There is little information concerning the interaction of nitric oxide and norepinephrine (NE) on endothelial function in humans. The purpose of this study was to determine whether endothelial function is impaired by NE secreted from patients with pheochromocytoma (pheo) and whether surgical resection of the tumor improves endothelial function in these patients. We evaluated the forearm blood f...

The branched chain amino acids (BCAAs) are leucine, valine and isoleucine. A multi-million dollar industry of nutritional supplements has grown around the concept that dietary supplements of BCAAs alone produce an anabolic response in humans driven by a stimulation of muscle protein synthesis. In this brief review the theoretical and empirical bases for that claim are discussed. Theoretically, ...

We investigated the atrial (ANP) and brain natriuretic peptides (BNP), catecholamines, heart rate, and blood pressure responses to graded upright maximal cycling exercise of eight matched healthy subjects and cardiac-denervated heart transplant recipients (HTR). Baseline heart rate and diastolic blood pressure, together with ANP (15.2 +/- 3.7 vs. 4.4 +/- 0.8 pmol/l; P < 0.01) and BNP (14.3 +/- ...

Key to predicting the response of fishes to climate change is quantifying how close fish are to their critical thermal limits in nature and their ability to adjust their thermal sensitivity to maintain performance. Here, we evaluated the effects of body size and habitat on aerobic scope (AS) and thermal tolerance of Nile perch Lates niloticus (L.), a fish of great economic and food security imp...

To determine the role of the arterial baroreceptor reflex in mediating the cardiovascular response to a cardiac glycoside, we examined the effects of ouabain (G-strophanthin), 17.5 mug/kg, iv, on direct and continuous measurements of left ventricular diameters, pressures, velocity of shortening, (dP/dt)/P, arterial pressure, cardiac output, and total peripheral resistance. These studies were co...

In this paper, $(p,q)$-Lupas Bernstein Stancu operators are constructed. Statistical as well as other approximation properties of $(p,q)$-Lupac{s} Stancu operators are studied. Rate of statistical convergence by means of modulus of continuity and Lipschitz type maximal functions has been investigated.

Cyclophosphamide, 100 mg/kg, and Adriamycin, 5 mg/kg, were synergistic in treating L1210 leukemic mice that were inoculated with 1 x 105 L1210 cells 4 days prior to treatment. Only one course of treatment was given. There was a dramatic circadian variation in response as monitored by mean survival time or cure rate. The variation in cure rate (mice alive and apparently free of disease 75 days p...

email marketing is increasingly recognized as an effective internet marketing tool. in this study, a questionnaire is constructed and distributed to a sample of 146 prospects of aditi technologies to find the factors associated with higher response rates. the collected data is analyzed using factor analysis and the 11 factors, from line, subject line, personalization of the subject line, timing...