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L Safta

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Effects of the intracerebroventricular administration of ketamine on centrogenic arrhythmias in anesthetized rats.

In urethane anesthetized rats the icv (lateral cerebral ventricle) administration of ketamine, at the highest utilized doses, induced bradypnea and sinus bradycardia in spontaneously breathing rats. Moreover, it partially antagonized the arrhythmogenic activities of sodium glutamate and sodium aspartate, as well as desipramine and ouabain. From these results, we conclude that ketamine had an inhibitory effect on the centrogenic arrhythmias not only acting at the level of NMDA subtype receptor, but also at beta 1 adrenergic central receptors. Moreover at high doses, ketamine can also induce centrogenic arrhythmias in spontaneously breathing rats.

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Central antiarrhythmic effects of imidazole in anesthetized rats.

In urethane anesthetized rats, the intracerebroventricular (icv.) microinjection of sodium glutamate or KCl induced cardiac arrhythmias. These cardiac rhythm disorders could be prevented by the icv. administration of imidazole. The i.v. injection of the same doses of imidazole elicited cardiac arrhythmias. The antiarrhythmic activity of imidazole is probably due to its ability to stimulate phosphodiesterase activity, which leads to a decrease in cGMP and/or cAMP cerebral levels.

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Some central nervous actions of centrophenoxine (Meclofenoxat) in animals.

In experiments with rats and mice it was been found that centrophenoxine in acute experiments in large doses has inhibitory effects on the central nervous system. Centrophenoxine has no analgesic action. When administered subchronically, centrophenoxine aggravates both the pentetrazol and the maximal electroshock seizures.

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Some behavioural changes induced by amantadine (adamantine).

In experiments carried out in mice, it was shown that amantadine (adamantine) (50, 75, 100 and 200 mg/kg i.p.) reduced the exploratory activity. This phenomenon was due not to reduction of the locomotion and of the muscular force. Amantadine in large doses had a slight convulsant action; at the same dose (100 mg/kg i.p.) it greatly potentiated the convulsant effects of pentetrazol. On Haffner's test amantadine had no analgesic activity.

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