Therapeutic Renin Inhibition in Diabetic Nephropathy-A Review of the Physiological Evidence.

abstract：:The fluid transport and mixing induced by beating cilia, present in the bronchial airways, are studied using a coupled lattice Boltzmann-Immersed Boundary solver. This solver allows the simulation of both single and multi-component fluid flows around moving solid boundaries. The cilia are modeled by a set of Lagrangia...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Chateau S,D'Ortona U,Poncet S,Favier J

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The central purpose of this study was to evaluate the fiber type-specific satellite cell and myonuclear responses of endurance-trained cyclists to a block of intensified training, when supplementing with carbohydrate (CHO) vs. carbohydrate-protein (PRO). In a crossover design, endurance-trained cyclists (n = 8) perfor...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： McKenzie AI,D'Lugos AC,Saunders MJ,Gworek KD,Luden ND

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of palate development are motivated by the all too common incidence of cleft palate, a birth defect that imposes a tremendous health burden and can leave lasting disfigurement. Although, mechanistic studies of palate growth and fusion have focused on growth factors such as Transforming Growth Factor ß-3 (Tgfß3...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Benson MD,Serrano MJ

更新日期：2012-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In aged subjects, late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) starts in the lateral entorhinal allocortex where a failure of clearance mechanisms triggers an accumulation of neurotoxic amyloid-β42 oligomers (Aβ42-os). In neurons and astrocytes, Aβ42-os enhance the transcription of Aβ precursor protein (APP) and β-secretase/...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Chiarini A,Armato U,Liu D,Dal Prà I

更新日期：2016-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Contusion injuries in skeletal muscle commonly occur in contact sport and vehicular and industrial workplace accidents. Icing has traditionally been used to treat such injuries under the premise that it alleviates pain, reduces tissue metabolism, and modifies vascular responses to decrease swelling. Previous research ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Singh DP,Barani Lonbani Z,Woodruff MA,Parker TJ,Steck R,Peake JM

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) is essential to ensure rapid adjustment to variations in blood pressure (BP). Little is known concerning the adaptive responses of BRS during acclimatization to high altitude at rest and during exercise. Methods: Twenty-one healthy sea-level residents were tested near sea lev...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Bourdillon N,Yazdani S,Subudhi AW,Lovering AT,Roach RC,Vesin JM,Kayser B

更新日期：2018-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Odorant binding proteins (OBPs) are proposed to be directly required for odorant discrimination and represent potential interesting targets for pest control. In the notoriously agricultural pest Adelphocoris lineolatus, our previous functional investigation of highly expressed antennal OBPs clearly supported this view...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Sun L,Wei Y,Zhang DD,Ma XY,Xiao Y,Zhang YN,Yang XM,Xiao Q,Guo YY,Zhang YJ

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Chronic infection with HBV (CHB) or HCV (CHC) is the most common chronic viral hepatitis that can lead to cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma in humans, their infections have distinct pathogenic processes, however, little is known about the difference of glycoprotein glycopatterns in serum between hepat...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Qin X,Guo Y,Du H,Zhong Y,Zhang J,Li X,Yu H,Zhang Z,Jia Z,Li Z

更新日期：2017-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2019.00621.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Russo R,Marra R,Andolfo I,De Rosa G,Rosato BE,Manna F,Gambale A,Raia M,Unal S,Barella S,Iolascon A

更新日期：2020-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Proline, Glutamate, Valine and Lysine-rich (PEVK) region of titin constitutes an entropic spring that provides passive tension to striated muscle. To study the functional and structural repercussions of a small reduction in the size of the PEVK region, we investigated skeletal muscles of a mouse with the constitut...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： van der Pijl RJ,Hudson B,Granzier-Nakajima T,Li F,Knottnerus AM,Smith J,Chung CS,Gotthardt M,Granzier HL,Ottenheijm CAC

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Human physiological signals are inherently rhythmic and have a hallmark feature in that even distant intrasignal measurements are related to each other. This relationship is termed long-range correlation and has been recognized as an indicator of the optimal state of the observed physiological systems, among which the...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Ravi DK,Marmelat V,Taylor WR,Newell KM,Stergiou N,Singh NB

更新日期：2020-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Adipokinetic hormones (AKHs) are well known to mobilize lipids and carbohydrates for energy-consuming activities in insects. These neuropeptides exert their functions by interacting with AKH receptors (AKHRs) located on the plasma membrane of fat body cells, which regulates energy mobilization by stimulating lipolysis...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Lu K,Wang Y,Chen X,Zhang X,Li W,Cheng Y,Li Y,Zhou J,You K,Song Y,Zhou Q,Zeng R

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Rapamycin, also known as sirolimus, is an antifungal agent and immunosuppressant drug used to prevent organ rejection in transplantation. However, little is known about the role of rapamycin in cardiac hypertrophy and the signaling pathways involved. Here, the effect of rapamycin was examined using phenylephrine (PE) ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Gu J,Hu W,Song ZP,Chen YG,Zhang DD,Wang CQ

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the level of hypoxia from which muscle activation (MA) is reduced during incremental exercise to exhaustion (IE), and the role played by PIO2 in this process, ten volunteers (21 ± 2 years) performed four IE in severe acute hypoxia (SAH) (PIO2 = 73 mmHg). Upon exhaustion, subjects were asked to continue ex...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Torres-Peralta R,Losa-Reyna J,Morales-Alamo D,González-Izal M,Pérez-Suárez I,Ponce-González JG,Izquierdo M,Calbet JA

更新日期：2016-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres are genomic complex at the end of chromosomes that protects the DNA and telomere length (TL) is related to several age-related diseases, lifespan, and cancer. On the other hand, cancer is a multifactorial disease that is responsible for reduce the quality of life and kills millions of people every year. Both...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Nomikos NN,Nikolaidis PT,Sousa CV,Papalois AE,Rosemann T,Knechtle B

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Aging and changing age demographics represent critical problems of our time. Physiological functions decline with age, often ending in a systemic process that contributes to numerous impairments and age-related diseases including heart failure (HF). We aimed to analyze whether differences in composite measur...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Wagner J,Knaier R,Königstein K,Klenk C,Carrard J,Lichtenstein E,Scharnagl H,März W,Hanssen H,Hinrichs T,Schmidt-Trucksäss A,Arbeev K

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Pancreatic cancer is a devastating disease with an unacceptably high mortality to incidence ratio. Traditional therapeutic approaches such as surgery in combination with chemo- or radiotherapy have had limited efficacy in improving the outcome of this disease. Up until just under a decade ago, the prominent desmoplast...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Wilson JS,Pirola RC,Apte MV

更新日期：2014-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:There is compelling evidence that the "what it feels like" subjective experience of sensory stimuli arises in the cerebral cortex in both humans as well as mammalian experimental animal models. Humans are alone in their ability to verbally communicate their experience of the external environment. In other species, sen...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Key B,Brown D

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies and physiological investigations have linked alterations in acid-base transporters to hypertension. Accordingly, Na(+)-coupled HCO(-) 3-transporters, Na(+)/H(+)-exchangers, and anion-exchangers have emerged as putative mechanistic components in blood pressure disturbances. Even though h...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Boedtkjer E,Aalkjaer C

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Peroxisomes produce hydrogen peroxide as a metabolic by-product of their many oxidase enzymes, but contain catalase that breaks down hydrogen peroxide in order to maintain the organelle's oxidative balance. It has been previously demonstrated that, as cells age, catalase is increasingly absent from the peroxisome, and...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Walton PA,Pizzitelli M

更新日期：2012-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the quest for a viable non-gravity dependent method to "lift weights" in space, our laboratory introduced iso-inertial resistance (YoYo™) exercise using spinning flywheel(s), more than 25 years ago. After being thoroughly tested in individuals subjected to various established spaceflight analogs, a multi-mode YoYo™...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Tesch PA,Fernandez-Gonzalo R,Lundberg TR

更新日期：2017-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Rising atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration is likely to influence insect-plant interactions. Aphid, as a typical phloem-feeding herbivorous insect, has shown consistently more positive responses in fitness to elevated CO2 concentrations than those seen in leaf-chewing insects. But, little is known about the...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Jiang S,Dai Y,Lu Y,Fan S,Liu Y,Bodlah MA,Parajulee MN,Chen F

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The appearance of oxygen in the terrestrial atmosphere represented an important selective pressure for ancestral living organisms and contributed toward setting up the pace of evolutionary changes in structural and functional systems. The evolution of using oxygen for efficient energy production served as a driving fo...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Naudí A,Jové M,Ayala V,Portero-Otín M,Barja G,Pamplona R

更新日期：2013-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: In an aging population, regular physical activity (PA) and exercise have been recognized as important factors in maintaining physical function and thereby preventing loss of independence and disability. However, (older) adults spent the majority of their day sedentary and therefore insight into the consequ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： van der Velde JHPM,Savelberg HHCM,van der Berg JD,Sep SJS,van der Kallen CJH,Dagnelie PC,Schram MT,Henry RMA,Reijven PLM,van Geel TACM,Stehouwer CDA,Koster A,Schaper NC

更新日期：2017-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell function and survival are controlled by intracellular signals, and modulated by surrounding cells and the extracellular environment. Connexin channels participate in these processes by mediating cell-to-cell communication. In bone cells, gap junction channels were detected in the early 1970s, and are present amon...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Plotkin LI

更新日期：2014-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our development of the diffusion tensor imaging modality for the bovine ocular lens. Diffusion gradients were added to a spin-echo pulse sequence and the relevant parameters of the sequence were refined to achieve good diffusion weighting in the lens tissue, which demonstrated heterogeneous regions of diff...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Vaghefi E,Donaldson PJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exercise is known to improve many aspects of human health, including modulation of the immune system and inflammatory status. It is generally understood that exercise reduces inflammation, but there are missing links in terms of understanding the mechanisms as well as the differences between exercise modalities. N-gly...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Tijardović M,Marijančević D,Bok D,Kifer D,Lauc G,Gornik O,Keser T

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies report greater activation in the cortical motor network in controlling eccentric contraction (EC) than concentric contraction (CC) of human skeletal muscles despite lower activation level of the muscle associated with EC. It is unknown, however, whether the strength of functional coupling between the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Yao WX,Jiang Z,Li J,Jiang C,Franlin CG,Lancaster JL,Huang Y,Yue GH

更新日期：2016-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During caesarean section spinal anesthesia may provoke maternal hypotension that we prevent by administration of phenylephrine and/or ephedrine. Phenylephrine is however reported to reduce the near infrared spectroscopy-determined frontal lobe oxygenation (ScO2) but whether that is the case for patients expo...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Foss VT,Christensen R,Rokamp KZ,Nissen P,Secher NH,Nielsen HB

更新日期：2014-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cell division processes have been conserved throughout evolution and are being revealed by studies on model organisms such as bacteria, yeasts, and protozoa. Cellular membrane constriction is one of these processes, observed almost universally during cell division. It happens similarly in all organisms through a ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Beltrán-Heredia E,Almendro-Vedia VG,Monroy F,Cao FJ

更新日期：2017-05-19 00:00:00