A limiting factor in the "normalization" of schizophrenic orienting response dysfunction.

Forty schizophrenic patients, 40 non-schizophrenic patients, and 40 normal subjects were given 60 each alternating 1000- and 2000-Hz, 1-second tones at 60 dB. Half of each sample, the Press Group (PG), had to press a pedal to the high (low) target tone, ignoring the nontarget tone. The other half, the Nonpress Groups (NPGs), were given no reason to attend.

[Water diuresis during methohexitone anaesthesia. Studies in chronically instrumented dogs (author's transl)].

Seven chronically prepared dogs (electromagnetic flow transducers around the pulmonary and left renal artery, left atrial catheter) maintained on a controlled sodium and water intake were studied. About 20 h after the last intake of food and water, the effects of i.v.

Left atrial pressure and postprandial diuresis in conscious dogs on a high sodium intake.

5 conscious, well trained, female dogs kept on a high sodium intake (14 meq Na/kg bw) were used to measure left atrial pressure (LAP), urine volume (V), sodium and potassium excretion (UNaV, UKV) as well as plasma osmolality (Posm) before and up to 180 min after food intake. The dogs were fitted with a catheter in the left atrium (thoracotomy). In all experiments (n=23) LAP increased postprandially (pp) above fasting controls.

Prognosis of left anterior hemiblock in acute myocardial infarction.

Four of 32 patients with left anterior hemiblock and an acute anterior wall myocardial infarction died. Left anterior hemiblock was present on admission in 24 patients, and subsequently appeared in 8. Of the 28 survivors, 21 are still alive an average of 2.

Postprandial changes of renal blood flow. Studies on conscious dogs on a high and low sodium intake.

Postprandial renal blood flow was studied in 14 conscious dogs on a chronic high and low sodium intake on 72 days after implantation of an electromagnetic flow transducer around the left renal artery. Fasting renal blood flow was 11.7 plus or minus 3.