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Analysis of fall-related adverse events among older adults using the Japanese Adverse Drug Event Report (JADER) database

Journal of Pharmaceutical Health Care and Sciences, 2018
Background Falls are a common but serious problem in older adults, and may lead to fractures and bleeding. As many factors, such as medication, aging, and comorbid diseases may simultaneously affect fall-related adverse events (AEs) in older adults, we ...
Haruna Hatahira, Shiori Hasegawa, Sayaka Sasaoka, Yamato Kato, Junko Abe, Yumi Motooka, Akiho Fukuda, Misa Naganuma, Satoshi Nakao, Ririka Mukai, Kazuyo Shimada, Kouseki Hirade, Takeshi Kato, Mitsuhiro Nakamura   +13 more
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Patterns of antihypertensive prescribing, discontinuation and switching among a Hong Kong Chinese population from over one million prescriptions [PDF]

, 2008
Hypertension is an alarming public health problem among Chinese. The present study evaluated the prescribing patterns, discontinuation and switching profiles of antihypertensive agents and their associated factors in one Hong Kong Chinese population ...
A Fretheim, A T Lam, BM Cheung, G Onder, H Fung, H Mori, J Ma, J Y Jiang, M C S Wong, MCS Wong, S Griffiths, S W Mercer, T Walley, YH Yuen, Z Kabir   +14 more
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Adaptaquin is selectively toxic to glioma stem cells through disruption of iron and cholesterol metabolism

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Adaptaquin selectively kills glioma stem cells while sparing differentiated brain cells. Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses show Adaptaquin disrupts iron and cholesterol homeostasis, with iron chelation amplifying cytotoxicity via cholesterol depletion, mitochondrial dysfunction, and elevated reactive oxygen species.
Adrien M. Vaquié, Davod R. Shah, Eliane E. S. Brechbühl, Michael McNicholas, Zhaoyang Xu, John H. Stockley, Laura Morcom, Diana Gold Diaz, Gemma C. Girdler, Rachel V. Seear, Gabriel Balmus, Rajiv R. Ratan, Harry Bulstrode, James A. Nathan, Manav Pathania, Kevin M. Brindle, David H. Rowitch   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of the Effect of Verapamil, Nifedipine and Diltiazem on Pentylenetetrazole-Induced Clonic Seizure Threshold in Mice

پزشکی بالینی ابن سینا, 2007
Background & Objective: Verapamil, nifedipine and diltiazem are calcium channel blockers widely used as a variety of cardiovascular ailment in humans. A number of studies have shown that calcium channel blockers have anticonvulsant effect in a range of ...

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Pre-injury beta blocker use does not affect the hyperdynamic response in older trauma patients

Journal of Emergencies, Trauma and Shock, 2014
Purpose: Trauma dogma dictates that the physiologic response to injury is blunted by beta-blockers and other cardiac medications. We sought to determine how the pre-injury cardiac medication profile influences admission physiology and post-injury ...
David C Evans, Kendrick M Khoo, Andrei Radulescu, Charles H Cook, Anthony T Gerlach, Thomas J Papadimos, Steven M Steinberg, Stanislaw PA Stawicki, Daniel S Eiferman   +8 more
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What is the best regimen for newly diagnosed hypertension? [PDF]

, 2005
Low-dose thiazide diuretics (eg, hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 to 25 mg/d) are the best first-line pharmacotherapy for treating uncomplicated hypertension(strength of recommendation [SOR]: A, based on randomized trials [RCTs] and 1 meta-analysis).
Russell, Roger G., Saseen, Joseph J., Turner, Chad   +2 more
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Strategies for studying permeation at voltage-gated ion channels [PDF]

, 1991
Voltage-dependent ion channels are presently thought to consist of several distinct functional regions: (a) activation gates, (b) inactivation gates, and permeation pathways.
Lester, Henry A.
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Patient‐specific pharmacogenomics demonstrates xCT as predictive therapeutic target in colon cancer with possible implications in tumor connectivity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study integrates transcriptomic profiling of matched tumor and healthy tissues from 32 colorectal cancer patients with functional validation in patient‐derived organoids, revealing dysregulated metabolic programs driven by overexpressed xCT (SLC7A11) and SLC3A2, identifying an oncogenic cystine/glutamate transporter signature linked to ...
Marco Strecker, Keren Zohar, Martin Böttcher, Thomas Wartmann, Henry Freudenstein, Maximilian Doelling, Mihailo Andric, Wenjie Shi, Or Kakhlon, Katrin Hippe, Beatrix Jahnke, Dimitrios Mougiakakos, Franziska Baenke, Daniel Stange, Roland S. Croner, Michal Linial, Ulf D. Kahlert   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

BETA-BLOCKERS IN THE TREATMENT OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION: EVIDENCE BASED DATA AND REAL PRACTICE

Рациональная фармакотерапия в кардиологии, 2015
Data of the largest meta-analyzes of beta-blockers use in arterial hypertension is presented. The role of beta-blockers among other basic groups of antihypertensive drugs (thiazide diuretics, calcium channel blockers, ACE inhibitors) is evaluated ...
M. V. Leonova
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A Rare Case Report of Amlodipine-Induced Gingival Enlargement and Review of Its Pathogenesis

Case Reports in Dentistry, 2013
Gingival enlargement is a common clinical feature of gingival and periodontal diseases. It is an unwanted side effect of certain systemic drugs given for nondental treatment.
Sanjeev Joshi, Sucheta Bansal
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