Relaxant effect of atorvastatin on isolated rat gastric fundus strips: implications for Ca2+-signalling mechanisms.

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 inotropic response induced by beta-adrenergic and H1 histaminergic receptor stimulation was characterized in guinea pig left atria by obtaining dose-response relationships for isoproterenol and histamine under various experimental conditions. Conditions (hypothermia, high frequencies of stimulation, and large extr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tenner TE Jr,McNeill JH

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grains are global dietary staples that when consumed in whole grain form, offer considerable health benefits compared with milled grain foods, including reduced body weight gain and reduced cardiovascular and diabetes risks. Dietary patterns, functional foods, and other lifestyle factors play a fundamental role in the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nelson K,Stojanovska L,Vasiljevic T,Mathai M

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO), a vasodilator, has been implicated as an activator of soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC) to effect smooth muscle relaxation; however, this idea has not received universal support. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the sGC inhibitor 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-alpha]quinoxalin-1-one...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hussain AS,Marks GS,Brien JF,Nakatsu K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing literature provides an equivocal picture of the behavior of mitochondrial synthesis during the time course of cardiac hypertrophy. Therefore, we examined the effect of cardiac hypertrophy on mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase (CYTOX) activity, the content of CYTOX subunit VIc mRNA, and the expression of molec...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nishio ML,Ornatsky OI,Craig EE,Hood DA

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin has been shown to alter the intestinal transport of ions and intestinal motility. These effects may interfere with each other, modulating the whole physiology of the intestine. We have previously shown that serotonin also alters the transport of nutrients. Thus, the aims of the present work were to determine...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Salvador MT,Murillo MD,Rodríguez-Yoldi MC,Alcalde AI,Mesonero JE,Rodríguez-Yoldi MJ

更新日期：2000-05-01 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：:Cold ischemia--warm reperfusion (CI/WR) injury of liver transplantation involves hepatocyte cell death, the nature and underlying mechanisms of which remain unclear. Isolated hepatocytes and isolated perfused livers were used to determine the prevalence of necrosis and apoptosis as well as mitochondrial dysfunction. I...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Duval M,Plin C,Elimadi A,Vallerand D,Tillement JP,Morin D,Haddad PS

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the dopamine type-2 receptor (D-2) antagonist domperidone on pituitary and brain amine concentrations and serum gonadotropin levels in the goldfish were investigated. Domperidone caused a long-lasting, dose-dependent depletion of dopamine in the goldfish pituitary. Pituitary concentrations of 5-hydroxyt...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sloley BD,Trudeau VL,Dulka JG,Peter RE

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of drugs on ciliary beat frequency in the intrapulmonary airways of rats was studied in vitro. Sympathomimetic drugs significantly increased the ciliary beat frequency. Acetylcholine, pilocarpine, aminophylline, prednisolone, potassium iodide, and ammonium chloride also caused cilioexcitation, though to ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Melville GN,Iravani J

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of localized distension of the pulmonary vein - left atrial junctions on plasma arginine vasopressin (AVP) have been examined in chloralose anaesthetized dogs. Pulmonary vein distension caused an increase in heart rate and a decrease in plasma AVP concentration. Cooling the vagosympathetic nerves to 10 deg...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wilson N,Ledsome JR

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the beneficial effects of cilnidipine, an L- and N-type calcium channel blocker, which were clinically observed against diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophied hearts of hypertensive patients, we investigated the effects of cilnidipine on cardiac remodeling and enhanced gene expression in stroke-prone, spont...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Takemori K,Ishida H,Dote K,Yamamoto K,Ito H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to elucidate the mechanism whereby a potassium infusion led to an elevation in the urine minus blood (ohm-B) PCO2 difference in alkaline urine of the rabbit. Rabbits given 9alpha-fluorohydrocortisone 16 h prior to study had a significantly high olm-B PCO2 than control rabbits. However, th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Robson WL,Halperin ML,Stinebaugh BJ,Goldstein MB

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro coronary artery responsiveness to angiotensin I, angiotensin II, noradrenaline, phenylephrine, BHT 920, and potassium chloride together with functional relaxation to acetylcholine was investigated in dogs with pacing-induced heart failure treated with enalapril (oral administration of 10 mg.day-1) for a mean ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Forster C,Larosa G,Armstrong PW

更新日期：1992-10-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:Cyclocarya paliurus (CP; qing qian liu), which is used as an herbal tea in China, has been confirmed to have therapeutic effects on hyperlipidemia and obesity, and therefore it is widely consumed to prevent metabolic diseases such as hyperlipidemia and diabetes. In this study, we investigated the preventive effects of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Yao X,Lin Z,Jiang C,Gao M,Wang Q,Yao N,Ma Y,Li Y,Fang S,Shang X,Ni Y,Zhang J,Yin Z

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:17 beta-Hydroxy-11 beta(4-dimethylaminophenyl)-17 alpha-(1-propynyl)estra-4, 9-dien-3-one (RU486) inhibited the in vitro development of different stages of mouse preimplantation embryos under study. Two-celled embryos, morulae, and early blastocysts were obtained from B6D2F1 mice. The embryos were grown in Ham F-10 nu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Juneja SC,Dodson MG

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wave speed (c) must be known to separate forward- and backward-going waves during wave-intensity analysis, which measures the energy transported by the waves in the circulation. c is related to elastance; the present study was performed to measure right ventricular (RV) c during the cardiac cycle and to compare c with...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sun Y,Wang JJ,Belenkie I,Tyberg JV

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role that thromboxane A2 plays in contractions induced by leukotriene D4 in guinea-pig isolated lung parenchyma was investigated under equilibrium conditions. Lung tissue generated thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin spontaneously as evidenced by the slow accumulation of their biologically inactive metabolites, thromb...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Giembycz MA,Rodger IW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hemorrhagic shock, hypoxemia, and anoxia on the levels of adenine and pyridine nucleotides of liver and kidney was assessed. ATP levels in liver and kidney of animals in shock or animals subjected to 7 min of anoxia decreased by 85 and 73%, respectively. Under hypoxic conditions (arterial PO2 AT 18 MMHg)...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chaudry IH,Sayeed MM,Baue AE

更新日期：1976-10-01 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：: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 expression of tissue factor (TF) in tumors reportedly exacerbates the aggressiveness of several types of cancers. The shedding of TF-containing membrane particles is believed to influence the ability of tumors to expand and metastasize, and these microparticles may also be harmful in the onset of disseminated intr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Brousseau C,Morissette G,Fortin JP,Marceau F,Petitclerc E

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infusion of glucose alone or glucose with insulin in cats subjected to acute myocardial ischemia did not alter the hemodynamic response of the cats to coronary artery ligation. Furthermore, determination of myocardial creatine phosphokinase (CPK) (ATP:creatine N-phosphotransferase, EC 2.7.3.2) activities failed to rev...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Spath JA,Ogletree ML,Lefer AM

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the influence of four different culture media: 20% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 5% FBS, 5% FBS supplemented with 10 mg x L(-1) linoleic acid (18:2(n-6)) or alpha-linolenic acid (18:3(n-3)) on alpha-linolenic acid apical uptake in clone TC7 of human intestinal Caco-2 cell line. Neither cellular viability n...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tranchant T,Besson P,Hoinard C,Pinault M,Alessandri JM,Delarue J,Couet C,Goré J

更新日期：1998-06-01 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：:The combined and separate effects of exercise training and bisphosphonate (etidronate) therapy on bone mineral in postmenopausal women were compared. Forty-eight postmenopausal women were randomly assigned (double blind) to groups that took intermittent cyclical etidronate; performed strength training (3 d/week) and r...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chilibeck PD,Davison KS,Whiting SJ,Suzuki Y,Janzen CL,Peloso P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00