Effects of 4-aminopyridine on the action potential and the after-hyperpolarization of cat spinal motoneurons.

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：:Changes in estrogen production are considered important in the sequence of events leading to parturition. We sought tissue-specific changes in the concentration of unconjugated estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) in intrauterine fetal (amnion, chorion) and maternal (endometrium, myometrium) tissues during normal pregnancy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Power SG,Challis JR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Premature weaning of rats to high carbohydrate diets causes a variety of short- and long-term changes in lipid metabolism, but the mechanisms involved are unclear. It is likely that interaction of diet with certain emerging hormonal control patterns during weaning might condition metabolic control and (or) subsequent ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Angel JF,Back DW

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metaiodobenzylguanidine, which is used in the diagnosis and treatment of pheochromocytoma, produced 50% inhibition of monoamine oxidase at a concentration of 8 X 10(-6) M in vitro. These results suggest that a careful study of the structure of a new radiodiagnostic agent should be done to anticipate and prepare for po...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Burba JV

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, the complexity of the endothelium and its major role in maintaining or altering blood vessel architecture are being revealed. In contrast, the vascular smooth muscle cell previously received the most attention. I suggest support of the hypothesis that the endothelium is the key to vascular disease. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Todd ME

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slow alpha2-globulin (salpha2G), a high molecular weight glycoprotein, appears as a component of rat serum in a wide variety of both physiologic and pathologic conditions, including pregnancy; it is also present in the neonate. In the present study, the protein was detectable in serum after 6 to 10 days, and was prese...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kirkcaldy M,Beaton GH

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the febrile response to E. coli lipopolysaccharide (1.5 micrograms/kg, i.v.) in thyroid-deficient rabbits has been studied. Twenty-eight New Zealand White rabbits weighing 2.1-2.3 kg were used. Hypothyroidism was induced by treatment with propylthiouracil (100 or 200 mg/kg body wt./15 days). Thyroid...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Macari M,Pelá IR,Silva CA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is general agreement about potentiation in dose-response studies, characterized by a left shift of the dose-response curve of A by a fixed dose of B when B is causing no effect by itself (simple situation). When B causes an effect similar to A (complex situation) by binding to different molecular sites, we propo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Pöch G,Reiffenstein RJ,Köck P,Pancheva SN

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myometrial tissues from guinea pigs were quantitatively examined for gap junctions in electron micrographs. Small numbers of gap junctions were present between smooth muscle cells in myometria of pregnant guinea pigs at days 50 and 65 of gestation. The junctions increased in number and size at parturition on day 69 an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Garfield RE,Daniel EE,Dukes M,Fitzgerald JD

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to elucidate the pharmacological mechanism by which U44069, a stable PGH2 analogue, contracts the rat aorta. The results obtained demonstrate that while the contractile effect of potassium chloride is obliterated by removal of extracellular calcium, a substantial proportion of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Heaslip RJ,Rahwan RG

更新日期：1982-05-01 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：:Systolic blood pressure was measured weekly in conscious and in anesthetized female Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Wistar-Furth (W/Fu) rats following adrenal enucleation, unilateral nephrectomy, and the imposition of a high salt intake. SD rats quickly developed adrenal-regeneration hypertension (ARH) which progressed rapidl...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hall CE,Nasseth D

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is defined as the failure of normal pulmonary vascular relaxation at birth. Hypoxia is known to impede postnatal disassembly of the actin cytoskeleton in pulmonary arterial myocytes, resulting in elevation of smooth muscle α-actin and γ-actin content in elastic a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Fediuk J,Dakshinamurti S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual acuity was measured behaviorally in various groups of cats by using a two-choice discrimination procedure. Cats in group 1 were rendered strabismic soon after birth by sectioning the tendon of the lateral rectus muscle (unilateral esotropia); at adulthood, their visual acuity (VA) was evaluated, after which the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ptito M,Bouchard P,Lepore F,Quessy S,Di Stefano M,Guillemot JP

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present work was to study the rate of basal luteinizing hormone (LH) glycosylation, discriminating the co-translational (proximal) and the post-translational (distal) glycosylation. The experiments were performed to determine the temporal relationship between the biosynthesis of the peptide chains (...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Pérez GT,Apfelbaum ME

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), prostacyclin (PGI2), and endothelin-1 (ET-1) was measured from endothelial cells (EC) cultured from either bovine vena cava (BVCEC) or bovine aorta (BAEC). EDRF release was determined by using the superfusion bioassay technique, whereas ET-1 and PGI2 were meas...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： D'Orleans-Juste P,Mitchell JA,Wood EG,Hecker M,Vane JR

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to examine the possible neuroprotective and antiepileptic effects of metformin (Metf) in a rat model of pentylenetetrazole (PTZ)-induced epilepsy and its possible underlying mechanisms. Forty male albino rats were assigned to 4 groups of equal size: (1) normal control (NC) group, (2) Met...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hussein AM,Eldosoky M,El-Shafey M,El-Mesery M,Ali AN,Abbas KM,Abulseoud OA

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies are scant on the effects of short-term carvedilol treatment as an adjuvant to angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor in patients with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction. The objective of this study was to find the effects of short-term treatment of carvedilol on patients with ischemic LV systoli...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gandhi PS,Goyal RK,Jain AR,Mallya BS,Gupta VM,Shah DS,Trivedi BR,Shastri NA,Mehta CB,Jain KA,Bhavasar NS,Shah UJ

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of morbi-mortality in developed countries. Both ischemia-reperfusion injury and mechanisms of cardioprotection have been studied for more than 50 years. It is known that the physiopathological mechanism of myocardial ischemia involves several factors that are closely related...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： D'Annunzio V,Donato M,Buchholz B,Pérez V,Miksztowicz V,Berg G,Gelpi RJ

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of pinaverium was electrophysiologically characterized and compared with the established L-type calcium channel blockers diltiazem, D600, and nitrendipine on canine colonic circular smooth muscle. Effects were studied on the electrical activity of the smooth muscle cells, in particular the spontaneously occ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Malysz J,Farraway LA,Christen MO,Huizinga JD

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Damage to the stomach results in excessive movement of hydrogen ion (H+) out of the lumen, and increased movement of sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) into the lumen. Histamine liberation during damage probably adds to the destruction by increased capillary permeability and formation of edema. Previous reports have show...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tepperman BL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of melatonin treatment on adrenal catecholamine content, synthesis, uptake, and vesicular transport induced by the chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) model of depression in rats. This entailed quantifying the norepinephrine, epinephrine, mRNA, and protein levels of tyrosine hy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Stefanovic B,Spasojevic N,Jovanovic P,Dronjak S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the literature there appears to be variability in reported levels of certain hormones during haemorrhage, specifically adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and β-endorphin. It is possible that this variability may be due to the choice of anaesthetic. Therefore, the effect of 3 common research-only anaesthetic agents...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ruane-O'Hora T,Hall WJ,Markos F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of variation in the extracellular concentrations of Na+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ in the depolarizing medium on isoproterenol-induced increases in cAMP levels and relaxation was studied in rat uterus. Isoproterenol (10(-8) M) failed to increase cAMP levels in the high-K+ medium containing no Na+. When 80 mM Na+ wa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Meisheri KD,McNeill JH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the role of endothelial NO in the hemodynamics and vascular changes that occur in heart failure following myocardial infarction in rats. Left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP), mean blood pressure (MBP), aortic morphology (media thickness) and reactivity were evaluated in ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： da Cunha V,Stefanon I,Mill JG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP response element (CRE) binding protein (CREB) is a nuclear transcription factor that regulates the transcription of several genes containing the CRE sites on their promoters. CREB is activated by phosphorylation on a key serine residue, Ser311, in response to a wide variety of extracellular stimuli includin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Truong V,Anand-Srivastava MB,Srivastava AK

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of iron-loaded transferrin in xanthine-xanthine oxidase (X-XO) induced cardiac injury in isolated perfused rat hearts was examined. X (2 mM) - XO (10 U/L) perfusion resulted in contractile failure, a rise in resting tension, an increase in lipid peroxidation, and myocardial cell damage. The addition of transf...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tiede R,Sareen S,Singal PK

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A knowledge of the mechanical properties of valve tissue is a necessary prerequisite for a better understanding of valvular behavior and design of prosthetic heart valves. Elastic response of chordae tendineae under strain rates of 0.05 cm min(-1)(6.25% min(-1)) to 12.7 cm min(-1)(1600% min(-1)) were obtained by the a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lim KO,Boughner DR

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Insulin sensitivity and resistance were examined in vivo in uremic rats by using tracer methods which permit the assessment of "non-steady-state" glucose kinetics. By relating the changes in the rates of glucose output by the liver (Ra), uptake by tissues (Rd), and metabolic clearance (MCR) to immunoreactive glucagon ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Perez G,Carteni G,Ungaro B,Saccà L

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00