[The effect of using furosemide in selective adrenergic alpha 1-receptor stimulation and alpha 1-receptor blockade].

Experiments were carried out on male white rats of Wistar strain, placed in metabolic cages in a room with artificial light and dark at 12-hour periods. Furosemide in a dose of 4 mg/kg was used intraperitoneally singly or after pretreatment with methoxamine in a dose of micrograms/kg or prazosin in a dose of 0.2 mg/kg.

[Inhalation treatment with low doses of heparin in bronchial asthma patients].

The efficacy of the inhalation treatment of bronchial asthma with low heparin doses was studied in 107 patients 18 to 65 years of age (mean age 43.9 years), men 46 (46.99%), women 61 (57.

[New method for the quantitative determination of antidiuretic hormone in the plasma].

Having in mind that ADH affects reapsorption of osmoticaly free water the authors examined urine diuresis together with its osmolality in 85 recipient rats. The animals endured water loading of 5% of their body weight by means of stomach lavages twice at 45 minutes intervals for a period of 3 days. Vena jugularis was cannulated under narcosis with heparinized polyethylene catheter, which was attached to the skull by means of a special socle.