Angiotensin II type 1 (AT(1)) receptor blockade enhances the L-NAME-induced vasoconstriction in rat submandibular gland.

abstract：:The effect of resistance training on arterial stiffening is controversial. We tested the hypothesis that resistance training would not alter central arterial compliance. Young healthy men (age, 23 +/- 3.9 (mean +/- s.e.m.) years; n = 28,) were whole-body resistance trained five times a week for 12 weeks, using a rotat...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Rakobowchuk M,McGowan CL,de Groot PC,Bruinsma D,Hartman JW,Phillips SM,MacDonald MJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the topic of this review? This review concerns the negative impact of pulmonary hypertension (PH) on the pulmonary haemodynamic and gas exchange responses to exercise, considering the mechanisms by which PH plays a role in exercise intolerance in heart failure (HF) patients. What advances does it h...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Taylor BJ,Shapiro BP,Johnson BD

更新日期：2020-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic stress is believed to constitute an important signal for training-induced adjustments of gene expression and oxidative capacity in skeletal muscle. We hypothesized that the effects of endurance training on expression of muscle-relevant transcripts and ultrastructure would be specifically modified by a hypoxi...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Schmutz S,Däpp C,Wittwer M,Durieux AC,Mueller M,Weinstein F,Vogt M,Hoppeler H,Flück M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were fed a liquid diet with the aim of decreasing nervous reflex activity in the parotid glands. In rats killed after 21 days on this diet the glands were atrophied and the total amounts of the neuropeptides, substance P, vasoactive intestinal peptide and calcitonin gene-related peptide, were lower than in contro...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Månsson B,Ekman R,Håkanson R,Ekström J

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the topic of this review? This review is principally concerned with results from studies of the pulmonary vasculature in humans, particularly in relation to hypoxia and rare diseases that affect oxygen sensing. What advances does it highlight? This review highlights the degree to which the hypoxia-...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Frise MC,Robbins PA

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A great deal of knowledge exists regarding neural control of myocardial function in the rat. Most of the studies addressing this issue were conducted either under general anaesthesia or in isolated hearts in vitro. Our principal aim was to provide a detailed quantitative description of mechanisms controlling cardiac c...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Nalivaiko E,Antunes VR,Paton JF

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the absolute reliability (R(Ab)) of isometric measures of time-to-peak tension (TTP), half-rise time ((1/2)RT), half-fall time ((1/2)FT), twitch force (TW(f)) tetanic force (TET(f)) and the sag ratio as applied to the slow soleus (SOL) and the fast-twitch extensor digitorum longus (EDL) ...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Gallo M,Gordon T,Tyreman N,Shu Y,Putman CT

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity of insulin secretion is essential to maintain the action of insulin during insulin resistance and to prevent diabetes. Investigation of the plasticity of insulin secretion and its regulation is challenging, and the objective of this study was to develop a novel large-animal-based model. The effect of chroni...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Gatford KL,De Blasio MJ,How TA,Harland ML,Summers-Pearce BL,Owens JA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the topic of this review? In this review, we examine the evidence for control mechanisms underlying exercise hyperpnoea, giving attention to the feedback from thin-fibre skeletal muscle afferents, and highlight the frequently conflicting findings and difficulties encountered by researchers using a ...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Bruce RM,Jolley C,White MJ

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the topic of this review? Patients with advanced heart failure who are implanted with left ventricular assist devices (LVADs) present an opportunity to understand the human circulation under extreme conditions. What advances does it highlight? LVAD patients have a unique circulation that is charact...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Stöhr EJ,Cornwell WK 3rd,Kanwar M,Cockcroft JR,McDonnell BJ

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? We examined whether the macrophage-synthesized antioxidant 7,8-dihydroneopterin was elevated in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. We then examined whether 7,8-dihydroneopterin could protect dystrophic skeletal mouse muscle from eccentric contraction-ind...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Lindsay A,Schmiechen A,Chamberlain CM,Ervasti JM,Lowe DA

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) produces changes in the autonomic and respiratory responses to acute peripheral chemoreflex activation. To attain this goal, 3-week-old rats were exposed to 10 days of CIH (6% O(2) for 40 s at 9 min intervals; 8 h day(-1)). They wer...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Braga VA,Soriano RN,Machado BH

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat hippocampal neurones in primary culture exhibited directional growth in response to DC electric fields. Neurites lay perpendicular to the field after exposure to 28, 80 or 219 mV/mm but there was no orientation effect at 9 mV/mm or in unexposed control cultures. Fields that evoked perpendicular responses also redu...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Rajnicek AM,Gow NA,McCaig CD

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? To what extent focal abdominal aortic aneurysmal (AAA) disease is associated with systemic remodelling of the vascular tree remains unknown. The present study examined whether anatomical differences exist between distances of the intervisceral artery origins and ...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Bailey DM,Evans TG,Thomas KG,White RD,Twine CP,Lewis MH,Williams IM

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spermine is a low molecular weight polyamine involved in the postnatal maturation of the gut. When it is administered orally to suckling rats, it induces maturation of the intestinal tract (liver, pancreas and small intestine). Here we show that this polyamine is able to induce precocious intestinal and splenic develo...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Jolois O,Peulen O,Collin S,Simons M,Dandrifosse G,Heinen E

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present work reports the effect of pHo on pHi and Na(+)-H+ exchanger activity. Intracellular pH tended to follow pHo, but the proton distribution across the cell membrane is not at electrochemical equilibrium. Removal of external Na+ acidified the cells by both reversing the direction of the Na(+)-H+ exchanger and...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Peral MJ,Calonge ML,Ilundáin AA

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? What is the role of microRNA-424-5p (miR-424-5p) in aortic smooth muscle cells? How does miR-424-5p function as a suppressor of the inflammatory response? What is the main finding and its importance? Upregulation of miR-424-5p inhibits the inflammatory response i...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Li C,Zhang M,Dai Y,Xu Z

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? Impairment and subsequent improvement in cerebral oxygenation during acute and prolonged exposure to high altitude affect exercise performance. This study innovates by investigating the effect of acute and prolonged high-altitude exposure on cerebral haemodynamic...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Marillier M,Rupp T,Bouzat P,Walther G,Baillieul S,Millet GY,Robach P,Verges S

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? What are the molecular underpinnings of seasonal metabolic plasticity during spring and autumn migrations in songbirds? What is the main finding and its importance? We report differences in mRNA levels of genes involved in the regulation of glucose and fat metabo...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Sharma A,Kumar V

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic baroreflex sensitivity is increased during selective activation of the skeletal muscle metaboreflex with postexercise ischaemia (PEI) in young adults. However, to date, there are no data demonstrating this neural interaction between the arterial baroreflex and the muscle metaboreflex in healthy older adult...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Greaney JL,Schwartz CE,Edwards DG,Fadel PJ,Farquhar WB

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to investigate the effect of chronic sodium depletion on renal proximal tubular reabsorption, studies were performed in conscious, unrestrained Brattleboro rats. Since these animals lack circulating vasopressin, fractional water reabsorption in the distal nephron can be assumed to be constant and changes in u...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Shirley DG,Skinner J

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? Can low-dose inorganic nitrate supplementation prevent testicular structural and functional alterations in streptozotocin-induced type 1 diabetic male rats? What is the main finding and it's important? Treatment with a low dose of inorganic nitrate for 2 months h...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Oghbaei H,Alipour MR,Hamidian G,Ahmadi M,Ghorbanzadeh V,Keyhanmanesh R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：NEW FINDINGS:What is the central question of this study? Do the pulmonary vascular responses to hypoxia change during progressive exposure to high altitude and can alterations in these responses be related to changes in concentrations of circulating biomarkers that affect the pulmonary circulation? What is the main fin...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Luks AM,Levett D,Martin DS,Goss CH,Mitchell K,Fernandez BO,Feelisch M,Grocott MP,Swenson ER,Caudwell Xtreme Everest Investigators.

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of afferent chemosensory fibres of the carotid body to individual chemostimuli have long been established. However, the mechanisms underlying the multiplicative interactions of these stimuli (i.e. how the combined effects of hypoxia and hypercapnia exert a greater effect on afferent nerve discharge than ...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Peers C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, the ontogenic changes in gluconeogenic enzyme activities and in hepatic glycogen and beta-adrenergic receptor levels were investigated in fetal pigs from 70 days of gestation until delivery at term (114 +/- 2 days). The values were compared with those observed in fetuses infused subcutaneously wi...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Fowden AL,Apatu RS,Silver M

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypotensive and vasorelaxing peptides adrenomedullin (AM) and its gene-related peptide, proadrenomedullin N-terminal 20 peptide (PAMP), were found to be distributed on the surface of the colonic mucosa. AM and PAMP showed dose-dependent antimicrobial activity against E. coli. The results suggest that the novel vas...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Marutsuka K,Nawa Y,Asada Y,Hara S,Kitamura K,Eto T,Sumiyoshi A

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is one of the most common endocrine disorders in women, with a prevalence of 8-12% during the reproductive years. In the present study, using prenatal exposure to a single dose of testosterone during the critical period of fetal development, we aimed to introduce an enhanced rat model ...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Tehrani FR,Noroozzadeh M,Zahediasl S,Piryaei A,Azizi F

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of modification of the levels of endogenous plasma insulin on intestinal epithelial cell proliferation were investigated in rats maintained by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) using either a TPN diet that was high in glucose, or a low glucose (hypocaloric) TPN diet and in orally fed rats (normal and sham o...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Goodlad RA,Lee CY,Gilbey SG,Ghatei MA,Bloom SR

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-[5-(2-Nitrophenyl) furfuryliodine]-1,3-diphenyl-2-thiobarbituric acid (UCF-101) is a protease inhibitor which was reported to protect against ischaemic heart damage and apoptosis. This study evaluated the impact of UCF-101 on steptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic cardiomyocyte dysfunction. Adult FVB mice were made di...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Li Q,Hueckstaedt LK,Ren J

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderate-intensity endurance exercise training improves vascular endothelial vasomotor function; however, the impact of high-intensity exercise training has been equivocal. Thus, the effect of the physiological stress of the exercise remains poorly understood. Furthermore, enhanced vascular repair mediated by circulat...

journal_title：Experimental physiology

authors： Rakobowchuk M,Harris E,Taylor A,Baliga V,Cubbon RM,Rossiter HB,Birch KM

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00