Previous research suggested that exposure to long-lasting or repeated laboratory stressors may lead to rearrangement of cardiovascular control, with a shift of regulation mechanisms from dominant cardiac to dominant vascular influences between the early and late response phases, respectively. This study investigated whether similar rearrangement occurs during life stress accompanying chronic disease by analyzing also associations between cortisol level and cardiovascular variables in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). In 47 women with FM and 36 healthy women (HW), cardiovascular recordings were taken during active body posture changes (sitting, lying down, and standing).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe examined the effect of alcohol consumption and smoking on the abundance of drug-metabolizing enzymes and transporters (DMET) in human liver microsomes (HLM) isolated from liver tissues of 94 donors. Global proteomics analysis was performed and DMET protein levels were analyzed in relation to alcohol consumption levels, smoking history, and sex using non-parametric tests (p-value ≤ 0.05; cutoff of 1.
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