abstract：:Our objective was to determine the effects of a clenbuterol (CB) treatment orally administered (2 mg per kg) to rats submitted to 14 days of hindlimb unloading (HU). The morphological and the contractile properties as well as the myosin heavy chain isoforms contained in each fiber type were determined in whole soleus ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Picquet F,De-Doncker L,Falempin M

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies suggest that heat stress affects placental functions including uteroplacental circulation, subsequently leading to pregnancy failure and birth weight reduction. To clarify the involvement of endothelin and placental prostaglandin (PG) systems in the uteroplacental circulation during heat stress, we exa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Nakamura H,Matsuzaki I,Hatta K,Ogino K

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptotic pathways in breast cancer cells are frequently altered, reducing the efficiency of radiotherapy. Conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), known to trigger apoptosis, was tested as radiosensitizer in breast cancer cells MCF-7 and MDA-MB-231. The CLA-mix, made up of the isomers CLA-9cis 11trans and CLA-10trans 12cis, w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Drouin G,Douillette A,Lacasse P,Paquette B

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Remote ischemia-reperfusion detrimentally affects myocardial function by initially interfering with the rate of contraction. We investigated the usefulness of isoproterenol versus external electrical pacing in attenuating secondary functional damage of isolated Wistar rat atria. Atrial strips (n = 10/group) were bathe...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ben-Abraham R,Shapira I,Szold A,Weinbroum AA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation was made of the radiosensitivity of the toxic and immunological properties of Androctonus australis hector venom. This venom was irradiated with two doses of gamma rays (1 and 2 kGy) from a 60Co source. The results showed that venom toxicity was abolished for the two radiation doses (1 and 2 kGy) with...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Abib L,Laraba-Djebari F

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine if there was a synergistic or additive effect of a thiazolidinedione derivative (rosiglitazone (ROS)) and a vanadium compound (bis(ethylmaltolato)oxovanadium(IV) (BEOV)) on plasma glucose and insulin levels following chronic oral administration to Zucker diabetic fatty (ZDF) rats...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Yuen VG,Bhanot S,Battell ML,Orvig C,McNeill JH

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sodium-hydrogen exchanger (NHE) helps the cell to recover from intracellular acidosis. In this study, we have investigated the effect of HOE 642 (a specific NHE1 blocker) on papillary muscles from rats and guinea pigs during transient acidosis and PKC activation by recording developed force (DF), action potential ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sundset R,Bertelsen G,Ytrehus K

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H2S is an important gasotransmitter with a vasorelaxant property. The modulation of endogenous H2S generation from different tissues and the functional consequence of this modulation are not clear. In the present study, the production of H2S from vascular tissues as well as the liver and ileum of rats was measured. Th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhao W,Ndisang JF,Wang R

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hormonal replacement therapy (HRT) has failed to provide a cardioprotective action in postmenopausal women, and thus alternative pharmacological approaches are required. The present study examined the therapeutic potential of the partial estrogen receptor agonist tamoxifen and the angiotensin II type-1 receptor antago...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Pham-Dang ML,Clement R,Mercier I,Calderone A

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of barbiturates on human platelet function are not fully understood. Since we have already revealed the effects and mechanisms of thiopental, thiamylal, and pentobarbital in platelets, the present study attempted to elucidate (i) the effects of other barbiturates on human platelet aggregation, (ii) the und...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Sato M,Hirakata H,Ikeda M,Fukuda K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to characterize the effects of pituitary adenylate cyclase activating polypeptide (PACAP) on the endocrine pancreas in anesthetized dogs. PACAP(1-27) and a PACAP receptor (PAC(1)) blocker, PACAP(6-27), were locally administered to the pancreas. PACAP(1-27) (0.005-5 microg) increased ba...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Yamaguchi N,Minassian TR,Yamaguchi S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite major advances in conventional medical therapy, patients with heart failure continue to experience significant morbidity and mortality. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasocontrictor and mitogenic peptide that is activated in heart failure. There is increasing experimental and clinical evidence in support of a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Moe GW,Rouleau JL,Nguyen QT,Cernacek P,Stewart DJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspirin consumption has been reported to be able to reduce colorectal cancer risk in humans and in animal models of colon carcinogenesis. Although the mechanism involved in such an effect is not yet clear, both prostaglandin-dependent and -independent effects have been proposed. Using HT-29 Glc(-/+)cells, which origin...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Eklou-Kalonji E,Andriamihaja M,Reinaud P,Mayeur C,Camous S,Robert V,Charpigny G,Blachier F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of beta-cyclodextrin (betaCD) inclusion complexation on the ability of violacein to prevent gastric ulceration in mice were studied. Violacein-betaCD inclusion complexes were prepared in 1:1 and 1:2 molar ratios and analysed by differential scanning calorimetry and powder X-ray diffractometry. Violacein pr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Durán N,Justo GZ,Melo PS,De Azevedo MB,Brito AR,Almeida AB,Haun M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NTPDase is one of the principal enzymes involved in the sequential hydrolysis of ATP. In the present study, the presence and functionality of NTPDase in the mesenteric vein and artery were examined. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) (0.01-1000 pmol) induces a dose-dependent vasodilation in the isolated arterial and venous ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Duval M,Beaudoin AR,Bkaily G,Gendron FP,D' Orléans-Juste P

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY(1-36)), a sympathetic cotransmitter and neurohormone, has pleiotropic activities ranging from the control of obesity to anxiolysis and cardiovascular function. Its actions are mediated by multiple Gi/o-coupled receptors (Y1-Y5) and modulated by dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV/cd26), which inactivate...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zukowska Z,Pons J,Lee EW,Li L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the role of receptor tyrosine kinases in Ang II-stimulated generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and assessed whether MAP kinase signaling by Ang II is mediated via redox-sensitive pathways. Production of ROS and activation of NADPH oxidase were determined by DCFDA (dichlorodihydrofluorescein dia...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Touyz RM,Cruzado M,Tabet F,Yao G,Salomon S,Schiffrin EL

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main factors of myocardial ischemia are hypoxia, substrate deprivation, acidosis, and high extracellular potassium concentration ([K+]e), but the influence of each of these factors has not yet been evaluated in a cardiomyocyte (CM) culture system. Electromechanical responses to the individual and combined componen...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Tissier C,Bes S,Vandroux D,Fantini E,Rochette L,Athias P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animals treated with nitric oxide synthase (NOS) inhibitors exhibit marked hypersensitivity to the blood pressure lowering effects of exogenous nitric oxide (NO) donors. We used this model as a sensitive index to evaluate the relative importance of reduced biotransformation of glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) to NO in the de...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ratz JD,Adams MA,Bennett BM

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The combined and separate effects of exercise training and bisphosphonate (etidronate) therapy on bone mineral in postmenopausal women were compared. Forty-eight postmenopausal women were randomly assigned (double blind) to groups that took intermittent cyclical etidronate; performed strength training (3 d/week) and r...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Chilibeck PD,Davison KS,Whiting SJ,Suzuki Y,Janzen CL,Peloso P

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of nitric oxide (NO) on the vasorelaxant effect of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) on the basal tone of rabbit aortic rings conditioned to angiotensin II (Ang II) was studied. ANP aortic relaxation and nitrite release were measured in the presence and absence of endothelium and a NO-synthase inhibitor. Ang I...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Romano L,Coviello A,Jerez S,Peral de Bruno M

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since human thermoregulation at rest is altered by cold exposure, it was hypothesized that physical training under cold conditions would alter thermoregulation. Three groups (n = 8) of male subjects (mean age 24.3 +/- 0.9 years) were evaluated: group T (interval training at 21 degrees C), group CT (interval training a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Launay JC,Besnard Y,Guinet A,Hanniquet AM,Bittel J,Savourey G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of modafinil on heat thermoregulatory responses were studied in 10 male subjects submitted to a sweating test after taking 200 mg of modafinil or placebo. Sweating tests were performed in a hot climatic chamber (45 degrees C, relative humidity <15%, wind speed = 0.8 m x s(-1), duration 1.5 h). Body tempera...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Launay JC,Besnard Y,Guinet A,Bessard G,Raphel C,Savourey G

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of fast neutrons (10-100 Gy) on chromatin extracted from normal (liver of Wistar rats) and tumor (Walker carcinosarcoma maintained on Wistar rats) tissues were compared. The spectroscopic assays used were (i) chromatin intrinsic fluorescence, (ii) time-resolved fluorescence of chromatin - proflavine comple...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Radu L,Constantinescu B,Gazdaru D

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiment examined biological responses produced by combined sequential exposure to low-level tritium contamination, followed by challenging irradiation with fast neutrons. Modifications of endogenous antioxidant potential of different organs in rats were discussed in relation to tissue radiosensitivity. Rats pre...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Petcu I,Moisol N,Savu D,Constantinescu B

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to determine the influence of age on the learning and memory dysfunction induced by cranial radiation in the male Wistar rat. Ninety-six 45-day-old, 70 4-month-old, and 78 18-month-old male rats were divided in two equal groups: (i) irradiated and (ii) control. A course of whole-brain r...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lamproglou I,Baillet F,Boisserie G,Mazeron JJ,Delattre JY

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lysosomal protease cathepsin D increased markedly in brown adipocytes during differentiation in primary cultures. Differentiated cells had 20 times the amount of immunoreactive cathepsin D found in preadipocytes. Cathepsin D mRNA, as estimated by relative RT-PCR, was also present in higher amounts in differentiate...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Moazed B,Desautels M

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (ANG II) causes a systemic pressor effect when injected into the cerebral ventricles. In the rat fourth ventricle, the effective doses for the ANG II pressor effect are over 100 times larger than in the systemic circulation. Considering the discrepancy of doses, the possibility that ANG II may reach the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Pesquero JB,Fior-Chadi DR,Yu YG,Merjan AJ,Lindsey CJ,Paiva AC

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronically hypoxic rats (exposed to 5000 m elevation for 3 weeks) develop pulmonary hypertension (PH) that is reversed upon return to normoxia and is blocked by bradykinin (BK) antagonist B9430 treatment (100 microg/kg s.c. three times per week). Treatment of rats with both the synthetic VEGF receptor-1/2 antagonist ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Taraseviciene-Stewart L,Gera L,Hirth P,Voelkel NF,Tuder RM,Stewart JM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several experimental data document an activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases Erk1 and Erk2 by bradykinin (BK), an agonist of the kinin B2 receptor (B2R). In contrast, other reports showed an inhibitory modulation of mitogenesis by BK. Therefore, we explored in the isolated glomeruli the effect of B2R acti...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Cellier E,Duchêne J,Pécher C,Alric C,Bascands JL,Schanstra JP,Girolami JP

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of nine (+/-)-nantenine derivatives were synthesized and assayed for their pharmacological activities by using tension in aorta and binding experiments in rat brain membrane. Replacing a methyl group with a hydrogen ((+/-)-nornantenine) and an ethyl group at a nitrogen atom ((+/-)-ethylnornantenine) or introd...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Indra B,Matsunaga K,Hoshino O,Suzuki M,Ogasawara H,Ishiguro M,Ohizumi Y

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported that the two-chain form of human high molecular weight kininogen (HKa) inhibits angiogenesis by inducing endothelial cell apoptosis (Zhang et al. 2000). This property appears to be primarily conferred by HKa domain 5 (HKa D5). In this manuscript, we further characterize the activity of these polyp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhang JC,Qi X,Juarez J,Plunkett M,Donaté F,Sakthivel R,Mazar AP,McCrae KR

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selected parameters of cardiovascular function were evaluated in vitamin A-deficient rats at 70 days of age. Resting heart rate was increased by an average of 100 bpm (21.4+/-2.7%), whereas resting systolic blood pressure was normal in vitamin A-deficient animals. The maximal contractile force developed per milligram ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Wright GL,Wang S,Fultz ME,Arif I,Matthews K,Chertow BS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of I(K) (delayed rectifier current) and I(f) (hyperpolarization-activated current) in dominant and subsidiary pacemaker ranges was studied in single myocytes isolated from the guinea pig sino-atrial node by means of a perforated patch-clamp technique. In the dominant pacemaker range (approx. -55 to -40 mV), I...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Zhang H,Vassalle M

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noradrenaline spillover from skeletal muscle vascular areas increases during exercise but the underlying mechanisms are not well understood. Muscle contraction itself causes changes in many factors that could affect noradrenaline spillover. For instance, it has been reported that bradykinin is synthesized in skeletal ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Lavoie JL,Béliveau L

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnesium probably protects brain tissue against the effects of cerebral ischemia, brain injury and stroke through its actions as a calcium antagonist and inhibitor of excitatory amino acids. The effects of magnesium sulfate on cerebrovascular permeability to a dye, Evans blue, were studied during insulin-induced hypo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kaya M,Küçük M,Kalayci RB,Cimen V,Gürses C,Elmas I,Arican N

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two natriuretic peptides, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), are found principally in the heart. In preliminary experiments with mouse kidney cells or slices, we found mouse BNP1-45 much more potent than ANP1-28 in causing elevations of cGMP (>50-fold). The guanylyl cyclase-A (GC-A)...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Kishimoto I,Hamra FK,Garbers DL

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediately following exposure to thiocyanate (SCN-)-containing solutions, the cystic fibrosis conductance regulator Cl- channel exhibits high unitary SCN conductance and anomalous mole fraction behaviour, suggesting the presence of multiple anion binding sites within the channel pore. However, under steady-state cond...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Linsdell P

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altered cytochrome P450-catalyzed metabolism of 17beta-estradiol (E2) and estrone (E1) in the liver and (or) extrahepatic tissues may affect estrogen-sensitive tumorigenesis. We examined the effects of oral treatments of (i) indole-3-carbinol (13C) at 250 or 500 mg/kg or beta-naphthoflavone (beta-NF) at 40 mg/kg of bo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Ritter CL,Prigge WF,Reichert MA,Malejka-Giganti D

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated potential sex differences in bone resorption and the conservation of whole body bone mass in 24-week-old Sprague-Dawley rats maintained on a 1.0% calcium diet and then fed diets containing 0.02, 0.5, 1.0, or 1.75% calcium for 31 days. Lowering dietary calcium from 1.00% to 0.02% doubled whole skeleton ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of physiology and pharmacology

authors： Geng W,Wright GL

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00