The antihypertensive effects of verapamil and propranolol were evaluated in 62 patients with mild to moderate systemic hypertension. We also studied the change of 24 hours urinary catecholamines. 31 cases received verapamil and 31 others were treated by propranolol for 4 weeks. Before treating, there were no statistically significant differences (ECG, echocardiology, blood pressure...) noted between the two groups. Conclusions: 1) Blood pressure and heart rate were controlled by verapamil as well as by propranolol. 2) 24 hours urinary catecholamines were reduced by verapamil but not by propranolol
Hypertension ; Verapamil

The Na+ -K+ -activated ATPase is required to maintain osmotic balance and stabilize cell volume. The Na+ -K+ -ATPase has a more direct role in regulating cell volume; it controls the solute concentrations inside the cell, thereby regulating the osmotic forces that can make a cell swell or shrink. The impotance of the Na+ -K+ -ATPase in controlling cell volume is indicated by the observation that animal cells swell, and may burst, if they are treated with ouabain, which, inhibits the Na+ -K+ -ATPase. The present experiment was designed and carried out to determine the effect of verapamil, a calcium blocker, on the activity of Na+ -K+ -ATPase prepared from renal medulla in the normal rabbit. It was reported that verapamil, a well known coronary vasodilator, possessed negative inotropic effects. The mechanism of action of verapamil was initially thought to be due to coronary vasodilation and blockade of myocardial B-adrenergic receptors. 1t was termed such agent calcium antagonist. A derivative of verapamil, D-600, was subsequently shown to block the movement of calcium through the slow channel and thereby after the plateau phase of the cardiac action potential. Verapamil do not directly antagonize the effects of calcium. Rather, it inhibit the entry of ealcium into cells or its mobilization form intracellular stores and, as such, have been termed a calcium channel blocker.
Action Potentials ; Adenosine Triphosphatases* ; Adenosine* ; Animals ; Calcium ; Calcium Channels ; Cell Size ; Gallopamil ; Ouabain ; Vasodilation ; Verapamil*

No abstract available.
Coronary Vasospasm* ; Heart Arrest* ; Verapamil*

No abstract available.
Animals ; Macrophages, Alveolar* ; Rats* ; Superoxides* ; Verapamil*

Verapamil is highly effective in terminating paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia(PSVT) by its depressive action on the AV node. In other countries it is already the drug of choice if vagal manevers fail for conversion of PSVT. We evaluated therapeutic efficacy of intravenous verapamil in 30 patients with PSVT who visited Severance Hospital from november 1978 to November 1984. Twenty six of 30 patients(86.7%) had a restoration of normal sinus rhythm by intravenous verapamil without significant side effects. Thus intravenous verapamil is safe and extremely effective in terminating most PSVT.
Atrioventricular Node ; Humans ; Tachycardia, Supraventricular* ; Verapamil*

No abstract available.
Allopurinol* ; Animals ; Liver* ; Rats* ; Reperfusion Injury* ; Verapamil*

No abstract available.
Hemodynamics* ; Hepatocytes* ; Ischemia* ; Liver* ; Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator* ; Verapamil*

No abstract available.
Injections, Intralesional* ; Male ; Penile Induration* ; Triamcinolone Acetonide* ; Triamcinolone* ; Verapamil*

No abstract available.
Cyclosporine* ; Drug Resistance, Multiple* ; Humans* ; Lung Neoplasms* ; Lung* ; Tamoxifen* ; Verapamil*

PURPOSE: To analyze the isolating pattern of slow cycling cells as putative limbal epithelial stem cells (PLESCs) using Hoechst exclusive cell sorting. METHODS: Rabbits were injected with 5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine (Brd U) 1 month prior to be sacrificed. After obtaining limbal tissues, fluorescence-activated cells were sorted on a Coulter EPICS 753 after they had been incubated with Hoechst 33342 and propidium iodide. Two different methods were applied to sort PLESCs. Side-population(Sp) cells were obtained using gates with dichroic mirror to detect low Hoechst blue and red after verapamil was treated. Hoechst negative cells were obtained using gates exhibiting low Hoechst blue with a 424/44 BP filter. Brd U-retaining cells were counted and their sizes were evaluated in each gated sample to compare isolating pattern of PLESCs in each method. RESULTS: The percentages of Sp cells and of the Hoechst negative fraction were 0.96 +/- 0.79% and 16.01 +/- 13.60%, respectively(p=0.021). Homogeneity and density of the small cells were higher in Hoechst negative fraction than in Sp cells. The percentage of Brd U-retaining cells was 47.36 +/- 10.34% and 47.14 +/- 14.94% in Sp cells and Hoechst negative fraction, respectively(p>0.05), and they were 10 times higher than in non-Sp and Hoechst positive fraction(p=0.000). CONCLUSIONS: Hoechst negative exclusion without verapamil more efficiently isolated PLESCs than Sp did.
Cornea ; Epithelium ; Fluorescein* ; Propidium ; Rabbits ; Stem Cells* ; Verapamil