Beta-adrenergic control of renin in sodium-deprived conscious dogs: renal versus extrarenal location.

abstract：:Autophagy regulates cellular homeostasis and integrates the cellular pro-survival machinery. We investigated the role of autophagy in the natural history of murine abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA). ApoE(-/-) mice were implanted with saline- or angiotensin II (Ang-II)-filled miniosmotic pumps then treated with either t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ramadan A,Wheatcroft MD,Quan A,Singh KK,Lovren F,Dhingra N,Teoh H,Al-Omran M,Leong-Poi H,Verma S

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We used thermoluminescence, electron spin resonance, and viscosimetric measurements to establish whether or not a spice had been irradiated. Thermoluminescence, using the 1788 EN official protocol with an alternative method for the extraction of mineral impurities, led to proof of irradiation or proof of no treatment....

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chabane S,Pouliquen-Sonaglia I,Raffi J

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hedysarum polybotrys polysaccharide (HPS) is the principal active fraction responsible for the antidiabetic properties of this species. The aim of this study was to determine the antidiabetic properties of 4 purified fractions of different molecular weight range HPSs (HPS1, HPS2, HPS3, HPS4). HPS3 was selected for exa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Hu F,Li X,Zhao L,Feng S,Wang C

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Techniques to dissociate different sites or stores important for Ca2+ entry or release in smooth muscle include washouts of 45Ca in cold La3+ -substituted solutions. Scatchard-coordinate plots of Ca2+ uptake, substitution of Sr2+ for Ca2+, and both desaturation and rate coefficient plots. Rabbit aortic smooth muscle i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Weiss GB,Karaki H,Murakami K

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to examine the protective role of crude polysaccharide from brown seaweed Sargassum polycystum against acetaminophen-induced abnormality in blood glucose, serum albumin/globulin ratio, and liver glycogen, lactate, and pyruvate. Liver and renal tissue histology was performed to confirm the effi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Raghavendran HR,Srinivasan P

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:Hyperglycemia in diabetes induces increased endothelin-1 (ET-1) production in the retina, kidney, and heart that may lead to hemodynamic impairment, permeability alteration, and increased extracellular matrix (ECM) protein production. Chronically elevated blood glucose levels may cause oxidative stress in these target...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chiu J,Xu BY,Chen S,Feng B,Chakrabarti S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac injury and loss of cardiomyocytes is a causative as well as a resultant condition of cardiovascular disorders, which are the leading cause of death throughout the world. This loss of cardiomyocytes cannot be completely addressed through the currently available drugs being administered, which mainly function on...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Padda J,Sequiera GL,Sareen N,Dhingra S

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD) inclusion complexation on the ability of violacein to prevent gastric ulceration in mice were studied. Violacein-betaCD inclusion complexes were prepared in 1:1 and 1:2 molar ratios and analysed by differential scanning calorimetry and powder X-ray diffractometry. Violacein pr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Durán N,Justo GZ,Melo PS,De Azevedo MB,Brito AR,Almeida AB,Haun M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several laboratories have reported ligand binding studies using radioactive histamine H1 antagonists to label the H1 receptors in mammalian brain. We have extended these studies to a detailed examination of the binding of [3H]mepyramine to monkey brain and have shown that the distribution is similar to that in man, wi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bielkiewicz B,Cook DA

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disruption to glucose homeostasis upon glucocorticoid (GC) treatment in adult male rats has not been fully characterized in older rats or in females. Thus, we evaluated the age- and gender-related changes in glucose homeostasis in GC-treated rats. We injected male and female rats at 3 months and 12 months of age w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： dos Santos C,Ferreira FB,Gonçalves-Neto LM,Taboga SR,Boschero AC,Rafacho A

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of atorvastatin and carboxymethylated β-glucan (CMG) on the lipoprotein-cholesterol (LP-C) and lipoprotein-triglyceride (LP-TG) fractions and subfractions at the early stage of murine hyperlipidemia, and its pleiotropic anti-inflammatory effects, were studied. Atorvastatin and CMG were administered in ICR ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Korolenko TA,Tuzikov FV,Cherkanova MS,Johnston TP,Tuzikova NA,Loginova VM,Filjushina EE,Kaledin VI

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liver diseases are associated with a decrease in hepatic drug elimination, but there is evidence that cirrhosis does not result in uniform changes of cytochrome P450 (CYP) isoenzymes. The objective of this study was to determine the content and activity of four CYP isoenzymes in the bile duct ligation and carbon tetra...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bastien MC,Leblond F,Pichette V,Villeneuve JP

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that the two-chain form of human high molecular weight kininogen (HKa) inhibits angiogenesis by inducing endothelial cell apoptosis (Zhang et al. 2000). This property appears to be primarily conferred by HKa domain 5 (HKa D5). In this manuscript, we further characterize the activity of these polyp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhang JC,Qi X,Juarez J,Plunkett M,Donaté F,Sakthivel R,Mazar AP,McCrae KR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This Symposium includes 15 presentations and an editorial review dealing with prorenin activation and function. It comes 20 years after prorenin was first reported in various contexts and attracted attention because of its connection with renin--angiotensin, its high concentration relative to renin in the blood, and i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Osmond DH,Sealey JE,McKenzie JK

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorimotor mechanisms were studied on the basis of kinematic and electromyographic data as well as the static torque developed by the muscles as a function of joint angle. The latter relationship is known as the torque/angle characteristic. Fast single-joint movement may result from a shift in this characteristic an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Levin MF,Lamarre Y,Feldman AG

更新日期：1995-02-01 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 mature (450-600 g) 21 degrees C-acclimated male rats, anaesthetized with urethane, blood flow (measured by the radioactive microsphere technique) to brown adipose tissue (BAT) was determined during the infusion of the beta-adrenoceptor agonist BRL 28410 or noradrenaline bitartrate at doses chosen to give similar in...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Thurlby PL,Ellis RD

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the influence of dopaminergic agents on the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene in relation with lipid levels in chronic mild stress (CMS). Mice subjected to CMS were treated with simvastatin (10 mg/kg, per os (orally)) along with bromocriptine (2 mg/kg, intraperitoneally (...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rana DG,Patel AK,Joshi CG,Jhala MK,Goyal RK

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mesenteric circulation of the rat a myogenic autoregulatory system operates at 0.1-0.15 Hz. Negative admittance phase in the region above 0.2 Hz suggested operation of an arterial baroreflex. The present study was designed to test this interpretation and to identify the neurotransmitter involved. In rats anesth...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Abu-Amarah I,Cupples WA

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:The developing heart forms during the early stages of embryogenesis, and misregulated heart development results in congenital heart defects (CHDs). To understand the molecular basis of CHDs, a deep understanding of the morphological and genetic basis of heart development is necessary. Atrial Natriuretic Factor (ANF) i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Bruneau BG

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The active form of vitamin D3, 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1α,25(OH)2D3 or calcitriol), is known to inhibit the proliferation and invasiveness of many types of cancer cells, including breast, colon, pancreatic, prostate, and liver cancer cells. These findings support the use of 1α,25(OH)2D3 for the treatment of these t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Matsumoto Y,Kittaka A,Chen TC

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity is associated with autonomic nervous system dysfunction. The aim of the study was to evaluate baroreflex sensitivity, an indicator of autonomic nervous function, in 20 obese children and adolescents in comparison with 20 age- and sex-matched nonobese subjects. All subjects were examined in the supine position ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lazarova Z,Tonhajzerova I,Trunkvalterova Z,Brozmanova A,Honzíková N,Javorka K,Baumert M,Javorka M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent decades, the complexity of the endothelium and its major role in maintaining or altering blood vessel architecture are being revealed. In contrast, the vascular smooth muscle cell previously received the most attention. I suggest support of the hypothesis that the endothelium is the key to vascular disease. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Todd ME

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents data showing that the sympathetic autonomic areas of the cat thoracolumbar spinal cord contain nerve terminals and fibres with immunoreactivity for at least seven neuropeptides. The distribution in the intermediolateral cell column of the terminals and fibres which contain enkephalin-, neuropeptide...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Krukoff TL

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple method using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry was developed to determine a low concentration of ethanol in urine. The detection limit was 0.02 mM ethanol. A mean +/- SD ethanol concentration in urine of 0.21 +/- 0.17 mM was measured in 11 alcoholics after 14 days abstention, a level at least 10 times high...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tang BK

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strips of rabbit thoracic aorta precontracted with phenylephrine relaxed when exposed to selected synthetic peptides derived from the cell attachment domain of fibronectin. The relaxations elicited by both acetylcholine and the hexapeptide Gly-Arg-Gly-Asp-Ser-Pro (GRGDSP) were dependent on the presence of an intact en...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Laplante C,St-Pierre S,Beaulieu AD,Marceau F

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of varying dietary levels of zinc was evaluated in mice fed T-2 toxin. A semipurified diet was used to produce a low zinc (less than 2 parts per million (ppm], a zinc replete (100 ppm), and a high zinc (2500 ppm) diet. T-2 toxin was added to the three zinc diets at a concentration of 10 ppm. The mice were f...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chanin BE,Hamilton DL,Hancock DS,Schiefer HB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00