BACKGROUND Recently, the potential of L-arginine supplementation as a novel and effective strategy for weight loss and improving biochemical parameters in obese patients has been under consideration. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influence of 8-week oral L-arginine supplementation on body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), triceps skinfold (TS), subscapular skinfold (SS), systolic blood...

study showed a significant reduction in lower oesophageal sphincter pressure after intramuscular administration of emepronium bromide. In the nine patients who completed the study no significant change in sphincter pressure was found after four weeks' treatment with a standard oral dose of emepronium bromide. This may have been due to the much lower serum concentrations seen after oral medicati...

study showed a significant reduction in lower oesophageal sphincter pressure after intramuscular administration of emepronium bromide. In the nine patients who completed the study no significant change in sphincter pressure was found after four weeks' treatment with a standard oral dose of emepronium bromide. This may have been due to the much lower serum concentrations seen after oral medicati...

Oral administration of the angiotensin II receptor subtype 1 (AT1) antagonist DuP 753 causes long-lasting lowering of mean arterial pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats. We examined whether the antihypertensive action of DuP 753 is a result of inhibition of brain angiotensin II. In normal spontaneously hypertensive rats, we found that intracerebroventricular DuP 753 (10 micrograms) block...

objectives this study evaluates the effects of oral tizanidine on hemodynamic responses during operations and aims to determine the appropriate propofol dosage to maintain anesthesia under bis monitoring. materials and methods a double-blind clinical trial has been performed on 70 candidates for elective abdominal surgery undergoing general anesthesia in educational hospital of ghaem, mashhad, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationships between tongue pressure and different aspects of the oral-phase swallowing function. METHODS We included 96 stroke patients with dysphagia, ranging in age from 40 to 88 years (mean, 63.7 years). Measurements of tongue pressure were obtained with the Iowa Oral Performance Instrument, a device with established normative data. Three trials of maximum perfo...

To elucidate the effects of magnesium on high blood pressure, a 4-week study of oral magnesium supplementation (MgO 1 g/day) was conducted in 21 outpatients with uncomplicated essential hypertension. During the study, blood pressure and intraerythrocyte sodium concentration decreased significantly, and the erythrocyte ouabain-sensitive 22Na efflux rate constant (Kos) and intraerythrocyte magnes...

In a survey of 461 women routinely attending family planning clinics, those taking oral contraceptives had significantly higher mean systolic and diastolic blood pressures than those using non-hormonal contraception. There appeared to be a dose-response relation of blood pressure to the progestogen component of 2 oral contraceptives with an identical 30 micrograms ethinylestradiol component. ...