Hypertension mechanisms causing stroke.

abstract：:1. We studied the association between the level of the left ventricular ejection fraction and the severity of coronary atherosclerosis. 2. The study population consisted of 850 consecutive patients who underwent coronary angiography for suspected or known coronary atherosclerosis. Anthropometric measurements including...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Jia EZ,Xu ZX,Yang ZJ,Zhu TB,Wang LS,Cao KJ,Ma WZ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amino acid sequence of human renin was identified for the first time. This was determined from the nucleotide sequence of exons in the human renin gene identified in a genomic library by recombinant DNA techniques. Examination of amino acid residues involved in the enzymatic hydrolysis by human renin of the unique...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Morris BJ,Catanzaro DF,Hardman J,Mesterovic N,Tellam J,Hort Y,Bennetts BH,Shine J

更新日期：1984-07-01 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. Oxidative stress (OS) is a biological entity indicated as being responsible for several pathologies, including diabetes. Diabetes can also be associated with human cirrhosis. Portal hypertension (PH), a major syndrome in cirrhosis, produces hyperdynamic splanchnic circulation and hyperaemia. The present study was d...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Evelson P,Llesuy S,Filinger E,Rodriguez RR,Lemberg A,Scorticati C,Susemihl M,Villareal I,Polo JM,Peredo H,Perazzo JC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Patients were grouped into categories of 'no airways disease', 'obstructive airways disease without response to bronchodilator' and 'obstructive airways disease with bronchodilator responsiveness'. 2. Cyclic nucleotides were assayed in specimens of lung tissue that were excised during surgery. 3. Reduced levels of ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Krzanowski JJ,Polson JB,Goldman AL,Ebel TA,Szentivanyi A

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Amino acid neurotransmitters are critical for controlling the activity of most central neurons, including sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPN), the spinal cord neurons involved in controlling blood pressure and other autonomic functions. 2. In studies reviewed here, SPN were identified either by retrograde traci...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Llewellyn-Smith IJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:1. Treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors slows the rate of progression of nephropathy in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) with streptozotocin-induced diabetes. Paradoxically, however, chronic ACE inhibitor therapy has been reported to be associated with induction of ACE in the plasma. W...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

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

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Landrace swine were identified as malignant hyperpyrexia susceptible (MHS) or control by the contracture responses of gracilis muscle fibre bundles to 3% halothane, 2 mmol/l caffeine and 80 mmol/l KCl. The effects of calmodulin-antagonist drugs on the contractile behaviour of control and MHS preparations were inves...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Collins SP,White MD,Denborough MA

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Structural changes in resistance vessels were studied sequentially (a) by hindquarter perfusion and (b) by planimetry of renal arterioles less than or equal to 20 micrometers radius, for 10 weeks during development of DOCA (deoxycorticosterone acetate)/salt hypertension in uninephrectomized rats and 5 weeks after c...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Vial JH,Yong AC,Boyd GW

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Raised intracranial pressure (ICP) is a major factor associated with morbidity and mortality in patients with severe head injury. Identifying the mechanisms responsible for raised ICP may be difficult and, as a result, treatment prescribed may be non-specific and often ineffective. 2. Research aimed at obtaining mo...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Lewis SB

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We tested the hypothesis that the pattern and the intensity of autonomic mechanisms causing vasoconstriction in the resting bronchial circulation of awake dogs also exists in awake sheep. It was also postulated that sighing behaviour and the associated bronchovascular dilatation induced by non-adrenergic, non-choli...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： McIlveen S,White S,Parsons G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness and reliability of a portable indirect calorimeter (Metavine; Vine, Tokyo, Japan). 2. We measured energy expenditure (EE) of elderly people (n = 191) at nursing homes using both Metavine and an authorized indirect calorimeter (Deltatrac Metabolic Monitor; ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kato M,Tajika M,Miwa Y,Moriwaki H

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The distribution of binding sites for [125I]-labelled endothelin-1 ([125I]-ET-1) and [125I]-labelled sarafotoxin S6B ([125I]-SRT) was visualized in rat tissues using in vitro autoradiography. 2. A high density of endothelin-1 (ET-1) binding was found in the heart. In the kidney, ET-1 binding occurred in association...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kohzuki M,Johnston CI,Abe K,Chai SY,Casley DJ,Yasujima M,Yoshinaga K,Mendelsohn FA

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of reserpine pretreatment on neurotransmission in the guinea-pig vas deferens have been re-examined with a view to study the role of noradrenaline (NA) in mediating postjunctional electrical responses and, in particular, excitatory junction potentials (EJP). 2. Reserpine (5 mg/kg, i.p.) caused almost to...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Cunnane TC,Manchanda R

更新日期：1989-06-01 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. Chromium picolinate (CrPic) has been recommended as an alternative therapeutic regimen for Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). However, the molecular mechanism underlying the action of CrPic is poorly understood. 2. Using normal and insulin-resistant 3T3-L1 adipocytes, we examined the effects of CrPic on the gene tran...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wang YQ,Dong Y,Yao MH

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We examined the proliferative rates of cultured astrocytes isolated from stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSP) and stroke-resistant spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRSR). Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY) were used as a control for SHRSP and SHRSR. 2. In the presence of 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), the doub...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Yamagata K,Nara Y,Tagami M,Yamori Y

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the role of deferasirox therapeutic drug monitoring in order to avoid toxicity or treatment failure. Plasma concentrations, measured between two consecutive liver iron determinations, were determined at the end of dosing interval. Fifty-four β-thalassemic adult patients were enrolled: 50% were males; medi...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Allegra S,Massano D,De Francia S,Longo F,Piccione F,Pirro E,Cusato J,D'Avolio A,Piga A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study was designed to examine the cardiovascular effects of intravenously administered pcDNA3.1AM, a recombinant non-virus vector carrying a rat adrenomedullin (AM) gene translation fragment, in rats with chronic cardiac dysfunction induced by ligation of the left descending coronary artery. 2. Haemodyn...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wang XF,Shao Y,Chen SW,Tian DZ,Huang GY,Huang Y,Yao T,Lu LM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. In a recent review article, the problem of making false-positive inferences as a result of making multiple comparisons between groups of experimental units or between experimental outcomes was addressed. 2. It was concluded that the most universally applicable solution was to use the Ryan-Holm step-down Bonferroni ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ludbrook J

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Deviation supersensitivity and post-junctional supersensitivity are important determinants in the control of the response of smooth muscle. 2. Post-junctional supersensitivity is a process whereby effector cells have augmented responsiveness as a consequence of an impaired physiological stimulus. Deviation supersen...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Head RJ

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. One of the major causes of metabolic syndrome is elevated 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 1 (11β-HSD1) in the liver and adipose tissue. High 11β-HSD1 expression contributes significantly to the diabetic phenotype in db/db mice. The purpose of the present study was to test the effect of the pharmacological inhibiti...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Dhanesha N,Joharapurkar A,Shah G,Kshirsagar S,Dhote V,Sharma A,Jain M

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancomycin is an antibiotic used in the treatment of infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-positive bacteria, especially methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. In the last decades, vancomycin has been widely used in hospital environments due to the increasing incidence of sepsis and septic shock. Sepsis ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Zamoner W,Prado IRS,Balbi AL,Ponce D

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Synthetic human endothelin was injected intravenously over the range 1.5-50 micrograms to examine its cardiovascular actions in conscious sheep. 2. Mean arterial pressure increased by 9-21 mmHg within 30-120 s over the range 5-50 micrograms endothelin. The increase in blood pressure was associated with increased ca...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Scoggins BA,Spence CD,Parkes DG,McDonald M,Wade JD,Coghlan JP

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating reports have demonstrated that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play critical roles in the occurrence and metastasis of cholangiocarcinoma (CCA). LncRNA myocardial infarction associated transcript (MIAT) has been widely reported in hepatocellular carcinoma, pancreatic cancer and colorectal cancer, but the r...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Chang W,Wang Y,Li W,Geng Z

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic inflammation mediated by overactive type 1 helper T cell (Th1) responses could exacerbate and perpetuate Crohn's disease. Programmed death (PD)-1 and its ligand PD-L1 pathway could be upregulated to suppress inflammation. We wondered why this pathway is ineffective at suppressing pathogenic Th1 inflammation...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ma F,Zhao M,Song Z,Wang Z

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) is an endogenously produced nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitor. L-Arginine can be metabolised by NOS and arginase, and arginase is the first step in polyamine production necessary for cellular proliferation. We tested the hypothesis that ADMA would inhibit NOS but not arginase act...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Chen B,Strauch K,Jin Y,Cui H,Nelin LD,Chicoine LG

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Animal and human studies indicate that female sex hormones are protective against the development of coronary atherosclerosis. 2. Experiments on vascular smooth muscle cells suggest a direct effect of oestrogen on vascular tissue. Although oestrogen receptors (ER) in vascular tissues and an association between ER s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Baysal K,Losordo DW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. During the destruction of articular cartilage, fibrinolytic enzymes and matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) may contribute to the related pathology. The activities, antigens and messenger RNA (mRNA) levels of urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA) and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) in articular cartilage...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kikuchi H,Shimada W,Nonaka T,Ueshima S,Tanaka S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00