Human lymphocyte migration in vitro: characterization and quantitation of locomotory parameters.

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation was to elucidate the pharmacological mechanism by which U44069, a stable PGH2 analogue, contracts the rat aorta. The results obtained demonstrate that while the contractile effect of potassium chloride is obliterated by removal of extracellular calcium, a substantial proportion of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Heaslip RJ,Rahwan RG

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Sprague-Dawley rats, we attempted to develop an experimental model to stimulate the cardiac sympathetic nerve. After transverse thoracotomy under anesthesia, a miniature, bipolar electrode was placed on the right ansa subclavia and it was stimulated electrically. The nerve stimulation at 2, 4, and 8.3 Hz (2 ms in d...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Masuda Y,Matsuoka H

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of the mouse interstitial cell testosterone assay by the addition of 1.5 microM forskolin to the incubation medium has improved the sensitivity of this luteinizing hormone bioassay from approximately 100 to 3 pg/tube of NIH rLH RP-2. Luteinizing hormone can be clearly detected in 1 microL of serum from ra...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Debertin WJ,Pomerantz DK

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oleate (0.3 and 1.2 mM) and the combined effect of beta-hydroxybutyrate (4 and 8 mM) and acetoacetate (1 and 2 mM) on rates of lipolysis (glycerol output) was determined with calcium-tolerant myocytes isolated from the hearts of normal rats and hearts from acutely (2-3 days; 100 mg/kg streptozotocin) dia...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Larsen TS,Severson DL

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronically hypoxic rats (exposed to 5000 m elevation for 3 weeks) develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) that is reversed upon return to normoxia and is blocked by bradykinin (BK) antagonist B9430 treatment (100 microg/kg s.c. three times per week). Treatment of rats with both the synthetic VEGF receptor-1/2 antagonist ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Taraseviciene-Stewart L,Gera L,Hirth P,Voelkel NF,Tuder RM,Stewart JM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to review the current state of knowledge of ethanol neurobehavioural teratogenesis and its postulated mechanisms. The review comprises an examination of ethanol teratogenesis in the human, including the fetal alcohol syndrome, and in experimental animals. Several current proposed mechani...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Reynolds JD,Brien JF

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:The postprandial release of immunoreactive insulin, glucagon, gastrin, somatostatin, pancreatic polypeptide (PP), and gastric inhibitory polypeptide (GIP) was studied in parallel with the absorption of sugars and amino acids in conscious pigs. Six pigs fitted with permanent catheters in the portal vein and arterial bl...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rérat A,Chayvialle JA,Kandé J,Vaissade P,Vaugelade P,Bourrier T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The force generated by tracheal spirals and lung parenchymal strips from normal and ovalbumin-sensitized guinea pigs was measured in vitro, after challenge with histamine, carbachol, leukotriene (LT) C4, LTD4, or a prostaglandin endoperoxide analog (U-44069). The responses and sensitivity of airway tissues to the abov...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Saad MH,Burka JF

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the literature there appears to be variability in reported levels of certain hormones during haemorrhage, specifically adrenocorticotrophic hormone (ACTH) and β-endorphin. It is possible that this variability may be due to the choice of anaesthetic. Therefore, the effect of 3 common research-only anaesthetic agents...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ruane-O'Hora T,Hall WJ,Markos F

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine and specific H1- and H2-receptor agonists and antagonists in conjunction with phentolamine and (or) reserpine pretreatment were used to characterize histamine receptor(s) in the seminal vesicle of rat and guinea pig. Stimulation of H1 receptors produced a contraction whereas that of H2 receptors inhibited th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： MacIntosh CM,Vohra MM

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The administration of small doses of somatostatin (SRIF) (0.01 and 0.1 microgram) into the neostriatal complex of unrestrained, freely moving rats induced general behavioral excitation associated with a variety of stereotyped movements, tremors, and a reduction of rapid eye movements (REM) and deep slow wave sleep (SW...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rezek M,Havlicek V,Leybin L,Pinsky C,Kroeger EA,Hughes KR,Friesen H

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological action of alpha bungarotoxin in the central nervous system of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus was investigated. Two types of effects were produced by the toxin. The predominant effect was an inhibition of spontaneous activity. However, in some instances alpha bungarotoxin caused a stimulation o...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Thomas W,Townsel JG

更新日期：1981-02-01 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：:Heme plays a critical role in blood pressure regulation because it is required by a number of enzymes that synthesize vascular modulators, including nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), guanosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cGMP), endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF), and prostacyclin. The goal of thi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Soong J,Adams MA,Nakatsu K

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism whereby chronic rapid ventricular pacing induces severe heart failure is unclear, but the phenomenon is associated with a reduction in left ventricular ATP levels. Accordingly, the current study was undertaken to evaluate the acute effects of rapid ventricular pacing on hemodynamics, left ventricular ade...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Simmons WW,Moe GW,Grima EA,Howard RJ,Armstrong PW

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is commonly thought that central nervous system depressant drugs exert their actions through enhancement of gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA)-mediated mechanisms. Recently, the cellular electrophysiological evidence from this laboratory and others suggests that both sedative hypnotics and general anaesthetics inhibit cent...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Carlen PL,Gurevich N,Davies MF,Blaxter TJ,O'Beirne M

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of fast neutrons (10-100 Gy) on chromatin extracted from normal (liver of Wistar rats) and tumor (Walker carcinosarcoma maintained on Wistar rats) tissues were compared. The spectroscopic assays used were (i) chromatin intrinsic fluorescence, (ii) time-resolved fluorescence of chromatin - proflavine comple...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Radu L,Constantinescu B,Gazdaru D

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activity-related transient changes in extracellular K+ concentration ([K+]c), extracellular pH (pHc), and extracellular volume (EC volume) were studied by means of ion-selective microelectrodes in the adult rat spinal cord in vivo and in neonatal rat spinal cords isolated from pups 3-14 days of age. Repetitive electri...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Syková E,Jendelová P,Svoboda J,Chvátal A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular inflammatory process has been suggested to play a key role in the initiation and progression of atherosclerosis, a major complication of diabetes mellitus. Thus, in this study, we attempted to determine whether 2 structurally related flavonoids found in Cyclopia subternata, vicenin-2 and scolymoside, can ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ku SK,Bae JS

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the capacity of efferent sympathetic neurons to modulate the failing heart, stellate ganglion stimulation was performed in dogs with biventricular heart failure induced by rapid ventricular pacing (240 beats/min) for 4-6 weeks. Less noradrenaline was released from cardiac myoneural junctions into corona...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cardinal R,Nadeau R,Laurent C,Boudreau G,Armour JA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Effect of Ni2+ on Zn2+-induced potentiation of twitch tension was studied electrophysiologically in the toe muscle fibers of Rana catesbeiana. The major findings of this investigation are as follows. When 2 mM Ni2+ was applied to fibers in a normal Ringer's solution containing 50 microM Zn2+ (Zn2+ solution), the Zn2+-...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Oba T,Hotta K

更新日期：1986-05-01 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：:One hypothesized mechanism of the cardioprotection provided by preconditioning is decreased utilization of ATP during ischemia. Although ATP levels in preconditioned heart during ischemia have been previously studied, contractile activity during ischemia has not been investigated. Contractile activity accounts for sig...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rehring TF,Bender PR,Cairns CB,Joo K,Friese RS,Shapiro JI,Cleveland JC Jr,Banerjee A

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypothermia increases the sensitivity of isolated cardiac muscle to stimulation by beta-adrenoceptor agonists. The purpose of this study was to determine pharmacologically whether this supersensitivity is associated with a change in the affinity of agonists for the receptor. The positive inotropic and chronotropic res...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Broadley KJ,McNeill JH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most life-threatening cancers. The present study was designed to chronologically analyze the HCC chemically induced by diethylnitrosamine (DEN) in male Wistar rats during a 27-week period. DEN was given to rats in drinking water (100 mg/L) to induce HCC. In the present stud...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Fathy AH,Bashandy MA,Bashandy SAE,Mansour AM,Elsadek B

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin (PTX) is a heterohexameric protein, which is divided into subunits A and B. The A-subunit (protomer) possesses adenine diphosphate (ADP) ribosyltransferase activity, and the B-oligomer confers cell surface binding specificity on the toxin. By virtue of the ADP-ribosylation activity in the A-subunit, PT...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wong WS,Rosoff PM

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluctuations in the concentrations of cortisol and progesterone in fetal plasma, maternal plasma, and amniotic and allantoic fluids were measured in samples taken at 10-min intervals over a 90-min period from three groups of sheep sampled at different times during late pregnancy. During the last 30 days of gestation t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Challis JR,Patrick JE,Cross J,Workewych J,Manchester E,Power S

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both surface pH (pHs) and intracellular pH (pHi) were measured using single- and double-barreled pH-sensitive microelectrodes in isolated sheep cardiac Purkinje strands, rabbit and cat papillary muscle, and mouse and rat soleus muscle. Superfusion of the preparations with a relatively low buffered solution (containing...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： de Hemptinne A,Marrannes R,Vanheel B

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 2 decades, mi(cro)RNAs have emerged as one of the key regulators of metabolic homeostasis. Most of the studies have highlighted that, in the cytoplasm, miRNAs directly bind to the 3'-UTR (untranslated region) of a mRNA. Conventional RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) formation results in the post-trans...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Baradan R,Hollander JM,Das S

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00