To assess the effects of the acute inflammatory response (AIR) induced by Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on plasma and tissue disposition of florfenicol (FFC) and its metabolite florfenicol amine (FFC-a), after its intramuscular (IM) administration, twenty-two New Zealand rabbits were randomly distributed in two experimental groups: Group 1 (LPS) was treated with three intravenous doses of 2 μg LPS/kg bw, before an intramuscular dose of 20 mg/kg FFC twenty-four h after the first LPS or SS injection; Group 2 (Control) was treated with saline solution (SS) in equivalent volumes as LPS-treated group. Blood samples were collected before (T0) and at different times after FFC administration. Acute inflammatory response was assessed in a parallel study where significant increases in body temperature, C-reactive protein concentrations and leukopenia were observed in the group treated with LPS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Experimental reports have demonstrated that florfenicol (FFC) exerts potent anti-inflammatory effects, improving survival in a murine endotoxemia model. Considering the anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory properties of pentoxifylline (PTX) as an adjuvant to enhance the efficacy of antibiotics, the anti-inflammatory effects of the interaction FFC/PTX over the Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced acute inflammatory response was evaluated in rabbits.
Methods: Twenty-five clinically healthy New Zealand rabbits (3.
This work aimed to assess the effects of the coadministration of pentoxifylline (PTX) on the pharmacokinetic profile of florfenicol (FFC) after intramuscular administration in rabbits. Ten New Zealand white rabbits, 1 year of age and 3.9 ± 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalgesic efficacy of methadone in cancer and chronic non-cancer pains is greater than that of other opioids, probably because of its unique pharmacokinetics properties and also because it targets glutamatergic receptors in addition to µ-opioid receptors. However, methadone has drawbacks which are clearly related to dosing and treatment duration. The authors hypothesized that the antinociceptive efficacy of methadone could be synergistically potentiated by magnesium and copper salts in a preclinical mouse model of chronic pain, using the intraplantar formalin test as algesimetric tool.
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October 2018
The comparative pharmacokinetics of ivermectin (IVM), between healthy and in Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharides (LPS) injected sheep, was investigated after an intravenous (IV) administration of a single dose of 0.2 mg/kg. Ten Suffolk Down sheep, 55 ± 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To evaluate in mice the antinociceptive effect of copper in spinal and trigeminal nociceptive pathways by using the intraplantar and orofacial formalin tests, respectively, and to examine whether this effect may interact synergistically with ketamine-induced antinociception.
Methods: Nociceptive behaviors (licking/biting of the formalin-injected limb and rubbing/scratching of the formalin-injected orofacial area) in male mice were evaluated during a 45-minute observation period post-formalin injection. Dose-response curves for intraperitoneal (ip) copper sulfate and ketamine allowed their combination in equi-effective doses, and their interaction was determined with isobolographic analysis.
1. The purpose of this study was to understand the effects of the acute inflammatory response (AIR) induced by Escherichia coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on florfenicol (FFC) and FFC-amine (FFC-a) plasma and tissue concentrations. 2.
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