Research on heterocyclic compounds. XII - Preparation and antiinflammatory activity of 2-methylimidazo [1,2-a]pyridine-3-carboxylic acids.

The synthesis of a series of 2-methylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridine-3-carboxylic acids was accomplished by reacting some 2-aminopyridines with ethyl 2-chloroacetoacetate and then hydrolyzing the resulting ethyl carboxylates. Such new carboxylic acids were evaluated for antiinflammatory, analgesic, antipyretic, and ulcerogenic activities.

[Sodium phosphocreatine and the cardiovascular and respiratory systems].

In the dog, rat and chick, phosphocreatine-Na has not caused, from an experimental point of view, significative modifications of the cardiovascular- and respiratory-apparatus, of the reactivity of the cardio-regulator centers, of the baroreceptorial carotid-sinus and glomus reactivity, of the gangliar-, muscarinic-, histaminergic-, dopaminergic-, beta-adrenergic- and serotoninergic- vasomotor reactivity; only the vasomotor reactivity of a constrictive-type induced by epinephrine, nor-epinephrine, occlusion of the two common carotid arteries, hypertension and by BaCl2 is moderately reduced. It is interesting to note that the hypotensive response evoked by adenosine was augmented.

[Platelet aggregation and piribedil].

The Authors, thanks to experimental works, have established that piribedil at high concentrations inhibits ADP and thrombin aggregation effect on the rabbit PRP.