Some biological consequences of drug surface activity

2 Some biological consequences of drug surface activity 

In their extensive review of the biochemical and biophysical actions of the phenothiazines, Guth and Spirtes [138] select the effect on membrane permeability as the central cause of the diversity of the activities of this remarkable class of compounds. They write 

Behavioural effects methamphetamine Growth axolotl larvae Cytochrome c oxidase 

Release catecholamines from rabbit adrenal granules C-acetate incorporation into fatty acid of liver incorporation into brain phospholipid incorporation into brain phospholipid C-mevalonate incorporation into brain lipids C-glucose incorporation into brain lipids Glutamine synthesis in vitro Dinitrophenol-stimulated ATPase of liver Growth of vitamin Be-deficient rats 

Several tricyclic dyestuffs have been found to prevent the spontaneous haemolysis of pathologically fragile erythrocytes and to inhibit the haemolysis of 

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