Background: Carbon dioxide is an important vasodilator of cerebral blood vessels. Cerebral vasodilation mediated by adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-sensitive K+ channels has not been demonstrated in precapillary microvessel levels. Therefore, the current study was designed to examine whether ATP-sensitive K+ channels play a role in vasodilation induced by mild hypercapnia in precapillary arterioles of the rat cerebral cortex.
Methods: Brain slices from rat cerebral cortex were prepared and superfused with artificial cerebrospinal fluid, including normal (Pco2 = 40 mmHg; pH = 7.4), hypercapnic (Pco2 = 50 mmHg; pH = 7.3), and hypercapnic normal pH (Pco2 = 50 mmHg; pH = 7.4) solutions. The ID of a cerebral parenchymal arteriole (5-9.5 [mu]m) was monitored using computerized videomicroscopy.
Results: During contraction to prostaglandin F2[alpha] (5 x 10-7 m), hypercapnia, but not hypercapnia under normal pH, induced marked vasodilation, which was completely abolished by the selective ATP-sensitive K+ channel antagonist glibenclamide (5 x 10-6 m). However, the selective Ca2+-dependent K+ channel antagonist iberiotoxin (10-7 m) as well as the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor NG-nitro-l-arginine methyl ester (10-4 m) did not alter vasodilation. A selective ATP-sensitive K+ channel opener, levcromakalim (3 x 10-8 to 3 x 10-7 m), induced vasodilation, whereas this vasodilation was abolished by glibenclamide. 相似文献
Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1) has several potential therapeutic effects, including cytoprotection, vasodilation, and inhibition of platelet aggregation. This study investigates the protective action of PGE1 against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury in vivo using a complementary DNA microarray. PGE1 or saline was continuously administered intravenously to mice in which the left lobe of the liver was made ischemic for 30 minutes and then reperfused. Livers were harvested 0, 10, and 30 minutes postreperfusion. Messenger RNA was extracted, and the samples were labeled with two different fluorescent dyes and hybridized to the RIKEN set of 18,816 full-length enriched mouse complementary DNA microarrays. Serum alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase levels at 180 minutes postreperfusion were significantly lower in the PGE1-treated group than in the saline-treated group. The cDNA microarray analysis revealed that the genes encoding heat-shock protein (HSP) 70, glucose-regulated protein 78, HSP86, and glutathione S-transferase were upregulated at the end of the ischemic period (0 minutes postreperfusion) in the PGE1 group. Our results suggested that PGE1 induces HSPs immediately after ischemia reperfusion. HSPs might therefore play an important role in the protective effects of PGE1 against ischemia/reperfusion injury of the liver. 相似文献
Standard imaging techniques using a curved linear array echoendocope are summarized to facilitate the attainment of expertise in endoscopic ultrasonography and endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine needle aspiration, and to promote the widespread use of this diagnostic and therapeutic tool. Typical images of the mediastinal organs, the bilio‐pancreatic systems and neighboring organs by scanning from the esophagus, stomach, duodenal bulb, and descending portion of the duodenum, are shown in a sequential manner. The basic techniques of endoscopic ultrasound‐guided fine needle aspiration are also presented. 相似文献
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of muscle fatigue induced by low-level isometric jaw-clenching and subsequent glutamate-evoked muscle pain on the exteroceptive suppression (ES) response and resting electromyographic (EMG) activities in human jaw muscles. METHODS: The resting EMG activity and the ESs were recorded before (baseline), after low-level jaw-clenching (Post1), after subsequent glutamate or isotonic saline injections into the left masseter (Post2), and 60 min after the clenching (Post3) in 23 healthy volunteers. RESULTS: The late ES (ES2) showed more inhibition at Post1 compared with baseline (P<0.05). It was less inhibited after both types of injections (Post2), and increased at Post3 again (P<0.05) with no significant difference between the glutamate and isotonic saline sessions. The resting EMG activity increased at Post1 and Post2 (P<0.05). The glutamate injection further increased the resting EMG activity in the injected muscle (P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: Muscle fatigue influences inhibitory reflex pathways in jaw-closing muscles and subsequent acute muscle pain potentiates the local increase in the resting EMG activity of the painful muscle. SIGNIFICANCE: Muscle fatigue which can be observed in patients with oral dysfunctions may interact with nociceptive regulation and influence the clinical presentation of jaw symptoms and function. 相似文献
Background Few previous studies have analyzed the incidence of bone metastases in a defined population of Japanese breast cancer patients
and their prognosis after chemotherapy.
Methods This is a retrospective cohort study. We investigated 695 patients who underwent surgery for breast cancer. The strategy of
adjuvant therapy was as follows. Patients with both estrogen receptors (ERs) and progesterone receptors (PgRs) had endocrine
therapy as initial adjuvant therapy (n = 239). Patients with neither ERs nor PgRs had chemotherapy. When metastasis to other organs, including bone, was identified,
patients received chemotherapy. The survival rates after surgery and after the onset of bone metastasis, as well as the incidence
of bone metastasis, were calculated. We also evaluated the prognostic and predictive factors.
Results Bone metastases developed in 148 of 695 patients. All 148 received chemotherapy, and 121 of them developed spinal metastases.
The 5-year survival rate after bone metastases was 26.1%. Prognostic factors for bone metastases were visceral metastases
and PgR status. Cord compression was observed in 17 of the 148 patients, with the thoracic spine being the most common. The
1-year survival rate for patients with bone metastases who received chemotherapy was 66.3%, whereas that of patients with
paralysis after spinal metastases was 17.6%. Within 6 months of the development of spinal cord compression, 70.6% of the patients
died.
Conclusions We reported the incidence and prognostic factors for a defined population of Japanese breast cancer patients with bone and
spinal metastases. Our results suggest that the expected survival time for patients with paralysis who received adequate endocrine
therapy or chemotherapy is generally poor. However, to detect a predictive factor of long survival after paralysis and establish
the indications for surgery, a comparative study among large groups of patients with paralysis and with different backgrounds
is necessary. 相似文献
Aneurysm of the innominate artery is uncommon compared with other peripheral aneurysms, and holds the potential for rupture,
embolization, or thrombosis as well as various complications caused by compression to the adjacent structures. The most effective
treatment for this condition is surgical resection, but the earlier reports described high mortality rates. We report the
case of an 83-year-old asymptomatic woman with an aneurysm in the innominate artery, which was successfully resected and repaired
with the use of modern surgical techniques of hypothermic circulatory arrest and selective cerebral perfusion. Aggressive
surgical intervention should be employed despite the fact that a patients is asymptomatic. 相似文献
Langerhans cell histiocytosis is currently regarded as a reactive proliferative process of Langerhans cells rather than a malignancy. The disease is characterized by Langerhans cell infiltration of skin, lung, bone and other organs. We report a 74-year-old man with Langerhans cell histiocytosis who had generalized hemorrhagic and crusted papules. He also had diabetes insipidus. Because he did not have any severe constitutional symptoms or failure of vital organs, we applied topical PUVA treatment to his skin lesions, which responded well to the therapy. Diabetes insipidus, however, remained, in spite of X ray radiotherapy for the pituiary lesion. 相似文献
The thymoma-prone rat of the BUF/Mna strain is a useful model for human thymoma. In this strain thymoma development is regulated by a single autosomal susceptible gene, Tsr-1. At pre-thymoma age, BUF/Mna rats have extremely large thyrauses, when compared to those of other strains of rats. Genetic studies in crosses between BUF/Mna rats with large thymuses and WKY/NCrj rats with small thymuses suggested the presence of a major autosomal gene, Ten-1 , which contributes to thymus enlargement in a backcross population. Linkage studies between Ten-1 and microsatellite markers in backcross rats of (WKY/NCrj×BUF/Mna)Fl×BUF/Mna have led to the localization of Ten-1 in chromosome 1. This result may provide an approach to clone Tsr-1 , which could be allelic to Ten-1. 相似文献
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the acute effects of corticosteroid and iodide preoperative therapy in patients
with Graves' disease in terms of thyroid function and immunological parameters. The above combination was prescribed for 4
patients who had experienced severe side effects from antithyroid drugs (ATD) in order to reduce the possibility of post-thyroidectomy
thyroid storm. Corticosteroids were employed daily for four days, and iodides were given daily for two weeks prior to thyroidectomy.
The free T3 values decreased rapidly to euthyroid levels following the administration of both drugs, although the free T4 values were still much higher than normal in 3 of the 4 patients at the time of surgery. By comparison, 3 of 8 patients treated
with ATD also had thyroid hormone levels above normal. Studies of lymphocyte subsets revealed that the percentage of helper
T cells was significantly less in the corticosteroidiodide treatment group than in the control and ATD groups. It is thus
possible that postoperative thyroid storm might be prevented through corticosteroid-iodide therapy by virtue of the reduction
of free T3 values to within the normal range by the time of surgery. The acute suppression of helper T cells was another result of this
form of therapy observed. 相似文献
We report the results of a retrospective study conducted on patients who developed recurrence following surgery for colorectal cancer, and present a practical plan to improve the survival rates. Of 974 patients who underwent surgery for colorectal cancer in our hospital during the 20 years between 1974 and 1993, 152 developed recurrence, as local recurrence in 70 (7.2%), as liver metastasis in 47 (4.8%), and as pulmonary metastasis in 35 (3.6%). The number of patients who underwent reoperation or curative resection was 54 (77.1%) and 13 (24.1%), respectively, of those with local recurrence, 16 (34.0%) and 6 (37.5%) of those with liver metastasis, and 6 (17.1%) and 6 (100.0%) of those with pulmonary metastasis. The 3- and 5-year survival rates were 13.4% and 8.9%, respectively, after reoperation for local recurrence, 14.4% and 0%, after reoperation for liver metastasis, and 53.3% and 53.3% after reoperation for pulmonary metastasis. Although evaluation was difficult owing to the small number of patients with lung metastasis, resection of a pulmonary lesion resulted in a good outcome. Furthermore, a significant difference in 3- and 5-year survival rates was observed between patients who underwent reoperation and those who underwent conservative treatment, for whom the survival rates were 0% and 0% following local recurrence, 4.6% and 0% following liver metastasis, and 0% and 0% following lung metastasis, at 3 and 5 years, respectively. These findings indicate that aggressive surgery for recurrence may result in a better outcome. 相似文献