Prophylactic effects of an N- and L-type Ca2+ antagonist, cilnidipine, against cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction in stroke-prone, spontaneously hypertensive rats.

abstract：:The sodium-hydrogen exchanger (NHE) helps the cell to recover from intracellular acidosis. In this study, we have investigated the effect of HOE 642 (a specific NHE1 blocker) on papillary muscles from rats and guinea pigs during transient acidosis and PKC activation by recording developed force (DF), action potential ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sundset R,Bertelsen G,Ytrehus K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of varying dietary levels of zinc was evaluated in mice fed T-2 toxin. A semipurified diet was used to produce a low zinc (less than 2 parts per million (ppm], a zinc replete (100 ppm), and a high zinc (2500 ppm) diet. T-2 toxin was added to the three zinc diets at a concentration of 10 ppm. The mice were f...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chanin BE,Hamilton DL,Hancock DS,Schiefer HB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salvianolic acid B (Sal B) exerts strong antioxidant activity and eliminates the free radical effect. However, how it affects the antioxidant pathway is not very clear. The objective of this study was to investigate the underlying mechanism of Sal B in CCl4-induced acute liver injury, especially its effect on the Nrf2...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Jin YM,Tao XM,Shi YN,Lu Y,Mei JY

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of calcium ionophore A23187 on the metabolism of pregnenolone to progesterone was examined in rat granulosa cells during a 24-h culture period. Granulosa cells harvested from pregnant mare's serum gonadotropin treated immature rats were incubated in the presence and absence of the divalent cation ionophore ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tsang BK,Mattice DF,Li M,Asem EK

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noradrenaline spillover from skeletal muscle vascular areas increases during exercise but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Muscle contraction itself causes changes in many factors that could affect noradrenaline spillover. For instance, it has been reported that bradykinin is synthesized in skeletal ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lavoie JL,Béliveau L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measurements of the presynaptic fiber volley (PSFV), the population excitatory postsynaptic potential (EPSP), and the extracellular pH in the dendritic CA1 layer of rat hippocampal slices were used to evaluate the effects of lactacidosis on central synaptic transmission. Replacement of NaCl with sodium lactate (up to ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Walz W,Harold DE

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-channel recordings from central neurons of the helix snail, Cepaea nemoralis, revealed two types of channels that could be activated by stretch (i.e., by the membrane deformation produced when suction is applied to the patch pipette). One, a K+ channel (58 pS in physiological solution), was evident in excised a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bédard E,Morris CE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To elucidate the mechanism of enhanced insulin sensitivity by muscle after exercise, we studied insulin binding, 2-deoxy-D-[1-14C]glucose (2-DOG) uptake and [5-3H]glucose utilization in glycolysis and glycogenesis in soleus and extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscles of mice after 60 min of treadmill exercise. In the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bonen A,Tan MH,Watson-Wright WM

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) and CNTF analogs were reported to have hepatoprotective effect and ameliorate hepatic steatosis in db/db or high-fat-diet-fed mice. Because hepatic steatosis and injury are also commonly induced by hepatotoxin, the aim of the present study is to clarify whether CNTF could alleviate h...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cui MX,Jiang JF,Min GN,Han W,Wu YJ

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-mitogenic agents currently used to prevent restenosis in drug-eluting stents delay re-endothelialization. Delayed re-endothelialization is now considered as the main cause of late stent thrombosis with drug-eluting stents, which emphasizes the need for new treatments. We have shown that systemic insulin treatment...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chiang S,Breen DM,Guo J,Mori Y,Giacca A

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight pure triterpenoid saponin compounds isolated from the root of Polygala senega L., a plant indigenous to the Canadian prairies, were evaluated for their immunological activity in mouse models. The specific antibody responses of the IgG2a subclass increased significantly when isolated P. senega saponins were used ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Katselis GS,Estrada A,Gorecki DK,Barl B

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of xanthine--xanthine oxidase produced oxygen radicals were studied in hypertrophied rat hearts in a Langendorff preparation. Heart hypertrophy was produced by banding of the abdominal aorta for 6 weeks. This resulted in a 22% increase in ventricle/body weight ratio compared with that of sham-operated controls...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gupta M,Gameiro A,Singal PK

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cetamolol, a new beta-adrenoceptor blocker with partial agonist activity and cardioselectivity, was studied in vivo to determine its membrane-stabilizing effects. Comparisons were carried out with atenolol, pindolol, practolol, propranolol, timolol, dexpropranolol, lidocaine, and procaine. The following results indica...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Beaulieu G,Jaramillo J,Cummings JR

更新日期：1984-03-01 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 purpose of this study was to explore the protective effect of BW373U86 (a δ-opioid receptor (DOR) agonist) on ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury in rat cardiomyocytes and its underlying mechanism. Primary rat cardiomyocytes were cultured and pretreated with BW373U86 for intervention. The cardiomyocytes were culture...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Liang Q,Huang X,Zeng C,Li D,Shi Y,Zhao G,Zhong M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present paper reviews current knowledge of the development and plasticity of the inhibitory gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) containing circuitry of the cerebral neocortex, in particular, the rat somatosensory barrel field cortex. Recent studies reveal a delayed and protracted maturation of the inhibitory compared w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Micheva KD,Beaulieu C

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The threshold for electrically induced ventricular fibrillation was determined in anesthetized open-chest dogs, before and after blockade of atrioventricular (A-V) conduction. Without exception, the threshold was significantly elevated after creation of the block. The precise mechanism of this effect is not known at t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Reynolds AK,Dresel PE

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enhancement of the response of an isolated strip of lactating mouse mammary gland to oxytocin, resulting from dilution of the Tyrode solution in which oxytocin is administered, is due to the effects of hypotonicity per se and not to changes in concentration of any of the ions in the bathing solution. Inhibition of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ferrier BM

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutathione, a cysteine-containing tripeptide, is the most abundant nonprotein thiol in mammalian cells. Glutathione plays an important role in the detoxification of xenobiotic compounds and in the antioxidation of reactive oxygen species and free radicals. Because of its multiple functions in various tissues and its ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bray TM,Taylor CG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of metabolic control to in vivo myocardial contractile function in response to beta 1-adrenergic stimulation was determined in the spontaneously diabetic BB Wor rat. The study involved a group of insulin-dependent BB Wor rats showing marked variations in metabolic control, assessed by the level of gly...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Broderick TL,Kopp SJ,Daar JT,Romano FD,Paulson DJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Tissues from the duodenum and vas deferens of Sprague-Dawley rats were examined of the rat vas deferens and gap junctions. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 54, 412-416. by electron microscopy after glutaraldehyde fixation and postosmication. Gap junctions (nexuses) were readily demonstrated in the duodenum in both control ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Paton DM,Buckland-Nicks J,Johns A

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to investigate the effects of YC-1, a nitric oxide (NO)-independent soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) activator, and DEA/NO, a NO donor, on smooth muscle responses in the preeclampsia model with suramin-treated rats and on the levels of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) of thoracic aor...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Turgut NH,Temiz TK,Turgut B,Karadas B,Parlak M,Bagcivan I

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis was examined that phenoxybenzamine enhances both the overflow of noradrenaline and the mechanical response in guinea pig vas deferens by blockade of presynaptic inhibitory receptors located on adrenergic nerve terminals which serve a negative-feedback function. Preparations were stimulated with a consta...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kalsner S

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis, receptor binding, and agonist activity of a series of truncated atrial natriuretic analogs (ANF) are described. These analogs incorporate two portions of the native 28 amino peptide, the eight amino acids C-terminal to Cys7, and two amino acids from the C-terminus (phenylalanine and arginine), into disu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Holleman WH,Budzik GP,Devine EM,Pollock DM,Opgenorth TJ,Thomas AM,von Geldern TW,Rockway TW

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A major limitation of the use of organic nitrates in cardiovascular medicine is the development of tolerance, which has been attributed, in part, to a decrease in their metabolic activation in the vascular smooth muscle cell. Recently, 3-(5'-hydroxymethyl-2'-furyl)-1-benzylindazole (YC-1) was shown to potentiate vascu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： O'Reilly DA,McLaughlin BE,Marks GS,Brien JF,Nakatsu K

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microelectrode and mechanical studies were performed with isolated guinea pig myocardium (right ventricular free walls and papillary muscles) to examine the effects of platelet-activating factor (PAF) and lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC). Low concentrations of PAF (10(-8) to 10(-6) M, a range equivalent to the blood conc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Shigenobu K,Mori T,Kamata K,Kasuya Y

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported efficiencies of drug encapsulation into liposomes range from less than 0.1% to more than 10% per micromole phospholipid, depending on the nature of the drug and of the liposome employed. We have sought to investigate some of the factors which control the efficiency of drug encapsulation. We have found tha...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Stamp D,Juliano RL

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mentoring in academia is often carried out in an informal way depending on individuals and circumstances. I was quite fortunate to make the acquaintance of Professor E.E. Daniel when I was making a transition from my research in entomology to biomedical sciences. Here I recount some of that experience, and describe so...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lee RM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiodarone is a new antiarrhythmic drug, commonly coadministered with digoxin in various cardiac disorders. Amiodarone caused a 10-fold increase of serum digoxin in rats, when the two drugs were simultaneously administered. Amiodarone significantly reduced digoxin uptake by renal cortical slices in the rat, and failed...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Koren G,Soldin S,Macleod SM

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00