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Pressure-independent cardiac effects of angiotensin II in pigs

ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA, Issue 2 2004
M. Broomé
Abstract Background:, Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a potent vasoconstrictor with an important role in the development of cardiovascular disease. Earlier results have shown a positive acute inotropic effect of Ang II in anaesthetized pigs together with significant vasoconstriction. This investigation was designed to study cardiac effects of Ang II, when blood pressure was maintained constant by experimental means. Methods:, Ang II (200 ,g h,1) was infused in anaesthetized pigs (n = 10) at two different arterial blood pressures, the first determined by the effects of Ang II alone, and the second maintained at baseline blood pressure with nitroprusside. Cardiac systolic and diastolic function was evaluated by analysis of left ventricular pressure,volume relationships. Results:, Heart rate, end-systolic elastance (Ees) and pre-load adjusted maximal power (PWRmax EDV,2) increased at both blood pressure levels, although less when blood pressure was kept constant with nitroprusside. The time constant for isovolumetric relaxation (,1/2) was prolonged with Ang II alone and shortened with Ang II infused together with nitroprusside. Conclusion:, Ang II infusion in the pig has inotropic and chronotropic properties independent of arterial blood pressure levels, although the effects seem to be blunted by pharmacological actions of the nitric oxide donor nitroprusside. [source]

Parapsychology on the couch: The psychology of occult belief in Germany, c. 1870,1939

JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2006
Heather Wolffram
This article considers the attempts of academic psychologists and critical occultists in Germany during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to construct a psychology of occult belief. While they claimed that the purpose of this new subdiscipline was to help evaluate the work of occult researchers, the emergence of a psychology of occult belief in Germany served primarily to pathologize parapsychology and its practitioners. Not to be outdone, however, parapsychologists argued that their adversaries suffered from a morbid inability to accept the reality of the paranormal. Unable to resolve through experimental means the dispute over who should be allowed to mold the public's understanding of the occult, both sides resorted to defaming their opponent. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Dynamics of the Hck-SH3 domain: Comparison of experiment with multiple molecular dynamics simulations

PROTEIN SCIENCE, Issue 1 2000
David A. Horita
Abstract Molecular dynamics calculations provide a method by which the dynamic properties of molecules can be explored over timescales and at a level of detail that cannot be obtained experimentally from NMR or X-ray analyses. Recent work (Philippopoulos M, Mandel AM, Palmer AG III, Lim C, 1997, Proteins 28:481,493) has indicated that the accuracy of these simulations is high, as measured by the correspondence of parameters extracted from these calculations to those determined through experimental means. Here, we investigate the dynamic behavior of the Src homology 3 (SH3) domain of hematopoietic cell kinase (Hck) via 15N backbone relaxation NMR studies and a set of four independent 4 ns solvated molecular dynamics calculations. We also find that molecular dynamics simulations accurately reproduce fast motion dynamics as estimated from generalized order parameter (S2) analysis for regions of the protein that have experimentally well-defined coordinates (i.e., stable secondary structural elements). However, for regions where the coordinates are not well defined, as indicated by high local root-mean-square deviations among NMR-determined structural family members or high B -factors/low electron density in X-ray crystallography determined structures, the parameters calculated from a short to moderate length (less than 5,10 ns) molecular dynamics trajectory are dependent on the particular coordinates chosen as a starting point for the simulation. [source]

Asymmetric Hydrogenation with Highly Active IndolPhos,Rh Catalysts: Kinetics and Reaction Mechanism

CHEMISTRY - A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, Issue 22 2010
Jeroen Wassenaar
Abstract The mechanism of the IndolPhos,Rh-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of prochiral olefins has been investigated by means of X-ray crystal structure determination, kinetic measurements, high-pressure NMR spectroscopy, and DFT calculations. The mechanistic study indicates that the reaction follows an unsaturate/dihydride mechanism according to Michaelis,Menten kinetics. A large value of KM (KM=5.01±0.16,M) is obtained, which indicates that the Rh,solvate complex is the catalyst resting state, which has been observed by high-pressure NMR spectroscopy. DFT calculations on the substrate,catalyst complexes, which are undetectable by experimental means, suggest that the major substrate,catalyst complex leads to the product. Such a mechanism is in accordance with previous studies on the mechanism of asymmetric hydrogenation reactions with C1 -symmetric heteroditopic and monodentate ligands. [source]