Some aldosterone-producing adrenal tumours also secrete cortisol, but present clinically as primary aldosteronism.

abstract：:β-Glucans have been reported to be potent adjuvants in stimulating innate and adaptive immune responses. The aim of the present study was to determine the immunohematopoietic effects of Imunoglucan (HEBRON) following its oral administration to normal and Ehrlich ascites tumour (EAT)-bearing mice. Mice were treated wit...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Torello CO,Souza-Queiroz J,Queiroz ML

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Visfatin (also known as nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase or Nampt) is a novel adipokine associated with metabolic abnormalities in obesity and diabetes. The aim of the present study was to determine whether visfatin levels in the circulation and visfatin expression in fat tissues are altered in Lyon hypertens...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wang P,Bai C,Xu QY,Xu TY,Su DF,Sassard J,Miao CY

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) demonstrate a high burden of vascular disease. This vascular disease is unusual by way of a preponderance of medial calcification. Further, traditional cardiovascular risk factors fail to fully explain the high cardiovascular event rate in this population. 2. The present r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kerr PG,Guerin AP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to determine the effects of increased cAMP levels in response to pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide 27 (PACAP27) on atrial atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) secretion in rabbit atria. A perfused beating atrial model was used in the present study and cAMP efflux and ANP l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Zhang Y,Liu LP,Liang ZL,Li XL,Jin YZ,Cui X

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of ethacrynic acid were studied on relaxations elicited by nitric oxide (NO), the NO-donors sodium nitroprusside (SNP) and glyceryl trinitrate (GTN), nitrergic nerve stimulation and the NO-independent agent papaverine in isolated preparations of rat anococcygeus muscles. 2. Ethacrynic acid (100 mumol/L)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Li CG,Brosch SF,Rand MJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteosarcoma is the most common non-hematological primary bony malignancy in children and young adults with tumor metastasis being a common event at diagnosis. Understanding the pathogenesis of metastatic osteosarcoma may help identify potential therapeutic targets. In this study, we found that the level of microRNA-6...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Jiao GJ,Zhang SJ,Li Y,Wu WL,Liu HC

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Piretanide is a new loop diuretic resembling furosemide. The effects of this diuretic on various parameters of renal function and on the excretion of the major ions were studied on anaesthetized, hydrated rats. 2. Piretanide induced a marked diuresis and increased sodium, potassium, chloride and calcium excretion. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Nguyen-Simonnet H,Gauthier C,Pellet M

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. When six female seropositive rheumatoid patients were given placebo therapy for 48 h, their plasma kininogen level, 9.2 +/- 0.7 microgram bradykinin equivalents (bk eq) per ml, was found to be 59% greater than that of a group of eight healthy female volunteers (5.8 +/- 0.5 microgram/ml). 2. When the rheumatoid pati...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Sharma JN,Zeitlin IJ,Brooks PM,Buchanan WW,Dick WC

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study demonstrates the inhibitory effect of anticholinergic drug oxybutynin on voltage-dependent K+ (Kv) channels in rabbit coronary arterial smooth muscle cells. Oxybutynin inhibited vascular Kv channels in a concentration-dependent manner, with an IC50 value of 11.51 ± 0.38 μmol/L and a Hill coefficient (n) of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Li H,Seo MS,An JR,Jung HS,Ha KS,Han ET,Hong SH,Bae YM,Ryu DR,Park WS

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Treatment with heparin has beneficial effects in diabetic nephropathy. The occurrence of increased urinary albumin excretion in diabetic patients reflects general vascular dysfunction, including increased transcapillary permeability of macromolecules. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of hepa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Oturai PS

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. To investigate whether the difference in the SA gene expression in the kidneys is causally related to the pathogenesis of hypertension, we reassessed the expression of the SA gene in the kidneys of the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR), its stroke-prone substrain (SHRSP) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat from different...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ishinaga Y,Nabika T,Shimada T,Hiraoka J,Nara Y,Yamori Y

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. 125I-351A, a tyrosyl derivative of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor lisinopril, was used as a radioligand, and radioinhibitor binding and displacement assays have been established. 2. The in vitro potency of a range of ACE inhibitors against rat ACE was determined using the radioinhibitor binding d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Johnston CI,Cubela R,Jackson B

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Mammalian heart muscle is extremely sensitive to the external calcium concentration. It reacts to alterations of the external calcium concentration with an immediate adaptation of contractile force. 2. In mammalian heart there is a network of large transverse tubules throughout the cell. These structures are regula...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Lüllmann H,Peters T

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In an isolated right atrial preparation, an increase in right atrial pressure (RAP) produces an increase in atrial rate. This rate response is larger and occurs faster when there is background vagal or muscarinic stimulation. 2. We hypothesized that in the latter situation, an increase in RAP antagonizes the effect...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Han S,Wilson SJ,Bolter CP

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present experiments were performed in order to study the role of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) in the altered action potential and contraction of ventricular myocardium obtained from myopathic Syrian hamster and explanted human hearts (n = 8). The hamsters included age-matched healthy hamsters (F1B; n = 18), ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wei J,Liu HC,Lee FY,Lee MS,Huang CY,Pan HP,Lin CI

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Hepatic sulphobromophthalein (BSP) transport was studied in guinea-pigs pretreated intraperitoneally with 0.7 ml of diethyl maleate to depress hepatic glutathione levels. 2. Diethyl maleate depressed the hepatic transport of infused conjugated BSP from hepatocytes into bile without influencing hepatic uptake. 3. Un...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Whelan G

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In the present study, we investigated aqueous extracts of Anoectochilus formosanus (AFE) for antihyperglycaemic and anti-oxidant effects in diabetic rats induced by streptozotocin (STZ). 2. Diabetic rats were randomly divided into groups and treated orally by gavage with vehicle (distilled water) or AFE (1 and 2 g/...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Shih CC,Wu YW,Lin WC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. None of the genes responsible for essential hypertension has been identified. Recent work in genetically hypertensive rats has shown linkage of blood pressure with alleles of the renin gene. Since the renin gene is a member of a conserved synteny group that in humans spans chromosome 1q21.3-32.3 and includes the ge...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Griffiths LR,Zee RY,Ying LH,Morris BJ

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In order to further characterize the adenosine binding sites that we previously purified and termed P3 purinergic receptor-like protein (P3LP), a reliable binding assay method was developed using [3H]-5'-N-ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (NECA) as a radioligand and the newly developed high-affinity selective ligand 9-(6,...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Yoshioka K,Matsuda A,Nakata H

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleocytoplasmic protein shuttling is integral to the transmission of signals between the nucleus and the cytoplasm. The nuclear/cytoplasmic distribution of proteins of interest can be determined via fluorescence microscopy, following labelling of the target protein with fluorophore-conjugated antibodies (immunofluor...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Molenaar C,Weeks KL

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We tested the effects of intravenous infusions of angiotensin II (AngII; 300 ng/kg per min) and the vasopressin V1 receptor agonist [Phe2,Ile3,Orn8]-vasopressin (30 ng/kg per min) on regional kidney perfusion in an extracorporeal circuit model in anaesthetized rabbits in which renal artery pressure (RAP) can be set...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Evans RG,Correia AG,Weekes SR,Madden AC

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotherapy resistance is a major contributor to poor treatment responses and tumour relapse, the development of which has been strongly linked to the action of cancer stem cells (CSCs). Mounting evidence suggests that CSCs are reliant on low oxygen conditions and hypoxia-inducible factors 1α and 2α (HIF1α and HIF2α)...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Schöning JP,Monteiro M,Gu W

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Currently, there is no satisfactory treatment for pulmonary fibrosis. Emodin, a component in Chinese herbs, has been shown to have an antifibrotic effect on pancreatic fibrosis and liver fibrosis. In the present study, we tested the hypothesis that emodin may attenuate the development of pulmonary fibrosis. 2. Mice...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Chen XH,Sun RS,Hu JM,Mo ZY,Yang ZF,Jin GY,Guan WD,Zhong NS

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) is a serious complication in thoracic tumour radiotherapy. It often occurs in clinical chest radiotherapy and acute whole-body irradiation (WBI) caused by nuclear accidents or nuclear weapon attack. Some radioprotective agents have been reported to exert protective effects when giv...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kun C,Tao L,Leiyuan H,Yunhao F,Ning W,Zhe L,Yuanyuan C,Xiao L,Hongran Q,Jianming C,Fu G,Yanyong Y

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study was undertaken to elucidate the effects of parecoxib, a novel cyclo-oxygenase (COX)-2 inhibitor, on spontaneous and prostaglandin-induced contractions of uterine smooth muscle. 2. Non-pregnant adult Wistar rats were decapitated and dissected to isolate myometrial strips. The tissue was mounted in ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ayar A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Control of cardiomyocyte cytosolic Ca(2+) levels is crucial in determining inotropic status and ischemia/reperfusion stress response. Responsive to fluctuations in cellular Ca(2+), Ca(2+)/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II (CaMKII) is a serine/threonine kinase integral to the processes regulating cardiomyocyte Ca(...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Bell JR,Raaijmakers AJ,Janssens JV,Delbridge LM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This paper reports on the in vitro and in vivo characteristics of a non-peptide vasopressin V1 receptor antagonist 1-(1-[4-(3-acetylaminopropoxy)benzoyl]-4-piperidyl)-3,4-dihydro-2( 1H)- quinolinone (OPC-21268). 2. OPC-21268 caused a concentration-dependent displacement of the selective V1 receptor antagonist radio...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Burrell LM,Phillips PA,Stephenson J,Risvanis J,Hutchins AM,Johnston CI

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Contractions and electrical activity were recorded from isolated segments of longitudinal (L) and circular (C) myometrium from rats on gestation days 16-17 and 21 before and during parturition. 2. The segments were arranged so that the activity of the two layers could be monitored simultaneously and independently. ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Tomiyasu BA,Chen CJ,Marshall JM

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotoxin (CTX) III, a basic polypeptide with 60 amino acid residues isolated from Naja naja atra venom, has been reported to have anticancer activity. In the present study, we investigated the mechanisms underlying the anticancer activity of CTX III in human leukaemia (HL-60 cells). Cardiotoxin III activated the en...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Chien CM,Yang SH,Chang LS,Lin SR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Trophoblast invasion during embryo implantation in some aspects resembles tumour cell invasion but, unlike tumour cells, trophoblast cells are able to differentiate and establish a placenta. Because direct cell-cell communication is believed to be involved in growth control and differentiation, we have investigated...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Winterhager E,Reuss B,Hellmann P,Spray DC,Gruemmer R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00