Reserpine-induced changes in cardiac adrenergic receptors.

abstract：:We examined the effects of long-term streptozotocin (STZ) diabetes and its treatment by intensive insulin therapy (IIT) or pancreatic islet transplantation on pulmonary pressor and depressor responses and segmental resistance profiles in female Wistar-Furth rats. Pulmonary vascular reactivity was examined using isolat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Russ RD,Tobin BW

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the in vitro expression of bone-related proteins by osteoblasts in the presence of different concentrations of human recombinant bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2). Immortalized human fetal osteoblastic cell line 1.19 (hFOB) were exposed to different concentrations of rhBMP-2 (10, 50, or 100 n...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： de Oliveira EM,Martinez EF,Bossonaro JP,Ribeiro RC,de Araújo VC,Napimoga MH

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of calcium ionophore A23187 on the metabolism of pregnenolone to progesterone was examined in rat granulosa cells during a 24-h culture period. Granulosa cells harvested from pregnant mare's serum gonadotropin treated immature rats were incubated in the presence and absence of the divalent cation ionophore ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tsang BK,Mattice DF,Li M,Asem EK

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of variation in the extracellular concentrations of Na+, Mg2+, and Ca2+ in the depolarizing medium on isoproterenol-induced increases in cAMP levels and relaxation was studied in rat uterus. Isoproterenol (10(-8) M) failed to increase cAMP levels in the high-K+ medium containing no Na+. When 80 mM Na+ wa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Meisheri KD,McNeill JH

更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In experiments on isolated guinea pig papillary muscles the effects of verapamil (5 mg/L) and caffeine (1 g/L) on the two-component contraction were investigated. The muscles were continuously superfused with normal Tyrode's solution containing 2 mg of noradrenaline/L at 20--22 degrees C. The first derivative of contr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bogdanov KY,Zakharov SI,Rosenshtraukh LV

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of clofibrate administration (200 mg/kg, po) on somatic growth, plasma levels of lipids, tryptophan, growth hormone (GH), and prolactin (PRL), as well as on brain concentrations of tryptophan and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) were studied in prepubertal male rats. The drug did not significantly alter ponderal...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tache Y,Letarte J,Collu R

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metformin (MET) is widely used in the correction of insulin (INS) resistance and metabolic abnormalities in type 2 diabetes. However, its effect on INS resistance and metabolic disorders associated with cancer cachexia is not established. We investigated the MET effects, isolated or associated with INS, on INS resista...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： de Fatima Silva F,Ortiz-Silva M,Galia WBS,Cassolla P,da Silva FG,Graciano MFR,Carpinelli AR,de Souza HM

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were carried out in pigs to investigate the relationship between concentration of intestinal calcium-binding protein (CaBP) and the presence of rickets. Pigs made rachitic by a diet deficient in calcium and in vitamin D had concentrations of intestinal CaBP no less than values obtained on control pigs. The...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Harrison JE,Hitchman AJ,Brown RG

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An account is given of the current state of knowledge of the contributions of the cerebellum and the forelimb motor cortex (MC) to the neural control of walking movements in the cat. The main emphasis is on information obtained by recording from single MC and cerebellar neurones in chronically instrumented cats engage...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Armstrong DM,Marple-Horvat DE

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium antagonists may reduce propensity to ventricular fibrillation, by altering the balance between coronary blood flow and metabolic demand, and thus may substantially prolong time to occurrence of fibrillations. This delay in the onset of fibrillation should be sufficient to prevent sudden death in the case of tr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Timour Q,Aupetit JF,Freysz M,Frassati D,Faucon G

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclocarya paliurus (CP; qing qian liu), which is used as an herbal tea in China, has been confirmed to have therapeutic effects on hyperlipidemia and obesity, and therefore it is widely consumed to prevent metabolic diseases such as hyperlipidemia and diabetes. In this study, we investigated the preventive effects of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Yao X,Lin Z,Jiang C,Gao M,Wang Q,Yao N,Ma Y,Li Y,Fang S,Shang X,Ni Y,Zhang J,Yin Z

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the physiological and clinical implications of the C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP)/guanylyl cyclase B (GC-B) system in the human vasculature, we have examined gene expressions of CNP and its receptor, GC-B, in human vascular endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and have also compared the e...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Taura D,Nakao K,Nakagawa Y,Kinoshita H,Sone M,Nakao K

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic mechanisms for essential hypertension are unclear despite striking efforts from numerous research teams over several decades. Increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) has been associated with the development of hypertension and the role of ROS in hypertension has been well documented in recent ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chang T,Wu L

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetic patients have a higher incidence of cardiac arrhythmias, including ventricular fibrillation and sudden death, and show important alterations in the electrocardiogram, most of these related to the repolarization. In myocytes isolated from diabetic hearts, the transient outward K+ current (Ito) is the repolariz...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gallego M,Alday A,Urrutia J,Casis O

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Serine, a recently identified gliotransmitter, serves as an endogenous coagonist binding to the glycine site of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors. However, it is not clear whether this native ligand is able to bind to and modulate alpha-amino-3-hydroxyl-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionate (AMPA) receptors. In the pre...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gong XQ,Zabek RL,Bai D

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphofructokinase activity was measured in the sciatic nerve of streptozotocin-induced diabetic and nondiabetic rats. Average steady-state phosphofructokinase activity was obtained from three consecutive segments of the mid-femoral region in the left sciatic nerve in both diabetic (4 and 24 weeks) and nondiabetic, a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kilgour RD,Gardiner K,Gardiner PF

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:Damage to the stomach results in excessive movement of hydrogen ion (H+) out of the lumen, and increased movement of sodium (Na+) and potassium (K+) into the lumen. Histamine liberation during damage probably adds to the destruction by increased capillary permeability and formation of edema. Previous reports have show...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tepperman BL

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the dopamine type-2 receptor (D-2) antagonist domperidone on pituitary and brain amine concentrations and serum gonadotropin levels in the goldfish were investigated. Domperidone caused a long-lasting, dose-dependent depletion of dopamine in the goldfish pituitary. Pituitary concentrations of 5-hydroxyt...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sloley BD,Trudeau VL,Dulka JG,Peter RE

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review updates our current knowledge on the regulation of Na+/H+ exchanger, Na+,K+,Cl- cotransporter, Na+,Pi cotransporter, and Na+,K+ pump in isolated epithelial cells from mammalian kidney by protein kinase C (PKC). In cells derived from different tubule segments, an activator of PKC, 4beta-phorbol 12-myristate...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gagnon F,Hamet P,Orlov SN

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Na+/H+ exchanger isoform 1 is an integral membrane protein that regulates intracellular pH. It extrudes 1 intracellular H+ in exchange for 1 extracellular Na+. It has 2 large domains, an N-terminal membrane domain of 12 transmembrane segments and an intracellular C-terminal regulatory domain. We characterized the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ding J,Ng RW,Fliegel L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclopia subternata is a medicinal plant commonly used in traditional medicine to relieve pain. In this study, we investigated the antiseptic effects and underlying mechanisms of vicenin-2 and scolymoside, which are 2 active compounds from C. subternata that act against high mobility group box 1 (HMGB1)-mediated septi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lee W,Yoon EK,Kim KM,Park DH,Bae JS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin consumption has been reported to be able to reduce colorectal cancer risk in humans and in animal models of colon carcinogenesis. Although the mechanism involved in such an effect is not yet clear, both prostaglandin-dependent and -independent effects have been proposed. Using HT-29 Glc(-/+)cells, which origin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Eklou-Kalonji E,Andriamihaja M,Reinaud P,Mayeur C,Camous S,Robert V,Charpigny G,Blachier F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of prolonged exercise on muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ cycling properties and the metabolic responses with and without a session of exercise designed to reduce muscle glycogen reserves while on a normal carbohydrate (CHO) diet. Eight untrained males (VO(2peak) = 3.81 +/- 0...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Duhamel TA,Green HJ,Perco JG,Ouyang J

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucosamine sulfate is a dietary supplement that is marketed as a treatment for osteoarthritis. Recent evidence from animal and cell culture models have suggested that glucosamine treatment can promote the misfolding of proteins and the activation of the unfolded protein response (UPR). We investigated whether glucosa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： McAlpine CS,Beriault DR,Behdinan T,Shi Y,Werstuck GH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic potassium deficiency in one-kidney one-clip hypertensive dogs significantly reduces blood pressure and plasma potassium, with a simultaneous increase in plasma renin activity. Tissue potassium concentration was decreased and tissue sodium concentration was increased in striated muscle and adrenal glands, which...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Garcia R,Constantopoulos G,Gutkowska J,Genest J

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in electrical conductivity between smooth muscle cells (SMCs) can alter the spread and effectiveness of electromechanical SMC contraction. We attempted to determine whether alterations in pressure-dependent constriction (PDC) occurring in relation to stroke development within the middle cerebral arteries (...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Smeda JS,King SR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between 1 and 7 days of life, the newborn rabbit heart shifts from predominantly using carbohydrates to predominantly using fatty acids as an energy substrate. We therefore used isolated working hearts from 1- or 7-day-old rabbits to determine the effects of fatty acids on myocardial glucose use and the ability of hea...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lopaschuk GD,Spafford MA

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn (PPHN) is defined as the failure of normal pulmonary vascular relaxation at birth. Hypoxia is known to impede postnatal disassembly of the actin cytoskeleton in pulmonary arterial myocytes, resulting in elevation of smooth muscle α-actin and γ-actin content in elastic a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Fediuk J,Dakshinamurti S

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of nickel chloride to prevent streptozotocin-induced hyperglycemia was tested in rats in vivo. To induce diabetes, streptozotocin (100 mg/kg body weight) was injected as a single dose. Streptozotocin treatment resulted in a significant decrease in plasma insulin and ceruloplasmin, and pancreatic Cu, prot...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Novelli EL,Rodrigues NL,Ribas BO

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00