Toxic marine dinoflagellates in Singapore waters that cause seafood poisonings.

abstract：:trans-Resveratrol (resveratrol) has been shown to have beneficial effects on the cardiovascular system in a number of studies. It is, however, unclear whether this naturally occurring compound can protect against cardiac hypertrophy. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of resveratrol on cardiac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Liu Z,Song Y,Zhang X,Liu Z,Zhang W,Mao W,Wang W,Cui W,Zhang X,Jia X,Li N,Han C,Liu C

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandin (PG) efflux into ureteral (UE) and venous effluents (VE) of rabbit isolated perfused kidneys was determined by superfusion bioassay and radioimmunoassay (RIA), in response to injections of arginine-vasopressin (AVP), the non-pressor vasopressin analogue 1-deamino-8-D-arginine vasopressin (dDAVP) and arac...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Miller MJ,Westlin WF,McNeill H,McGiff JC

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Na+/H+ exchange, an ethylisopropylamiloride (EIPA)-sensitive Na+ and HCO3- dependent system and a diisothio-cyanatostilbenedisulphonic acid (DIDS)-sensitive Na+ and HCO3- transporter, contribute to sodium influx and intracellular pH (pHi) regulation in vascular smooth muscle. 2. In cultured cells from the human int...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Bobik A,Little PJ,Neylon CB

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors ameliorates human and experimental diabetic nephropathy, possibly as a result of changes in angiotensin II (AngII) and/or bradykinin concentrations. However, ACE is an indiscriminate enzyme, which hydrolyses numerous vasoactive peptides at two catalytic ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Duggan KA,Hodge G,Makarious MM,Charlesworth JA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

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. Erlotinib, a small-molecule epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase (EGFR-TK) inhibitor, has been approved for the management of advanced non-small cell lung cancer. The aim of the present study was to investigate whether erlotinib exerts potent antitumour activities through the reactive oxygen species (RO...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Qian X,Li J,Ding J,Wang Z,Zhang W,Hu G

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Mechanisms involved in the plasma extravasation observed following thermal injury of rat dorsal skin were investigated. 2. Heat applied to the dorsal skin of anaesthetized rats by a temperature-controlled skin heater (1 cm diameter) for 5 min induced temperature-dependent plasma protein extravasation at 48-48.5 deg...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Waller J,Siney L,Hoult JR,Brain SD

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-induced phospholipidosis (DIPL) is characterized by phospholipid storage in the lysosomes of affected tissues. Many severe effects and toxicities have been linked to DIPL. The aim of this study was to determine whether the endogenous opioid system is involved in chloroquine-induced phospholipidosis. The effect of...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Malek MR,Ahmadian S,Dehpour AR,Ebrahim-Habibi A,Shafizadeh M,Kashani-Amin E

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The influence of the intact kidney on blood pressure, extracellular fluid volume (ECF, ferrocyanide space) and ECF volume distribution was studied in rats 60 days after constriction of the contralateral renal artery. 2. Renal artery constriction increased both blood pressure and ECF levels. The rise of both variabl...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kunes J,Jelínek J

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Chronic electrical stimulation of the carotid sinuses has provided unique insight into the mechanisms that cause sustained reductions in blood pressure during chronic suppression of central sympathetic outflow. 2. Because renal denervation does not abolish the sustained fall in arterial pressure in response to baro...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Iliescu R,Lohmeier TE

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present study was to identify the differential proteins that synchronously change in urine and glomeruli and could be used to monitor glomerular lesions of IgA nephropathy (IgAN). The proteomes of urine and glomeruli from four IgAN patients who were graded III/IV according to the grading system of L...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ning X,Yin Z,Li Z,Xu J,Wang L,Shen W,Lu Y,Cai G,Zhang X,Chen X

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of morphine on intestine was observed by following the intestinal transit of a charcoal meal. This inhibitory effect of morphine was antagonized by naloxone. In addition, the inhibitory effect of morphine was also suppressed by prior administration of yohimbine and phentolamine. However, prazosin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wong CL

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aim of the present study was to determine the brain sites mediating aspects of respiratory and cardiovascular control in adult humans using non-invasive functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) procedures, thereby avoiding the spatial and temporal sampling limitations associated with classic neural assessment techn...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Harper RM,Gozal D,Bandler R,Spriggs D,Lee J,Alger J

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNA plays an integral role in the development of atherosclerosis. Our study aimed to investigate the roles of miR-599 in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced endothelial damage in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs). HUVECs were transfected with a miR-599 mimic and negative control, and then exposed to LP...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wang J,Du A,Wang H,Li Y

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although 7,8-dihydroxyflavone (7,8-DHF), a synthetic agonist specific for tyrosine kinase receptor B (TrkB), has been reported to promote intestinal dynamics, its effect on gastric dynamics has not been studied as yet. In this study, we explored how 7,8-DHF affected the carbachol (CCh)-induced contraction of rat gastr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： He B,Qu Z,Tian Z,Zhao K,Wei L,Ma L

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:Angiogenesis is a process through which new capillaries are formed from pre-existing ones, which contributes significantly to the pathogenesis of numerous diseases, such as cancer and chronic inflammatory disorders. The β-D-mannuronic acid (M2000) is a novel non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) with immunosupp...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Rastegari-Pouyani M,Mostafaie A,Mansouri K,Mortazavi-Jahromi SS,Mohammadi-Motlagh HR,Mirshafiey A

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The concentration of methylguanidine and guanidinosuccinic acid has been measured in normal human plasma and discrepancies between various published methods for measuring methylguanidine have been resolved. Previous methods have been modified to allow these guanidines, together with guanidinoacetic acid and creatin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Lazdins I,Dawborn JK

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Nitric oxide (NO) plays an important role in the control of glomerular haemodynamics and is synthesized from the amino acid L-arginine by a family of enzymes, NO synthase (NOS). 2. Nitric oxide synthase is present in the endothelium and also in the macula densa, a plaque of specialized tubular epithelial cells. End...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ito S,Carretero OA,Abe K

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of 14 lignocaine homologues on the maximum upstroke velocity (Vmax) of the action potentials (AP) were studied in guinea-pig papillary muscles. These drugs possess one, two or three methyl groups in different positions: an ortho-chloro, -carbomethoxy or -ethyl group instead of an ortho-methyl group; or ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Hamamoto T,Ichiyama M,Takahashi Y,Ban T

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. This study aimed to investigate the protective effects of isosteviol against myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion (IR) injury and its effects on mitochondrial adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-sensitive potassium channel (mitoK(ATP)) activity in vitro. 2. Groups of eight guinea pigs were treated as follows: constant perfusi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Xu D,Zhang S,Foster DJ,Wang J

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of the Class I anti-arrhythmic drugs quinidine, procainamide, lidocaine, phenytoin and tocainide on mitochondrial lactate dehydrogenase activity were compared in guinea-pig heart preparations. 2. All the tested drugs inhibited the enzyme activity in a concentration-dependent fashion, exhibiting varying ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Dzimiri N,Almotrefi AA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitors and Paf antagonists abrogate hypotension in septic shock. The latter may act by blocking intracellular transduction mechanisms in vascular smooth muscle cells and inflammatory cells. We examined the effect of Paf antagonists on expression of inducible NO synthase. 2. A murine m...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Arthur JF,Shahin S,Dusting GJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We tested the hypothesis that increasing myocardial cyclic GMP levels would reduce myocardial O2 consumption and areas of low O2 supply/consumption balance, using zaprinast, a selective cyclic GMP-phosphodiesterase inhibitor. 2. The study was conducted in three groups (vehicle, 10(-3) and 3 x 10(-3) mol/L zaprinast...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Weiss HR,Rodriguez E,Tse J,Scholz PM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. beta(3)-Adrenoceptors (AR) have been reported to be present in numerous species, where they mediate multiple responses. 2. The aim of the present study was to determine whether beta(3)-AR are present in intact rat heart and the functional implications of beta(3)-AR stimulation. The response to the cardiac beta(3)-A...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Barbier J,Mouas C,Rannou-Bekono F,Carré F

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Most studies examining the effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors on atherosclerosis in experimental animals have used doses well in excess of those given clinically. 2. Using a rabbit model of cholesterol-induced atherosclerosis characterized by subendothelial lipid accumulations ('juvenile fatty...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Fennessy PA,Campbell JH,Mendelsohn FA,Campbell GR

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy promotes cell survival or induces apoptosis in cancer cells. While SIRT1 and AMPK induce autophagy in both normal and cancer cells, Akt and mTOR can inhibit it. Calycosin, a methoxyisoflavone, protects against several types of solid tumours including colorectal cancer. However, the mechanisms behind the anti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： El-Kott AF,Al-Kahtani MA,Shati AA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Initial unsuccessful attempts to evaluate ventricular function in terms of the 'heart as a pump' led to focusing on the 'heart as a muscle' and to the concept of myocardial contractility. However, no clinically ideal index exists to assess the contractile state. The aim of the present study was to develop a mathema...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Curiel R,Perez-Gonzalez J,Torres E,Landaeta R,Cerrolaza M

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are the resident immune cells within the brain and retina, commonly known as the macrophages of the central nervous system (CNS). Microglia survey the surrounding milieu to eliminate invading microbes, clear cellular debris and enforce programmed cell death by removing apoptotic cells. Complementary to their...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： McCarthy CA,Widdop RE,Deliyanti D,Wilkinson-Berka JL

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aim of the present study was to investigate the structural requirements for the inhibition of 6-methyl-hydroxylation of the antitumour agent 5,6-dimethyl-xanthenone-4-acetic acid (DMXAA) by acridine analogues and use a CYP1A2 homology model to provide some insight into this interaction. 2. Concentrations causin...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Paxton JW,Kestell P,Chiang D,Zhou S,Lewis DF

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00