A combined lecture and laboratory experience was designed to enhance medical school students' understanding of the physiological basis of diuretic therapy. Studies are performed by students in anesthetized dogs to determine the effects of four clinically useful diuretics on renal function. The objective of the experience is to 1) learn the mechanisms of action, clinical indications, and adverse...

Differences in blood pressure between blacks and whites in the United States are now well documented. The causes of these differences remain speculative. Genetic factors, personal characteristics, renal physiology, endocrine factors, autonomic nervous system function, cardiac function and various environmental factors are examined in the present review as potential determinants of racial blood ...

Transgenic mice containing a ren-2 promoter T-antigen fusion construct (TAG+) develop renal vascular hypertrophy and hyperplasia associated with markedly suppressed renal renin mRNA, renal renin content, and plasma renin concentration. These animals are normotensive. In the present study, the renal and cardiovascular systems are characterized, revealing some surprising findings. Not only are th...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: ICU: Intensive Care Unit; CPCR: Cardiac Pulmonary Cerebral Resuscitation; SAPS: Simplified Acute Physiology Score; APACHE: Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; TISS: Therapeutic Intervention Scoring System; HELLP: Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelet Count; ARI: Acute Renal Insufficiency; PE: Pulmonary Embolis...

Developmental physiology encompasses the bodily changes taking place after birth that affect clinical anesthetic management. This chapter covers the basic principles of these changes, including cardiac, respiratory, neurologic, hematologic, and renal physiology. In addition, principles of developmental pharmacology as they pertain to the administration of intravenous and inhalational anesthetic...

Marcia Venegas-Pont, Keisa W. Mathis, Radu Iliescu, William H. Ray, Porter H. Glover, and Michael J. Ryan Department of Physiology and Biophysics and the Center for Excellence in Cardiovascular Renal Research, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi; and Department of Physiology, “Gr. T. Popa” Biomedical Research Center, “Gr. T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, ...