Angiotensin converting enzyme activity in the serum, lung and kidney of diabetic rats.

abstract：BACKGROUND:C-reactive protein (CRP) is a well-documented predictor of cardiovascular diseases and mortality. We aimed to better understand the distribution and determinants of CRP in the population. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Study participants were men and women aged 40-79 in the UK-based EPIC-Norfolk population-based coh...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Ahmadi-Abhari S,Luben RN,Wareham NJ,Khaw KT

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous intravenous infusions of control saline, somatostatin, motilin and somatostatin and motilin together were compared in normal volunteers for their effects on the rise of blood glucose following 50 g oral glucose and for their effects on gastric emptying and plasma hormone concentrations. All regulatory peptid...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Long RG,Christofides ND,Fitzpatrick ML,O'Shaughnessy DJ,Bloom SR

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated whether plasma ferritin levels through the pro-inflammatory effects of free iron are associated with adipose tissue dysfunction in a relevant population of patients with manifest vascular disease who would potentially benefit the most from further aetiological insights. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Westerink J,Olijhoek JK,Koppen A,Faber DR,Kalkhoven E,Monajemi H,van Asbeck BS,van der Graaf Y,Visseren FL

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deficient leucocyte sphingomyelinase activity has been demonstrated in a patient with the sea-blue histiocyte syndrome. Family studies revealed that two other cases previously diagnosed on clinical and histochemical criteria also had a pronounced diminution of sphingomyelinase activity. Both parents of the affected in...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Fried K,Beer S,Krespin HI,Leiba H,Djaldetti M,Zitman D,Klibansky C

更新日期：1978-08-01 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 influence of insulin on lipolysis and glucose metabolism in abdominal adipose tissue was studied in situ with the microdialysis technique during a euglycaemic insulin clamp (1 mU kg-1 min-1) in nine cirrhotic patients and 10 controls. The cirrhotic patients displayed a 50% decrease in glucose utilization rate duri...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Johansson U,Arner P,Bolinder J,Hagström-Toft E,Ungerstedt U,Eriksson LS

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of the pattern, quantity and site of insulin secretion in the tolerance to a glucose challenge is not fully evaluated in humans because it is difficult to obtain appropriate clinical models. DESIGN:To address this issue, we studied subjects with reduced pancreatic mass (hemipancreatectomized, HEMI)...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Battezzati A,Zerbi A,Perseghin G,Caumo A,Terruzzi I,Di Carlo V,Luzi L

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In eight healthy subjects we assessed the effects of 3 mg sublingual nitroglycerin on lung distribution of ventilation and perfusion using 133Xe (sitting, supine and lateral decubitus) and on alveolo-arterial O2 and CO2 partial pressure differences [(PAO2-PaO2), (PaCO2-PACO2)] and physiological dead space to tidal vol...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Nemery B,Vanderlinden-Mahieu S,Piret L,Brasseur L,Frans A

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diverticular disease (DD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) share a similar symptom pattern. However, comparative studies are flawed by different age at onset of symptoms. We aimed to verify whether clinical features distinguish DD from IBS. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Patients with DD or IBS, matched for age an...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Cuomo R,Barbara G,Andreozzi P,Bassotti G,Casetti T,Grassini M,Ierardi E,Maconi G,Marchi S,Sarnelli G,Savarino V,Usai P,Vozzella L,Annibale B

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Linear growth restriction is a unique feature of paediatric inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and reduced insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1) is a major determinant of short stature. We aimed to assess factors influencing somatic height in children suffering from IBD. MATERIALS AND METHODS:This was a retros...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Chouliaras G,Mantzou A,Margoni D,Tsilifis N,Pervanidou P,Panayotou I,Kanaka-Gantenbein C,Chrousos GP,Roma-Giannikou E

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The developmental aspects of characteristic intestinal lipoprotein synthesis, chlomicrons (CM), very low density lipoproteins (VLDL) and high density lipoproteins (HDL), are unknown. Our objective was to determine the ontogeny of intestinal lipid and lipoprotein synthesis in both the jejunum and the ileum. Explants of...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Mehran M,Thibault L,Russo P,Garofalo C,Levy E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many haemodialysis patients treated with recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) receive intravenous iron supplementation on a regular basis. It has been shown previously that this may result in a transient "oversaturation" of transferrin. METHODS:Ten stable haemodialysis patients on r-HuEPO treatment re...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Kooistra MP,Kersting S,Gosriwatana I,Lu S,Nijhoff-Schutte J,Hider RC,Marx JJ

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of noradrenaline released from sympathetic endings differs from that of noradrenaline secreted directly into the bloodstream. This has been used to establish a single sample test for the exclusion of phaeochromocytoma in patients with borderline elevation of plasma noradrenaline concentration. This test is ba...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Brown MJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer is often caused by disturbance in the regulation and/or execution of programmed cell death (PCD, including apoptosis and autophagy). Our aim was to investigate these two pathways simultaneously in the same samples to understand further the pathological roles of PCDs in colorectal cancer. MATERIALS AN...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Chang YT,Tseng HC,Huang CC,Chen YP,Chiang HC,Chou FP

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resealed erythrocytes are potential slow release carriers for drugs and enzymes. We have investigated carrier erythrocyte survival in human volunteers using gentamicin (G) as encapsulated cell marker; G was readily incorporated into red cells by hypo-osmotic dialysis (87% efficiency of incorporation) and did not exit ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Eichler HG,Rameis H,Bauer K,Korn A,Bacher S,Gasić S

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triosephosphate isomerase deficiencies in erythrocytes and leucocytes were discovered in three unrelated families by a heterozygote screening of 3000 blood samples. In addition, a family found by Schroter et al. [not published] was studied. In these four families, only heterozygote carriers were found. In the family d...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Eber SW,Dünnwald M,Belohradsky BH,Bidlingmaier F,Schievelbein H,Weinmann HM,Krietsch KG

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently available information on adipose tissue metabolism in man is mainly based on studies in vitro. In the present work adipose tissue lipid uptake was studied in vivo in man. 100 g glucose and 120 g milk fat with 10 microCi U-14C oleic acid were given in the overnight fasting state to eight women and 2 h after a...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Mårin P,Rebuffé-Scrive M,Björntorp P

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated how a cholinergic agonist modifies interdigestive motility and secretion of the upper gastrointestinal tract and how muscarinic and cholecystokinin receptor blockade interfere with this direct cholinergic stimulation. In eight healthy volunteers, gastrointestinal motor and secretory resp...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Katschinski M,Steinicke C,Reinshagen M,Dahmen G,Beglinger C,Arnold R,Adler G

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mitochondria are dynamic organelles that participate in energy conversion, metabolism, signaling and apoptosis. To fulfill their multiple tasks, mitochondria come in varied morphologies and ultrastructures resulting from the equilibrium between fusion and fission, Furthermore, they are in close contact with ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Scorrano L

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concentration in serum of cathodal trypsinogen has been studied in certain clinical and experimental situations. The concentration correlated with pancreatic amylase activity. Low levels were found in patients with malabsorption due to exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. The concentration rose after endoscopic retr...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Borgström A,Ohlsson K

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:RNA interference (RNAi) has become the method of choice for researchers wishing to target specific genes for silencing and has provided immense potential as therapeutic tools. This narrative review article aimed to understand potential benefits and limitations of RNAi technique for clinical application and i...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Chen SH,Zhaori G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) have high all-cause mortality risk that varies extensively among different conditions. The objective of this study was to develop and validate risk models to predict the 2-year all-cause mortality risks of CAPD patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS:A t...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Zhao C,Luo Q,Xia X,He F,Peng F,Yu X,Huang F

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the kinetics of exogeneous and endogenous lipoproteins in determining the level of triglyceride in fasting plasma was assessed in a group of 19 normolipidaemic and hypertriglyceridaemic subjects. From data derived during a 9-h infusion of [15N]-glycine, we have assessed very low density lipoprotein...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Cortner JA,Le NA,Coates PM,Bennett MJ,Cryer DR

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations were carried out to analyse the interactions of alpha 2-antagonists (yohimbine, idazoxan, SK & F-86,466) with human fat cell alpha 2-adrenoceptors. All the alpha 2-antagonists enhanced the lipolytic potencies of epinephrine with an order of potency: yohimbine greater than idazoxan greater than SK & F-86...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Galitzky J,Taouis M,Berlan M,Rivière D,Garrigues M,Lafontan M

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiovascular patients suffer from reduced blood flow leading to ischaemia and impaired tissue metabolism. Unfortunately, an increasing group of elderly patients cannot be treated with current revascularization methods. Thus, new treatment strategies are urgently needed. Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) upr...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Niemi H,Honkonen K,Korpisalo P,Huusko J,Kansanen E,Merentie M,Rissanen TT,André H,Pereira T,Poellinger L,Alitalo K,Ylä-Herttuala S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurodeoxycholic acid increases the incidence of aspirin induced gastric bleeding in rats and in vitro is well bound by Aludrox (aluminium hydroxide) and poorly bound by Maalox (aluminium hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide). We studied the relevance of this binding, as demonstrated in vitro, by observing the effect of ...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Morgan RJ,Nelson LM,Russell RI,Plevin T

更新日期：1980-12-01 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic hyponatremia is common and associated with increased morbidity and mortality. However, whether treatment improves outcome in patients without significant symptoms is unclear. We here assessed the therapeutic outcome on clinical symptoms, neurocognitive and neuromuscular function in patients with chro...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Refardt J,Kling B,Krausert K,Fassnacht M,von Felten S,Christ-Crain M,Fenske W

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As increased oxidative stress is probably a pathogenetic factor in the development of diabetic complications, we studied nerve function and endogenous antioxidants in plasma, erythrocytes and sciatic nerve of untreated and insulin-treated streptozotocin-diabetic rats. After 18 weeks, the diabetes-induced sciatic nerve...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： van Dam PS,Bravenboer B,van Asbeck BS,van Oirschot JF,Marx JJ,Gispen WH

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bleeding time has been reported to increase during gaseous nitric oxide (NO) inhalation in healthy volunteers and patients, and it has been speculated that inhaled NO inhibits platelet function. However, results have not been unanimous, and we have been unable to document any effects of inhaled NO on circula...

journal_title：European journal of clinical investigation

authors： Albert J,Norman M,Wallén NH,Frostell C,Hjemdahl P

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00