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Arzneimittelforschung. 1997 Sep;47(9):1031-4.
Evaluation of phototoxic properties of oral antidiabetics and diuretics. Photohemolysis model as a screening method for recognizing potential photosensitizing drugs.
Selvaag E.
Dermatologische Klinik und Poliklinik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat, Munich, Germany.
The oral hypoglycemic drugs carbutamide, chlorpropamide, glibenclamide, glubornuride, gliclazide, glipizide, gliquidone, glisoxepide, glymidine, tolazamide and tolbutamide, and the diuretics acetazolamide, bemetizide, bendroflumethiazide, benzthiazide, benzylhydrochlorothiazide, bumetanide, butizide, chlorazanile, chlorothiazide, chlortalidone, clopamide, cyclopenthiazide, cyclothiazide, diazoxide, etozoline, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, hydroflumethiazide, indapamide, mefruside, metolazone, piretanide, polythiazide, trichlormethiazide, and xipamide were investigated for photohemolytic properties in vitro. Irradiation with a SOL 3 apparatus (solar simulating irradiation) revealed hemolysis in the presence of five oral hypoglycemic agents and in the presence of 19 out of the 25 tested diuretics. Photohemolysis was induced in the presence of three substances, respectively, after exposure to UVA or visible light. UVB alone did not induce phototoxic hemolysis in the presence of the tested drugs. Compared to clinical reports on photosensitivity reactions, the photohemolysis model seems a good predictive model in recognizing potential photosensitizing sulfonamides.
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J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 1997 Oct;17(10):1121-6.
A possible mechanism for the aglycemia-induced depression of glutamatergic excitation in the striatum.
Calabresi P, Centonze D, Pisani A, Bernardi G.
Clinica Neurologica, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Dip. Sanita, Rome, Italy.
We have studied the possible mechanisms underlying the decrease of excitatory transmission induced by glucose deprivation by using electrophysiological recordings in corticostriatal slices. Extracellular field potentials were recorded in the striatum after cortical stimulation; these potentials were progressively reduced by glucose deprivation. The reduction started 5 minutes after the onset of aglycemia. The field potential was fully suppressed after 40 minutes of glucose deprivation. After the washout of the aglycemic solution only a partial recovery was observed. Aglycemia also induced a delayed inward current during single-microelectrode voltage-clamp recordings from spiny neurons. This inward current was coupled with an increased membrane conductance. The A1 adenosine receptor antagonists, 8-cyclopentyl-1,3-dimethylxanthine (CPT, 1 micromol/L) and 1,3-dipropyl-8-cyclopentylxanthine (CPX, 300 nmol/L), significantly reduced the aglycemia-induced decrease of field potential amplitude. Moreover, in the presence of CPT and CPX, a full recovery of the field potential amplitude after the interruption of the aglycemic solution was observed. Conversely, these antagonists affected neither the inward current nor the underlying conductance increase produced by glucose deprivation. The ATP-sensitive potassium channel blockers glibenclamide (10 micromol/L) and glipizide (100 nmol/L) had no effect on the aglycemia-induced decrease of the field potential amplitude. We suggest that endogenous adenosine, but not ATP-dependent potassium channels, plays a significant role in the aglycemia-induced depression of excitatory transmission at corticostriatal synapses probably through a presynaptic mechanism. Moreover, adenosine is not involved in the postsynaptic changes induced by glucose deprivation in spiny striatal neurons.
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Photodermatol Photoimmunol Photomed. 1997 Feb-Apr;13(1-2):4-8.
Phototoxicity to sulphonamide-derived oral antidiabetics and diuretics: investigations in hairless mice.
Selvaag E, Thune P.
Department of Dermatology, Ullevaal Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway.
The oral antidiabetics glibenclamide, glipizide, glymidine, tolazamide and tolbutamide and the diuretics bemetizide, bendroflumethiazide, benzylhydrochlorothiazide, bumetanide, butizide, furosemide, hydrochlorothiazide, hydroflumethiazide and trichlormethiazide were investigated for phototoxic effects in hairless mice. The back of the animals (hr/hr-c3H/TifBom) was covered with Duoderm dressing, and at the site of two punched out holes 0.05 ml of the test substances at 0.25 mol/l concentration and the solvent alone as control were injected intradermally, respectively. Both test and control sites were irradiated with 6-12 J/cm2 of longwave UVA light from a "Bluelight 2000" apparatus (Honle, Martinsried, Germany). Skin reactions were read at 24 and 48 h. Compared to the solvent alone, all of the test substances induced reactions (necrosis or oedema)--most frequently seen by macroscopic and histologic investigation and by measurements with a thickness gage. Injection of the test substance or solvent alone without or with subsequent UVA irradiation, as well as UVA alone, did not induce measurable skin changes in this model. Three oral antidiabetics and four diuretics, not yet described to induce photosensitivity in vitro nor in vivo, were detected as potential photosensitizers using our animal model.
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