Histamine--whither now?

abstract：:We studied the effect of lowering the extracellular potassium concentration ([K+]o) on the electrophysiological actions of disopyramide phosphate, a new antiarrhythmic drug. At low [K+]o, therapeutic concentrations of disopyramide phosphate caused significantly less depression of action potential amplitude and maximum...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kus T,Sasyniuk BI

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of beta-adrenergic blocking agents, timolol and atenolol (1-1000 microM), were studied on rat heart sarcolemmal ATPase and Ca2+ binding activities. Timolol, unlike atenolol, increased both Ca2+-stimulated ATPase and ATP-dependent Ca2+ binding; the maximal effects were seen at 1 microM concentration of timo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Dzurba A,Ganguly PK,Beamish RE,Dhalla NS

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant tension development resulting from the administration of lanthanum salts (La3+) to isolated aorta tissues was observed in preparations from the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) but not in preparation from age-matched normotensive Wistar rats (NWR). The response to La3+ was significantly greater in tiss...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Goldberg MT,Triggle CR

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male spontaneously hypertensive stroke-prone (SHRsp) rats were fed 4% NaCl diets containing either 0.75% (normal) K or 2.11% (high) K, starting at 6 weeks of age. After 8 months on these diets, 40 out of 58 SHRsp rats on the 0.75% K diet had died (69% mortality) versus 2 dead out of 95 on the 2.11% K diet (2% mortalit...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tobian L

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because the excessive apoptosis of articular chondrocytes contributes to extracellular matrix (ECM) loss and cartilage damage in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), inhibiting chondrocyte apoptosis might be a promising strategy for RA. Aquaporin1 (AQP1) is overexpressed in RA cartilage and synovial tissues, and play a vital pa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cai L,Chen WN,Li R,Liu MM,Lei C,Li CM,Qiu YY

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the role of endothelial NO in the hemodynamics and vascular changes that occur in heart failure following myocardial infarction in rats. Left ventricular systolic pressure (LVSP), mean blood pressure (MBP), aortic morphology (media thickness) and reactivity were evaluated in ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： da Cunha V,Stefanon I,Mill JG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of hepatic microsomal aryl hydrocarbon hydroxylase (AHH) activity by SKF 525-A in vitro was studied in hepatic microsomes from rats of varying age, sex hormone status, and drug treatment. The concentration of SKF 525-A required to produce a 50% inhibition of AHH activity, the IC50, was determined for th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gontovnick LS,Bellward GD

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the artery wall is exquisitely sensitive to the hemodynamic forces imposed on it by blood pressure and blood flow. This sensitivity regulates growth and remodeling of arteries during development, and it regulates long-term adaptive restructuring of mature vessels. Since many vascular pathologies invol...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Langille BL

更新日期：1996-07-01 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：:Beneficial effects of an antioxidant (N-acetyl-L-cysteine, NAC) and an angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor (ramipril) were assessed in a rat model of insulin resistance induced by 10% glucose feeding for 20 weeks. Treatments with NAC (2 g/kg per day) and ramipril (1 mg/kg per day) were initiated at 16 week...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： El Midaoui A,Ismael MA,Lu H,Fantus IG,de Champlain J,Couture R

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of neural factors can influence reproductive hormone secretion by neuromodulatory actions within the hypothalamus or neuroendocrine actions within the anterior pituitary gland. Passive immunoneutralization and antagonist administration protocols have suggested physiological roles for a number of these factor...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Samson WK,Alexander BD,Skala KD,Huang FL,Fulton RJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the contribution of pulmonary surfactant to a low airflow resistance through narrow conducting airways, a system was developed with which it was possible to determine the resistance meeting a steady flow of air at 0.5 mL/min. The airflow, delivered by an infusion pump, entered the extreme periphery of a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Enhorning G,Yarussi A,Rao P,Vargas I

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:In the mesenteric circulation of the rat a myogenic autoregulatory system operates at 0.1-0.15 Hz. Negative admittance phase in the region above 0.2 Hz suggested operation of an arterial baroreflex. The present study was designed to test this interpretation and to identify the neurotransmitter involved. In rats anesth...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Abu-Amarah I,Cupples WA

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenylate cyclase activity induced by norepinephrine (10(-8)-10(-9) M) was studied in hypothalamic particulate fractions from female rats. The effect of estradiol on this activity was studied in rats that were ovariectomized in diestrus 1, injected with estradiol benzoate (50 micrograms/kg body weight), and killed...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zubin P,Defagot C

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are conflicting reports concerning the existence of severe hypermethioninemia in rats made diabetic with the pancreotoxin, streptozotocin. To determine whether this discrepancy is due to experimental differences in the severity of diabetes or the diet fed to the animals, streptozotocin-diabetic and control rats ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Dyer JR,Greenwood CE,McBurney MI

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemodynamic effects of the combination of clonidine and propranolol were studied in conscious rats with portal hypertension owing to secondary biliary cirrhosis. Pressure and blood flow measurements (radioactive microsphere method) were performed in three groups of eight rats before and after drug administration. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Roulot D,Gaudin C,Braillon A,Sekiyama T,Bacq Y,Lebrec D

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to assess the cardioprotective effect of dual NEP-ACE inhibition in relation to endogenous cardiac bradykinin (BK), its active metabolite des-Arg9-BK, endogenous brain natriuretic peptides (BNP), and cGMP. Rats were treated with the dual metallopeptidase inhibitor, omapatrilat, o...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Dumoulin MJ,Adam A,Burnett J,Heublein D,Yamaguchi N,Lamontagne D

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a mathematical model of the distribution and metabolism of rat corticotropin-releasing factor (rCRF), the time course of 125I-labelled rCRF in plasma was measured in male Sprague-Dawley rats (i) following a rapid injection of 24 ng rCRF/100 g body weight (BW), or (ii) following a rapid injection of 424 ng r...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Candas B,Lalonde J,Normand M

更新日期：1986-06-01 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：:Previous studies have demonstrated that abdominal irradiation alters intestinal uptake of nutrients. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of an orally administered synthetic prostaglandin E2, enprostil, given on three occasions shortly prior to a single exposure to 600 cGy external abdominal irradiati...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Thomson AB,Keelan M,Clandinin MT,Tavernini M,Lam T,Walker K,Cheeseman CI

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alcohol oxidase membrane technique is available for measurement of ethanol in commercial fluids. In this paper we examined its usefulness for cat and human blood in comparison with gas-liquid chromatography (GLC). The membrane method proved to be simple, reproducible, accurate, and inexpensive. Analysis took 1-2 m...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Greenway CV,Pushka K,Sitar DS,Rogers LK

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of atorvastatin and carboxymethylated β-glucan (CMG) on the lipoprotein-cholesterol (LP-C) and lipoprotein-triglyceride (LP-TG) fractions and subfractions at the early stage of murine hyperlipidemia, and its pleiotropic anti-inflammatory effects, were studied. Atorvastatin and CMG were administered in ICR ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Korolenko TA,Tuzikov FV,Cherkanova MS,Johnston TP,Tuzikova NA,Loginova VM,Filjushina EE,Kaledin VI

更新日期：2012-02-01 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：:Endothelin 1 (ET-1) is a potent vasoconstrictor implicated in the control of blood pressure and renal function. Its effects can be modulated by nitric oxide (NO), which inhibits ET-1 production and action. Recently, we reported that ET-1 production can also be modulated by angiotensin II (AngII) in vivo. To investigat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： D'Amours M,Lebel M,Grose JH,Larivière R

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：: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：:The response pattern of the isolated longitudinal muscle of the rabbit ileum to adenosine-5'-alpha, beta-methylenediphosphonate (APCP) was found to differ from that caused by adenosine or ATP in that the rapid initial phase of relaxation is absent and that at doses above 10 muM a secondary increase of contractile acti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Frew R,McKenzie SG,Bär HP,Hutchison KJ

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in calcium metabolism and calcium-regulating hormones have been described in essential hypertension. However, the mechanisms that mediate these responses are unknown. In previous studies, using the genetically spontaneously hypertensive rat and the mineralocorticoid-salt (DOC-salt) hypertensive rat model, ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wimalawansa SJ,Supowit SC,DiPette DJ

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperglycemia in diabetes induces increased endothelin-1 (ET-1) production in the retina, kidney, and heart that may lead to hemodynamic impairment, permeability alteration, and increased extracellular matrix (ECM) protein production. Chronically elevated blood glucose levels may cause oxidative stress in these target...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chiu J,Xu BY,Chen S,Feng B,Chakrabarti S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00