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Physician assessment of patient motivation: influence on disposition for follow-up care.

This study of 3,318 outpatient visits evaluated the influence of the physician-assessed level of patient motivation on the level of physician involvement in follow-up care. Data collected included patient demographics, health risk factors,…

A new dosing paradigm: high-dose, short-course fluoroquinolone therapy for community-acquired pneumonia.

The goals of optimal antimicrobial therapy are to treat infection effectively, to improve the clinical condition of the patient, and to prevent the emergence of resistant bacterial strains. For ideal drug usage the World Health Organization…

Tags: 2003, Clinical cornerstone, Community-Acquired Infections/*drug therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, File Thomas M Jr, Fluoroquinolones/*administration & dosage/pharmacology/therapeutic use, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Ofloxacin/administration & dosage/pharmacology/therapeutic use, Pneumococcal/*drug therapy, Pneumonia, Safety, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome

Single versus multiple fractions of repeat radiation for painful bone metastases: a randomised, controlled, non-inferiority trial.

BACKGROUND: Although repeat radiation treatment has been shown to palliate pain in patients with bone metastases from multiple primary origin sites, data for the best possible dose fractionation schedules are lacking. We aimed to assess two dose…

Tags: *Dose Fractionation, *Radiotherapy, 2014, Aged, Analgesics – Therapeutic Use, Analgesics/therapeutic use, Australia, Babington Scott, Bone Neoplasms, Bone Neoplasms – Complications, Bone Neoplasms – Radiotherapy, Bone Neoplasms/complications/*radiotherapy/*secondary, Brief pain inventory, Brundage Michael D, Canada, Cauda Equina, Chen Bingshu E, Chi Square Test, Chi-Square Distribution, Chow Edward, Clinical Assessment Tools, Clinical Trials, Computer-Assisted, Computer-Assisted – Adverse Effects, Computer-Assisted/adverse effects, Demas William F, Europe, Female, Fractures, Funding Source, Hartsell William F, Hoskin Peter, Human, Humans, Intention to Treat Analysis, Israel, Logistic Models, Logistic Regression, Male, Meyer Ralph M, Middle Age, Middle Aged, Nabid Abdenour, New Zealand, Odds Ratio, Oei Bing, Pain – Diagnosis, Pain – Drug Therapy, Pain – Etiology, Pain – Radiotherapy, Pain Measurement, Pain/diagnosis/drug therapy/*etiology/*radiotherapy, Questionnaires, Radiation, Radiation Dosage, Radiotherapy, Radiotherapy Planning, Risk Factors, Roos Daniel, Scales, Spinal Cord Compression – Etiology, Spinal Cord Compression/etiology, Spontaneous – Etiology, Spontaneous/etiology, Surveys and Questionnaires, The Lancet. Oncology, Time Factors, Tissing-Tan Caroline J A, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes, van der Linden Yvette M, Wilson Carolyn F, Wong Rebecca K S, Wu Jackson S Y

Two components of long-term potentiation induced by different patterns of afferent activation.

Long-term potentiation (LTP) of excitatory synaptic transmission could be a mechanism underlying memory. Induction of LTP requires Ca2+ influx into postsynaptic neurons through ion channels gated by NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) receptors in…

Tags: 1990, 2-Amino-5-phosphonovalerate/*pharmacology, Afferent Pathways/physiology, Animals, Calcium/*physiology, Grover L M, Hippocampus/*physiology, In Vitro Techniques, Membrane Potentials, Memory/*physiology, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate/*physiology, Nature, Neuronal Plasticity, Receptors, Synaptic Transmission, Teyler T J, Time Factors

Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India.

Although the first ten million years of whale evolution are documented by a remarkable series of fossil skeletons, the link to the ancestor of cetaceans has been missing. It was known that whales are related to even-toed ungulates (artiodactyls), but…

Long-term evaluation of the long-pulsed alexandrite laser for the removal of bikini hair at shortened treatment intervals.

BACKGROUND: Laser-assisted hair removal is becoming the treatment of choice for removing unwanted hair. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work was to determine the long-term efficacy of the long-pulsed infrared (LPIR) laser at shortened treatment…

Tags: *Laser Therapy, 2000, Adolescent, Adult, Department of Internal Medicine, Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.], Female, Hair Removal/*methods, Humans, Lloyd J R, Male, Middle Aged, Mirkov Mirko, NEOMED College of Medicine, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome

Panniculectomy at the time of gynecologic surgery in morbidly obese patients.

OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to demonstrate that panniculectomy performed at the time of gynecologic surgery aids in reducing the operative time and exposure and does not increase the wound infection rate in morbidly obese patients. STUDY DESIGN: A…

A comparison of costs associated with screening for gestational diabetes with two-tiered and one-tiered testing protocols.

OBJECTIVE: The Fourth International Workshop on Gestational Diabetes recently suggested that two techniques, a 2-tiered protocol and a 1-tiered protocol, to screen for gestational diabetes mellitus are acceptable alternatives. This study was…

Tags: 2001, American journal of obstetrics and gynecology, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Diabetes, Female, Gestational/*diagnosis/*economics, Glucose Tolerance Test/*economics/*methods, Humans, Lavin B, Lavin J P Jr, Mass Screening/economics, O'Donnell N, Pregnancy, Time Factors

Prostate apoptosis response-4 enhances secretion of amyloid beta peptide 1-42 in human neuroblastoma IMR-32 cells by a caspase-dependent pathway.

Prostate apoptosis response-4 (Par-4) is a leucine zipper protein that promotes neuronal cell death in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Neuronal degeneration in AD may result from extracellular accumulation of amyloid beta peptide (Abeta) 1-42. To examine…

Bcl-2 positively regulates Sox9-dependent chondrocyte gene expression by suppressing the MEK-ERK1/2 signaling pathway.

Bcl-2 is an anti-apoptotic protein that has recently been shown to regulate other cellular functions. We previously reported that Bcl-2 regulates chondrocyte matrix gene expression, independent of its anti-apoptotic function. Here, we further…

Tags: *Gene Expression Regulation, 2005, Adenoviridae/genetics, Animals, Apoptosis, beta-Galactosidase/metabolism, Blotting, Butadienes/pharmacology, Caspase Inhibitors, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Chondrocytes/*metabolism, Collagen Type II/metabolism, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Down-Regulation, Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology, Fibroblasts/metabolism, Fluorescence, Genetic, High Mobility Group Proteins/*metabolism, Horton Walter E Jr, Lac Operon, Luciferases/metabolism, MAP Kinase Kinase Kinases/*metabolism, McBurney Denise, Messenger/metabolism, Microscopy, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 1/*metabolism, Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase 3/*metabolism, NEOMED College of Medicine, NF-kappa B/metabolism, Nitriles/pharmacology, Phenotype, Phosphorylation, Promoter Regions, Protein Kinase C-alpha, Protein Kinase C/antagonists & inhibitors, Proteoglycans/metabolism, Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-2/*metabolism, Rats, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Signal Transduction, Small Interfering/metabolism, SOX9 Transcription Factor, Sprague-Dawley, The Journal of biological chemistry, Time Factors, Transcription, Transcription Factors/*metabolism, Transfection, Western, Yagi Rieko

A Prospero-related homeodomain protein is a novel co-regulator of hepatocyte nuclear factor 4alpha that regulates the cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase gene.

Prox1, an early specific marker for developing liver and pancreas in foregut endoderm has recently been shown to interact with alpha-fetoprotein transcription factor and repress cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase (CYP7A1) gene transcription. Using a…

Tags: *Gene Expression Regulation, 2006, Aged, Amino Acid Motifs, Bile Acids and Salts/metabolism, Cell Line, Cell Nucleus/metabolism, Cells, Chiang John Y L, Cholesterol 7-alpha-Hydroxylase/*chemistry/*genetics, Cultured/metabolism, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Enzymologic, Female, Genes, Genetic, Gluconeogenesis, Glutathione Transferase/metabolism, Hepatocyte Nuclear Factor 4/metabolism/*physiology, Hepatocytes/metabolism, Homeodomain Proteins/metabolism/*physiology, Humans, Immunoprecipitation, Li Tiangang, Liver/metabolism, Luciferases/metabolism, Male, Messenger/metabolism, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (ATP)/metabolism, Plasmids/metabolism, Protein Structure, Reporter, Response Elements, Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction, RNA, Small Interfering/metabolism, Song Kwang-Hoon, Tertiary, The Journal of biological chemistry, Time Factors, Transcription, Transcriptional Activation, Transfection, Tumor Suppressor Proteins, Two-Hybrid System Techniques

A multi-level modeling approach examining PTSD symptom reduction during prolonged exposure therapy: moderating effects of number of trauma types experienced, having an HIV-related index trauma, and years since HIV diagnosis among

People living with HIV (PLWH) have extensive interpersonal trauma histories and higher rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than the general population. Prolonged exposure (PE) therapy is efficacious in reducing PTSD across a variety of…

Tags: *HIV/AIDS, *prolonged exposure therapy, *PTSD, *trauma history, 2017, Adult, AIDS care, Boarts Jessica M, Ciesla Jeffrey A, Coleman Jennifer A, Delahanty Douglas L, Descriptive Statistics, Feeny Norah C, Female, HIV Infections/*psychology, HIV-Infected Patients – Psychosocial Factors, Human, Humans, Implosive Therapy/*methods, Jones Tracy, Junglen Angela G, LONGITUDINAL method, Male, Middle Aged, Pacella Maria L, Post-Traumatic – Symptoms, Post-Traumatic – Therapy, POST-traumatic stress disorder, Post-Traumatic/diagnosis/*psychology/*therapy, Prospective Studies, Psychological/*psychology/therapy, PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive people, Smith Brian C, Stress, Stress Disorders, Time, Time Factors, Trauma – Classification, Trauma – History, TREATMENT effectiveness, TREATMENT of post-traumatic stress disorder, Treatment Outcome, Treatment Outcomes – Evaluation, United States, WOUNDS & injuries – Classification, WOUNDS & injuries – History

What can we learn from the time course of untreated and partially treated community-onset Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia? A clinical perspective on superiority and noninferiority trial designs for mild community-acquired pneumonia.

There are no well-designed placebo-controlled clinical trials in the recent era that precisely define the magnitude of the drug effect of antimicrobial therapy for mild community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). However, there is evidence that ineffective…

Tags: *Research Design, 2008, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Community-Acquired Infections/*drug therapy/microbiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Disease Progression, File Thomas M Jr, Humans, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pneumococcal/*drug therapy/microbiology, Pneumonia, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic/*methods, Schentag Jerome J, Streptococcus pneumoniae/*isolation & purification, Time Factors, Treatment Outcome

Recommendations for treatment of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia: review of recent international guidelines.

Recently published guidelines for the management of hospital-acquired pneumonia and ventilator-associated pneumonia are reviewed for recommendations regarding diagnosis and antimicrobial therapy to assess the implications for development of future…

Tags: *Practice Guidelines as Topic, 2010, Anti-Bacterial Agents/*therapeutic use, Bacteria/drug effects/isolation & purification, Bacterial/diagnosis/*drug therapy, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Clinical Trials as Topic, Cross Infection/diagnosis/*drug therapy, Department of Internal Medicine, File Thomas M Jr, Hospitals, Humans, Microbial Sensitivity Tests, NEOMED College of Medicine, Pneumonia, Time Factors, Ventilator-Associated/diagnosis/*drug therapy

Selective Targeting of Heme Protein in Cytochrome P450 and Nitric Oxide Synthase by Diphenyleneiodonium.

Cytochrome P450 (CYP) enzymes mediate mixed-function oxidation reactions important in drug metabolism. The aromatic heterocyclic cation, diphenyleneiodonium (DPI), binds flavin in cytochrome P450 reductase and inhibits

Relationship between breast cancer and meningioma.

Several authors have suggested the existence of a relationship between breast cancer and meningioma occurring in the same patient. I describe four patients who had both of these neoplasms and present findings that dispute the implied relationship…

Tags: 1992, Aged, Breast Neoplasms/*diagnosis, Carcinoma, Female, Humans, Intraductal, Meningeal Neoplasms/*diagnosis, Meningioma/*diagnosis, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Noninfiltrating/*diagnosis, Ovarian Neoplasms/diagnosis, Second Primary/*diagnosis, Smith-Behn J, Southern medical journal, Time Factors

Effectiveness of a group exercise program in a long-term care facility: a randomized pilot trial.

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this pilot was to determine whether a strength and flexibility program in frail long-term care facility (LTC) residents would result in improved function. DESIGN: A prospective, randomized, controlled, semicrossover trial…

A comparison of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) measurement approach with direct observation of outpatient visits.

BACKGROUND: The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) informs a wide range of important policy and clinical decisions by providing nationally representative data about outpatient practice. However, the validity of the NAMCS methods has not…

Lifestyle factors and primary care specialty selection: comparing 2012-2013 graduating and matriculating medical students' thoughts on specialty lifestyle.

PURPOSE: To compare how first-year (MS1) and fourth-year students (MS4) ascribe importance to lifestyle domains and specialty characteristics in specialty selection, and compare students' ratings with their primary care (PC) interest. METHOD: In…

Slow medical education.

Slow medical education borrows from other "slow" movements by offering a complementary orientation to medical education that emphasizes the value of slow and thoughtful reflection and interaction in medical education and clinical care. Such slow…

Tags: *Communication, *Physician-Patient Relations, 2015, Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, Cole-Kelly Kathy, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Education, Humans, Kumagai Arno, Medical/*organization & administration, NEOMED College of Medicine, Time Factors, Wear Delese, Zarconi Joseph

Hidden in plain sight: the formal, informal, and hidden curricula of a psychiatry clerkship.

PURPOSE: To examine perceptions of the formal, informal, and hidden curricula in psychiatry as they are observed and experienced by (1) attending physicians who have teaching responsibilities for residents and medical students, (2) residents who are…

Long-term results of percutaneous lumbar decompression for LSS: two-year outcomes.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this report was to evaluate the long-term effectiveness and safety of mild lumbar decompression for the treatment of neurogenic claudication associated with lumbar spinal stenosis. This technique uses a percutaneous dorsal…

Long-Term Evaluation of Eyebrow Soft Tissue Expansion in Thyroid Eye Disease.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the long-term transformation of lateral eyebrow soft tissue in a group of patients with known thyroid eye disease. METHODS: A retrospective review of all patients with a known diagnosis of thyroid eye disease with clinical photos…

Tags: 2016, Eyebrows/*diagnostic imaging, Eyelids/*surgery, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Goldberg Robert A, Graves Ophthalmopathy/diagnosis/*surgery, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Moore Grant H, Ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery, Retrospective Studies, Rootman Dan B, Time Factors, Tissue Expansion/*methods, Yeganeh Amir

Quality Metrics in Neonatal and Pediatric Critical Care Transport: A National Delphi Project.

OBJECTIVES: The transport of neonatal and pediatric patients to tertiary care facilities for specialized care demands monitoring the quality of care delivered during transport and its impact on patient outcomes. In 2011, pediatric transport teams in…

Tags: *Delphi Technique, 2015, Airway Management – Standards, Airway Management/standards, Benchmarking, Bigham Michael T, Clinical Indicators, Critical Care – Standards, Critical Care Family Needs Inventory, Critical Care/*standards, Delphi Technique, Health Care, Hospitals, Humans, Insoft Robert M, Meyer Keith, Multidisciplinary Care Team – Standards, Ohio, Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care), Outcomes (Health Care), Patient Care Team/standards, Patient Safety – Standards, Patient Safety/standards, Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, Pediatrics – Standards, Pediatrics/*standards, Quality Indicators, Quality of Health Care – Standards, Quality of Health Care/*standards, Schoettker Pamela J, Schwartz Hamilton P, Special, Tertiary Care Centers, Time Factors, Transportation of Patients – Standards, Transportation of Patients/*standards, Trautman Michael S

Timing and type of surgical treatment of Clostridium difficile-associated disease: a practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.

BACKGROUND: Clostridium difficile infection is the leading cause of nosocomial diarrhea in the United States; however, few patients will develop fulminant C. difficile-associated disease (CDAD), necessitating an urgent operative intervention.…

Tags: *Clostridium difficile, *Practice Guidelines as Topic, *Societies, *Traumatology, 2014, Bosarge Patrick, Clostridium difficile, Clostridium Infections – Epidemiology, Clostridium Infections – Microbiology, Clostridium Infections – Surgery, Clostridium Infections/epidemiology/microbiology/*surgery, Cross Infection – Epidemiology, Cross Infection – Microbiology, Cross Infection – Surgery, Cross Infection/epidemiology/microbiology/*surgery, Dorion Heath, Duane Therese M, Enniss Toby, Ferrada Paula, Haut Elliott R, Human, Humans, Incidence, Johnson Emily, Martin Niels D, Medical, Medical Organizations, Meta Analysis, Operative Time, Praba-Egge Anita, Practice Guidelines, Rushing Amy, Sultan Shahnaz, Survival – Trends, Survival Rate/trends, systematic review, The journal of trauma and acute care surgery, Time Factors, Traumatology, United States, United States/epidemiology, Velopulos Catherine G

Mild acidic pH inhibition of the major pathway of herpes simplex virus entry into HEp-2 cells.

Penetration of the KOS strain of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) and the MS and 333 strains of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) into HEp-2 cells at pH 6.3 was at least 100-fold less efficient than at pH 7.4. Penetration of two low passage…

Neuroprotective role of estrogen upon methamphetamine and related neurotoxins within the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system.

In this report we describe some of the data on the capacity for estrogen to function as a neuroprotectant of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic (NSDA) system. The data show that estrogen (E) can alter two different response characteristics to NSDA…

Tags: 2000, Animals, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Corpus Striatum/*drug effects/metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/*metabolism, Drug Interactions, Estrogens/*administration & dosage, McDermott J L, Methamphetamine/antagonists & inhibitors/*toxicity, Neurotoxins/antagonists & inhibitors/*toxicity, Substantia Nigra/*drug effects/metabolism, Time Factors

Simulation of breast cancer screening: quality assessment of two protocols.

Healthcare professionals must make breast cancer screening decisions without the help of clear answers in current medical knowledge. This study used computer simulation to evaluate two screening protocols. The American Cancer Society (ACS) protocol…

The University of California Institute of Environmental Stress marathon field studies.

In 1973, the Institute of Environmental Stress of the University of California-Santa Barbara, under the direction of Steven M. Horvath, began a series of field and laboratory studies of marathon runners during competition. As one of Horvath's…

PKCalpha mediates acetylcholine-induced activation of TRPV4-dependent calcium influx in endothelial cells.

Transient receptor potential vanilloid channel 4 (TRPV4) is a polymodally activated nonselective cationic channel implicated in the regulation of vasodilation and hypertension. We and others have recently shown that cyclic stretch and shear stress…

Tags: 2011, Acetylcholine/*pharmacology, Adapala Ravi K, American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, Animals, Bratz Ian N, Calcium Signaling/*drug effects, Carbazoles/pharmacology, Cells, Cultured, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Endothelial Cells/*drug effects/enzymology, Enzyme Activation, Inbred C57BL, Knockout, Male, Mesenteric Arteries/drug effects/enzymology, Meszaros J Gary, Mice, Mutation, NEOMED College of Medicine, Nitric Oxide Synthase Type III/metabolism, Phosphorylation, Protein Kinase C-alpha/genetics/*metabolism, Protein Kinase Inhibitors/pharmacology, Suzuki Makoto, Talasila Phani K, Tetradecanoylphorbol Acetate/pharmacology, Thodeti Charles K, Time Factors, Transfection, TRPV Cation Channels/*agonists/deficiency/genetics/metabolism, Vasodilation/*drug effects, Vasodilator Agents/*pharmacology, Zhang David X

Early upregulation of myocardial CXCR4 expression is critical for dimethyloxalylglycine-induced cardiac improvement in acute myocardial infarction.

The stromal cell-derived factor-1 (SDF-1):CXCR4 is important in myocardial repair. In this study we tested the hypothesis that early upregulation of cardiomyocyte CXCR4 (CM-CXCR4) at a time of high myocardial SDF-1 expression could be a strategy to…

Tags: 2016, alpha Subunit/metabolism, American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, Amino Acids, Animal, Animals, Apoptosis/drug effects, Cardiotonic Agents/*pharmacology, Cell Hypoxia, Cell Line, Chilian William M, CXCR4/deficiency/genetics/*metabolism, Department of Integrative Medical Sciences, Dicarboxylic/*pharmacology, Disease Models, Dong Feng, Enzyme Inhibitors/pharmacology, Forudi Farhad, hypoxia, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1, Hypoxia-Inducible Factor-Proline Dioxygenases/antagonists & inhibitors/metabolism, Inbred C57BL, Kiedrowski Matthew, Knockout, Left/*drug effects, Mayorga Mari, Mice, myocardial infarction, Myocardial Infarction/*drug therapy/genetics/metabolism/pathology/physiopathology, Myocardium/*metabolism/pathology, NEOMED College of Medicine, Penn Marc S, Rats, Receptors, Recovery of Function, Shamhart Patricia, Signal Transduction/drug effects, stem cells, Stem Cells/drug effects/metabolism, Stroke Volume/drug effects, Time Factors, Up-Regulation, Ventricular Function, Weber Kristal

Acute exercise enhances nitric oxide modulation of vascular response to phenylephrine.

The influence of the release of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) on the vasoconstrictor response to phenylephrine (PE) was evaluated before and after a single bout of dynamic exercise. Each rat ran on a motor-driven treadmill at

Daily spontaneous running did not alter vagal afferent reactivity.

Exercise training alters the cardiopulmonary baroreflex regulation of the circulation; however, the mechanisms responsible are unknown. One possibility is an enhanced afferent response to cardiopulmonary stimulation. We therefore tested the…

Myocardial work load is a major determinant of norepinephrine-induced left ventricular dysfunction.

This study was conducted to determine whether increased myocardial energy demand plays a role in norepinephrine (NE)-induced left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. A range of arterial pressure-heart rate (P-R) products (myocardial energy demand) was…

Impaired alveolar liquid clearance after 48-h isoproterenol infusion spontaneously recovers by 96 h of continuous infusion.

We previously demonstrated that 48-h isoproterenol (Iso) infusion in rats impaired the ability of beta-adrenoceptor (beta-AR) agonists to increase alveolar liquid clearance (ALC). In this study, we determined whether this impairment persisted over…

Distal air space epithelial fluid clearance in near-term rat fetuses is fast and requires endogenous catecholamines.

Knowledge about the conversion of the epithelium in the distal air spaces of the lung from secretion to absorption is imperative to the understanding of postnatal lung development; little such information is available in rats. Distal air space fluid…

Time course of blood volume changes in an isolated lung lobe after venous pressure elevation.

The elevation of venous pressure (Pv) in isolated perfused organs causes organ weight to increase in a biphasic manner. The initial rapid phase results primarily from an increase in blood volume (BV), whereas the second slower phase is generally…

Tags: *Blood Volume/drug effects, *Pulmonary Circulation, *Venous Pressure, 1994, Animals, Dogs, Extravascular Lung Water/metabolism, Female, In Vitro Techniques, Indicator Dilution Techniques, Indocyanine Green, Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), Lane S M, Lung/*physiology, Male, Maron M B, Papaverine/pharmacology, Perfusion, Time Factors

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