Library

feed icon rss

Your email was sent successfully. Check your inbox.

An error occurred while sending the email. Please try again.

Proceed reservation?

Export
  • 1
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 6 (1992), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2036
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: The combination of a histamine H2-receptor antagonist and a muscarinic receptor antagonist has been reported to result in greater suppression of intragastric acidity than either agent alone. The present randomized, double-blind, multicentre trial compared the effects of the oral combination of 150 mg ranitidine b.d. plus 50 mg pirenzepine b.d. with 150 mg ranitidine b.d. plus placebo pirenzepine b.d. in the treatment of patients with reflux oesophagitis. All 157 patients had symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux with endoscopically confirmed oesophageal erosions (Savary and Miller grades I-III). After four weeks of treatment, healing rates were 32/75 (43%) in the combined treatment group and 34/76 (45%) in the group receiving ranitidine alone. After eight weeks, the cumulative healing rates had increased to 48/72 (67%) and 51/75 (68%), respectively. More patients receiving ranitidine plus pirenzepine had complete relief of day- and night-time heartburn after four weeks compared with those receiving ranitidine alone (day: 59% vs. 38%, P= 0.02; night: 69% vs. 52%, P= 0.04). After eight weeks, symptom relief was comparable in both groups. Clinical adverse effects were reported by nine patients receiving ranitidine and by 19 patients receiving the combination. It is concluded that combining ranitidine with pirenzepine does not aid the healing of reflux oesophagitis but does improve symptom relief at four weeks.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 2
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Alimentary pharmacology & therapeutics 3 (1989), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1365-2036
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: H2-receptor antagonists administered in conventional dosage regimens fail to heal a significant proportion of patients with moderate or severe reflux oesophagitis. We have compared the effects of a higher dose of ranitidine (300 mg q.d.s.) with the currently recommended dosage regimen (150 mg b.d.) in 138 patients suffering from reflux oesophagitis. After 4 weeks of treatment 29% of patients who received 150 mg ranitidine b.d., and 63% of patients who received 300 mg ranitidine q.d.s. had complete endoscopic healing of their lesions (P 〈 0.0001). After 8 weeks these proportions had increased to 54% and 75%, respectively (P 〈 0.01). After 4 weeks of treatment, compete symptomatic relief had been achieved in 46% of patients who received 150 mg ranitidine b.d and in 67% of patients who received 300 mg ranitidine q.d.s. (P 〈 0.05). After 8 weeks these proportions were 64% and 84%, respectively (P 〈 0.05). Both dosage schedules were well-tolerated. We conclude that more rapid symptom relief and healing in reflux oesophagitis can be achieved with 300 mg ranitidine q.d.s. than with 150 mg ranitidine b.d.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 3
    ISSN: 1365-2036
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: A randomized, double-blind, clinical trial was undertaken to compare 150 mg ranitidine b.d. with 300 mg ranitidine nocte in the treatment of reflux oesophagitis. Endoscopy data were evaluable for 336 patients after 8 weeks of treatment. At this time 75% of patients who received 150 mg ranitidine b.d., and 73% of those who received 300 mg nocte, had healed or showed endoscopic improvement to grade I oesophagitis. At 12 weeks these rates had increased to 89 and 88%, respectively. Oesophageal biopsies from 258 patients at 8 weeks showed histological improvement in 44 and 47% of those treated with 150 mg ranitidine b.d. and 300 mg ranitidine nocte, respectively. After 12 weeks histological improvement was apparent in 57 and 54% of biopsies from each group, respectively. Symptom severity and frequency was reduced to a similar extent by both treatments. Adverse events were reported by 15 patients. A 300–mg bedtime dose of ranitidine was found to be a well-tolerated, effective alternative to twice daily treatment in reflux oesophagitis.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
  • 4
    ISSN: 1432-2072
    Keywords: Anxiety ; Plus-maze ; Ethological analysis ; CCK-4 ; CCK-8s ; Devazepide ; L-365, 260 ; PD135158 ; Diazepam ; Mice
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The literature on the effects of CCK receptor manipulations in animal models of anxiety is rife with inconsistency, and the data subject to a variety of methodological and interpretative difficulties. In the present paper, the effects of a range of CCK receptor ligands on anxiety in male mice have been assessed using an ethological version of the elevated plusmaze test. Compounds selected for study were the agonists, CCK-4 and CCK-8s (12.5–100µg/kg), and the antagonists, devazepide, L-365, 260 and PD 135158 (1.0 µg/kg–1.0mg/kg). CCK-4 failed to produce any significant behavioural effects over the dose range tested, while treatment with the sulphated octapeptide, CCK-8s, induced signs of behavioural inhibition at 100 µ/kg without altering anxiety-related indices. Furthermore, in contrast to the clear anxiolytic profile of diazepam (1 mg/kg), and despite the comprehensive behavioural profiles yielded by ethological analysis, all three CCK receptor antagonists studied (devazepide, L-365, 260 and PD 135158) were found to be without significant effect under present test conditions. Together, present findings provide little support for the involvement of CCK receptor mechanisms in anxiety and, in particular, the form of anxiety evoked in mice by exposure to a plus-maze.
    Type of Medium: Electronic Resource
    Library Location Call Number Volume/Issue/Year Availability
    BibTip Others were also interested in ...
Close ⊗
This website uses cookies and the analysis tool Matomo. More information can be found here...