Effect of vitamin D on isoprenaline-induced myocardial infarction in rats: possible role of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ.

abstract：:Since the discovery that apolipoprotein E, a cholesterol transport protein, is a major risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD) development, there has been a remarkable interest in understanding the many facets of the relationship between cholesterol and AD. Several lines of evidence have demonstrated the importance o...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Posse de Chaves E

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunocytochemistry, radioimmunoassay, chromatography, and biological assay using a rabbit isolated duodenal muscle strip preparation were used in attempting to characterize motilin from the rat small intestine. Several different antisera and monoclonal antibodies directed against natural porcine motilin were used. A ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Vogel LB,Brown JC

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although mitochondrial transcription factor A (TFAM) is a protective component of mitochondrial DNA and a regulator of calcium and reactive oxygen species (ROS) production, the mechanism remains unclear. In heart failure, TFAM is significantly decreased and cardiomyocyte instability ensues. TFAM inhibits nuclear facto...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kunkel GH,Chaturvedi P,Thelian N,Nair R,Tyagi SC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) was administered to rats, a localized region of hepatic edema could be detected within 1 h by in vivo proton magnetic resonance imaging. However, if rats were pretreated with gadolinium chloride (GdCl3), an inhibitor of Kupffer cell function, the CCl4-induced edema was greatly decrease...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Towner RA,Reinke LA,Janzen EG,Yamashiro S

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal hyperthyroidism in rats induced by daily administration of L-triiodothyronine for 30 days since birth resulted in a significant rise in mobility and the metabolism of brain norepinephrine and dopamine. Whereas administration of lithium carbonate (60 mg/kg ip) to normal rats for 6 days produced no effect on sp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rastogi RB,Singhal RL

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of the circular muscle of canine colon to stimulation of intrinsic nerves and to the probable mediators of these nerves were studied in vivo. In vivo studies were carried out using close intra-arterial injections and local field stimulation of proximal, mid-, and distal colon while recording circumferent...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gonda T,Daniel EE,Kostolanska F,Oki M,Fox JE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady state glucose kinetics were measured in 19 premature and 16 full-term piglets. Bodyweight, plasma glucose concentration, total body glucose turnover rate, and glucose pool size were not significantly different between the two groups. This suggests that the premature piglet is capable of maintaining glucose home...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Flecknell PA,Wootton R,John M,Royston JP

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxepin binds to intact astrocytes in primary cultures. The binding is competitively displaceable by excess cold doxepin and it is pronounced (Bmax = 27 nmol/mg protein) but the affinity is rather low (KD = 30 microM). The binding is inhibited by other antidepressants (amitriptyline, desipramine, tranylcypromine, ipri...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hertz L,Richardson JS,Mukerji S

更新日期：1980-12-01 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：:Allicin, the active substance of garlic, exerts a broad spectrum of pharmacological activities and is considered to have potential therapeutic applications. The present study was designed to investigate the possible beneficial effects of allicin against oxidative stress, inflammation, and endothelial dysfunction in hy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： El-Sheakh AR,Ghoneim HA,Suddek GM,Ammar ESM

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intrinsic regulation of hepatic blood flow is mediated only through the hepatic artery because the liver is not able to directly regulate portal vein blood flow. Hepatic metabolic activity does not affect hepatic artery flow. Although the hepatic artery is affected by sympathetic nerves and blood-borne agents, the int...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lautt WW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in metabolic characteristics of the liver and jejunal epithelia as a result of feeding the beta-agonist albuterol to chickens for 3 and 6 weeks were studied. Feeding albuterol resulted in a change in weights of the liver and small intestines. Chickens fed albuterol for 6 weeks had greater levels of plasma none...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rompala RE,Darre MJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that some Ca2+ channels are regulated by a tyrosine kinase pathway. The possibility that Ca2+ entry is regulated by tyrosine kinase was investigated in canine vascular muscles. Functional studies were carried out in the dog mesenteric arteries and saphenous veins. Nicardipine-insensitive refil...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Low AM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of oxytocin (OT) on holding current were studied in uterine smooth muscle cells freshly isolated from the longitudinal layer of 18-20 day pregnant rats, using the nystatin method of whole-cell voltage clamp. As we previously reported, the voltage-dependent Ca2+ current (L type) was partially inhibited by O...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Shimamura K,Kusaka M,Sperelakis N

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:Electrophysiological studies were performed on slowly adapting cells of the crayfish (Astacus astacus) stretch receptor to examine some aspects of the operation of the sodium pump. Intracellular sodium activity (aiNa) and pH (pHi) were measured with liquid ion exchanger microelectrodes and the effects of NH3/NH+4 were...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Moser H

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of the present study was to assess the effects of a restricted feeding schedule (RFS) on postischemic contractile recovery in relation to triacylglycerol (TAG), glycogen, and ATP content. Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH) activity, reduced/oxidized glutathione ratio (GSH/GSSG), and thiobarbituric acid...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Jaitovich MM,Varela A,Sbarbati C,Hermann R,Torresín ME,Savino EA,Marina Prendes MG

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many functions of the brain and the sympathetic adrenal system are influenced by those amino acids that exert precursor control over neurotransmitter synthesis. One of the functions affected is regulation of blood pressure. Therefore, the purpose of this review is to describe how food proteins and amino acids affect t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Anderson GH

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered sympathetic nervous activity has been linked to the development and persistence of obesity, partly relating to overfeeding. Binding of the selective, positron-emitting phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor (R)-[11C]rolipram provides a direct index of the cAMP-hydrolyzing enzyme PDE4. This study examines progres...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Greene M,Thackeray JT,Kenk M,Thorn SL,Bevilacqua L,Harper ME,Beanlands RS,Dasilva JN

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：:Calcium-activated chloride channels (ClCa) are ligand-gated anion channels as they have been shown to be activated by a rise in intracellular Ca2+ concentration in various cell types including cardiac, skeletal and vascular smooth muscle cells, endothelial and epithelial cells, as well as neurons. Because ClCa channel...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Leblanc N,Ledoux J,Saleh S,Sanguinetti A,Angermann J,O'Driscoll K,Britton F,Perrino BA,Greenwood IA

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminal nutrition is important for the maintenance of small intestinal structure and function. The equilibrium between crypt cell production and villous cell loss in the mucosal epithelium of the small intestine is altered under certain conditions such as after a small bowel resection. Immediately after resection, the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Grey VL,Morin CL

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-HT) acts as a neuromodulator and plays a critical role in brain development. Changes in 5-HT signaling during the perinatal period can affect neural development and may result in behavioral changes in adulthood. However, further investigations are necessary including both sexes to study possible differenc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Campos RMM,Toscano AE,Gouveia HJCB,Lacerda DC,Pereira SDC,Paz IAASG,Dantas-Alves JS,Manhaes-de-Castro R

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Torbafylline, a novel xanthine derivative, was given to rats by gavage (2 x 25 mg.kg-1.day-1, morning and evening) to study its effect upon fast muscles (tibialis anterior and extensor digitorum longus) made ischemic by unilateral ligation of the common iliac artery and subjected to two types of activity imposed by ch...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hudlicka O,Egginton S,Brown MD,Okyayuz-Baklouti I

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The utilization of triacylglycerol in slow oxidative, fast oxidative-glycolytic, and fast glycolytic skeletal muscle fiber types was examined in rats subjected to a prolonged exhaustive swim. Significant reductions of intramuscular triacylglycerol occurred following 2 h and 40 min of swimming in all muscles containing...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Spriet LL,Peters SJ,Heigenhauser GJ,Jones NL

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly thought that central nervous system depressant drugs exert their actions through enhancement of gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA)-mediated mechanisms. Recently, the cellular electrophysiological evidence from this laboratory and others suggests that both sedative hypnotics and general anaesthetics inhibit cent...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Carlen PL,Gurevich N,Davies MF,Blaxter TJ,O'Beirne M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of nine (+/-)-nantenine derivatives were synthesized and assayed for their pharmacological activities by using tension in aorta and binding experiments in rat brain membrane. Replacing a methyl group with a hydrogen ((+/-)-nornantenine) and an ethyl group at a nitrogen atom ((+/-)-ethylnornantenine) or introd...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Indra B,Matsunaga K,Hoshino O,Suzuki M,Ogasawara H,Ishiguro M,Ohizumi Y

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neural connections from the medial prefrontal cortex to the ventral pallidum were investigated in urethane-anesthetized rats. Extracellular recordings were made from 124 spontaneously firing neurons in the ventral pallidum while the medial prefrontal cortex was electrically stimulated. The most frequent response t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Delgado-Martínez AD,Vives F

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：: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