iris/triacylglycerol

We have investigated the effects and mechanism of action of propranolol and mepacrine, two drugs with local anesthetic-like properties, on phospholipid metabolism in rabbit iris and iris microsomal and soluble fractions. In the iris, propranolol, like mepacrine [A. A. Abdel-Latif and J. P. Smith,

The effects of the anti-inflammatory drugs, indomethacin and aspirin, and the phospholipase A2 inhibitors, p-bromophenacyl bromide and mepacrine, on the in vitro metabolism of [1-14C]arachidonic acid by rabbit iris smooth muscle and iris microsomes were investigated. The incorporation of

The author injected [1-14C]arachidonic acid into the anterior chamber of the rabbit eye, and its metabolism was studied in vivo in the various eye tissues. Incorporation of the radioisotope was analyzed in individual phospholipids and neutral lipids, and its conversion to oxygenated metabolites was

BACKGROUND According to some work hypertension is in a pathogenetic relationship with hyperinsulinaemia or is considered to be the consequence of insulin resistance. It is, however, also known that there exists a familial predisposition for hypertension; according to genetic investigations half the

Normal rats fed an isocaloric sucrose-rich diet (SRD) for 3 weeks developed high levels of triacylglycerol in plasma (P) (mmol triacylglycerol I-1) heart (H) and liver (L) tissues (mumol triacylglycerol mg DNA-1) as compared to control rats fed the standard chow (STD) (X +/- SEM; P: SRD 1.32 +/-

Basal heart triacylglycerol (TG) (mumole triacylglycerol/g of dry weight) (- before "in vitro" Langendorff perfusion -) was significantly higher in animals rendered chronically hypertriglyceridaemic (H) by a 63% sucrose-rich diet than in controls (C, standard diet); 28 +/- 2.6 means + SEM vs. 19.3

Investigations in genetic forms of experimental hypertensions revealed certain haemodynamic, metabolic and humoral abnormalities in experimental animals already during the prehypertensive period. With regard to the obvious ratio of hereditary factors in the pathogenesis of human essential

BACKGROUND Hitherto published experimental and clinical studies provide controversial findings as regards the relations of risk factors of atherogenesis and ischaemic heart disease and variations of body weight. The objective of the present study was to find out whether variations of body weight in