The effects of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (CEI) upon blood pressure and plasma aldosterone (PA) were studied in rabbits with a simultaneous infusion of angiotensin I (ANG I) or with hemorrhagic hypotension. Pretreatment with CEI (SQ 20881), 1.0 mg/Kg, inhibited the effects of infused ANG I, 30 ng/Kg/min, upon PA and blood pressure at 30 min of the infusion, but the inhibition on PA...

The present study compared the efficacy of gadolinium ethoxybenzyl diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) in the estimation of hepatic fibrosis stages with histopathologic correlation.This retrospective study included 104 patients (87 men and 17 women; mean age, 60.6 ± 10.6 years) with chronic liver d...

Females homozygous for a mutation in cellular island (cei) produce embryos with defects in cytokinesis during early development. Analysis of the cytoskeletal events associated with furrow formation reveal that these defects include a general delay in furrow initiation as well as a complete failure to form furrow-associated structures in distal regions of the blastodisc. A linkage mapping-based ...

Converting enzyme inhibitor (CEI) produced a greater fall in blood pressure (BP) than the competitive antagonist of angiotensin II, sarcosine-alanine angiotensin II (saralasin), when administered to saltdepleted rats; there was no difference in BP response in salt-loaded rats. Thus, two widely used methods of inhibiting the renin-angiotensin system give discrepant effects. The renin-angiotensin...

CONTEXT Epidural anesthesia for labor pain is frequently complicated by maternal hypotension. OBJECTIVE To test whether continuous epidural infusion (CEI) of local anesthetic, without bolus administration, lowers the incidence of hypotension in parturient patients. METHODS In a single-blind clinical study, subjects were randomly assigned to CEI-only (10 mL/h of 0.2% ropivacaine hydrochlorid...

OBJECTIVE To optimize the delay time before the initiation of arterial phase scan in the detection of focal liver lesions in contrast enhanced 5 phase liver CT using the bolus tracking technique. PATIENTS AND METHODS Delay - the interval between threshold enhancement of 100 hounsfield unit (HU) in the abdominal aorta and commencement of the first arterial phase scan. Using a 16 slice CT scann...

INTRODUCTION Gadoxetate-disodium is a liver-specific MR contrast agent absorbed by hepatocytes via organic anion transporting polypeptide 1B3 and is excreted into the biliary system by multidrug resistance-associated protein 2. It has been suggested that relative parenchymal enhancement on hepatocyte phase image is associated with hepatic function. However, it is not clear whether gadoxetate-di...

background: hazardous chemicals, which give detrimental effect to the central nervous system, are widely used in the vehicle services industry. the use of vibrotactile perception threshold (vpt) as a screening tool for chemical exposure is new in developing country such as malaysia. therefore, this study determined the relationship between vpt and chemical exposure among vehicle service technic...