Supported by the Research Council of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences,Kermanshah,Iran for financial support(grant no.:990812).
Objective We aimed to investigate whether antagonism of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor(CB1R)could affect novel object recognition(NOR)memory in chronically rapid eye movement sleep-deprived(RSD)rats.Methods The animals ...
Despite the apparent abundance of ligand-gated transient receptor potential vanilloid type 1(TRPV1)and possible cross talk between the endocannabinoid and endovanilloid systems in the central nervous system(CNS),it is...
Acknowledgements This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 81070967) and the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (No BK2009296). We wish to thank Su-juan YUAN in Yancheng City No I People's Hospital for technological assistance.
Aim: To explore whether the synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist WIN55,212-2 could protect oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPCs) in stroke penumbra, thereby providing neuroprotection following permanent focal ce...
Although it is not generally a life-threatening disease,obesity is becoming a major health problem worldwide.It can be controlled by means of drugs,and,consequently,these are required to be safe as well as effective.I...
Aim: To investigate whether rimonabant, a cannabinoid receptor antagonist, had inhibitory effects on inflammatory reactions in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). Methods: TNF-α-induced IL-6 productio...
supported by the Study Grant (2007) for Medical Students of Second Military Medical University,China
Being a great threaten for human health, obesity has become a pandemic chronic disease. There have been several therapeutic treatments for this social health issue, including diet and exercise therapy, medication and ...
Rimonabant was studied by ESI ion trap mass spectrometry and EI(electron impact) time-of-flight mass spectrometry.m/z 380.9 can be used for identification of this drug by LC-MS.An exact mass at m/z 462.0782 (calculate...