The soluble guanylyl cyclase inhibitor 1H-[1,2,4]oxadiazolo[4,3-alpha]quinoxalin-1-one (ODQ) inhibits relaxation of rabbit aortic rings induced by carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and glyceryl trinitrate.

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：:A survey of 'steady-state' serum levels of anticonvulsant drugs from 221 epileptic patients at a university hospital was conducted. Serum concentrations of phenobarbital, primidone, and diphenylhydantoin were determined by a gas chromatographic method. Sixty-five percent (130) of the patients receiving diphenylhydanto...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Davis HL,Bailey DG,Johnson GE,Wilson TW

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In older Aplysia, the central nervous system (CNS) (abdominal ganglion) exerts suppressive and facilitatory control over the peripheral nervous system (PNS) which initially mediates the gill withdrawal reflex and its subsequent habituation evoked by tactile stimulation of the siphon. In young animals, both the suppres...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lukowiak K

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular smooth muscle tone is regulated primarily by the sarcoplasmic free Ca2+ concentration, which determines the level of myosin phosphorylation. Stimulation of the muscle results in an increase in free [Ca2+], whereupon Ca2+ binds to calmodulin, inducing a conformational change enabling calmodulin to interact wit...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Walsh MP

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Local microinjections of harmaline evoked sustained rhythmic activity in the inferior olive of decerebrate cats. Harmaline appears to exert its action within restricted areas of the inferior olivary complex: the caudal halves of the dorsal and medial accessory nuclei. Since the highly synchronized activity generated b...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： De Montigny C,Lamarre Y

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In both isolated canine ventricular trabecular muscle and Purkinje strand preparations, dl-sotalol and its two optical isomers d- and l-sotalol produced a concentration-dependent increase in action potential duration while other transmembrane electrical characteristics were not significantly affected. The magnitude of...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lathrop DA

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of metabolic control to in vivo myocardial contractile function in response to beta 1-adrenergic stimulation was determined in the spontaneously diabetic BB Wor rat. The study involved a group of insulin-dependent BB Wor rats showing marked variations in metabolic control, assessed by the level of gly...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Broderick TL,Kopp SJ,Daar JT,Romano FD,Paulson DJ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose utilization and insulin and growth hormone responses were evaluated in eight obese women by three rapid intravenous glucose tolerance tests (IVGTT): during a control period, and after 1 and 3 weeks of a 750 kcal/day protein-lipid diet (1 kcal = 4.1855 kJ). Weight loss averaged 454 g/day during the 1st week and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Reid D,Rasio E

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a spectrum of chronic liver conditions that are characterized by steatosis, inflammation, fibrosis, and liver injury. The global prevalence of NAFLD is rapidly increasing in proportion to the rising incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Because NAFLD is a multifaceted di...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sid V,Siow YL,O K

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the beneficial effects of cilnidipine, an L- and N-type calcium channel blocker, which were clinically observed against diastolic dysfunction in hypertrophied hearts of hypertensive patients, we investigated the effects of cilnidipine on cardiac remodeling and enhanced gene expression in stroke-prone, spont...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Takemori K,Ishida H,Dote K,Yamamoto K,Ito H

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat production (HP), heart rate (HR), respiration rate, rumen motility, and body temperature responses to 2.5-h adrenaline (A) and noradrenaline (NA) intrajugular infusions at 0.00, 0.15, 0.30, 0.60, and 0.90 micrograms.kg-1.min-1 were studied in 10 shorn wethers which had been chronically (3-8 weeks) exposed to ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Graham AD,Christopherson RJ

更新日期：1981-09-01 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：:Experiments were done for indentification and localization of certain structural changes at different levels of jejunal villus of the hamster during positive and negative water transport across the intestine in vivo and in vitro. Positive transport occurred when the mucosal surface of the intestine was bathed (in vitr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Melligott TF,Beck IT,Dinda PK,Thompson S

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes increases the risk and severity of cognitive impairment, especially after ischemic stroke. It is also known that the activation of the endothelin (ET) system is associated with cognitive impairment and microglia around the periinfarct area produce ET-1. However, little is known about the effect of ET-1 on mic...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Abdul Y,Jamil S,He L,Li W,Ergul A

更新日期：2020-09-01 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：:Changes in force and stiffness during contractions of mouse extensor digitorum longus and soleus muscles were measured over a range of extracellular pH from 6.4 to 7.4. Muscle stiffness was measured using small amplitude (less than 0.1% of muscle length), high frequency (1.5 kHz) oscillations in length. Twitch force w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Renaud JM,Stein RB,Gordon T

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:Muramyl peptides derived from bacterial peptidoglycan are detected intracellularly by Nod1 and Nod2, 2 members of the newly characterized nod-like receptor (NLR) family of pattern recognition molecules. In the absence of bacterial invasion into the host cytosolic compartment, it remains unclear whether muramyl peptide...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ismair MG,Vavricka SR,Kullak-Ublick GA,Fried M,Mengin-Lecreulx D,Girardin SE

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucagon in small intravenous (i.v.) doses markedly increases glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in normal anesthetized dogs. In this study, the effects of glucagon 5 mug/min (i.v.) on renal hemodynamics was tested in four canine models of acute pre-renal failure (hemorrhage, barbiturate overdose; renal arterial clampin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Levy M

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of reduced levels of omega-3 and omega-6 highly unsaturated fatty acids ("HUFA deficiency") in heart failure remain unresolved. HUFA profiles were examined in the serum of 331 patients with failing versus nonfailing heart disease. Arachidonic acid was positively correlated (P < 0.001) with eicosapentaenoic ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Rupp H,Rupp TP,Alter P,Maisch B

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the determination of the specific activity of plasma glycerol is described. Anionic contaminants are first removed from deproteinzed plasma by anionic exchange resins (treated plasma). Glycerol in treated plasma is then quantitatively converted to glycerol-3-phosphate (G3P), which is isolated by column ch...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gauthier C,Layberry R

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The change in plasma and blood cell pools of L-glutamine during a single pass through the kidney was studied in dogs and rats. It was shown that the glutamine content of blood cells does not change following one passage through the renal vascular bed in normal or acidotic dogs. Furthermore, an infusion of L-glutamine ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Vinay P,Khoury N,Soowamber M,Gougoux A

更新日期：1985-07-01 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：:Temporary block of glycolysis by 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) reversibly suppresses synaptic transmission in the CA1 region of hippocampal slices. Recovery of responses is followed by a sustained potentiation of field excitatory postsynaptic potentials (EPSPs) (2-DG-LTP). To investigate the mechanisms involved in this typ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhao YT,Tekkök S,Krnjević K

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Normal penile erectile function is dependent on arterial adequacy, appropriate venous occlusion, neurohumoral factors, and finally the relaxation of penile cavernous trabecular smooth muscle. The present experiments were designed to test whether compounds related to endothelium-derived relaxing factor have a role in p...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Heaton JP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acute hypercapnia on human thermoregulation during cold exposure were investigated by immersion of eight male subjects to the neck in a 15 degrees C water bath until their core temperatures dropped to 35 degrees C or until 1 h of immersion had elapsed. Air was inspired throughout each experiment, with t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lun V,Sun JC,Giesbrecht GG,Mekjavić IB

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The responses of the circular muscle of canine colon to stimulation of intrinsic nerves and to the probable mediators of these nerves were studied in vivo. In vivo studies were carried out using close intra-arterial injections and local field stimulation of proximal, mid-, and distal colon while recording circumferent...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Gonda T,Daniel EE,Kostolanska F,Oki M,Fox JE

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread use of furosemide in the treatment of various fluid and electrolyte disorders in the preterm and term human infant and child, the physiological effects of this potent diuretic agent on renal function and renin release during postnatal maturation are poorly understood. To test the hypothesis that...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Smith FG,Abraham J

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Intrinsic regulation of hepatic blood flow is mediated only through the hepatic artery because the liver is not able to directly regulate portal vein blood flow. Hepatic metabolic activity does not affect hepatic artery flow. Although the hepatic artery is affected by sympathetic nerves and blood-borne agents, the int...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lautt WW

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00