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J Ethnopharmacol. 1996 Oct;54(1):27-36.
The pharmacological basis for the use of dried sheep placenta in traditional obstetric practice in Nigeria.
Onuaguluchi G, Ghasi S.
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu, Nigeria.
Dried sheep placenta is sometimes used in traditional medicine to facilitate labour. The effects of an extract of powdered dried sheep placenta with normal saline on guinea-pig uterus, ileum, spontaneously beating atrium and Langendorff heart, rat uterus and hindquarters, and cat blood pressure were therefore examined. It was found that 1 g of dried sheep placenta had, on the guinea-pig uterus, an oxytocic activity equipotent with 0.075-0.32 i.u. of oxytocin. The oxytocic activity was unaffected at pHs between 4 and 10 or by boiling for 30 min or autoclaving for 15 min. Neither atropine nor promethazine inhibited the oxytocic action, but promethazine inhibited, to the same degree, contractions induced in the ileum by equipotent doses of the infusion and histamine. Atropine, however, had no effect on infusion-induced contractions in the ileum. The vasoconstriction induced in the rat hindquarters was antagonized by promethazine and phentolamine. Cat blood pressure was reduced, but it had positive inotropic and chronotropic effects on the spontaneously beating guinea-pig atrium and on the guinea-pig Langendorff heart. It was concluded that the dried placenta contains a chorionic oxytocic substance the action of which is independent of stimulation of H1 receptors or of muscarinic receptors.
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Pharmacogenetics. 1996 Oct;6(5):449-57.
CYP2D6 is the principal cytochrome P450 responsible for metabolism of the histamine H1 antagonist promethazine in human liver microsomes.
Nakamura K, Yokoi T, Inoue K, Shimada N, Ohashi N, Kume T, Kamataki T.
Division of Drug Metabolism, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
To determine which cytochrome P450 form is involved in the promethazine [10-(2-dimethylaminopropyl) phenothiazine] metabolism, in vitro analysis using human liver microsomes were performed. Promethazine was mainly biotransformed to ring-hydroxylated, S-oxidized and N-demethylated metabolites. The promethazine hydroxylase in human liver microsomes was inhibited by SKF-525A, propranolol, sparteine, quinidine and anti-CYP2D6 serum suggesting involvement of a P450 related to CYP2D6. Lineweaver-Burk plots for the hydroxylation, S-oxidation and N-demethylation indicated that the hydroxylation occurred with a low K(m) value in human liver microsomes. Microsomes from genetically-engineered human B-lymphoblastoid cells expressing CYP2D6 hydroxylated promethazine most efficiently as compared to other P450 forms, indicating that it was the principal P450 responsible for the metabolism of promethazine in human liver microsomes. The inhibition of CYP2D6-catalysed bufuralol 1'-hydroxylase by various histamine H3 antagonists including promethazine suggested that promethazine and some other histamine H1 antagonists could be inhibitors of this P450 in human liver microsomes.
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Clin Exp Dermatol. 1996 Jul;21(4):263-8.
Photodermatoses in a Singapore skin referral centre.
Khoo SW, Tay YK, Tham SN.
National Skin Centre, Singapore.
The inducing or exacerbating effect of sunlight on skin diseases is often not appreciated in tropical countries, perhaps because of the perennial presence of sunlight, and a retrospective review of photodermatoses seen in a referral skin clinic was therefore carried out. The photodermatoses seen were secondary photoaggravation of primary skin diseases (32.2%), systemic drug photosensitivity (11.3%), polymorphic light eruption (13%), chronic actinic dermatitis (5.3%), solar urticaria (5.3%), actinic prurigo (4%), photoallergic contact dermatitis (2.6%), porphyria (1.3%) and xeroderma pigmentosum (1.3%). Compared with the results of Western studies, there were more photoaggravated underlying skin diseases and systemic drug photosensitivity, and fewer idiopathic photodermatoses and photoallergic contact dermatitis; the common photoallergens were chlorpromazine, promethazine and musk ambrette, very similar to those seen in the West.
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