The three-dimensional architecture of the rat exocrine pancreas was studied by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with the HCl digestion method. The treatment with HCl effectively removed connective tissue elements enclosing the ducts and the acini. Thus their shapes and relations were clearly revealed under the SEM. Furthermore fine surface features of the acinar or ductal cells were also demo...

Filarial nematodes (superfamily Filarioidea) are responsible for an annual global health burden of ∼6.3 million disability-adjusted life-years, which represents the greatest single component of morbidity attributable to helminths affecting humans. No vaccine exists for the major filarial diseases, lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis; in part because research on protective immunity against f...

Compared with the normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rat, the spontaneously hypertensive rat exhibits exaggerated alterations in renal sympathetic nerve activity and excretory function during volume expansion (exaggerated natriuresis) and environmental stress (antinatriuresis). The borderline hypertensive rat is the first filial offspring of the spontaneously hypertensive rat and the Wistar-Kyoto rat an...

Renal Sympathetic Hyperactivity in Hypertension: True or False? To the Editor: Increased renal norepinephrine spillover, observed by using isotope-dilution method, is thought to indicate renal sympathetic hyperactivity and to play a crucial role in hypertension. However, SYMPLICITY HTN-3 (Renal Denervation in Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension), the first randomized shamcontrolled trial, f...

Renal Sympathetic Hyperactivity in Hypertension: True or False? To the Editor: Increased renal norepinephrine spillover, observed by using isotope-dilution method, is thought to indicate renal sympathetic hyperactivity and to play a crucial role in hypertension. However, SYMPLICITY HTN-3 (Renal Denervation in Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension), the first randomized shamcontrolled trial, f...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the influence of bull excretory products on the resumption of postpartum luteal function in primiparous, restricted-suckled cows. Hypotheses tested were that resumption of luteal function or proportions of cows that initiate luteal cycling did not differ among cows exposed to a bull (BE), exposed to excretory products of bulls (EPB), not exposed to a ...

The structure and morphological change of the excretory gland in the mucous membrane of the maxillary sinus was studied and discussed on the structural principles of these pneumatic csvity found by Goto and his co-workers. 1. The excretory gland of the maxillary sinus is a tubulo-cellular gland consisted of the tubar and cavitary part, and the latter is further divided into the tubular and cell...

Filarial nematodes (superfamily Filarioidea) are responsible for an annual global health burden of 6.3 million disability-adjusted life-years, which represents the greatest single component of morbidity attributable to helminths affecting humans. No vaccine exists for the major filarial diseases, lymphatic filariasis and onchocerciasis; in part because research on protective immunity against fi...

Renal Sympathetic Hyperactivity in Hypertension: True or False? To the Editor: Increased renal norepinephrine spillover, observed by using isotope-dilution method, is thought to indicate renal sympathetic hyperactivity and to play a crucial role in hypertension. However, SYMPLICITY HTN-3 (Renal Denervation in Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension), the first randomized shamcontrolled trial, f...