Regulation of vascular smooth muscle tone.

abstract：:Using the glycogen depletion technique, we have examined utilization of specific fibre types during prolonged submaximal exercise to investigate the recruitment pattern employed by the central nervous system to sustain force generation in the face of a progressive glycogen depletion. Six male subjects (Vo2 max, 52.8 +...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Green HJ,Smith D,Murphy P,Fraser I

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined effect of a beta 2-antagonist and an alpha 2-agonist on the release of adrenal catecholamines was studied in the anaesthetized and vagotomized dog. The electrical stimulation of the splanchnic nerve (5-V pulses of 2 ms duration for 3 min at a frequency of 3 Hz) produced a significant rise in adrenal catec...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Foucart S,de Champlain J,Nadeau R

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Steady state glucose kinetics were measured in 19 premature and 16 full-term piglets. Bodyweight, plasma glucose concentration, total body glucose turnover rate, and glucose pool size were not significantly different between the two groups. This suggests that the premature piglet is capable of maintaining glucose home...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Flecknell PA,Wootton R,John M,Royston JP

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in metabolic characteristics of the liver and jejunal epithelia as a result of feeding the beta-agonist albuterol to chickens for 3 and 6 weeks were studied. Feeding albuterol resulted in a change in weights of the liver and small intestines. Chickens fed albuterol for 6 weeks had greater levels of plasma none...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rompala RE,Darre MJ

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present research was to assess the relationship between ABCB1 (G2677T/A, C3435T) polymorphisms and lipid homeostasis as well as risk of liver injury induced by atorvastatin in in-patients from China. The lipid levels (total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, triglycerides) as well as metabolic enzymes of hepar...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Qu KK,Zhang CN,Dong LX,Wang SS,Zhang ZD,Zhang L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of d-fenfluramine, a serotonin-releasing drug, to male rats induced a dose-dependent increase in both serum prolactin and corticosterone concentrations. Serum growth hormone levels increased, but not significantly, at a dose of 1.25 mg/kg i.p. and decreased significantly at higher doses. When rats were ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Serri O,Rasio E

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) on spinal motoneurons were examined in pentobarbital-anaesthetized cats and in nonanaesthetized decerebrate cats by intracellular recording and extracellular iontophoresis of 5-HT. 5-HT first induced a depolarization and then a long-lasting hyperpolarization (up to 60 min) wit...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhang L

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of high potassium depolarization on the release of exogenously supplied [3H]glutamate and endogenous glutamate from tissue slices of the cestode Hymenolepis diminuta was examined. Increasing concentrations of potassium stimulated the release of radiolabel from tissues preloaded with [3H]glutamate. This rele...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Webb RA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mesenteric vascular bed preparation of control and pinealectomized (PX) male Wistar rats was used to examine vascular reactivity to two concentrations each of norepinephrine, serotonin, angiotensin, and potassium. Vasoconstrictor responses to 50- and 100-ng injections of norepinephrine and 0.5- and 1.0-microgram i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cunnane SC,Manku MS,Oka M,Horrobin DF

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：:We examined the interaction of smooth muscle myosin with alpha-actin and beta-actin isoforms during the contraction of A7r5 smooth muscle cells and rat aortic smooth muscle. The techniques of confocal microscopy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) analysis were utilized in examining A7r5 cells and rat ao...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Black J,Dykes A,Thatcher S,Brown D,Bryda EC,Wright GL

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of different receptor populations within a given brain area can be effectively evaluated via the local injections of defined receptor agonists and antagonists. Using this approach, it has become evident that the nucleus basalis - cortical cholinergic pathway possesses an inhibitory GABAergic input to the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wood PL

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) has physiological roles in the absence of exposure to exogenous ligands, and mediates adaptive and toxic responses to the environmental pollutant 2,3,7,8-tetracholorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). A readily metabolized AHR agonist, 3-methylcholanthrene, disrupts the expression of mouse he...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lee C,Riddick DS

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diazinon (DZN) is a common organophosphorus insecticide extensively used for agriculture and veterinary purposes. DZN toxicity is not limited to insects; it also induces harmful effects in mammals and birds. Our experiment evaluated the protective and antioxidant potential of sesame oil (SO) and (or) alpha-lipoic acid...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Abdel-Daim MM,Taha R,Ghazy EW,El-Sayed YS

更新日期：2016-01-01 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：:Guanine nucleotide binding proteins (G proteins) are largely grouped into three classes: heterotrimeric G proteins, ras-like or small molecular weight GTP binding proteins, and others like Gh. In the heart G proteins transduce signals from a variety of membrane receptors to generate diverse effects on contractility, h...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zolk O,Kouchi I,Schnabel P,Böhm M

更新日期：2000-03-01 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：:New methods for chronic instrumentation of the newborn piglet are described, which allow continuous monitoring of not only pressures in the pulmonary artery and aorta but also in the left and right atria, pulmonary vein, as well as main branch pulmonary artery flows. Changes in pulmonary vascular tone to short-acting ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Coe JY,Olley PM,Hamilton F,Vanhelder T,Coceani F

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in dietary omega-6/3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) ratios affect anti- and proinflammatory equilibrium. As reperfused myocardial infarction (MI) is an inflammatory pathology that alters the cell integrity of the myocardium but also of other tissues, such as the hippocampus and amygdala, attenuation of the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rondeau I,Picard S,Bah TM,Roy L,Godbout R,Rousseau G

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intra- and extra-cellular concentrations of calcium were measured in hippocampal neurons of areas CA1 and CA3 during 8 min ischaemia and short-term (up to 60 min) recovery. During an ischaemic insult, [Ca2+]i increased progressively and [Ca2+]e decreased. There were large interneuronal differences, although, in genera...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Erecińska M,Silver IA

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vestibulo-ocular and vestibulo-collic reflexes are well-studied sensorimotor systems with dynamic properties that have been successfully modeled. Recently proposed matrix and tensorial models attempt to describe the spatial organization of these reflexes in three dimensions. Here we describe experiments that test ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Baker JF,Banovetz JM,Wickland CR

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study was designed to characterize restitution kinetics in atrial repolarization of rabbits and to examine effects of K+ or Ca2+ channel blockers on restitution. Action potentials were recorded from rabbit atrial tissue. Restitution curves of phase I amplitude and action potential duration at 50 and 90% repolariza...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Qi A,Tang C,Yeung-Lai-Wah JA,Kerr CR

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if increased endometrial vascular permeability (a response which precedes decidualization) could be obtained in temporally nonsensitized uteri by treatments designed to increase endometrial adenosine 3':5'-cyclic monophosphate (cAMP) concentrations, cholera toxin (an activator of adenylate cyclase) was in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Johnston ME,Kennedy TG

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endothelium, although only a single layer of cells lining the vascular and lymphatic systems, contributes in multiple ways to vascular homeostasis. Subsequent to the 1980 report by Robert Furchgott and John Zawadzki, there has been a phenomenal increase in our knowledge concerning the signalling molecules and path...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Triggle CR,Samuel SM,Ravishankar S,Marei I,Arunachalam G,Ding H

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of circulating triacylglycerols is determined by the balance between their delivery into the plasma and their removal from it. Plasma triacylglycerols are derived either from dietary fat as chylomicrons or from endogenous hepatic synthesis as very low density lipoproteins. Their removal occurs through the ac...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Herzberg GR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role that thromboxane A2 plays in contractions induced by leukotriene D4 in guinea-pig isolated lung parenchyma was investigated under equilibrium conditions. Lung tissue generated thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin spontaneously as evidenced by the slow accumulation of their biologically inactive metabolites, thromb...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Giembycz MA,Rodger IW

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway smooth muscle (ASM) contraction controls the airway caliber. Airway narrowing is exaggerated in obstructive lung diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The mechanism by which ASM tone is dysregulated in disease is not clearly understood. Recent research on ion channels, parti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Jha A,Sharma P,Anaparti V,Ryu MH,Halayko AJ

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The freezing point and the melting point of myoplasm were measured with two experimental models. In all samples, a supercooled stage was reached by lowering the temperature of the sample to approximately - 7 degrees C, and the freezing of the sample was mechanically induced. The freezing process was associated with a ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Caillé JP

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrocrast is a novel lipophilic dihydropyridine derivative with potential neuroprotective and antidiabetic properties. We have analyzed its interaction with L-type (CaV1.2b) and T-type (CaV3.1) calcium channels using a whole-cell patch clamp in HEK 293 cells. Cerebrocrast inhibited current flux through both CaV1.2b...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Drígelová M,Tarabová B,Duburs G,Lacinová L

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experimental data document an activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases Erk1 and Erk2 by bradykinin (BK), an agonist of the kinin B2 receptor (B2R). In contrast, other reports showed an inhibitory modulation of mitogenesis by BK. Therefore, we explored in the isolated glomeruli the effect of B2R acti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cellier E,Duchêne J,Pécher C,Alric C,Bascands JL,Schanstra JP,Girolami JP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00