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Query: UMLS:C0023380 (lethargy)
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All-night sleep was polygraphically monitored from ten normal volunteers who took placebo and three dosage levels of a new benzodiazepine hypnotic, SCH 16134, in a double-blind, crossover design. All dosages of the drug decreased the time to fall asleep, and the two highest dosages also decreased interspersed wakefulness. REM sleep was suppressed, but slow-wave sleep was not affected in this experiment. The subjective quality of sleep was improved by the new hypnotic. One subject reported that he felt lethargic the day after the largest dose.
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PMID:The effect of a new benzodiazepine on the polygraphically monitored sleep of normal volunteers. 1 91

The sedative effect of SCH 34826, an enkephalinase inhibitor, was evaluated by studying electroencephalographic (EEG) activity, behaviour and the sleep-waking cycle in the rat. The reference opioid, morphine, was used for comparison. After administration of morphine (10 mg/kg s.c.) the rats were motionless and stuporous at first and then hyperactive. An increase of slow wave sleep, at the expense of both wakefulness and REM sleep was recorded, with high-amplitude slow wave bursts appearing in the EEG tracings during the waking, albeit stuporous, phase. Relative spectral power in the 1-4 and 12-16 Hz bands was increased and there was a shift of the dominant frequency to a lower frequency. The specific opioid antagonist, naltrexone, readily reversed most of these effects. The drug SCH 34826 (10-100 mg/kg p.o.) had no effect on the parameters examined; large doses (300 and 1000 mg/kg p.o.) induced restlessness in some animals, resulting in increased waking. This effect was antagonized by naltrexone. The data indicate that SCH 34826, at doses far greater than those proposed for clinical use, is devoid of sedative liability and does not induce any of the behavioural or EEG effects typical of morphine.
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PMID:Effects of the enkephalinase inhibitor SCH 34826 on the sleep-waking cycle and EEG activity in the rat. 232 30

Recent studies have shown that gamma-aminobutyric acidB (GABAB) receptor antagonists suppress absence seizures in animal models. (+)-5,5-Dimethyl-2-morpholineacetic acid, hydrochloride (SCH 50911) is a new GABAB antagonist that is structurally dissimilar to previously studied GABAB antagonists such as 3-aminopropyl-diethoxymethyl-phosphinic acid (CGP 35348), 3-aminopropyl-n-butyl-phosphinic acid (CGP 36742) or 3-aminopropyl-cyclohexylmethyl-phosphinic acid (CGP 46381). In this study we measured the antiabsence effects of SCH 50911 in three animal models: the lethargic (lh/lh) mutant mouse, which has spontaneous absence seizures; and two rat models in which absence seizures were induced by administration of either gamma-hydroxybutyrate or pentylenetetrazole. SCH 50911 abolished seizures in all three models in a dose-dependent fashion (ID100 = 8-170 mumol/kg). In each model SCH 50911 was more potent (ID50 = 2-22 mumol/kg) than the following antiabsence compounds: the GABAB antagonist CGP 35348 (ID50 = 210-890 mumol/kg); ethosuximide (ID50 < or = 142-1240 mumol/kg); trimethadione (ID50 = 520-1100 mumol/kg); and valproic acid (ID50 = 900-2360 mumol/kg). SCH 50911 was equipotent with the GABAB antagonist CGP 46381 (ID50 = 20 mumol/kg) in the lh/lh mouse model. These findings suggest that antiabsence activity may be a defining feature of GABAB receptor antagonists and provide a rationale for pursuing clinical trials of GABAB receptor antagonists in human patients with absence seizures.
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PMID:Characterization of the antiabsence effects of SCH 50911, a GABA-B receptor antagonist, in the lethargic mouse, gamma-hydroxybutyrate, and pentylenetetrazole models. 756 14

SCH 58500 is a replication-defective recombinant adenoviral vector containing the cloned human wild-type (normal) tumor suppressor gene p53. SCH 58500 is in trials to evaluate potential clinical utility. A series of toxicology studies in rats and mice were conducted via multiple routes of exposure to support these programs. The nonlethal and asymptomatic dose in rats following a 14-day observation period was equal to 7.5 x 10(7) plaque-forming units (pfu)/kg (5.6 x 10(10) particles/kg) by intravenous or intraperitoneal route and was similar by the ip route, following 4 weeks of dosing. The high dose of 1.5 x 10(9) pfu/kg (1.1 x 10(12) particles/kg) was lethal by the i.v. route and inflammatory to the peritoneal cavity by the ip route. SCH 58500 was rapidly cleared from the systemic circulation in rats (serum t(1/2) of 7 to 9 min) following iv administration. Administration by other routes resulted in no (sc) or delayed (ip) serum levels. Since most rats in the i.v. rat study died within 24 h postdose, another study to evaluate potential mechanisms of toxicity in rats was designed in which rats were killed at intervals following a single i.v. dosing. A single high i.v. dose of SCH 58500 (1.1 x 10(12) pfu/kg) was associated with lethargy, soft feces, a ruffled-hair coat, and death within 1 h postdose. Potential mechanisms of toxicity appeared to include a mild coagulopathy and/or vasculopathy, resulting in consumption of platelets and clotting factors, leakage or loss of intravascular fluid, hemoconcentration, electrolyte and/or fluid shifts, a moderate stress and/or inflammatory response, and a mild, direct or indirect toxic effect on liver and/or kidney tissue. These findings suggest a multifocal cause for acute lethality following i.v. dosing in rats.
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PMID:Rodent nonclinical safety evaluation studies of SCH 58500, an adenoviral vector for the p53 gene. 1181 31