Analysis of Health Behaviors and Personal Values of Childless Women, Pregnant Women and Women Who Recently Delivered.

Preconception lifestyle modifications and reduction of several known risk factors may have an influence on future pregnancy outcomes. The aim of the study was to analyze health behaviors and personal values as well as to assess the relationship between these factors in women without children, in pregnant women and in women who had already delivered babies. The questionnaire survey included the Health Behavior Inventory (HBI), the Personal Value List (PVL) and sociodemographic data and was conducted in 538 women.

A novel mechanism of bradycardia and the character of acetylcholine in the heart.

Unlabelled: At first the aim of our study was to observe the simultaneous responses of two hearts after intraarterial (into a. femoralis) adrenaline administration, in the rat with its own heart and a transplanted one--hence non-innervated. After these, some next experiments were performed: in some rats the His bundle of the heterotopically transplanted heart was damaged before transplantation.

Interaction between the central histaminergic and the muscarinic cholinergic systems.

Histamine (HA) was given intracerebroventricularly (icv) to rats anaesthetized with pentobarbital. During the first minute after administration, HA alone elicited a small fall in blood pressure (BP) and a decrease in heart rate (HR), followed by a distinct increase in those parameters. Pretreatment with naloxone (Nx) in a dose of 0.