Statin treatment increases formation of carbon monoxide and bilirubin in mice: a novel mechanism of in vivo antioxidant protection.

abstract：:Selected topics on the roles of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in the control of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) tone are briefly reviewed with particular reference to the regulation of cytosolic concentration of free calcium ions, [Ca2+]i. Although morphological evidence and subcellular membrane studies indicate a relative...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Daniel EE,van Breemen C,Schilling WP,Kwan CY

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of dystrophic hamsters to maintain their body temperature despite abnormal muscle and brown adipose tissue, two organs involved in thermoregulation, was evaluated. Dystrophic hamsters (CHF 146) between the ages of 30 and 160 days kept at 21 degrees C had core (rectal) temperatures (TR) that were 0.5-1.5 de...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Desautels M,Dulos RA,Thornhill JA

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in plasma and blood cell pools of L-glutamine during a single pass through the kidney was studied in dogs and rats. It was shown that the glutamine content of blood cells does not change following one passage through the renal vascular bed in normal or acidotic dogs. Furthermore, an infusion of L-glutamine ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Vinay P,Khoury N,Soowamber M,Gougoux A

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of nickel chloride to prevent streptozotocin-induced hyperglycemia was tested in rats in vivo. To induce diabetes, streptozotocin (100 mg/kg body weight) was injected as a single dose. Streptozotocin treatment resulted in a significant decrease in plasma insulin and ceruloplasmin, and pancreatic Cu, prot...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Novelli EL,Rodrigues NL,Ribas BO

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isometric contractile properties of frog (Rana pipiens) and toad (Bufo bufo) sartorii have been studied over the temperature range from 0 to 20 degrees C. The isometric twitch tension was found to vary considerably between these two species and between muscles in the same species. Between 0 and 4 degrees C there w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bressler BH

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Sprague-Dawley rats, we attempted to develop an experimental model to stimulate the cardiac sympathetic nerve. After transverse thoracotomy under anesthesia, a miniature, bipolar electrode was placed on the right ansa subclavia and it was stimulated electrically. The nerve stimulation at 2, 4, and 8.3 Hz (2 ms in d...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Masuda Y,Matsuoka H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate whether Ca2+ -Mg2+ ATPase in the distal tubule (where calcium transport is active, against a gradient, and hormone dependent) presents some characteristics different from those observed in the proximal tubule, and whether these characteristics are likely to shed light on th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Brunette MG,Blouin S,Chan M

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hydroperoxide compound structurally related to acetylsalicylic acid, 3-hydroperoxy-3-methylphthalide, inhibits both the first and second phases of adenosine diphosphate induced, biphasic, human platelet aggregation. This occurs over the same concentration range (0.05-0.5 mM) that acetylsalicylic acid inhibits second...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Killackey JJ,Killackey BA,Cerskus I,Philp RB

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Initially the impetus to develop iron (Fe) chelators for clinical use was based upon the need for a drug to treat Fe-overload diseases such as beta-thalassemia. However, it has become clear that Fe chelators may be useful for the treatment of a wide variety of disease states, including cancer, malaria, and free radica...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Richardson DR

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acrolein, a highly reactive alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde, is an omnipresent environmental pollutant. Chronic and acute human exposures occur through exogenous and endogenous sources, including food, vapors of overheated cooking oil, house and forest fires, cigarette smoke, and automobile exhaust. Acrolein is a toxi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Roy J,Pallepati P,Bettaieb A,Averill-Bates DA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose utilization and insulin and growth hormone responses were evaluated in eight obese women by three rapid intravenous glucose tolerance tests (IVGTT): during a control period, and after 1 and 3 weeks of a 750 kcal/day protein-lipid diet (1 kcal = 4.1855 kJ). Weight loss averaged 454 g/day during the 1st week and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Reid D,Rasio E

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma and serum of healthy subjects apparently contain a precursor form of renin, or 'prorenin,' which can be activated by the ice-cold temperature at which samples are customarily handled for prolonged periods in laboratories and blood banks. The effect of such prior cryoactivation for 9 days at 4 degrees C is to in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Osmond DH,Cooper RM

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experimental data document an activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases Erk1 and Erk2 by bradykinin (BK), an agonist of the kinin B2 receptor (B2R). In contrast, other reports showed an inhibitory modulation of mitogenesis by BK. Therefore, we explored in the isolated glomeruli the effect of B2R acti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cellier E,Duchêne J,Pécher C,Alric C,Bascands JL,Schanstra JP,Girolami JP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of neural factors can influence reproductive hormone secretion by neuromodulatory actions within the hypothalamus or neuroendocrine actions within the anterior pituitary gland. Passive immunoneutralization and antagonist administration protocols have suggested physiological roles for a number of these factor...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Samson WK,Alexander BD,Skala KD,Huang FL,Fulton RJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetylcholine (ACh)-mediated vagal transmission as well as nonneuronal ACh release are considered cardioprotective in pathological situations with increased sympathetic drive such as ischemia-reperfusion and cardiac remodeling. ACh action is terminated by hydrolysis by the cholinesterases (ChEs), acetylcholinesterase,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kilianova Z,Ciznarova N,Szmicsekova K,Slobodova L,Hrabovska A

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclophosphamide (CP) is an antineoplastic drug that induces kidney damage via producing oxidative stress. Carvacrol (CAR) has antioxidative effect and we postulated that it can be protective against CP-induced nephrotoxicity. Six groups (n = 7) of rats (control, 100 mg/kg CP, CP+5 mg/kg CAR, CP+10 mg/kg CAR, 5 mg/kg ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gunes S,Ayhanci A,Sahinturk V,Altay DU,Uyar R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influences of hypertension and hypothyroidism on diabetic cardiomyopathy are not clear. We studied this problem further by characterizing the effects of chronic triiodothyronine (T3) treatment on cardiac performance of diabetic renovascular hypertensive (RVH) rats. Hypertension was effected by clipping the left re...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rodgers RL,Davidoff AJ,Mariani MJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected parameters of cardiovascular function were evaluated in vitamin A-deficient rats at 70 days of age. Resting heart rate was increased by an average of 100 bpm (21.4+/-2.7%), whereas resting systolic blood pressure was normal in vitamin A-deficient animals. The maximal contractile force developed per milligram ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wright GL,Wang S,Fultz ME,Arif I,Matthews K,Chertow BS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The epicardial coronary venous pressure in 16 dogs was compared with coronary arterial pressure as well as aortic, intraventricular, and intramyocardial pressures. Partial aortic occlusion augmented intraventricular (IVP), intramyocardial (IMP), aortic (AP), and coronary arterial pressures. Peripheral coronary venous ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Klassen GA,Armour JA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Redistribution of blood flow away from resting skeletal muscles does not occur during anemic hypoxia even when whole body oxygen uptake is not maintained. In the present study, the effects of sympathetic nerve stimulation on both skeletal muscle and hindlimb blood flow were studied prior to and during anemia in anesth...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kubes P,Chapler CK,Cain SM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

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 alcohol oxidase membrane technique is available for measurement of ethanol in commercial fluids. In this paper we examined its usefulness for cat and human blood in comparison with gas-liquid chromatography (GLC). The membrane method proved to be simple, reproducible, accurate, and inexpensive. Analysis took 1-2 m...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Greenway CV,Pushka K,Sitar DS,Rogers LK

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of one bout of acute exercise on impaired glucose metabolism was studied in obese (480 +/- 20 g), untrained rats, at rest (n = 10) and after 60 min of swimming (n = 5). Using the euglycemic, hyperinsulinemic (10 mU.kg-1 x min-1) clamp, glucose clearance rate increased from 7.6 +/- 0.9 at rest to 9.7 +/- 0.5...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Burstein R,Zissholtz A,Zick-Bachar Y,Epstein Y,Shapiro Y,Karnieli E

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the cardiac adrenergic neuronal changes induced by diabetes and hypertension by using an analogue of norepinephrine, meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG), and to compare these changes with the contractile state of ventricular papillary muscle. The tissue concentration of norepin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Herman LM,Dai S,Hartman NG,McNeill JH

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) has physiological roles in the absence of exposure to exogenous ligands, and mediates adaptive and toxic responses to the environmental pollutant 2,3,7,8-tetracholorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). A readily metabolized AHR agonist, 3-methylcholanthrene, disrupts the expression of mouse he...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lee C,Riddick DS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortas were removed from six mature lambs and four sheep and pressure fixed at 100 and 120 mmHg pressure (1 mmHg = 133.322 Pa), respectively, in 10% buffered formalin. The numbers of elastin layers were counted from cross sections at different distances down the aorta, from the distal arch to the iliac bifurcation, an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： van Baardwijk C,Roach MR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most cardiac diseases are associated with fibrosis. Calcineurin (CaN) is regulated by Ca(2+)/calmodulin (CaM). The CaN-NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cell) pathway is involved in the process of cardiac diseases, such as cardiac hypertrophy, but its effect on myocardial fibrosis remains unclear. The present study ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chen QQ,Zhang W,Chen XF,Bao YJ,Wang J,Zhu WZ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of glucose oxidation of fresh corneas of guinea pigs at different ages has been determined. Full-thickness corneal discs, 4 mm in diameter, were incubated in radioactive glucose solution. The quantity of the released CO2 was expressed in terms of the corneal discs, their dry weights, and DNA and protein conte...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Liao HM,Lin BJ,Hasany SM,Basu PK

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out in pigs to investigate the relationship between concentration of intestinal calcium-binding protein (CaBP) and the presence of rickets. Pigs made rachitic by a diet deficient in calcium and in vitamin D had concentrations of intestinal CaBP no less than values obtained on control pigs. The...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Harrison JE,Hitchman AJ,Brown RG

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of d-fenfluramine, a serotonin-releasing drug, to male rats induced a dose-dependent increase in both serum prolactin and corticosterone concentrations. Serum growth hormone levels increased, but not significantly, at a dose of 1.25 mg/kg i.p. and decreased significantly at higher doses. When rats were ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Serri O,Rasio E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00