OBJECTIVE To look for alterations of glycemic control as a secondary systemic effect of the retrobulbar injection of triamcinolone acetonide in diabetic and non-diabetic patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We studied 40 patients (25 men and 15 women, 20 with and 20 without diabetes). The injection site in all patients was the retrobulbar space, with one injection of 1ml triamcinolone acetonide (4...

Erythrocytosis was induced in Fischer rats by intrarenal (ir) injection of nickel subsulfide (Ni3S2) in dosages ranging from 0.6 to 10 mg per rat. Measurements of blood packed cell volume (PCV) became increased by one month after ir injection of Ni3S2; reached maximum values at approximately two months; and gradually returned to control values by seven months. The duration and magnitude of eryt...

BACKGROUND When capsaicin is injected intradermally, hyperalgesia develops around the injection site. The authors observed that volunteers report painful sensations in the skin remote from the injection site during tourniquet constriction of the affected extremity. METHODS Each volunteer received an intradermal injection of capsaicin on the volar forearm, followed by intermittent tourniquet c...

PURPOSE To determine, after Caesarean delivery, uterine contractility and blood pressure following intravenous (i.v.) and intramyometrial (imy) injection of oxytocin. METHODS In a double-blind clinical trial 40 parturients scheduled for elective Caesarean section with spinal anaesthesia were randomized into two equal groups. One litre Ringer's lactate was administered i.v. before intrathecal ...

Cocaine may cause stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, seizures, and neurobehavioral abnormalities in fetuses, newborns, and adults, and there could be developmental and/or species differences in mechanisms for these cocaine-induced cerebrovascular effects. To evaluate developmental differences in responses to cocaine, we compared the cerebrovascular and metabolic responses to a 2 mg/kg iv cocaine ...

This study reports the labeling of Gallium-Bleomycin (67Ga-BLM) complex as a radiopharmaceutical and optimization of its labeling conditions; pH, reaction time, temperature, concentration of bleomycin and its biodistribution in normal Bulb C mice. The biodistribution of the complex was compared with 67Ga-Cl3 in 11 selected organs including blood, liver, lung, spleen, muscle, skin, heart, kidney...

Many plants contain an enzyme similar in most biological properties to the hypertensinase obtained from blood and some animal tissues, notably kidney and intestinal mucosa. Wheat bran is a rich source of the plant hypertensinase, and from it a potent, non-toxic preparation was made by the use of isoelectric and ammonium sulfate precipitation as the means of purification. Hypertensinase derived ...

1. Eleven patients on chronic maintenance dialysis were investigated before and after intravenous bolus injection of atrial natriuretic peptide (2 micrograms/kg body weight). 2. Mean blood pressure was reduced to the same extent in the uraemic patients as in 11 healthy subjects, with a nadir 3 min after the atrial natriuretic peptide injection at which time mean blood pressure was reduced by 13...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how anxiety disorders affect pregnancy outcomes. Therefore we investigated the impact of one anxiety disorder, blood- and injection phobia, on obstetric and neonatal outcomes. METHODS From a population-based prospectively collected cohort we compared an index group of 110 women with blood- and injection phobia with a control group of 220 women. Standardized me...