Low pH medium induces calcium dependent release of CGRP from sensory nerves of guinea-pig dural venous sinuses.

abstract：:Testosterone propionate, cortisone, or sesame oil vehicle were given to rats during the last week of pregnancy so that effects of the hormones on anogenital distance, breeding capacity and vaginal opening of the female progeny could be contrasted. Testosterone significantly increased anogenital distance and delayed va...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： McCoy SJ,Shirley BA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocyte apoptosis occurs in response to stressors such as thermal injury, trauma, sepsis, and surgery. This study evaluated the effect of a single bout of physical exercise stress on the induction of apoptosis in murine thymocytes and splenic lymphocytes. Female C57BL/6 mice, treadmill exercised at a submaximal int...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Hoffman-Goetz L,Zajchowski S,Aldred A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate whether endogenous opioid peptides mediate time-dependent changes in ventilatory control during prolonged hypoxia, we studied four adult goats at rest during 14 days at simulated high altitude in a hypobaric chamber (PB approximately 450 Torr). Arterial PCO2 fell during the first several hours of hypoxi...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Weinberger SE,Steinbrook RA,Carr DB,Fencl V,Gabel RA,Leith DE,Fisher JE,Harris R,Rosenblatt M

更新日期：1987-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the formation of gamma-glutamyl peptides from glutamine and plasma amino acids, as catalyzed by gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase. It also establishes the effect of various amino acids in modulating the rate of glutamine utilization as well as the hydrolytic or transfer product formed. The mechanis...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Dass PD

更新日期：1983-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Mast cells were originally considered wandering histiocytes, but are now known to derive from the bone marrow and enter the tissues as immature or precursor cells which then differentiate under micro-environmental influences such as interleukin-3. At least three types of mature mast cells have been identified as seros...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Theoharides TC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quercetin is a major flavonoid in various plants. It possesses the multiple pharmacological actions like vascular integrity and regulatory action of the blood-brain barrier. AIMS:The present study is focused on evaluating the role of solid lipid nanoparticle of quercetin in pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) induced ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Rishitha N,Muthuraman A

更新日期：2018-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:A phencyclidine (PCP) receptor binding site has been solubilized in an active ligand-binding state from rat cerebral cortical membranes with sodium deoxycholate. Optimal receptor solubilization occurs at a detergent/protein ratio of 0.5 (w/w); for 5 mg protein/ml solubilized with 0.25% sodium deoxycholate, about 60% o...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： McVittie LD,Sibley DR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult rat offspring earlier exposed to maternally ingested caffeine during both gestation and lactation were observed in an open field following acute administration of diazepam or cyclohexyladenosine. While both drugs reduced measures of locomotion and emotional reactivity, caffeine-exposed rats showed evidence of gr...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Fisher CE,Hughes RN

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Injection of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) intraperitoneally into model animals induces acute liver injury mediated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) as normal metabolites in hepatocytes. In this study, the molecular process in this type of liver injury was analyzed from the aspect of liver function and regulatory factor...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Taniguchi M,Takeuchi T,Nakatsuka R,Watanabe T,Sato K

更新日期：2004-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Single smooth muscle cells from rat tail artery and ventricular myocytes from neonatal rat were isolated by repeated enzyme digestion. The change in cell area as determined photographically was used as an index of cell contraction. The photographic areas of single smooth muscle cells bathed in normal Tyrode solution w...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Wang R,Wu L,Karpinski E,Pang PK

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies showed that acute treatment with aminophylline (AMPY) significantly elevated maximum thermogenesis and improved cold tolerance in rats and man in severe cold. However, the exact mechanism by which AMPY enhances thermogenesis was unknown. Rats receiving enprofylline (ENPRO) (1.5 and 15 mg/kg, i.p.), a ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Wang LC,Jourdan ML,Lee TF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha(1)-adrenergic receptors are one of the three subfamilies of G protein coupled receptors activated by epinephrine and norepinephrine to control important functions in many target organs. Three human subtypes (alpha(1A), alpha(1B), alpha(1D)) are derived from separate genes and are highly homologous in their trans...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Hague C,Chen Z,Uberti M,Minneman KP

更新日期：2003-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Opioid addiction is associated with long-term adaptive changes in the brain that involve protein expression. The carboxyl-terminal of the μ opioid receptor (MOR-C) is important for receptor signal transduction under opioid treatment. However, the proteins that interact with MOR-C after chronic morphine exposure re...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Zhou P,Jiang J,Dong Z,Yan H,You Z,Su R,Gong Z

更新日期：2015-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Right ventricular failure (RVF) varies significantly from the more common left ventricular failure (LVF). This study was undertaken to determine potential molecular pathways that are important in human right ventricular (RV) function and may mediate RVF. MATERIALS AND METHODS:We analyzed mRNA of human non-failing...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Williams JL,Cavus O,Loccoh EC,Adelman S,Daugherty JC,Smith SA,Canan B,Janssen PML,Koenig S,Kline CF,Mohler PJ,Bradley EA

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine and the enkephalin-like peptide FK 33-824 given i.p. to rats potently inhibit gastrointestinal transit of a charcoal test meal, the doses inhibiting transit by 50% being respectively about 10 and 1 microgram/kg. These intestinal effects are opiate-specific, locally elicited and presumably involve the same act...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Manara L,Bianchi G,Fiocchi R,Notarnicola A,Peracchia F,Tavani A

更新日期：1982-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Incubation of unfixed, frozen sections of rat pancreas with tritiated guanidinoethylmercaptosuccinic acid (GEMSA) resulted in a localization of [3H]-GEMSA autoradiographic grains over the islets of Langerhans, suggesting that a carboxypeptidase H-like enzyme occurs in the islet. ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Powell AM,Wells MR,Timmers KI,Recant L

更新日期：1987-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:We hypothesized that the atheroinhibitory and cardioprotective effects of estrogen may be mediated in part through increased prostacyclin formation by the artery wall. Atherosclerotic abdominal aorta was collected at necropsy from ovariectomized female monkeys fed an atherogenic diet alone or with added Premarin. Basa...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： O'Sullivan MG,Goodrich JA,Adams MR

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Diazepam (0.4-4 mg/kg i.p.) reduced the spontaneous tonic activity in the electromyogram (EMG) recorded from the gastrocnemius-soleus muscle of spastic mutant Han-Wistar rats in a dose-dependent manner. The muscle relaxant effect of diazepam was antagonized by the benzodiazepine antagonists Ro 15-1788 (5 mg/kg i.p.), ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Schwarz M,Turski L,Sontag KH

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uptake of 131iodine-metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG) by 6-23 rat medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), was studied in vitro and in vivo. In vitro, there was an 8-fold increase in 131I uptake by 6-23 cells when labeled with 131I-MIBG (131I 24 +/- 15 cpm/10(6) cells, 131I-MIBG 196 +/- 9 cpm/10(6) cells). MIBG uptake in ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Poston GJ,Fawcett HD,Townsend CM Jr,James E,Lieg JL,Nusynowitz ML,Thompson JC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the cytotoxic effect of Peruvoside and mechanism of action in human cancers. MAIN METHODS:Cell viability was measured by MTT assay and the cell cycle arrest was identified by FACS. Real-time qPCR and western blotting studies were performed to identify important gene and protein expressions in the di...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Reddy D,Kumavath R,Tan TZ,Ampasala DR,Kumar AP

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro oxidative hemolysis of human red blood cells (RBCs) was used as a model to study the free radical-induced damage of biological membranes and the protective effect of flavonols and their glycosides (FOHs), i.e., myricetin (MY), quercetin (Q), morin (MO), kaempferol (K), rutin (R), quercetin galactopyranosi...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Dai F,Miao Q,Zhou B,Yang L,Liu ZL

更新日期：2006-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cognitive function of rats treated with saline (control), THA (8 mg/kg, i.p.), scopolamine (5 mg/kg, i.p.), or a combination of THA (8 mg/kg) and scopolamine (5 mg/kg) was tested in the Morris water maze. The latency to find the platform in the water maze was used to evaluate performance. THA did not significantly alt...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Jackson JJ,Soliman MR

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Skeletal muscle diseases have become to be the most common complication in patients with type 2 diabetic mellitus (T2DM). However, the effective therapies against skeletal muscle diseases are not yet available. Sulforaphane (SFN) is an organic isothiocyanate found in cruciferous plants. Our aim was to explore whet...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Wang M,Pu D,Zhao Y,Chen J,Zhu S,Lu A,Liao Z,Sun Y,Xiao Q

更新日期：2020-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:From the fruiting bodies of the edible mushroom Flammulina velutipes a single-chained ribosome inactivating protein with a molecular weight of 13.8 kDa was isolated with a procedure involving ion exchange chromatography on DEAE-cellulose and SP-Sepharose and affinity chromatography on Affi-gel blue gel. The protein wa...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Wang H,Ng TB

更新日期：2001-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:To analyze the metabolisms of platelet-activating factor (PAF) and Thromboxane A2 (TxA2) when platelets and mesangial cells (MC) interact, immunoreactive thromboxane B2 (TxB2) and PAF were measured after incubation of cultured rat MC with platelets (P) and with platelet supernatants (PS). In both cases, TxB2 significa...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Arribas I,Rodríguez-Puyol D,García-Escribano MC,Díez-Marques ML,Pérez de Lema G,Rodríguez-Puyol M

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined, in young adult women, the association between current low dose oral contraceptive (OC) use and plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an acute phase reactant predictive of cardiovascular disease risk. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 30 healthy, non-smoking, non-obese women (18 OC users and ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Dreon DM,Slavin JL,Phinney SD

更新日期：2003-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 100 microM norepinephrine (NE), GABA, aspartate, glutamate, and carbachol on the release of endogenous NE, GABA, aspartate, and glutamate from slices of rat cerebellum were examined. The 35 mM K+-stimulated release of NE was potentiated by GABA (136% of control), glutamate (123%), and carbachol (123%); ...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Flint RS,McBride WJ

更新日期：1986-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Twice daily injection of caffeine (30 mg/kg) for 3-1/2 days shifted the caffeine stimulus generalization curve to the right by 3-fold in rats trained to discriminate saline from 30 mg/kg of caffeine, and by 4-fold in rats trained to discriminate saline from 10 mg/kg of caffeine. The latter group was also tested for cr...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Holtzman SG

更新日期：1987-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vitro and in vivo regulation of [3H]Ro 5-4864 binding to peripheral benzodiazepine receptors (PBR) by ion transport/exchange inhibitors was studied in the kidney. The potencies of 9-anthroic acid, furosemide, bumetanide, hydrochlorothiazide and SITS as inhibitors of [3H]Ro 5-4864 binding to renal membranes were...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Basile AS,Lueddens HW,Skolnick P

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of a newly synthesized compound, 7-(3-[4-(2,3-dimethylphenyl)piperazinyl]propoxy)-2(1H)-quinolinone (OPC-4392), on tyrosine hydroxylation in situ and in vitro were studied using rat striatal slices and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) purified from bovine adrenal medulla, respectively. OPC-4392 dose-dependently i...

journal_title：Life sciences

authors： Kiuchi K,Hirata Y,Minami M,Nagatsu T

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00