Enhancing and inhibitory effects of H2-receptor antagonists on the GABA and the GABAA-agonist muscimol responses of the isolated guinea pig ileum: A pharmacodynamic interaction

Pharmacological Research

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-284

  Koutsoviti Papadopoulou, Maria ^a   Nikolaidis, Efstathios ^a   Kounenis, Georgios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

GABA; GABAA receptors; H2 receptor antagonists; Pharmacodynamic interaction

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CIMETIDINE; FAMOTIDINE; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MUSCIMOL;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG SPECIFICITY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GUINEA PIG; ILEUM; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 0038689318     PISSN: 10436618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-6618(03)00148-8     Document Type: Article

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