{"title":"Treatment of hyperlipoproteinemia type II with etofibrate.","authors":"A Gustafson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Seven patients with hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP) type II (four patients with type II A and three patients with type II B), who were experienced to be resistant to hypolipidemic drugs, were treated for 6 months with etofibrate, a double-ester of nicotinic acid and clofibrinic acid, at a dose of 0.3 g t.i.d. Mean serum cholesterol level decreased by up to 18% from a pre-treatment value of 7.7 +/- 1.4 mmol/l. The reduction of serum cholesterol was due both to a decrease in very low density (VLDL) and low density (LDL) lipoprotein cholesteral by 61 and 25%, respectively (after 6 months). Furthermore alpha-LP (HDL) cholesterol increased by 8%, (after 6 months). All seven patients had previously received clofibrate and had obtained a mean decrease in plasma cholesterol by 6%. There was a slight transient increase in S-ASAT and S-ALAT simultaneous with in increase in serum urate. However, these values returned after 3 months to pre-treatment level. No influence on glucose tolerance was recorded. There were no bothersome side effects except a transient discomfort in the form of flushing or acid indigestion which occurred after 1--2 months of treatment with etofibrate.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"498-502"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11732601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of the administration of artroglobina suppositories in healthy volunteers.","authors":"M C Ochoa, R Fau, V Molina, A Vázquez","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Forty-nine healthy volunteers were treated daily with Artroglobina suppositories (anticartilage antiparathyroid immunoglobulins) for twelve days, in order to prove the absence of side effects. Volunteers were examined daily. Blood and urine samples were taken before the treatment, twelve days, twenty-four days and six months after the beginning of the treatment. Slight changes were noted in some parameters though remaining in the normal range and disappearing six months later. No symptoms of intolerance, toxicity or side effects were registered.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"471-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11265636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of systemic autonomic inhibition on the hemodynamic response to antihypertensive therapy with timolol.","authors":"G Simon, W Kiowski, S Julius","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To evaluate the role of systemic autonomic tone in the hemodynamic response to beta-inhibitors, the hemodynamic effects of long-term timolol therapy were studied in hypertensive patients under two sets of conditions: at rest and after pharmacologic systemic autonomic inhibition (SAI). Hemodynamic studies were performed in every subject at the end of a 4-week placebo period and again at the end of a 9-week treatment period. The antihypertensive effect of timolol was associated with decreased cardiac output and unchanged peripheral resistance at rest and with unchanged cardiac output and decreased peripheral resistance after SAI. The hemodynamic response to SAI during the two studies was also markedly different. The findings provide evidence of increased alpha-adrenergic component of systemic autonomic tone during long-term therapy with timolol.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"507-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11732603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Treatment of hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP) type II A with a new phenoxy-isobuturic acid derivative, procetofen.","authors":"H Micheli, D Pometta, A Gustafson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Eleven patients with hyperlipoproteinemia (HLP) type II A, were treated for 3 months with a new compound, a phenoxy-isobuturic acid derivative, procetofen, at a dosage of 100 mg t.i.d. Mean plasma cholesterol decreased after 3 months by 25% from a pretreatment value of 10.3 +/- 0.7 mmol/l (p less than 0.001). The reduction of plasma cholesterol was apparently due not only to a decrease in LDL, as expressed from a marked reduction (15%) of the major LDL apolipoprotein moiety, apolipoprotein B, but also presumably to a decrease in VLDL as reflected from a marked reduction (45%, p less than 0.05) in plasma triglycerides. Furthermore, a marked favourable increase (28%, p less than 0.001) in HDL major apolipoprotein moiety, apolipoprotein A, was observed. No disagreeable side-effects were recorded, except for a skin rash in one patient.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"503-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11732602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In vitro and in vivo characteristics of some commercial phenobarbital tablets.","authors":"M F Sylvestri, C T Ueda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Using an incompletely randomized crossover study design, the oral bioavailability characteristics of 7 different brands of phenobarbital tablets, USP, 100 mg was investigated in 5 adult, male volunteers. From plasma drug concentration-time data, best estimates for the bioavailability parameters of peak plasma phenobarbital concentration (Cmax) and time to peak concentration (tmax) were obtained by curve fitting and area under the plasma drug concentration-time curve (AUC) computed with the trapezoid rule. No significant difference in Cmax or normalized AUC was seen for the 7 products investigated. Additionally, a difference in tmax was observed between 2 preparations (A and E) only (p less than or equal to 0.05). All drug products met USP requirements for weight variation and tablet disintegration and all but one product (D) exhibited reasonably good and similar dissolution characteristics in simulated gastric fluid. No correlation between various in vitro dissolution parameters and in vivo bioavailability of phenobarbital could be found for the 7 phenobarbital products studied.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"492-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11732600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M V Calvo, A Dominguez-Gil, J M Miralles, F de Pablo
{"title":"Pharmacokinetics of naproxen in healthy volunteers and in patients with diabetic microangiopathy.","authors":"M V Calvo, A Dominguez-Gil, J M Miralles, F de Pablo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The pharmacokinetics of Naproxen administered as a single oral dose of 250 mg, have been determined in 7 healthy volunteers and 9 patients who had been diagnosed as suffering from diabetes mellitus with varying degrees of angiopathy. A two-compartment model was used to describe the biphasic decline in serum concentrations and to calculate the amount of drug in the central and peripheral compartments. In healthy volunteers the following values were obtained for various pharmacokinetic parameters: tmax = 2 hr; Cmax = 52.63 micrograms/ml; Ka = 1.893 hr-1; alpha = 0.393 hr-1; beta = 0.049 hr-1; K12 = 0.147 hr-1; K21 = 0.198 hr-1; K13 = 0.097 hr-1. In patients with severe diabetic microangiopathy, a decrease may be seen in the fraction of the dose absorbed shown by a decrease in the Cmax and the (AUC) 0--8 hr. The glomerular impairment of some patients leads to a decrease in the elimination constant.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"486-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11732599","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Appropriate nitroxoline dosage regimen design.","authors":"R Karba, A Mrhar, F Kozjek, F Bremsak","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinically used dosage regimen of nitroxoline, three times 100 mg daily, was proved to be inappropriate because the successfulness of medical treatment was rarely sufficient. Nitroxoline, used as urinary antiseptic, exhibits its antibacterial activity in concentrations higher than 6 mg/l, as demonstrated in many \"in vitro\" experiments. This work deals with the most appropriate nitroxoline dosage form as well as with the optimal dosage regimen design. The data were obtained by the aid of the suitable pharmacokinetic model and multiple dosing simulation on analog-hybrid computer EAI 580. From the several studied alternatives two usable dosage forms with the necessary dose and corresponding dosage interval were selected.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"482-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11732727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the clinical pharmacology of talinolol, a new beta 1-adrenoceptor blocking agent.","authors":"K O Haustein, H Fiehring, G Oltmanns, K Femmer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"465-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11265635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical pharmacokinetics of nitroxoline.","authors":"A Mrhar, Z Kopitar, F Kozjek, V Presl, R Karba","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>14C-Nitroxoline was given orally to the rats, and its distribution as well as plasma and bile levels were determined autoradiographically and by the aid of radioactivity measurements, respectively. Nitroxoline was also given to the human volunteers orally and intravenously in three various doses and the corresponding urine concentrations of unconjugated and conjugated nitroxoline were determined spectrophotometrically. A pharmacokinetical model was generated on the basis of the results. The curve fitting procedure between total nitroxoline cumulative quantities in urine and the model response simulated on analog-hybrid computer enabled the evaluation of the validity of the chosen model as well as of the identification of its parameters.</p>","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 12","pages":"476-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11338410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Respiratory and circulatory interactions of salbutamol and theophyllamine in asthmatic patients.","authors":"K Pihlajamäki, J Kanto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":75937,"journal":{"name":"International journal of clinical pharmacology and biopharmacy","volume":"17 11","pages":"435-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11715519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}