The effect of daily injections of cadmium on the systolic pressure of conscious rats.

The systolic blood pressure of nine conscious male Wistar rats of initial weight 170-200 gm was measured daily with a tail cuff. Once the blood pressure was stable, and the rats were used to being handled, six of them received intraperitoneal injections of 0.6 mg/kg of CdCl2 on five days of each week.

The effects of enzymatic digestion on the elastic properties of isolated human cerebral arteries.

Measurement of volume, pressure, and length were made on eight segments of human cerebral arteries perfused with chymotrypsin (CT) (EC 3.4.21.