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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1975-8-22
pubmed:abstractText
Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was found to antagonize pentobarbital-induced sleeping time and hypothermia. While 3 to 100 mg/kg of TRH reduced pentobarbital sleeping time when administered prior to the barbiturate, a dose-response relationship to TRH could not be established. However, doses of 10 to 100 mg/kg of TRH enhanced the lethality of pentobarbital when these compounds were administered simultaneously. Thyrotropin or L-triiodothyronine did not imitate and hypophysectomy did not reduce the effects of TRH, indicating that the pituitary is not essential for its antagonism of pentobarbital. Studies of TRH analogs provided further support of this view. In addition, TRH reduced the sleep and hypothermia produced by thiopental, amobarbital, secobarbital and phenobarbital, and it antagonized the hypothermia and reduced motor activity produced by chloral hydrate, reserpine, chlorpromazine and diazepam. Intracisternally administered TRH also reduced pentobarbital sleeping time and hypothermia, but melanocyte-stimulating hormone release-inhibiting factor and somatostatin administered by this route did not. While reduction of pentobarbital sleeping time by TRH could not be attributed to an affect on monoamine systems or to deamidated TRH, this action was reduced by intracisternally administered atropine, suggesting that cholinergic mechanisms may contribute to the effects of TRH. Thus, the results provide evidence that TRH acts on brain independent of an effect on the pituitary.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0022-3565
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
193
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
11-22
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-26
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:805836-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Atropine, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Barbiturates, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Body Temperature, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Cricetinae, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Female, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Gerbillinae, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Guinea Pigs, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Male, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Motor Activity, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Norepinephrine, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Pentobarbital, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Phentolamine, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Pituitary Gland, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Reserpine, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Sleep, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Thyrotropin-Releasing Hormone, pubmed-meshheading:805836-Tranquilizing Agents
pubmed:year
1975
pubmed:articleTitle
Effects of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) on the actions of pentobarbital and other centrally acting drugs.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.