Reduced glutathione modulates the arachidonic acid induced coronary reactions.

abstract：:We tested the hypothesis that ethanol consumption would aggravate the renal damage induced by cyclophosphamide (CYP). Male C57BL/6J mice from control (n=8) and CYP (n=12) groups had free access to filtered water and standard rodent chow for 12 weeks. Then, 24 h before euthanasia mice received an intraperitoneal inject...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sousa AH,Do Vale GT,Silva CB,Awata WM,Pinheiro LC,Tirapelli CR

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of two structurally similar pyrazine derivatives, tetramethylpyrazine (TMP) and tetraethylpyrazine (TEP) on the contractile responses of dog saphenous vein to KCl (via membrane depolarization), phenylephrine (PHE, alpha 1-adrenergic agonist), and B-HT 920 (alpha 2-adrenergic agonist) were investigated. The...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wang ZL,Kwan CY,Ohta A,Chen MC

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to elucidate the variables of gastroduodenal motility determining gastric emptying. For this purpose the effects of exogenous cholecystokinin, secretin, and gastric inhibitory polypeptide on motility and gastric emptying were studied during a meal. Motility was measured with extraluminal stra...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Keinke O,Ehrlein HJ,Wulschke S

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was recently shown that a peptide (hypertensive factor, HF) isolated from erythrocyte hemolysates from spontaneously hypertensive rats induced a prolonged elevation of blood pressure in normotensive rats. In addition, the peptide produced a marked stimulation of the in vitro uptake of lanthanum-resistant calcium by...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wright GL,Huang BS,Johnson PJ,McCumbee WD

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite major advances in conventional medical therapy, patients with heart failure continue to experience significant morbidity and mortality. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasocontrictor and mitogenic peptide that is activated in heart failure. There is increasing experimental and clinical evidence in support of a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Moe GW,Rouleau JL,Nguyen QT,Cernacek P,Stewart DJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the potential of shikonin as an anticancer agent against liver cancer and an in vitro human hepatoma cancer model system. The HepG2 cell line was the hepatoma cancer model in the present study. The inhibitory effect of shikonin on the growth of HepG2 cells was measured by MTT assay. To explore ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Yingkun N,Lvsong Z,Huimin Y

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

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：:Tissues from the duodenum and vas deferens of Sprague-Dawley rats were examined of the rat vas deferens and gap junctions. Can. J. Physiol. Pharmacol. 54, 412-416. by electron microscopy after glutaraldehyde fixation and postosmication. Gap junctions (nexuses) were readily demonstrated in the duodenum in both control ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Paton DM,Buckland-Nicks J,Johns A

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats anesthetized with alpha-chloralose, doses of 0.1, 0.5, and 1 g/kg of ethanol produced an upward shift of baroreflex curves constructed by plotting the heart rate response against mean arterial pressure following evoked rises in mean arterial pressures by phenylephrine or angiotensin II. Whereas the upward shif...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Abdel-Rahman AR,Russ R,Strickland JA,Wooles WR

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twitch-potentiating effects of opioids in the frog's skeletal muscle which are naloxone resistant and nonstereospecific were further studied. The rapid kinetics of the onset and of the offset (following washout) of the opioid effect indicates that the site for this action is the surface membrane of the muscle fibr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Shetty SS,Frank GB

更新日期：1986-07-01 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 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：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the cardiac adrenergic neuronal changes induced by diabetes and hypertension by using an analogue of norepinephrine, meta-iodobenzylguanidine (MIBG), and to compare these changes with the contractile state of ventricular papillary muscle. The tissue concentration of norepin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Herman LM,Dai S,Hartman NG,McNeill JH

更新日期：1994-10-01 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：:Glucagon causes marked elevations of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in dogs when administered intravenously (i.v.) in small doses. The associated natriuresis is thought to be entirely due to increments in the filtered sodium load. In this study, renal denervation, thyroparathyroidectomy, and blockade of cholinergic,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Levy M

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reported efficiencies of drug encapsulation into liposomes range from less than 0.1% to more than 10% per micromole phospholipid, depending on the nature of the drug and of the liposome employed. We have sought to investigate some of the factors which control the efficiency of drug encapsulation. We have found tha...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Stamp D,Juliano RL

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lectins, known to recognize endothelial cell adhesion molecules, have been shown to release endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) from blood vessels. We investigated the effects of different leukocyte-type cells to determine if these cells, by interacting with the endothelium, could release EDRF from the circumfl...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kleha JF,Devesly P,Johns A

更新日期：1995-03-01 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：: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 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：:Angiotensin exerts numerous contractile and secretory effects by activating specific receptors. Recent pharmacological findings obtained with this peptide in various laboratories are analyzed, using the order of potency of agonists and the affinity of competitive antagonists as criteria for the classification of recep...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Regoli D

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was undertaken to determine the beta-receptor subtype responsible for the enhanced anaphylactic histamine release from bovine leukocytes produced by isoprenaline. The selective beta 1 antagonist practolol competitively inhibited the enhancement of histamine release produced by isoprenaline. The selec...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Perron R,Eyre P

更新日期：1982-07-01 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：:Administration of naloxone to morphine-dependent rats results in an elevation of tail skin temperature and a fall in core temperature. Previous studies have demonstrated a role of the adrenal gland in the thermal responses that accompany morphine withdrawal in the rat. In the present study, experiments were designed t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Katovich MJ,Pitman D,Schechtman O

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Redistribution of blood flow away from resting skeletal muscles does not occur during anemic hypoxia even when whole body oxygen uptake is not maintained. In the present study, the effects of sympathetic nerve stimulation on both skeletal muscle and hindlimb blood flow were studied prior to and during anemia in anesth...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kubes P,Chapler CK,Cain SM

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuronal factors co-released with neurotransmitters may play an important role in synapse development and function. Calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) and adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP), two principal neuromodulators present in the motor nerve terminals, were studied for their roles and mechanisms during early de...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lu B,Fu WM

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ah receptor in hepatic cytosols from adult cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca fasicularis) was identified and quantitated by its binding of the highly toxic chemical 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and the carcinogens 3-methylcholanthrene, benzo[a]pyrene, and dibenz[a,h]anthracene. The concentration of Ah receptor ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Okey AB,Vella LM,Iverson F

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visual acuity was measured behaviorally in various groups of cats by using a two-choice discrimination procedure. Cats in group 1 were rendered strabismic soon after birth by sectioning the tendon of the lateral rectus muscle (unilateral esotropia); at adulthood, their visual acuity (VA) was evaluated, after which the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ptito M,Bouchard P,Lepore F,Quessy S,Di Stefano M,Guillemot JP

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tension responses to ramp shortening of varying speed in whole muscle or single fibres from the plateau of an isometric tetanus, revealed at least two distinct phases. There was a fast initial drop in tension followed by a change of slope and a definite inflexion on the tension record. As the velocity of the imposed l...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bressler BH

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of dantrolene to rabbit red blood cell (RBC) ghosts and bovine serum albumin as models of receptor sites was studied using fluorescence techniques. Dantrolene upon binding to rabbit RBC ghosts and bovine serum albumin showed fluorescence with emission maxima at 495 and 500 nm, respectively. Dantrolene boun...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Dehpour AR,Mahmoudian M

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00