Prostacyclin release induced by neurokinins in cultured human endothelial cells.

abstract：:Alterations of the ionic constituents of solutions perfused through the tissue of the posterior hypothalamic region in conscious cats elicited changes in body temperatures. Increasing the (Ca2+) to (Na+) ratio of the perfusion solution elicited falls in body temperature which were accompanied by changes in posture and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Jones DL,Veale WL,Cooper KE

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasculature of the mammalian renal medulla is complex, having neither discrete input nor output. There is also efficient countercurrent exchange between ascending and descending vasa recta in the vascular bundles. These considerations have hampered measurement of medullary blood flow since they impose pronounced c...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cupples WA

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Perfusion of isolated rat hearts with Na-free medium resulted in an immediate increase in contractile force followed by a decline and complete loss of contractile force within 25 s. The recovery of the contractile force upon reperfusion was only partial if the duration of Na-free perfusions was 10 min or longer. Ca bi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Dhalla NS,Lee SL,Singal PK,Yates JC,Panagia V

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic potassium deficiency in one-kidney one-clip hypertensive dogs significantly reduces blood pressure and plasma potassium, with a simultaneous increase in plasma renin activity. Tissue potassium concentration was decreased and tissue sodium concentration was increased in striated muscle and adrenal glands, which...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Garcia R,Constantopoulos G,Gutkowska J,Genest J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the wake of demographic change in Western countries, atrial fibrillation has reached an epidemiological scale, yet current strategies for drug treatment of the arrhythmia lack sufficient efficacy and safety. In search of novel medications, atrial-selective drugs that specifically target atrial over other cardiac fu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ravens U

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study developed an animal model of gestational obesity and prediabetes in Sprague Dawley rats using 35% sucrose supplementation (SS). Postprandially, insulin stimulates glucose uptake and nutrient partitioning via insulin-dependent as well as Hepatic Insulin Sensitizing Substance (HISS)-dependent action. HISS is ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lovat NEJ,Legare DJ,Lautt WW

更新日期：2020-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated potential sex differences in bone resorption and the conservation of whole body bone mass in 24-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats maintained on a 1.0% calcium diet and then fed diets containing 0.02, 0.5, 1.0, or 1.75% calcium for 31 days. Lowering dietary calcium from 1.00% to 0.02% doubled whole skeleton ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Geng W,Wright GL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cause of embryonic thyroidal enlargement in the progeny of chickens fed goitrogenic rapeseed meal (RSM) has been investigated. It has been found that eggs from birds fed RSM are low in iodine. The low concentration of iodine in the eggs of the goitrous birds is apparently due to diversion of a large proportion of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： March BE,Leung P

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cumulative data suggest the significant role of the renin-angiotensin system in the development of the pathological consequences of diabetes mellitus (DM). Newly synthesized AT2 receptor agonists gained importance as a target for creating new antihypertensives. The aim of the present work was to study the effects of p...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Pechlivanova D,Petrov K,Grozdanov P,Nenchovska Z,Tchekalarova J,Stoynev A

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microiontophoretic applications of ibotenate, an amino acid analogue of glutamate, evoked biphasic responses from single dorsal horn interneurones of the cat spinal cord, i.e., an initial increase in the firing rate followed by a sustained depression of spontaneous firing. A reduced cell sensitivity to excitatory amin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： MacDonald JF,Nistri A

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepine binding to brain membrane preparations obtained from epileptic and nonepileptic carrier fowl was compared. [3H]Flunitrazepam binding to whole brain homogenates from 2-day-old chicks and [3H]diazepam binding to synaptosomal membranes and homogenates from adult chickens were determined. Scatchard analysis...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Fisher TE,Davis LG,Tuchek JM,Johnson DD,Crawford RD

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in calcium metabolism and calcium-regulating hormones have been described in essential hypertension. However, the mechanisms that mediate these responses are unknown. In previous studies, using the genetically spontaneously hypertensive rat and the mineralocorticoid-salt (DOC-salt) hypertensive rat model, ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wimalawansa SJ,Supowit SC,DiPette DJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. MS is associated with obesity, increased blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and hyperglycemia. This study was designed to investigate the pharmacological profile of phentolamine, a nonse...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhou K,Kumar U,Yuen VG,McNeill JH

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated rabbit hearts undergo ventricular depolarization when exposed to 0.5 mM K--Krebs during 30 to 45 min. A ventricular tachyarrhythmia develops when these hearts are allowed to repolarize in 1.5 mM K--Krebs. Ventricular fibrillation usually follows. These arrhythmias do not cease spontaneously. Initially, perfus...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ruiz-Ceretti E,Ponce-Zumino A,Blaney R,Chartier D

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorimotor mechanisms were studied on the basis of kinematic and electromyographic data as well as the static torque developed by the muscles as a function of joint angle. The latter relationship is known as the torque/angle characteristic. Fast single-joint movement may result from a shift in this characteristic an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Levin MF,Lamarre Y,Feldman AG

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of forskolin, Ro 20-1724, rolipram, and 3-isobutyl-1-methylxanthine (IBMX) on morphine-evoked release of adenosine from dorsal spinal cord synaptosomes were evaluated to examine the potential involvement of cyclic AMP in this action of morphine. Ro 20-1724 (1-100 microM), rolipram (1-100 microM), and forsk...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nicholson D,White TD,Sawynok J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of porphyrinogenic xenobiotics cause mechanism-based inactivation of a number of rat hepatic cytochrome P450 isozymes. As a result, a mixture of four N-alkylprotoporphyin IX (N-alkylPP) regioisomers, with ferrochelatase-inhibitory properties, are formed. This study was designed to determine whether all four ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： McNamee JP,Kobus SM,Marks GS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ER-α and ER-β agonist 17β-estradiol is reported to attenuate cardiac hypertrophy. Tamoxifen is a selective estrogen receptor modulator. Hence, the objective of this study was to investigate the effects of tamoxifen in myocardial infarction. For this, tamoxifen was administered to Sprague-Dawley rats for 1-14 days, and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rayabarapu N,Patel BM

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of myosin catalyzed by myosin light-chain kinase (MLCK) is the key reaction in the regulation of actin-myosin interaction in smooth muscle. It is shown that this reaction is of an ordered type, whereby kinase first binds ATP and then the light chain, and following phosphat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sobieszek A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic pathways in breast cancer cells are frequently altered, reducing the efficiency of radiotherapy. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), known to trigger apoptosis, was tested as radiosensitizer in breast cancer cells MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231. The CLA-mix, made up of the isomers CLA-9cis 11trans and CLA-10trans 12cis, w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Drouin G,Douillette A,Lacasse P,Paquette B

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tea is perceived as more relaxing than coffee, even though both contain caffeine. L-theanine in tea may account for the difference. Consumed together, caffeine and theanine exert similar cognitive effects to that of caffeine alone, but exert opposite effects on arousal, in that caffeine accentuates and theanine mitiga...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Giles GE,Mahoney CR,Brunyé TT,Taylor HA,Kanarek RB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytosolic Ca(2+) is a versatile secondary messenger that regulates a wide range of cellular activities. In the past decade, evidence has accumulated that free Ca(2+) within the nucleus also plays an important messenger function. Here we review the mechanisms and effects of Ca(2+) signals within the nucleus. In particu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gomes DA,Leite MF,Bennett AM,Nathanson MH

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo fatty acid synthesis and the pathways of glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P) production were investigated in brown adipose tissue (BAT) from rats fed a cafeteria diet for 3 weeks. In spite of BAT activation, the diet promoted an increase in the carcass fatty acid content. Plasma insulin levels were markedly increased i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chaves VE,Frasson D,Martins-Santos ME,Navegantes LC,Galban VD,Garófalo MA,Kettelhut IC,Migliorini RH

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：:The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of melatonin on rat gastric fundus smooth muscle. Melatonin (10(-4) to 10(-3) M) had no effect on the basal tone of gastric smooth muscle. After precontraction with carbachol (10(-6) M) or serotonin (10(-7) M), melatonin caused a concentration dependent inhibitory a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Storr M,Schusdziarra V,Allescher HD

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single ventricular cells have been isolated from adult guinea pig heart using a collagenase enzyme method. The procedure is straightforward, takes about 20 min, and yields 40-65% rod-shaped cells which are quiescent in millimolar Ca2+ solution. Electrophysiological studies involving external ion changes and ionic chan...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bustamante JO,Watanabe T,McDonald TF

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:Electrical stimulation of the diencephalon and rostral mesencephalon produced a biphasic pressor response consisting of an initial sharp rise followed by a more prolonged elevation in blood pressure. Active sites from which comparable responses could be evoked were found in the ventral medial and lateral hypothalamus,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gauthier P

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beat-to-beat variability of cardiac action potential duration (short-term variability, SV) is a common feature of various cardiac preparations, including the human heart. Although it is believed to be one of the best arrhythmia predictors, the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood at present. The magnitude of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nánási PP,Magyar J,Varró A,Ördög B

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is a well-documented mechanism by which vasoactive peptides and H2O2 elicit their cellular responses. However, a role for the insulin-like growth factor type-1 receptor (IGF-1R) transactivation in mediating the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) and H2O2 in va...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Azar ZM,Mehdi MZ,Srivastava AK

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00