Articles by author - Jana Pecivová

In vivo effect of pinosylvin and pterostilbene in the animal model of adjuvant arthritis.

Macickova T, Drabikova K, Nosal R, Bauerova K, Mihalova D, Harmatha J, Pecivova J.

Journal Article 2010; 31(Suppl 2): 91-95 PubMed PMID: 21187826  Keywords:  Animals, Anti-Inflammatory Agents:pharmacology, Antioxidants:pharmacology, Arthritis, Experimental:drug therapy, Disease Models, Animal, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Therapy, Combination, Male, Oxidative Stress:drug effects, Peroxidase:metabolis.    Citation

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of pinosylvin (PIN) and pterostilbene (PTE), natural substances from the stil.....

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H1-antihistamines and oxidative burst of professional phagocytes.

Nosal R, Drabikova K, Jancinova V, Moravcova J, Lojek A, Ciz M, Macickova T, Pecivova J.

Comparative Study 2009; 30(Suppl 1): 133-136 PubMed PMID: 20027159  Keywords:  Benzothiepins:pharmacology, Brompheniramine:pharmacology, Chlorpheniramine:pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Extracellular Space:drug effects, Histamine H1 Antagonists:administration & dosage, Humans, Intracellular Space:drug effects, Lorata.    Citation

OBJECTIVES: We analysed and compared the effect of five H1-antihistamines on stimulated oxidative burst at extra- and intracellular level .....

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Effect of carvedilol on the production of reactive oxygen species by HL-60 cells.

Lojek A, Pecivova J, Macickova T, Nosal R, Papezikova I, Ciz M.

Journal Article 2008; 29(5): 779-783 PubMed PMID: 18987604  Keywords:  Adenosine Triphosphate:metabolism, Adrenergic beta-Antagonists:pharmacology, Carbazoles:pharmacology, Cell Differentiation:drug effects, Cell Proliferation:drug effects, Fluorometry, Granulocytes:drug effects, HL-60 Cells, Humans, Luminescence, Nitric Oxi.    Citation

OBJECTIVES: The generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by phagocytes is one of the irreplaceable microbicidal tools of innate immunit.....

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Effect of the extract from salivary glands of Lucilia sericata on human neutrophils.

Pecivova J, Macickova T, Takac P, Kovacsova M, Cupanikova D, Kozanek M.

Journal Article 2008; 29(5): 794-797 PubMed PMID: 18987603  Keywords:  Animals, Diptera:physiology, Humans, Larva, Luminescence, Male, Neutrophils:drug effects, Peroxidase:metabolism, Salivary Glands:physiology, Superoxides:metabolism, Tissue Extracts:pharmacology, Zymosan,.    Citation

OBJECTIVES: There is incomplete information about host immune response to maggot therapy, nowadays increasingly used to clean chronic woun.....

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Inhibition of superoxide generation and myeloperoxidase release by carvedilol after receptor and nonreceptor stimulation of human neutrophils.

Macickova T, Pecivova J, Nosal R, Lojek A, Pekarova M, Cupanikova D.

Journal Article 2008; 29(5): 790-793 PubMed PMID: 18987595  Keywords:  Adrenergic beta-Antagonists:pharmacology, Androstadienes:pharmacology, Calcimycin:pharmacology, Carbazoles:pharmacology, Humans, In Vitro Techniques, Male, N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine:pharmacology, Neutrophils:drug effects, Oxidants:metabolism.    Citation

OBJECTIVES: To compare three stimuli which activate human neutrophils with different signal transduction mechanisms, in order to better lo.....

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Effect of carvedilol on reactive oxygen species and enzymes linking innate and adaptive immunity.

Pecivová J, Macicková T, Lojek A, Gallová L, Cíz M, Nosál' R, Holománová D.

Journal Article 2006; 27(Suppl 2): 160-163 PubMed PMID: 17159805  Keywords:  Animals, Carbazoles:pharmacology, Cells, Cultured, Immunity, Cellular:drug effects, Immunity, Innate:drug effects, Macrophages:drug effects, Mice, N-Formylmethionine Leucyl-Phenylalanine:pharmacology, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type II:metabolism, Peroxidase:m.    Citation

OBJECTIVES: Neutrophils and macrophages are critical components of our innate host defenses. They are a potential source of nitric oxide (.....

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