Strophanthidin inotropy in cardiac Purkinje fibers under conditions that vary cellular sodium or calcium.

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to compare the specific cortisol-binding protein found associated with human amnion with specific cortisol binding in human amniotic fluid and plasma. The electrophoretic mobility on polyacrylamide gels of the specific cortisol binding in amnion, amniotic fluid, and maternal plasma was id...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Riopel L,Gibb W

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direct effects of extrinsic nerve stimulation on coronary artery tone are unclear because of the complications arising from alterations in myocardial dynamics which themselves alter flow. An isolated and perfused nonbeating slab of beef ventricle was utilized in the present experiments to eliminate secondary compl...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kalsner S

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing evidence for a beneficial effect of ginseng on cardiac pathology. Here, we determined whether North American ginseng can modulate the deleterious effects of the β-adrenoceptor agonist isoproterenol on cardiac hypertrophy and function using in vitro and in vivo approaches. Isoproterenol was administ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tang X,Gan XT,Rajapurohitam V,Huang CX,Xue J,Lui EM,Karmazyn M

更新日期：2016-12-01 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：:This study was designed to investigate whether and how triiodothyronine (T3) affects renal function in an experimental model of chronic kidney disease. Twenty-four female rats were divided into the following groups: sham-operated control group (n = 8), 5/6 nephrectomized group (Nx, n = 8), and 5/6 nephrectomized group...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： El Agaty SM

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal mammalian sexual maturation and reproductive functions require the integration and precise coordination of hormones at the hypothalamic, pituitary, and gonadal levels. Hypothalamic gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a key regulator in this system; after binding to its receptor (GnRHR), it stimulates de no...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cheng KW,Leung PC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review presents, from the author's viewpoint, avenues of histamine research likely to produce new information. One potentially useful approach may be to attempt to relate histamine's function to its occurrence in different body tissues such as the pituitary and hypothalamus, the gastrointestinal mucosa, and the b...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Code CF

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY(1-36)), a sympathetic cotransmitter and neurohormone, has pleiotropic activities ranging from the control of obesity to anxiolysis and cardiovascular function. Its actions are mediated by multiple Gi/o-coupled receptors (Y1-Y5) and modulated by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV/cd26), which inactivate...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zukowska Z,Pons J,Lee EW,Li L

更新日期：2003-02-01 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：:A possible implication of endogenously released ATP and (or) ADP in insulin response to glucose stimulation was investigated in the isolated rat pancreas. The first phase of insulin response to the same glucose concentration (8.3 mM) was much higher in pancreas previously perfused in the absence of glucose than in pan...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chapal J,Bertrand G,Hillaire-Buys D,Gross R,Loubatières-Mariani MM

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of isoproterenol and forskolin on tension, cyclic AMP levels, and cyclic AMP dependent protein kinase activity were compared in helical strips of bovine coronary artery. Elevation of cyclic AMP and activation of the protein kinase appeared to be well correlated with relaxation of potassium-contracted arter...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Vegesna RV,Diamond J

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) binding sites in Wistar rat tissues, as well as tissues from other species was studied. Using autoradiography of slide mounted tissue sections incubated with 125I-labelled ANF, high densities of binding sites were found in the renal glomeruli and papilla, aortic smoo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： von Schroeder HP,Nishimura E,McIntosh CH,Buchan AM,Wilson N,Ledsome JR

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol was administered to rats by oral intubation 3 h after intraperitoneal administration of calcium carbimide. Increased blood acetaldehyde concentration and the presence of acetaldehyde in brain were found for the calcium carbimide--ethanol interaction. There was no detectable brain acetaldehyde for ethanol admin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hoover DJ,Brien JF

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After myocardial infarction, the hemodynamics under basal conditions might appear to be unaltered, which makes it difficult to identify cardiac dysfunction by the usual approaches. Thus, we tested the response to sudden afterload stress in infarcted rats with apparently normal ejection function. Control (CT) and infar...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： dos Santos L,Antonio EL,Souza AF,Tucci PJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of endogenous and exogenous diacylglycerol (DG) was studied in SM-3 cells derived from rabbit aortic smooth muscle to determine the biochemical step(s) responsible for degrading DG second messengers. Incubation of growth-arrested SM-3 cells with [3H]myristate for 2 h resulted in selective labelling of c...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Migas I,Chuang M,Sasaki Y,Severson DL

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antioxidant glutathione-S-transferase (GST) is a crucial determinant of the development of ischaemic-reperfusion (I/R) injury, and plays a pivotal role in the regulation of the mitogen activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathways involved in stress response and apoptosis. The aim of this study was to investigate wheth...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Balatonyi B,Gasz B,Kovács V,Lantos J,Jancsó G,Marczin N,Rőth E

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disposition of the bis-pyridinium mono-oxime, HI-6, following intramuscular injection in rats (200 mg/kg bw), beagle dogs (10 and 50 mg/kg bw), and rhesus monkeys (50 mg/kg bw) revealed that the oxime was absorbed rapidly and completely from the site of injection, was distributed rapidly in the tissues, and that tissu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ecobichon DJ,Comeau AM,O'Neil WM,Marshall WD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complexes of vanadyl(IV) with 4 monosaccharides and 5 disaccharides were tested in 2 osteoblast-like cell lines (MC3T3E1 and UMR106). Many complexes caused stimulation of UMR106 proliferation (120% basal) in the range of 2.5 to 25 micromol/L. In the nontransformed osteoblasts, some vanadyl-saccharide complexes stimula...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Barrio DA,Cattáneo ER,Apezteguía MC,Etcheverry SB

更新日期：2006-07-01 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：:Acrolein, a highly reactive alpha,beta-unsaturated aldehyde, is an omnipresent environmental pollutant. Chronic and acute human exposures occur through exogenous and endogenous sources, including food, vapors of overheated cooking oil, house and forest fires, cigarette smoke, and automobile exhaust. Acrolein is a toxi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Roy J,Pallepati P,Bettaieb A,Averill-Bates DA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of magnesium (from 1.2 to 7.2 mM) were investigated in isolated perfused rat heart subjected to coronary artery ligation and reperfusion. Increasing magnesium concentrations, of the medium containing 3.00 mM of calcium, induced a significant bradycardia and a protective effect towards reperfusion arrhythmi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bril A,Rochette L

更新日期：1990-06-01 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：:We tested the effects of inhibiting the carbonic anhydrase activity of rat soleus and extensor digitorum longus muscles on the isometric contractile properties and the resistance to fatigue. SOL and EDL muscles from female rats were incubated in vitro in the presence of methazolamide, a specific inhibitor of carbonic ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Côté C,Tremblay D,Riverin H,Frémont P,Rogers PA

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-electrode voltage-clamp experiments were made on CA1 neurons in the presence of tetrodotoxin and K channel blockers. Applications of halothane (1-3% v/v) for 3-10 min caused a similar marked and reversible depression of slow inward currents (probably Ca currents) evoked by depolarizing pulses from a holding pot...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Krnjević K,Puil E

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single-channel recordings from central neurons of the helix snail, Cepaea nemoralis, revealed two types of channels that could be activated by stretch (i.e., by the membrane deformation produced when suction is applied to the patch pipette). One, a K+ channel (58 pS in physiological solution), was evident in excised a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bédard E,Morris CE

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High buffer cardioplegia may provide protection against ischemic damage by reducing the extent of intracellular acidosis. Secondary cardioplegia may improve postischemic recovery by restoration of high energy phosphates, ionic gradients, and intracellular pH. To test these hypotheses, pig hearts were arrested with hig...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tian GH,Mainwood GW,Biro GP,Smith KE,Butler KW,Lawrence D,Deslauriers R

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：: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：: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：:Type 1 diabetes mellitus reduces lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity in the heart. The diabetic phenotype of decreased LPL activity in freshly isolated cardiomyocytes persisted after overnight culture (16 h). Total cellular LPL activity was 311+/-56 nmol oleate released x h(-1) x mg(-1) cell protein in diabetic cultured...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ewart HS,Carroll R,Severson DL

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00