Effects of insulin on plasma fibrinogen levels in rats submitted to tissue injury or ACTH administration

Summary Insulin is necessary to produce an increase of plasma fibrinogen in rats submitted to tissue injury or ACTH administration. This increase is more significant when endogenous or exogeneous excess of insulin is present, while in uninjured rats the absence or excess of insulin does not modify plasma fibrinogen.     

Effects of insulin on plasma fibrinogen levels in rats submitted to tissue injury or ACTH administration.

Insulin is necessary to produce an increase of plasma fibrinogen in rats submitted to tissue injury or ACTH administration. This increase is more significant when endogenous or exogenous excess of insulin is present, while in uninjured rats the absence or excess insulin does not modify plasma fibrinogen.     

Effect of spironolactone and phenobarbital on the plasma fibrinogen in rats

Résumé Par un dosage de 20 M/100 g poids de spironolactone ou de phénobarbital pendant 3 jours, un niveau de fibrine élevé peut être produit chez des rats. En même temps, l'incorporation des aminoacides C¹⁴ au fibrinogène est aussi intense. Le phénobarbital est dans tous les cas plus efficace que le spironolactone. Dans notre cas, ces médicaments, connus comme inducteurs des enzymes microsomiques, augmentaient la synthèse protéique, enzymatiquement inactive du foie.     

Increased plasma fibrinogen and the release of a fibrinogen enhancing factor in tumour-bearing rats

Zusammenfassung Die Freisetzung eines die Fibrinogensynthese stimulierenden Faktors aus nekrotischem Gewebe in die Blutbahn ist für den Anstieg des Plasmafibrinogens bei experimentellen Rattentumoren verantwortlich.     

Effects of probenecid on plasma/tissue distribution of14C-benzylpenicillin in rats

Summary Probenecid (50 mg·kg^–1) was found to induce an increase of the plasma concentration of¹⁴C-benzylpenicillin with a decrease of the concentration in liver and kidney. Accumulation in corresponding tissue slices was reduced by probenecid. Therefore, the well known increase of penicillin in plasma after probenecid seems to be not only due to an inhibition of renal excretion but also to a reduced tissue uptake in liver and kidney.     

Adenosine-3,5-phosphate levels in brain structures of rats submitted to four different behavioral procedures

Summary Shuttle avoidance training decreased the cAMP content of rat brain (excluding hippocampus and caudate nucleus), amygdala and hypothalamus. Stimulation by tones alone had a similar effect, but only in the brain fraction. Pseudoconditioning or footshocks alone had no effect.With support from FAPERGS, CNPq, and PROPESP-UFRGS, Brasil. We are grateful to Miss Sonia Eisinger for her valuable technical assistance.     

Adenosine-3,5-phosphate levels in brain structures of rats submitted to four different behavioral procedures

Shuttle avoidance training decreased the cAMP content of rat brain (excluding hippocampus and caudate nucleus), amygdala and hypothalamus. Stimulation by tones alone had a similar effect, but only in the brain fraction. Pseudoconditioning or footshocks alone had no effect.     

The effect of thermal injury on plasma carnitine in rats

Summary The plasma concentration of L-carnitine in scalded rats was determined to be greater (p0.05) than that of control rats at 6 h following the administration of a 20% body surface, full-thickness burn produced by scalding in a 100°C water bath for 15 sec.     

Effects of bromocriptine on plasma testosterone and gonadotropin levels and testicular lipid fractions in adult rats

Summary Bromocriptine treatment of adult male rats resulted in a decrease in testicular testosterone (T) content and a reduction in plasma T levels. This was accompanied by increase in testicular total lipids and cholesterol and depletion of testicular phospholipids.Acknowledgments. We thank Dr R. L. Elton of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals for provision of CB-154. This work was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, and by NIH grants HD 12642 and P-30 HD 10202 (Radioimmunoassay Core).     

Effects of handling normal and bulbectomized rats at adrenal and plasma corticosterone levels

Summary Normal and bulbectomized adult rats, male and female, handled daily for 4 weeks, show plasma and adrenal corticosterone values significantly lower than the non-handled ones.     

Nitrous oxide and tissue thiopental levels in rats

Zusammenfassung Es wird gezeigt, dass sowohl Gewebemenge wie auch Pentotalverteilung im Rattengewebe von Lachgas nicht beeinflusst wird.     

Hemodynamic changes in rats without adrenal medula submitted to hypovolemic shock

Resumen La extirpacion de la medula suprarrenal no provoca alteraciones de la hemodinamia en ratas estudiadas en condiciones basales, mientras que durante el shock hipovolemico las ratas meduloprivas presentan un volumen minuto cardiaco menor, y un aumento de la presion arterial media y de la resistencia periferica total, en relacion a los testigos normales sometidos al mismo tipo de shock.

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This work has been partially supported with a grant from the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas. The isotopes were obtained through the Comisión Nacional de Energía Atomica.

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Established Investigator. Carrera del Investigador Científico del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas de la República Argentina.     

Water deprivation in rats: Elevated plasma neurophysin levels

Résumé Au cours de la privation d'eau potabel chez le rat, on observe une diminution du contenu en ocytocine, vasopressine et neurophysine immunoréactives du lobe postérieur de l'hypophyse et une augmentation du taux plasmatique de neurophysine. Ces résultats sont en accord avec l'hypothèse que la sécrétion neurohypophysaire s'effectue par exocytose du contenu des grains de neurosécrétion.

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Research Fellow of the Belgian F.N.R.S.     

Studies on plasma fibrinogen level in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia

Summary The plasma fibrinogen level of maternal blood has been estimated in 30 cases of pre-eclampsia, 60 cases of eclampsia and 35 cases of normal pregnancy of 3rd trimester. The plasma fibrinogen value increased by about 70% and 145% in pre-eclampsia and eclampsia, respectively. In essential hypertension, the fibrinogen level remains more or less the same as in normal pregnancy.