Interaction of clonidine with chronotropic agents on isolated right atria.

abstract：:Slow alpha2-globulin (salpha2G), a high molecular weight glycoprotein, appears as a component of rat serum in a wide variety of both physiologic and pathologic conditions, including pregnancy; it is also present in the neonate. In the present study, the protein was detectable in serum after 6 to 10 days, and was prese...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kirkcaldy M,Beaton GH

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphorylation of the regulatory light chain of myosin catalyzed by myosin light-chain kinase (MLCK) is the key reaction in the regulation of actin-myosin interaction in smooth muscle. It is shown that this reaction is of an ordered type, whereby kinase first binds ATP and then the light chain, and following phosphat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sobieszek A

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geniposide (GP) is one of main compounds in Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, with both medicinal and nutritional value. This study was designed to determine, for the first time, how GP from G. jasminoides protects against acute alcohol-induced liver injury, and the underlying mechanisms. Mice were orally administered alcoh...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wang J,Zhang Y,Liu R,Li X,Cui Y,Qu L

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute dose--response studies were conducted to determine if ethosuximide had anticonvulsant activity against seizures evoked by stroboscopic stimulation of epileptic fowl and to correlate the observed effects with the concentration of the drug in the plasma. Ethosuximide, in doses that produced mean plasma concentrati...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Davis HL,Johnson DD,Crawford RD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In sepsis, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), and multiorgan dysfunction syndrome (MODS), a severe prognostically relevant cardiac autonomic dysfunction exists, as manifested by a strong attenuation of sympathetically and vagally mediated heart rate variability (HRV). The mechanisms underlying this attenu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Werdan K,Schmidt H,Ebelt H,Zorn-Pauly K,Koidl B,Hoke RS,Heinroth K,Müller-Werdan U

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin treatment causes delayed development of cardiotoxicity. Whether the doxorubicin-induced impairment of cardiac functions reverses or progresses with time after the cessation of the treatment was examined. The rats were injected with doxorubicin (2.5 mg/kg, i.v., once a week for 3 weeks) and sacrificed at 1 ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chugun A,Temma K,Oyamada T,Suzuki N,Kamiya Y,Hara Y,Sasaki T,Kondo H,Akera T

更新日期：2000-04-01 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 purpose of this study was to elucidate the mechanism whereby a potassium infusion led to an elevation in the urine minus blood (ohm-B) PCO2 difference in alkaline urine of the rabbit. Rabbits given 9alpha-fluorohydrocortisone 16 h prior to study had a significantly high olm-B PCO2 than control rabbits. However, th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Robson WL,Halperin ML,Stinebaugh BJ,Goldstein MB

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologist's view of brain astrocytes has changed markedly in recent years. In the past astrocytes were viewed as passive, K+ selective cells, but it is now evident that they are capable of expressing voltage- and ligand-activated channels previously thought to be restricted to neurons. The functional imp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sontheimer H

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：:We have characterized a specific binding site for angiotensin II (AngII) in chicken liver membranes. Pseudo-equilibrium studies at 22 degrees C for 30 min have shown that this binding site recognizes AngII with a high affinity (pKD of 8.13 +/- 0.21). The binding sites are saturable and relatively abundant (maximal bin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bouley R,Gosselin M,Plante H,Servant G,Pérodin J,Arcand M,Guillemette G,Escher E

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Bay K8644, a Ca2+ channel agonist, on the mechanical and electrical properties of frog skeletal muscle fibers were investigated. At relatively low concentrations, such as 10(-6) and 10(-5) M, Bay K8644 significantly potentiated the maximum amplitudes of twitch responses, and this effect was not reversed...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Oz M,Frank GB

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Tea is perceived as more relaxing than coffee, even though both contain caffeine. L-theanine in tea may account for the difference. Consumed together, caffeine and theanine exert similar cognitive effects to that of caffeine alone, but exert opposite effects on arousal, in that caffeine accentuates and theanine mitiga...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Giles GE,Mahoney CR,Brunyé TT,Taylor HA,Kanarek RB

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyrotoxicosis, a condition in which there is an excessive amount of circulating thyroid hormones, leads to reduced glycogen content in different tissues. In this study we analyzed the effects of aerobic swimming training on liver, heart, and skeletal muscle glycogen content in experimentally induced thyrotoxicosis. W...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ribeiro LF,Teixeira IP,Aparecido da Silva G,Dalia RA,Júnior MC,Bertolini NO,Rostom de Mello MA,Luciano E

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of melatonin treatment on adrenal catecholamine content, synthesis, uptake, and vesicular transport induced by the chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) model of depression in rats. This entailed quantifying the norepinephrine, epinephrine, mRNA, and protein levels of tyrosine hy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Stefanovic B,Spasojevic N,Jovanovic P,Dronjak S

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoprenaline and forskolin both inhibit contractions induced by antigen or by the calcium ionophore A23187 of guinea pig tracheal spirals and parenchymal strips. Antigen-induced airway contraction is considerably more sensitive to the inhibitory effects of isoprenaline than is A23187-induced contraction. In contrast, ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Burka JF

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of the relationship of diet to blood lipids and atherosclerosis has dominated the field of lipid nutritional biochemistry for the past 25 years. Although this subject has consumed considerable time, effort, and research funds, it has also proved beneficial to other areas of lipid biochemistry by attracti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Walker BL

更新日期：1983-03-01 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：:Continuous exposure to nitroglycerin (GTN) results in development of tolerance and is associated with increased free radical production and abnormal endothelial function. Elevated plasma biomarkers of inflammation have been shown to be associated with endothelial dysfunction in most cardiovascular conditions. It remai...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Thomas GR,DiFabio JM,Gori T,Jenkins DJ,Parker JD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The LA/N-corpulent (LA/N-cp) rat is a normotensive strain derived from Koltesky's original mutant strain of the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR). When homozygous for the cp gene (cp/cp), the rats are hyperphagous, hyperlipidemic, hyperinsulinemic, and obese. The rats have been shown, by scanning electron microscop...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Russell JC,Amy RM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Negative chronotropic effects of beta-adrenoceptor (betaAR) antagonists on right atria from reserpine-treated rats and mice were determined as a test of their inverse agonist activities. BetaAR antagonist ICI-118,551 and nonselective betaAR antagonists alprenolol, propranolol, and timolol produced negative chronotropi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Varma DR

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ablation of the anteroventral third ventricle (AV3V) region, which includes the organum vasculosum laminae terminalis (OVLT), blocks the febrile response of guinea pigs to systemically injected endotoxin; by contrast, discrete lesions of the OVLT transiently enhance fever in rabbits and rats. To assess whether separat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Blatteis CM,Hales JR,McKinley MJ,Fawcett AA

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of various doses of i.p. injection of the adenosine receptor agonist (R)-phenylisopropyladenosine (R-PIA), ranging from nanomolar to micromolar concentrations, on plasma levels of free fatty acids, glucose, insulin, glucagon, ACTH, and corticosterone was examined in 200-g male rats. At the lowest dose of R-...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： LeBlanc J,Soucy J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms leading to ifosfamide (IF)-induced renal damage have not been fully elucidated. Recent work suggests that localized renal tubular metabolism of IF and the production of the nephrotoxic chloroacetaldehyde may lead to nephrotoxicity. Presently no pharmacological method to reduce IF nephrotoxicity has been ide...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Aleksa K,Halachmi N,Ito S,Koren G

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to clarify if small doses of neurotensin (2.5 and 5.0 pmol.kg-1.min-1, i.v.) in dogs alter the postprandial motor pattern of the duodenum in comparison with the adjacent jejunum. The intestinal motor patterns were quantified by means of closely spaced strain gauge transducers and a computeriz...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bühner S,Ehrlein HJ

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new antagonist of the vasoconstrictor eicosanoids, L-640,035, was studied in a standardized model of myocardial ischemia (MI) in anesthetized cats. This eicosanoid antagonist was not found to exert any overt hemodynamic action in cats subjected to a sham myocardial ischemia protocol. However, the antagonist markedly...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lefer AM,Burke SE,Lepran I

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grains are global dietary staples that when consumed in whole grain form, offer considerable health benefits compared with milled grain foods, including reduced body weight gain and reduced cardiovascular and diabetes risks. Dietary patterns, functional foods, and other lifestyle factors play a fundamental role in the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nelson K,Stojanovska L,Vasiljevic T,Mathai M

更新日期：2013-06-01 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