine contraction, however, is due to phenol and cresol in heparin solutions and not to heparin itself . Green, Day and Roberts draw attention to the fact that heparin preparations contain more amino compounds than can be accounted for by the glucosamine , and it is these which cause the contraction of guinea-pig ileum. The contraction is different in shape from that of histamine, is not prevented by antihistamines, and is similar to that of polypeptides. Heparin also inhibits trypsin release of bradykinin from serum . 

Heparin and desulphated heparin inhibit the contractions of frog-heart, nullify the systolic contracture caused by high calcium concentrations and counteract the effects of potassium chloride and acetylcholine . Heparin also results in rapid recovery after cooling and prolongs survival of the isolated guinea-pig auricle. 

The first clinical trial of heparin in 1934 left an impression that heparin had an effect on peripheral blood flow. However, Zahn did not find an effect on peripheral vessels in hypertensive and sclerotic patients. In Raynand s disease , heparin has been reported to cause increased skin temperature, pulse frequency, and a marked increase in arterial supply, together with a decrease in duration and severity of induced ischemic attacks . Thrombocid is a vasodilator drug. Gilbert, Fenn and Nalefski reported in 1949 that heparin and dicumarol have a direct coronary vaso-dilatory effect, but Patel and Patel showed that treburon is a vasoconstrictor of the coronary vessels. In the Shorr and Zweifach test with the rat mesoappendix for vasomotor activity on arterioles and capillaries, heparin and heparinoids show VDM activity (chondroitin sulphate and a-heparin treburon and /3-heparin hyaluronic acid). 

The heparinoids have actions as antihistamines. Selected cases of acute hay fever and asthma were helped by intravenous heparin, particularly for the acute attacks. Sufficient clinical improvement was observed to warrant further studies that heparin may provide protection against endogenous histamine. The combination of basic antibiotic and heparin is valuable , possibly due to reduction of toxicity of the antibiotic. While heparin has no effect on the action of histamine on the cat blood pressure, it suppresses histamine-induced gastric acid secretion in Heidenhain pouch dogs - . Chondroitin sulphate reduces the number of gastric ulcers in the Shay rat but polyethylene sulphonates of molecular weights between 15,000 and 

as well as other heparinoids, produce gastro-intestinal ulcers on chronic administration .  

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In clinical life, as outlined in this essay, pharmacokinetics (PK) is used instrumental to improve drug therapy. For this purpose, pharmacokinetics must be presented in general and transmissible terms. The case of kidney failure gives one important example of how disease influences pharmacokinetics and how pharma-cokonetics can be used to produce the same pharmacodynamic effect is such patients. The aim and end... 

The overall objective of clinical trials is to establish a drug therapy that is safe and effective in humans, to the extent that the risk-benefit relationship is acceptable. The ICH process has developed an internationally accepted definition of a clinical trial as Any investigation in human subjects intended to discover or verify the clinical, pharmacological and/or other pharmacodynamic effects of one or more investigational medicinal product(s), and/or to identify any adverse reactions to one or more investigational medicinal product(s) and/or to study absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of one or more investigational medicinal product(s) with the object of ascertaining its (their) safety and/or efficacy. ... 

The pharmacodynamic effects of ethanol are complex, and any attempt to link its actions to specific neurotransmitters or isolated brain regions is simplistic. A complicated neural network involved in the actions of ethanol accounts for its reinforcing, intoxicating, and abstinence effects. At the present time, use of medications that target neurotransmitters and neuromodulators affected by ethanol represents a reasonable strategy for the development of pharmacotherapies that reduce the reinforcing effects of alcohol and the craving and withdrawal symptoms that commonly occur in the context of alcohol dependence. 

NM Concessio, MM Van Oort, M Knowles, AJ Hickey. Pharmaceutical dry powder aerosols correlation of powder properties with dose delivery and implications for pharmacodynamic effect. Pharm Res 16 833-839, 1999. 

Figure 3 Rodent pharmacodynamic effects versus CbjU for 6. Dashed lines represent a twofold separation from the in vitro functional assay EC50 (122 nM, dashed arrow). mSLA, mouse spontaneous locomotor activity mPPI, mouse prepulse inhibition DRC, dose-response curve SD, single dose. (See Color Plate 4.3 in the Color Plate Section.)...

Huet R. 1982. Constituents of citrus fruits with pharmacodynamic effects citroflavonoids. Fruits 37 267—71. 

During product development, many of the initial non-clinical studies were undertaken in GAA knockout mice (i.e. mice devoid of a functional GAA gene), which serves as an animal model for Pompe s disease. The mice proved useful in assessing the pharmacodynamic effect of Myozyme on glycogen depletion and helped establish appropriate dosage regimens. The mice were also used to evaluate pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of GAA following its administration at clinically relevant doses. 

IV iron preparations have different pharmacokinetic profiles, which do not correlate with pharmacodynamic effect. 

The current case history will focus on the discovery of tegaserod and will summarize the pharmacodynamic effects in the GI tract and its therapeutic efficacy in IBS-C and CC. 

L. De Caro, A. Ghizzi, M. T. Zunino, Kinetics and Pharmacodynamic Effects of a Novel Prodrug of A-Methyldopaminc at Single Dose in Healthy Volunteers , Arzneim.-Forsch. 1993, 43, 651 -655. 

Safety pharmacology studies investigate the undesirable pharmacodynamic effects of a substance on physiological functions in relation to exposure in the therapeutic range and above. 

Doses selected for safety pharmacology studies are typically based on the criteria established in the ICH S7A guidance.25 Doses should exceed those projected for clinical efficacy and at the upper limit be bound by (1) adverse pharmacodynamic effects in the safety pharmacology study (2) moderately adverse effects in other non-clinical studies that follow a similar route and duration of dosing or (3) limit of solubility/toxicity. In the absence of adverse effects, the maximum administrable dose can be used. If nonreusable animals enter the study, then the maximum tolerated dose may be appropriate. Most importantly, the doses/concentrations should establish the dose/concentration-response relationship of the adverse effect. 

The ICH S7A guidance states that "supplemental" studies are meant to evaluate potential adverse pharmacodynamic effects on organ systems functions that are not acutely essential for the maintenance of human life and not addressed by the "core battery" or repeated dose toxicity studies when there is a cause for concern.25 Examples of physiological functions that fall into that category include, but are not limited to, the renal/urinary, immune, GI, endocrine and autonomic nervous systems. This section focuses on the renal and GI systems based on their potential impact on the clinical development program. 

Jusko, W.J. and Ko, H.C., Physiologic indirect response models characterize diverse types of pharmacodynamic effects, Clin. Pharmacol. Ther., 56, 406-419,1994. 

Any investigation in human subjects intended to discover or verify the clinical, pharmacological and/or other pharmacodynamic effects of an investigational product, and/or to identify any adverse reactions to an investigational prodnct, and/or to study absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of an investigational product with the object of ascertaining its safety and/or efficacy. 

Dimpfel W, Hofmann R. (1995). Pharmacodynamic effects of St. John s Wort on rat intracerebral field potentials. EurJ Med Res. 1(3) 157-67. 

Schellenberg R, Sauer S, Dimpfel W. (1998). Pharmacodynamic effects of two different hypericum extracts in healthy volunteers measured by quantitative EEG. Pharmacopsychiatry. 31(suppl 1) 44-53. 

Risk Assessment. The Reitz model is based on the assumption that cytotoxicity and reparative hyperplasia are responsible for liver neoplasia. Dose-surrogates, a more sophisticated and more accurate measure of target tissue dose derived from measuring a pharmacodynamic effect, were used. 

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In conclusion, contradictory data have been published for P-gp genotypes. The studies discussed are evaluating different regimens and tumor types. The same protein can have different pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic effects in different tumors and in response to different drugs. Therefore, every tumor type and drug has to be investigated independently. 

For highly potent APIs, profound effects can occur at low ng levels, the adverse effect of ethynylestradiol on fish populations is one example [107]. Another example is the development of resistant bacterial strains induced by the release of antibiotics into the environment [112, 113]. Dome et al. [114] concluded that fluoxetine, ibuprofen, diclofenac, propranolol and metoprolol exhibit relatively high acute toxicity to aquatic species. In addition, due to the inherent properties of these chemicals, pharmacodynamic effects were observed in the heart rate of Daphnia magna for the (3-blockers propranolol and metoprolol. 

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