Identification of PPARγ ligands with One-dimensional Drug Profile Matching.

Introduction: Computational molecular database screening helps to decrease the time and resources needed for drug development. Reintroduction of generic drugs by second medical use patents also contributes to cheaper and faster drug development processes. We screened, in silico, the Food and Drug Administration-approved generic drug database by means of the One-dimensional Drug Profile Matching (oDPM) method in order to find potential peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) agonists.

Investigation of the metabolic effects of chronic clozapine treatment on CCK-1 receptor deficient Otsuka Long Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats.

Clozapine increases meal size and meal duration, effects similar to the pharmacological blockade or congenital deficiency of CCK-1 receptor. We aimed to investigate the role of CCK-1 receptor in clozapine-induced weight gain and insulin sensitivity in CCK-1 receptor deficient, male Otsuka Long Evans Tokushima Fatty rats (OLETF). Long Evans Tokushima Otsuka (LETO) rats served as healthy control.

The role of acute hyperinsulinemia in the development of cardiac arrhythmias.

Patients with perturbed metabolic control are more prone to develop cardiac rhythm disturbances. The main purpose of the present preclinical study was to investigate the possible role of euglycemic hyperinsulinemia in development of cardiac arrhythmias. Euglycemic hyperinsulinemia was induced in conscious rabbits equipped with a right ventricular pacemaker electrode catheter by hyperinsulinemic euglycemic glucose clamp (HEGC) applying two different rates of insulin infusion (5 and 10 mIU/kg/min) and variable rate of glucose infusion to maintain euglycemia (5.

Beneficial cardiac effects of cicletanine in conscious rabbits with metabolic syndrome.

Background And Purpose: High-fat diet and consequent metabolic syndrome (MS) can lead to elevated risk for cardiac arrhythmias. This preclinical study was to investigate if cicletanine (CIC) could produce cardioprotective effects in conscious rabbits exhibiting the main symptoms of MS.

Methods: NZW rabbits that had undergone an 8-week-long cholesterol-enriched diet (1.

Morphological, hemodynamical and hemorheological changes of mature artificial saphenous arterio-venous shunts in the rat model.

Artificial femoral arterio-venous (AV) shunts are widely used in rodent models for studying shunt maturation and to optimize various surgical techniques. However, little is known about complex circulatory, microcirculatory, and hemorheological effects of end-to-side saphenous AV shunts. We aimed to study these parameters in mature AV shunts.

Involvement of cholecystokinin in baseline and post-prandial whole body insulin sensitivity in rats.

The objective of the study was to investigate the role of cholecystokinin (CCK) on the food-induced insulin sensitization phenomenon in healthy Long Evans Tokushima Otsuka (LETO) and Otsuka Long Evans Tokushima Fatty (OLETF) rats. Whole body insulin sensitivity determined by hyperinsulinaemic euglycaemic glucose clamping and the rapid insulin sensitivity test served as endpoints. Determinations were done in both fasted and re-fed animals.