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Prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) is the most common prostaglandin type of tile rat brain. Recently a neurornodulator role for PGD2 has been suggested. In the present work the central cardiovascular and thermal effects of PGDz were studied in urethane-anaesthetised rats. Mlen adrndnistered at the doses of 0.001-10 ~g/rat into the lateral cerebral ventricle(i.c.v.), PGD2 slightly increased the blood pressure, heart rate and body ternpera~ ure. The highest dose caused also an initial hypotensive effect. Upon lntravenous injections PGD2 (0.1-10 ~g/rat) initially decreased and then weakly increased the blood pressure but had only negligible effects on heart rate and body temperature. Central pretreatment with sodium meclofenamate or indomethacin (1 mg/rat i.c.v.) antagonised effectively all the recorded central effects of PGD2. The central cardiovascular and thermal effects of PGD2 were much weaker than those obtained earlier with other prostaglandins, such as PGF2alpha and PGE2.. Therefore, in spite of its abundance in the brain PGD2 may not be very important for the central cardiovascular and thermal regulation in the rat.
Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) increased the blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature, when administered at the doses ofO.OOI-IO,ug into the lateral cerebral ventricle (i.c.v.) of the urethane-anesthetised rat. The highest dose of 10 ,ug/rat induced a strong initial hypotensive effect. lntravenously (i.v.), PGE2 at the doses of 0.01-10 ,ug/rat caused a biphasic blood pressure response with dose-related initial decreases followed by slight increases in blood pressure. The heart rate and body temperature were slightly increased by i.v. administrations of PGE2 . The highest i.v. dose of 10 ,ug/rat initially decreased also the heart rate. Central pretreatment with indomethacin ( I mg/rat i.c.v.) partly antagonised all of the recorded central effects of PGE2 , while sodium meclofenamate (I mg/rat i.c. v.) abolished the hypertensive response to i.c. v. administered PGE2 but failed to significantly affect the PGE2-induced rises of heart rate and body temperature. The results support the previous suggestions that PGE2 may participate in the central cardiovascular and thermoregulatory contro!. The results also suggest that indomethacin and sodium meclofenamate antagonize the effects of exogenous prostaglandins. Since sodium meclofenamate, unlike indomethacin, affected preferentially the hypertensive response to centrally administered PGE2 , there may be differences in the sites and/or modes of action between these drugs.
In an experimental analog of verbal examinations, the call-up situation, the effects of two dosages of a tranquillizing agent (lopirazepam) are compared to placebo treatment. 72 male and female, healthy, young volunteers have been randomly assigned to 12 groups of 6 subjects each. Pulse frequency and performance were registered. The results indicated differential drug effects which were interpreted according to the hypotheses of "differential effects of social stressors". If a situation was highly challenging for a subject, the application of a tranquillizer in an adequately high dosage enabled him to perform well in spite of or because of strong increases in pulse frequency.
In an experimental analog of verbal examinations, the call-up situation, the effects of two dosages of a tranquillizing agent (lopirazepam) are compared to placebo treatment. 72 male and female, healthy, young volunteers have been randomly assigned to 12 groups of 6 subjects each. Pulse frequency and performance were registered. The results indicated differential drug effects which were interpreted according to the hypotheses of "differential effects of social stressors". If a situation was highly challenging for a subject, the application of a tranquillizer in an adequately high dosage enabled him to perform well in spite of or because of strong increases in pulse frequency.
A novel chromatin configuration is described in lampbrush chromosomes of Pleurodeles waltlii oocytes which is different from transcriptionally inactive chromatin as weil as from the various forms of transcribed chromatin hitherto described. This novel type of chromatin is not arranged in Christmas tree-Iike configurations of densely packed lateral ribonucleoprotein (RNP) fibriIs but is characterized by a periodic alternating pattern of thick and thin regions which occur in clusters 01 some 10,000 repeats. Each thickened unit with an average length of 45 nm contains two c10sely spaced particles, the putative RNA polymerases, and each thickened unit is separated from the next one by a beaded chromatin spacer with a length of about 80 nm. This chromatin spacer contains on average two particles of approximately 14 nm in diameter, assumed to be nucleosomes. The thickened regions are interpreted to represent short transcriptional units containing approximately 130 base pairs of DNA which are separated from each other by nontranscribed spacers of 240-400 base pairs of DNA. The possibility is discussed that these transcriptional units represent 5S rRNA or tRNA genes.