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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-13
pubmed:abstractText
The effects of (S)-nafenodone, a new antidepressant, on transmembrane action potentials were studied in guinea-pig papillary muscles. In muscles driven at 0.02 and 1 Hz, (S)-nafenodone, 10(-6) mol/l and 10(-5) mol/l, produced a concentration-dependent decrease in the maximum upstroke velocity of the action potential, but it had no effect of the resting membrane potential. In the presence of 10(-5) mol/l (S)-nafenodone, trains of stimuli at rates between 0.5 and 2 Hz led to an exponential decline in maximum upstroke velocity to a new steady-state level [K = 0.152 +/- 0.03 (action potential)-1 at 2 Hz]. This frequency-dependent maximum upstroke velocity block increased at higher stimulation frequencies and at higher drug concentrations. (S)-Nafenodone also prolonged the time constant of recovery of maximum upstroke velocity from the frequency-dependent block to 2.3 +/- 0.6 s, this value being independent of the drug concentration. These values of onset and offset kinetics of (S)-nafenodone lie between those of drugs with fast and intermediate kinetic properties. (S)-nafenodone also shifted the curve relating membrane potential and maximum upstroke velocity in hyperpolarizing direction. All these results indicated that (S)-nafenodone produced a frequency- and voltage-dependent inhibition of the fast sodium channels similar to that exhibited with imipramine.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0028-1298
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
343
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
638-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Tonic and frequency-dependent Vmax block induced by (S)-nafenodone, a new antidepressant drug, in guinea-pig papillary muscles.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't