Inhibition of chick embryo hepatic uroporphyrinogen decarboxylase by components of xenobiotic-treated chick embryo hepatocytes in culture. II.

abstract：:A brief burst of electrical stimuli delivered to the vagus nerve during the cardiac cycle elicits a triphasic cardiac chronotropic response. The cardiac cycle length initially increases, then briefly decreases, and subsequently increases again. We studied the effects of a calcium channel blocking agent, verapamil, on ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wallick DW,Stuesse SL,Valencic F,Fratianne RB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geraniol, a plant-derived monoterpene, has been extensively studied and showed a wide variety of beneficial effects. The aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effect of geraniol on functional recovery and neuropathic pain in rats with spinal cord injury (SCI). Rats received a clip-compression SCI and we...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lv Y,Zhang L,Li N,Mai N,Zhang Y,Pan S

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that the D-enantiomer of isoidide dinitrate (IIDN) is 10-fold more potent than the L-enantiomer for relaxation and cyclic GMP accumulation in isolated rat aorta. To test whether preferential biotransformation of D-IIDN to a species that activates guanylate cyclase is the basis for th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Stewart DH,Hayward LD,Bennett BM

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In embryonic chick hearts during development, there are three inward current systems which are involved in the rising phases of the action potentials (APs): fast INa, slow ICa, and tetrodotoxin-insensitive slow INa. To assess reactivation processes for these three types of inward current channels (fast Na+, slow Ca2+,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sada H,Sada S,Sperelakis N

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small, sinusoidal length changes were superimposed on isometric contractions of fast- and slow-twitch mouse muscles, which were stimulated maximally via their nerves. Stiffness increased with increasing frequency of sinusoidal stimulation, but the relative time course of force and stiffness changes during twitch, teta...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Stein RB,Gordon T

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using conventional intracellular microelectrode techniques, the membrane potential (Em) of vascular smooth muscle cells in isolated segments of thoracic rat aorta was measured. The influence of exogenous and of endothelium-derived nitric oxide on the Em was assessed, and the involvement of glibenclamide-sensitive chan...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Vanheel B,Van de Voorde J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of hydralazine (Hyd) on vascular smooth muscle contractile response to alpha-receptor stimulation by exogeneous and endogenous noradrenaline (NA) in the absence and presence of Mg2+ (1.2 mM) were examined using a proximal segment of rabbit's ear artery. Intraluminal perfusion with Hyd (2 x 10(-4) M) in nor...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Krishnamurty VS

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of bosentan, a mixed endothelin receptor A and B subtype antagonist, on myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury and to explore the influence of the timing of bosentan administration on its cardioprotective effects. Adult rat hearts were perfused by the Langendorf...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Xia Z,Kuo KH,McNeill JH,Ansley DM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diamine oxidase activity was measured in the intestinal mucosa, lymph, and in the serum of rats, to determine whether histamine, a substrate of diamine oxidase, liberates this enzyme from its mucosal storage site(s). Histamine induced a sharp rise in intestinal lymph flow, lymph protein, and lymph diamine oxidase, las...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wollin A,Navert H

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of the sodium reversal potential (Erev), as that potential where the early current reverses during voltage clamp, was found to exceed the true Erev by 4.1 +/- 2.4 mV (mean +/- SD) in squid giant axon. This error was found in both intact and internally perfused axons and is due to interference from the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wodlinger H,Kunov H,Atwood HL

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Itracellular injections of Mg into cat spinal motoneurones have a depolarizing action, associated with a fall in input conductance, and depression of the postspike hyperpolarizing after-potential (a.h.p.) as well as its underlying conductance increase. There is also an increase in excitability, sometimes leading to ou...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Krnjević K,Lamour Y,MacDonald JF,Nistri A,Puil E,Werman R

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In older Aplysia, the central nervous system (CNS) (abdominal ganglion) exerts suppressive and facilitatory control over the peripheral nervous system (PNS) which initially mediates the gill withdrawal reflex and its subsequent habituation evoked by tactile stimulation of the siphon. In young animals, both the suppres...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lukowiak K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tension responses to ramp shortening of varying speed in whole muscle or single fibres from the plateau of an isometric tetanus, revealed at least two distinct phases. There was a fast initial drop in tension followed by a change of slope and a definite inflexion on the tension record. As the velocity of the imposed l...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bressler BH

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that the adult castrated male rat may be used as a model of human postmenopausal osteoporosis. If such a model is valid then the total body calcium of castrated rats should progressively decrease compared with normal rats. To search for this age-related difference, it will be necessary to use a me...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Beachey DJ,Wickham M,Webber CE

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single crab (Callinectes danae) fibers were equilibrated with isotonic, high KCl solutions and were subsequently returned to the control saline. This caused marked swelling of the T tubules. Fibers treated with 100 mM KCl had a 2.5-mV residual depolarization, a 50% decrease in effective membrane resistance (Reff) and ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Leal-Cardoso JH,Suarez-Kurtz G

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epinephrine caused hyperglycemia in part by increasing gluconeogenesis. However, the mechanism of its gluconeogenic effects has not been studied in ruminants. This study was undertaken to examine the effect of epinephrine on the net hepatic uptake of selected glucose precursors in sheep. The major abdominal blood vess...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Brockman RP

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arterio--alveolar nitrogen difference (aADN2) has been associated in 27 normal adult subjects aged 20--60 years. As it may be assumed that venous and arterial PN2 are identical, we have used a sample of venous blood. There is a significant positive correlation between aADN2 and age. As the increase of aADN2 with a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Corbet AJ,Ross JA,Beaudry PH

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine sulfoximine (MSO) is a rare amino acid. It occurs in nature or as a by-product of some forms of food processing. A notable example of the latter was a former method for bleaching wheat flour, using nitrogen trichloride, the "agene process," in use for most of the first 50 years of this century. "Agenized" f...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Shaw CA,Bains JS,Pasqualotto BA,Curry K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major hallmark of rotator cuff tendinopathies (RCT) is the disorganization of tendon extracellular matrix (ECM) which is due to decrease in the collagen I-to-collagen III ratio. In addition, the pathology of tendon matrisome remains asymptomatic and hypoxia has been identified to be the priming signal to initiate ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Thankam FG,Agrawal DK

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Spironolactone at 10 mg per kilogram per day was given to control and 'one-kidney-one-clip' hypertensive dogs for 6--7 weeks. Compared with untreated animals the treated animals had a lower arterial water content, a higher arterial, myocardial, and skeletal muscle sodium content, and variable changes in tissue potassi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Constantopoulos G,Gutkowska J,Genest J

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study has investigated the oral activity, following intragastric administration, of three potent and long-acting peptide-based bradykinin antagonists, HOE-140, B9430, and CP-0597, in the anesthetized rat, using bradykinin-induced hypotension. Two of the three bradykinin antagonists, B9430 and HOE-140, but not CP-...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Whalley ET,Hanson WL,Stewart JM,Gera L

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Longitudinal muscle of myometrial tissues from immature rats were examined by quantitative thin section electron microscopy for the presence of gap junctions after treatment with estradiol with and without tamoxifen, and cycloheximide for 1-6 days. Gap junctions were present between myometrial cells on days 4, 5, and ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： MacKenzie LW,Garfield RE

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caffeine has been reported to have a positive and (or) a negative inotropic effect on cardiac muscle. In this study, the force-frequency and postrest characteristics of rat atrium were studied in the presence of caffeine (1.0-10 mM) to see if the interval between beats affected the response of cardiac muscle to caffei...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： MacIntosh BR,Posner P,Lobo J,Harms R

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (ANG II) causes a systemic pressor effect when injected into the cerebral ventricles. In the rat fourth ventricle, the effective doses for the ANG II pressor effect are over 100 times larger than in the systemic circulation. Considering the discrepancy of doses, the possibility that ANG II may reach the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Pesquero JB,Fior-Chadi DR,Yu YG,Merjan AJ,Lindsey CJ,Paiva AC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A principal step in the process leading to muscle contraction is the intracellular release of Ca2+. We have detected and compared some physical and chemical events that reflect Ca2+ release in contracting frog skeletal muscle cells, described the effects of some agents that are believed to alter intracellular Ca2+ rel...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Taylor SR,Lopez JR,Griffiths PJ,Trube G,Cecchi G

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This year, 2011, the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Alberta celebrated its 50th anniversary. This timeframe covers nearly the entire history of Cys-loop pentameric ligand-gated ion channel (pLGIC) research. In this review we consider how major technological advancements affected our current understand...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kozuska JL,Paulsen IM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Garlic is a commonly used spice in folk medicine that can exert adverse health effects when given at a high dose. Grape seed and skin extract (GSSE) exhibits a variety of beneficial effects even at a high dose. In the present study we evaluated the toxicity of high-dose garlic treatment on liver and the protective eff...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hamlaoui-Gasmi S,Mokni M,Limam N,N'guessan P,Carrier A,Limam F,Amri M,Aouani E,Marzouki L

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous studies have suggested that GATA-4 increases the differentiation of bone-marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) into cardiac phenotypes. This study further investigated whether GATA-4 enhances MSC-mediated cardioprotection following hypoxia. MSCs were harvested from rat bone marrow and transduced wi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Li HX,Zhou YF,Zhao X,Jiang B,Yang XJ

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous results showed that addition of agonists, such as vasopressin and angiotensin, added to incubation medium with freshly excised rat atria caused marked release of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF). This release was in the form of prohormone rather than active peptide. Since others had difficulty reproducing ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sonnenberg H,Milojevic S,Yip C,Veress AT

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we have compared the effect of intravenous infusion of a calcium channel blocker, nifedipine (1.0 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 for 20 min), with that of isoproterenol (0.1 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 for 20 min) on the hemodynamic parameters and the vascular response of different locations and tissue layers of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Prokopiw I,Dinda PK,Beck IT

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00