The in vitro effect of corticosterone on insulin binding and glucose metabolism in mouse skeletal muscles.

abstract：:The effects of neomycin sulfate were examined upon the discharge activity and electrical membrane properties of an isolated invertebrate sensory neuron, the crayfish stretch receptor neuron. Neomycin depressed cell discharge activity in a concentration-dependent manner over the concentration range of 0.01-1.0 mM. Sign...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nation PN,Roth SH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beneficial hypolipidemic and antioxidant influences of the dietary spice compounds curcumin and capsaicin were evaluated. Curcumin, capsaicin, or their combination were included in the diet of high-(30%)-fat-fed rats for 8 weeks. Dietary high-fat-induced hypertriglyceridemia was countered by dietary curcumin, caps...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Manjunatha H,Srinivasan K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research was to assess the relationship between ABCB1 (G2677T/A, C3435T) polymorphisms and lipid homeostasis as well as risk of liver injury induced by atorvastatin in in-patients from China. The lipid levels (total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, triglycerides) as well as metabolic enzymes of hepar...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Qu KK,Zhang CN,Dong LX,Wang SS,Zhang ZD,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-01-01 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：:In many species systemic toxicity of 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) is manifested by a generalized wasting syndrome accompanied by a variety of specific organ changes including atrophy of the thymus and spleen. TCDD toxicity in most tissues is thought to be mediated by the Ah receptor. Although the spleen ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Roberts EA,Vella LM,Golas CL,Dafoe LA,Okey AB

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N,N-Diethyl-2-(1-pyridyl)ethylamine (E-2-P) produced 59 +/- 7% of the maximal response to histamine in guinea pig ileal longitudinal smooth muscle and antagonized the responses of this tissue to histamine. The estimated binding constant of E-2-P for the histamine receptor predicted a binding curve nearly coincident wi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kenakin TP,Cook DA

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of high potassium depolarization on the release of exogenously supplied [3H]glutamate and endogenous glutamate from tissue slices of the cestode Hymenolepis diminuta was examined. Increasing concentrations of potassium stimulated the release of radiolabel from tissues preloaded with [3H]glutamate. This rele...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Webb RA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Space travelers experience anorexia and body weight loss in a microgravity environment, and microgravity-like situations cause changes in hypothalamic activity. Hypothalamic melanocortins play a critical role in the regulation of metabolism. Therefore, we hypothesized that microgravity affects metabolism through alter...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lew PS,Wong D,Yamaguchi T,Leckstrom A,Schwartz J,Dodd JG,Mizuno TM

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In open-chest pentothal-chloralose anesthetized dogs, plasma catecholamine and cyclic AMP levels were evaluated in the aortic and coronary sinus blood, during stimulations of the left ansa subclavia (1, 2, and 4 Hz). Basal aortic and coronary sinus catecholamine levels were respectively 0.373 +/- 0.090 and 0.259 +/- 0...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lavallée M,Laurencin C,de Champlain J,Nadeau RA

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in estrogen production are considered important in the sequence of events leading to parturition. We sought tissue-specific changes in the concentration of unconjugated estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) in intrauterine fetal (amnion, chorion) and maternal (endometrium, myometrium) tissues during normal pregnancy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Power SG,Challis JR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic caval dogs with ascites were identified as being natriuretic "responders" or "nonresponders" (delta UNaV less than 20 microequiv./min) following an infusion of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) (100 ng.kg-1.min-1). To learn more about the factors modulating tubular resistance to ANP, we attempted to convert res...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Legault L,Cernacek P,Levy M

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin sensitivity and resistance were examined in vivo in uremic rats by using tracer methods which permit the assessment of "non-steady-state" glucose kinetics. By relating the changes in the rates of glucose output by the liver (Ra), uptake by tissues (Rd), and metabolic clearance (MCR) to immunoreactive glucagon ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Perez G,Carteni G,Ungaro B,Saccà L

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found when L-type calcium current (ICa-L) was recorded with the perforated patch-clamp method in rat ventricular myocytes that bath application of phenylephrine (with propranolol) evoked a biphasic response characterized by an initial transient suppression followed by a sustained potentiation. The transient suppres...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhang S,Lin J,Hirano Y,Hiraoka M

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we characterized the receptor(s) that mediates non-adrenergic non-cholinergic (NANC) contractions of isolated guinea pig cervical trachea, using CP-99,994, a selective neurokinin (NK1) receptor antagonist, and SR-48,968, a selective neurokinin (NK2) receptor antagonist. The activity of these two a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Charette L,Foulon D,Rodger IW,Jones TR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that the intraportal infusion of glutamine in Munich-Wistar rats will cause depression of renal perfusion and the urinary excretion of salt and water. We have attempted to reproduce these findings in anaesthetized dogs. L-Glutamine was infused at doses between 120 and 150 mumol/min into the portal...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Levy M

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of one bout of acute exercise on impaired glucose metabolism was studied in obese (480 +/- 20 g), untrained rats, at rest (n = 10) and after 60 min of swimming (n = 5). Using the euglycemic, hyperinsulinemic (10 mU.kg-1 x min-1) clamp, glucose clearance rate increased from 7.6 +/- 0.9 at rest to 9.7 +/- 0.5...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Burstein R,Zissholtz A,Zick-Bachar Y,Epstein Y,Shapiro Y,Karnieli E

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if increased endometrial vascular permeability (a response which precedes decidualization) could be obtained in temporally nonsensitized uteri by treatments designed to increase endometrial adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) concentrations, cholera toxin (an activator of adenylate cyclase) was in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Johnston ME,Kennedy TG

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were designed to evaluate vascular reactivity to angiotensin II in rats with experimental cirrhosis of the liver (induced with CCl4 and phenobarbital) before ascites appearance. The systemic pressor response to angiotensin II in conscious animals and the contractile effect of angiotensin II in ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Villamediana LM,García-Villalón AL,Caramelo C,López-Novoa JM

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma and serum of healthy subjects apparently contain a precursor form of renin, or 'prorenin,' which can be activated by the ice-cold temperature at which samples are customarily handled for prolonged periods in laboratories and blood banks. The effect of such prior cryoactivation for 9 days at 4 degrees C is to in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Osmond DH,Cooper RM

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isometric potentiation associated with myosin phosphorylation is force dependent. The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of a pre-existing period of isometric force on the concentric force potentiation displayed by mouse muscles with and without the ability to phosphorylate myosin. We tested isometr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gittings W,Aggarwal H,Stull JT,Vandenboom R

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:The effects of leukotrienes (LTs) have been widely studied in the isolated perfused mammalian heart; however, little is known about the effect or metabolism of LTs in the isolated bullfrog heart. Isolated perfused bullfrog hearts were administered randomized doses of LTC4, LTD4, or LTE4. The cardiac parameters of hear...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Herman RP,Heller RS,Canavan CM,Herman CA

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous results showed that addition of agonists, such as vasopressin and angiotensin, added to incubation medium with freshly excised rat atria caused marked release of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF). This release was in the form of prohormone rather than active peptide. Since others had difficulty reproducing ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sonnenberg H,Milojevic S,Yip C,Veress AT

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of modulators of Ca-ATPase and alkaline phosphatase (AP) activity on placental calcium and phosphorus transfer were studied using the in situ perfused guinea pig placenta. The diuretics ethacrynic acid and furosemide had no significant effect on placental calcium and phosphorus transfer when injected into ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： McKercher HG,Derewlany LO,Radde IC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Taurine status and pregnancy outcome were assessed in rats fed low dietary taurine and varying doses of guanidinoethyl sulfonate (GES), a structural analogue of taurine. Female Sprague-Dawley rats (225-270 g) were mated overnight and assigned to one of four groups from day 0 to 20 of gestation. Taurine-deficient anima...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gottschall-Pass KT,Gorecki DK,Paterson PG

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypotensive effect of clonidine in anaesthetised (pentobarbitone) cat has been analysed with the help of pharmacological tools. Application of clonidine (0.1%) to the exposed ventral surface of medulla oblongata produced hypotension (28.6%) and bradycardia (18%). Similar application of glycine (5%) and GABA (10%) ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Srimal RC,Gulati K,Dhawan BN

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the determinants of spontaneous activity in explanted neonatal (2-day-old) rat ventricle cells and in reaggregates derived from 15-day-old chick embryos. We studied the beating rate with an optical recording method and the underlying electrical activity with glass microelectrodes using the K current blocke...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Schanne OF,Boutin L,Derosiers J

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to determine if tonic beta-adrenergic control of plasma renin activity (PRA) during dietary sodium restriction is due to stimulation of renal beta-adrenoceptors, extrarenal beta-adrenoceptors, or both. Experiments were performed in six conscious resting uninephrectomized dogs with chronically i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Blair ML,Gengo FM

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mentoring in academia is often carried out in an informal way depending on individuals and circumstances. I was quite fortunate to make the acquaintance of Professor E.E. Daniel when I was making a transition from my research in entomology to biomedical sciences. Here I recount some of that experience, and describe so...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lee RM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of nitric oxide (NO) on the vasorelaxant effect of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on the basal tone of rabbit aortic rings conditioned to angiotensin II (Ang II) was studied. ANP aortic relaxation and nitrite release were measured in the presence and absence of endothelium and a NO-synthase inhibitor. Ang I...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Romano L,Coviello A,Jerez S,Peral de Bruno M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00