Spironolactone and chlorthalidone in uncontrolled elderly hypertensive patients treated with calcium antagonists and angiotensin II receptor-blocker: effects on endothelial function, inflammation, and oxidative stress.

The side effects of thiazide-type diuretics include metabolic abnormality and increased oxidative stress, which might cause endothelial dysfunction despite blood pressure reduction. In hypertensive patients with heart failure, treatment with an aldosterone antagonist resulted in improvements in endothelial function and significant blood pressure reduction. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the differences between spironolactone and chlorthalidone in hypertensive elderly patients treated with calcium antagonists and angiotensin II receptor blockers.

Effects of cyclooxygenase inhibition on endothelial function in hypertensive patients treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors.

Background: Cyclooxygenase inhibition restores endothelium-dependent vasodilatation in hypertension, but it is unknown whether it restores endothelial function in hypertensive patients treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors.

Hypothesis: The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of cyclooxygenase inhibition on endothelial function in hypertensive patients treated with ACE inhibitors.

Methods: Endothelium-dependent flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) and endothelium-independent glyceryl trinitrate-induced dilatation were investigated in 10 patients treated with enalapril (ACE group), 11 patients treated with manidipine and metoprolol (non-ACE group), and 12 normotensive control subjects.

Establishment and characterization of a novel human pancreatic cancer cell line (SUIT-4) metastasizing to lymph nodes and lungs in nude mice.

A new tumor cell line (SUIT-4) derived from ascites of a patient with carcinoma of the pancreas has been established in tissue culture and in nude mice, and maintained for over 7 years. In tissue culture, the cells grew as a confluent monolayer with piling up of cells in some areas. The population doubling time during the exponential phase of the cell growth was 43.

Effects of low-dose aspirin on endothelial function in hypertensive patients.

Background: It has been reported that administration of low-dose aspirin significantly reduces the frequency of major cardiovascular events in patients with hypertension and coronary artery disease. It is generally considered that the preventative effects of long-term aspirin administration on major cardiovascular events are due to the inhibition of platelet aggregation.

Hypothesis: It is not known whether administration of low-dose aspirin restores endothelium-dependent vasodilatation, and this study was undertaken to prove or disprove this question in patients with hypertension.

High collagenolytic activity in spontaneously highly metastatic variants derived from a human pancreatic cancer cell line (SUIT-2) in nude mice.

Cell lines with high metastatic capacity to the lung were established by sequential passage of a human pancreatic cancer cell line (SUIT-2) through the lung of a nude mouse, via the lateral tail vein and from a subcutaneous inoculum. Cells of the parental SUIT-2 and sublines S2-VPx (x-cycle selection from SUIT-2 cells, by Vein-Pulmonary metastasis-culture) and S2-CPx (x-cycle selection, by Cutis-Pulmonary metastasis-culture) were injected intravenously or subcutaneously into nude mice to produce experimental or spontaneous lung metastasis. The S2-VP10 cell line produced pulmonary metastases in 100% of the nude mice, when injected intravenously.