Basal cyclic AMP levels in human blood mononuclear cells.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increased production of chemokines by adipose tissue and defective adipose tissue oxygenation as a result of obesity may induce leucocyte infiltration and subsequent systemic inflammation. OBJECTIVES:1-To determine the relation between the amount of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue and the chemokine...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Faber DR,van der Graaf Y,Westerink J,Kanhai DA,Monajemi H,Visseren FL,SMART study Group.

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfers or exchanges of cholesterol esters and triglycerides between lipoproteins are mediated by a specialized protein referred to as cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP), whereas those of phospholipids (PLs) are facilitated by both CETP and a specific phospholipid transfer protein (PLTP). In the present study...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Elchebly M,Pulcini T,Porokhov B,Berthezene F,Ponsin G

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease are associated with COVID-19 risk and severity. Because epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) expresses ACE2, we wanted to identify the main factors associated with ACE2 levels and its cleavage enzyme, ADAM17, in epicardial fat. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Epicardial and subcutane...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Couselo-Seijas M,Almengló C,M Agra-Bermejo R,Luis Fernandez Á,Alvarez E,R González-Juanatey J,Eiras S

更新日期：2020-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The mucosal incorporation and clearance of a DNA precursor was examined in the rat stomach and intestine following oral treatment with natural prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) or 15(R) 15 methyl prostaglandin E2 (Me PGE2). Control groups received vehicle or pentagastrin. After five days of treatment animals were labelled with ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Johansson C,Uribe A,Rubio C,Isenberg JI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelet aggregation induced by collagen, ADP and epinephrine, was monitored in 150 type-II patients (115 type IIA and 35 type IIB) and compared with a reference group of normolipidaemic controls; in addition, malondialydehyde formation and thromboxane B2 were examined in a subsample of the type-IIA patients. Threshol...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Tremoli E,Maderna P,Colli S,Morazzoni G,Sirtori M,Sirtori CR

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Disuse and/or local inflammation in the muscle cannot be excluded as potential influences for the decreased muscle force in patients hospitalised due to an acute chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. This study aims to compare expression levels of markers of disuse (insulin-like growth f...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Crul T,Spruit MA,Gayan-Ramirez G,Quarck R,Gosselink R,Troosters T,Pitta F,Decramer M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In dialysis patients, cardiac troponin T (cTNT) is often elevated despite the absence of acute myocardial ischaemia, and amino-terminal pro-B-natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is markedly higher compared to non-haemodialysis patients. In a longitudinal observation, we evaluated the association of cTNT and NT-p...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Sommerer C,Beimler J,Schwenger V,Heckele N,Katus HA,Giannitsis E,Zeier M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the muscarinic receptor antagonist atropine and the cholecystokinin (CCK)-A receptor antagonist loxiglumide were used to investigate the relative importance of cholinergic and CCK-mediated regulation of intestinal phase antro-pyloro-duodenal motility. Plasma levels of gastrointestinal hormones [pancreati...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Katschinski M,Schirra J,Begliner C,Langbein S,Wank U,D'Amato M,Arnold R

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Diabetes dramatically increases the risk of cardiovascular complications and mortality. Hydrogen sulphide plays an important role in reducing oxidative stress. Several studies demonstrated that hydrogen sulphide protects islet beta cells from oxidant stress damage and decreases apoptosis. The aim of...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Dorofeyeva N,Drachuk K,Rajkumar R,Sabnis O,Sagach V

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery disease (CAD) represents the most relevant cause of death and morbidity in the adult population of developed and developing countries. During the last decades, a strong research effort has been performed to identify more selective markers and better assess the cardiovascular risk in both prim...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Quercioli A,Montecucco F,Bertolotto M,Ottonello L,Pende A,Mach F,Dallegri F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Smoking remains the most important avoidable cause of global mortality. Even though the number of cigarette smokers declines in first world countries, the uses of alternative nicotine delivery products increase and may even surpass the sells of cigarettes. In this light, the explicit role of nicotine in the ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Babic M,Schuchardt M,Tölle M,van der Giet M

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In obese subjects, chronic low-grade inflammation contributes to an increased risk of metabolic abnormalities, which are reversed by weight loss. Sustained weight loss, however, is difficult to achieve and more insight into dietary approaches on anti-inflammatory responses in obese subjects is needed. In thi...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Jellema A,Plat J,Mensink RP

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to compare the changes in plasma renin activity induced by a vasodilator in normal dogs and in dogs with an impaired cardiac reserve. In normal conscious dogs, a 60-min nitroprusside infusion increased plasma renin activity from 1.05 +/- 0.26 to 8.35 +/- 1.20 ng, angiotensin I ml-1 h-1 (P less...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Pouleur H,Engler RL,Link J,Printz MP,Covell JW

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Combined 47Calcium kinetic and calcium balance studies with correction for dermal calcium loss were performed in thirteen patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHP), in whom serum bone-Gla-protein (S-BGP) was measured, and in ten matched controls. Dietary calcium was normal in PHP but both net (7.9 +/- 1.4 mmol C...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Charles P,Mosekilde L,Jensen FT

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between changes in ketone concentrations and leucine metabolism (seven obese subjects), glucose and alanine metabolism (seven obese subjects) was investigated using radioisotopic techniques after 12 h, 60 h and 2 weeks starvation. Leucine metabolism was also measured in five lean subjects after 12 h a...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Umpleby AM,Scobie IN,Boroujerdi MA,Sönksen PH

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In inflammatory bowel diseases, changes in autonomic enteric regulation may also affect neural cardiovascular control. However, while cardiac autonomic modulation has been shown to be impaired in active ulcerative colitis, the occurrence of cardiovascular autonomic alterations, also in the quiescent phase of...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Coruzzi P,Castiglioni P,Parati G,Brambilla V,Brambilla L,Gualerzi M,Cademartiri F,Franzè A,De Angelis G,Di Rienzo M,Di Mario F

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of indomethacin (75 mg/day for 3 days) on the response to i.v. angiotensin II was investigated in eight healthy, sodium-repleted, male subjects. Indomethacin reduced the release of aldosterone during the i.v. administration of angiotensin II (5, 10 and 20 ng kg-1 min-1), whereas the pressor response to angi...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Vierhapper H,Waldhäusl W,Nowotny P

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, the two major forms of inflammatory bowel diseases, are recognized, at the moment, as perplexing and challenging clinical entities, in which several molecules and cell types are implicated. Recent molecular evidence proposes the intestinal microvascular remodelling or angio...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Pousa ID,Maté J,Gisbert JP

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The secretion of insulin and glucagon was investigated in pancreatic islets from diabetic and nondiabetic sand rats of similar age and weight. The metabolic characterization was based on an intraperitoneal glucose tolerance test. Compared to nondiabetic animals diabetic sand rats had a diminished insulin content in th...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hahn HJ,Schäfer H,Gottschling HD,Fiedler H

更新日期：1976-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nasal nitric oxide (nNO) values are reduced in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Humming during nNO measurement increases nNO values in healthy subjects. Nasal NO is reduced in patients with CF, sinus disease or nasal polyps. Humming nNO values have not been reported in CF patients yet. Our aim was to expl...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Struben VM,Sewbalak WV,Wieringa MH,Mantingh CJ,van den Toorn LM,Bakker M,Feenstra L,de Jongste JC

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established therapy for advanced congestive heart failure, improving both survival and hospitalization. The mechanism beneath these improvements still needs to be defined as about one-third of the patients do not benefit from resynchronization. Restoration of sym...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Martignani C,Diemberger I,Nanni C,Biffi M,Ziacchi M,Boschi S,Corzani A,Fanti S,Sambuceti G,Boriani G

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ratio of serum C-reactive protein (CRP) to albumin has been proven to be a more accurate indicator than albumin and CRP levels alone in determining the prognosis of patients with cancer and critical illness. The aim of this study was to determine whether the CRP/albumin ratio (CAR) can be linked to imper...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Karabağ Y,Çağdaş M,Rencuzogullari I,Karakoyun S,Artaç İ,İliş D,Yesin M,Çağdaş ÖS,Altıntaş B,Burak C,Tanboğa HI

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have minimized methodological errors in the isotope dilution technique by using stable isotope, [6,6-2H2]glucose, thus avoiding the problem of contamination of tritiated glucose tracers and, by maintaining a constant plasma tracer enrichment have reduced error due to mixing transients. Using these modifications we ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Powrie JK,Smith GD,Hennessy TR,Shojaee-Moradie F,Kelly JM,Sönksen PH,Jones RH

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospectively analyzed series of 441 patients operated for primary hyperparathyroidism (HPT), the prevalence of diabetes mellitus was 8.2%, which was three times higher than in the unselected age-matched population. Following parathyroid surgery, the need for antidiabetic treatment was unchanged. The insulin re...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ljunghall S,Palmér M,Akerström G,Wide L

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Glomerulonephritis clusters in families. However, infections are common inducers of glomerulonephritis and may also cluster in families. Studies of adoptees and their biological and adoptive parents may disentangle genetic from environmental causes of familial clustering. This is the first adoption study aim...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Akrawi DS,Zöller B,Fjellstedt E,Sundquist J,Sundquist K,PirouziFard M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The intestinal handling of dextran, an alpha-1,6-linked glucose polymer, is poor compared with starch, and some ingested dextran might therefore reach the lower small intestine. As luminal sugar up-regulates SGLT1 (sodium-dependent glucose transporter) locally, we report the effects of a dextran-enriched die...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Debnam ES,Denholm EE,Grimble GK

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soluble TWEAK (sTWEAK) and asymmetric dimethyl arginine (ADMA) concentrations have been associated with endothelial function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). We tested the hypothesis that the improvement in endothelial function observed after renal transplantation is directly linked to the norm...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Yilmaz MI,Sonmez A,Saglam M,Yaman H,Unal HU,Gok M,Cetinkaya H,Eyileten T,Oguz Y,Sari S,Yildirim AO,Vural A,Carrero JJ,Blanco-Colio LM

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of running and menstrual disturbances on regional and total body fat distribution and serum lipids was investigated in 205 women. Body composition was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. The total fat mass in the elite runners was approximately half of the normally active's (7.3 [0.48] kg vs. 14.3...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Hetland ML,Haarbo J,Christiansen C

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable information to indicate that when there is vessel injury, platelets can play a major role in the development of atherosclerosis and its thromboembolic complications in the non-diabetic population. Diabetes is a disease associated with an increased risk of vascular complications, but the nature of...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Winocour PD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We measured plasma sulphur amino acids in twenty-two patients with chronic renal failure and compared the findings with those obtained in twenty-two normal subjects. In fasting blood (08.00 hours) cysteine-homocysteine mixed disulphide was significantly increased in the renal patients, mean values (+/- SD) being 8.2 +...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Wilcken DE,Gupta VJ

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00