Because long-term pulmonary artery (PA) obstruction is associated with expansion of the systemic blood supply to the lung, chronic ischemia may not occur, and endothelium nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) function may be preserved in postobstructive pulmonary arteries. To test this hypothesis, we studied piglets 2 d or 5 wk after left PA ligation or a sham operation. We measured left lung ATP and la...

Interaction of alkaline earth metal (magnesium, calcium, strontium and barium) ions with acetic and lactic acid in aqueous media was investigated by C NMR spectroscopy. In the acetate systems, signals whose chemical shifts were the averages of those of the free and bound acetate ions were observed. Downfield shifts of the carboxylate carbon signals with increasing metal ion concentration indica...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to observe the effect of hemoperfusion (HP) cartridge on different internal environment indicators at different time points in patients with acute blood poisoning and to find alternative indicators for the detection of blood poisoning. METHODS The levels of internal environment indicators (blood pH, PvCO2, PvO2, blood lactate, potassium, free calcium, bicarbonate, ...

This article describes the clinical findings, haemato-biochemical alterations, and conservative treatment of a buffalo suffering from caecal dilatation. The findings were anorexia, scanty faces, reduced rumen motility, distension right flank, ping sounds on auscultation percussion flank dilated caecum at pelvic brim per-rectal examination. hemato-biochemical alterations neutrophilic leukocytosi...

Lactate concentrations were measured in the shell and plasma of the turtle Chrysemys picta bellii after 3 months of submergence anoxia at 3 °C and during and after 9 days of submergence anoxia at 10 °C. Liver and skeletal muscle lactate levels were also measured in control and anoxic animals at each temperature. At 3 °C, mean shell lactate concentration (N=4) reached 133 mmol kg−1 shell mass an...