Activation of plasma prekallikrein and inactive renin by puff adder venom.

abstract：:1. Endothelial dysfunction is seen in patients with essential hypertension or congestive heart failure (CHF). The present study aimed to evaluate the direct effect on endothelium- dependent vasodilation (EDV) of different pharmacological drugs commonly used in the treatment of these conditions. 2. Forearm blood flow (...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Mühlen BV,Millgård J,Lind L

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of naloxone on contractility and cardiac rhythm were studied in the rat isolated perfused heart during myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion. Pretreatment of the rat isolated perfused heart with naloxone abolished the reduction in left ventricular pressures and attenuated greatly the arrhythmias due to myoc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Zhan ZY,Lee AY,Wong TM

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Studies of evolutionary temperature adaptation of muscle and locomotor performance in fish are reviewed with a focus on the Antarctic fauna living at subzero temperatures. 2. Only limited data are available to compare the sustained and burst swimming kinematics and performance of Antarctic, temperate and tropical s...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Franklin CE

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apelin receptors (APJ) cross-talk with other G-protein-coupled receptors. However, the role of APJ interaction with opioid receptors (OPR) on the cardiovascular effects of apelin in hypertension is not clear. Renovascular hypertension was induced by placing a Plexiglas clip on the left kidney of rats. After 16 weeks, ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Rostamzadeh F,Najafipour H,Yeganeh-Hajahmadi M,Joukar S

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The concentration of renin and angiotensinogen (Ao) and the activity of angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) was measured in the ascites fluid of nephrotic rats obtained 8 days after puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN) injection. 2. Ascites fluid, serum and urine proteins of these rats were analysed by sodium dodecyl ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Cruz C,Correa-Rotter R,Mézquita C,Medina-Campos ON,Pedraza-Chaverrí J

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effects of volume depletion and NaHCO(3) loading on the expression of Na(+)/H(+) exchanger isoform 3 (NHE3), Na(+) : HCO(3)(-) cotransporter type 1 (NBC1) and neuronal (n) and inducible (i) isoforms of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) were determined in rat kidney. 2. Adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were used. Rats w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Ma SK,Kang JS,Bae EH,Choi C,Lee J,Kim SH,Choi KC,Kim SW

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Plasma drug levels and blood pressure changes produced by a single 2 mg oral dose of prazosin were determined in nine hypertensive patients. 2. Regression analysis showed that there was a high degree of correlation between plasma prazosin concentration and change in mean blood pressure. 3. There were marked differe...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Stokes GS,Monaghan JC,MacCarthy EP,Oates HF

更新日期：1980-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Diabetes mellitus is a prevalent endocrine disorder worldwide. Citrulline is an α-amino acid, which is abundant in watermelon, and a precursor of arginine and nitric oxide. Decreased bioavailability of nitric oxide is associated with insulin resistance. The present systematic review focused on the existing ev...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Azizi S,Mahdavi R,Vaghef-Mehrabany E,Maleki V,Karamzad N,Ebrahimi-Mameghani M

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. A comparison has been made of the effects of three acetylcholine antagonists--hexamethonium, tubocurarine and pancuronium--on maximal tetani of limb muscles of cats under chloralose anaesthesia. In most experiments, the indirectly stimulated soleus muscle was studied, but observations were also made on the tibialis...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Bowman WC,Webb SN

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has become a major disease that threatens human health. Neurotransmitters and the amygdala are found to be critical in the development and maintenance of PTSD. We aim to investigate the role of glycyrrhizin in treating PTSD. Contextual fear extinction and elevated plus maze test w...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Lai S,Shi L,Jiang Z,Lin Z

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The aim of the present study was to assess the bioequivalence of two cefadroxil products, namely Ultracef (a reference product) in the form of a 500 mg capsule (produced by Bristol-Myers Squibb Laboratories, Princeton, NJ, USA) and Roxil (a test product) in the form of a 500 mg capsule (produced by Tabuk Pharmaceut...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Otoom S,Hasan M,Najib N

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The intrinsic sympathomimetic activity of a range of beta-adrenoceptor antagonists and its relationship to beta-adrenoceptor blockade was studied in pentobarbitone-anaesthetized, vagotomized rats which had been depleted of catecholamines by pretreatment with syrosingopine. Dichlorisoprenaline, practolol, oxprenolol...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Bilski A,Robertson HH,Wale JL

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The ulcerogenesis of gastric haemorrhagic damage during sepsis is unclear. The present study first proposes that gastric haemorrhagic ulcer is modulated by mucosal glutathione, histamine and oxyradicals in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced sepsis in rats. The protective effects of several drugs on the ulcerogenic pa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Hung CR

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:Recently, the roles of gene polymorphisms in poor responsiveness to aspirin were extensively investigated, with conflicting results. Therefore, we performed this meta-analysis to better assess the relationship between candidate genetic variants and poor responsiveness to aspirin. Eligible articles were searched in Pub...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Yang J,Chen X,Zhou J,Hu S,Tang Y

更新日期：2018-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Mathematical modelling is useful in pharmacology, allowing the investigator to obtain insights into the biological processes under study that may not always be intuitively obvious. Examples are presented in this review using the pharmacology of the muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (mAChR) agonist xanomeline. 2. Xa...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Christopoulos A

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The present study was performed to test the hypothesis that the reactive oxygen species (ROS)-angiotensinogen (AGT)-renin angiotensin system (RAS) axis is sequentially activated in the development of diabetic nephropathy in Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) obese rats. 2. Genetic pairs of male ZDF obese and control ZDF l...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Miyata K,Ohashi N,Suzaki Y,Katsurada A,Kobori H

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The contractile effects of tea polyphenols (TP) and its four principle catechins, namely (-)-epicatechin (EC), (-)-epicatechin-3-gallate (ECG), (-)-epigallocatechin (EGC) and (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), on rat aorta contractility were investigated using the isometric tension recording technique. 2. At co...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Shen JZ,Zheng XF,Wei EQ,Kwan CY

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. We examined the effects of torasemide (0.3 and 1 mg/kg i.v.) on renal haemodynamics and function employing renal clearance and stop-flow techniques in anaesthetized dogs and compared these with furosemide (1 and 3 mg/kg i.v.). 2. Torasemide and furosemide did not influence renal haemodynamics, in the renal clearanc...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Uchida T,Hayashi K,Suzuki Y,Matsumura Y

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The effect of propofol on cardiac whole-cell sodium currents and single sodium channels in rat isolated ventricular myocytes was examined using patch-clamp techniques. 2. Propofol caused a block of the whole-cell sodium current, the potency of block depending on the holding potential. When cells were held at -90 mV...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Saint DA,Tang Y

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to study the effects of thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs and iodide on the conversion of thyroxine (T4) to triiodothyronine (T3), the liver was obtained from normal, hypothyroid and hyperthyroid rats treated with T4 or T3 . T4 was incubated with liver homogenates and generated T3 was measured. 1. The ...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Aizawa T,Yamada T

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Electrolytic lesions were made in various brain regions of the rat, and the effects of these lesions on nociceptive threshold and the antinociceptive actions of morphine were tested using a shock titration technique. 2. Lesions in the medial thalamus, the periaqueductal grey area, or the caudate nucleus, had no eff...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Yeung JC,Yaksh TL,Rudy TA

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α) and nuclear receptor related-1 (Nurr1) play pivotal roles in the development and survival of dopaminergic neurons, and deficiencies in these genes may be involved in Parkinson's disease (PD) pathogenesis. Recently, anthelminthic benzimidazoles were shown to promote HIF-1α tran...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Kandil EA,Sayed RH,Ahmed LA,Abd El Fattah MA,El-Sayeh BM

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:1. The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether there was a cooperative interaction between substance P (SP) and glutamate (GLU) administered subcutaneously on Adelta and C primary afferent fibre activity in dorsal hairy skin of the rat in vivo. The single unit activities of Adelta and C afferent fibres...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Zhang Q,Zhao Y,Guo Y,Cao DY,Tian YL,Yao FR,Wang HS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventilation to one lobe of lung was reduced in anaesthetized open-chest cats and dogs to simulate the ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatching of chronic lung disease. Blood flow to this lobe fell less than ventilation; thus lobar V/Q diminished. In seven cats almitrine (0.5 mg/kg + 10 micrograms/kg per min, i.v.) caus...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Wach RA,Gill GW,Suggett AJ,Bee D,Barer G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Neurotensin is released from the intestine into the portal circulation and to exert a systemic effect it must traverse the liver intact. 2. The role of the liver in neurotensin clearance was examined using the isolated perfused rat liver preparation. Two concentrations of neurotensin were used to determine the extr...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Brook CW,Shulkes A,Sewell RB,Smallwood RA

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. Rats fed high dietary fructose are documented to form an acquired model of insulin resistance. The present study measured the effects of administration of L-carnitine (CA) on lens protein glycation, oxidative stress and redox homeostasis in rats fed a high-fructose diet. 2. Animals were divided into four groups: (i...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Balasaraswathi K,Rajasekar P,Anuradha CV

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:1. The object of this study was to determine whether meat protein per se is responsible for the higher blood pressures (BP) in omnivores compared with vegetarians. 2. Assessments were made by a double blind randomized control trial in 64 normotensive volunteers recruited from Royal Perth Hospital staff. 3. All volunte...

journal_title：Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology

authors： Prescott SL,Jenner DA,Beilin LJ,Margetts BM,Vandongen R

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00