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Antibiotics (Basel)
October 2024
College of Animal Science and Technology, Jilin Agricultural University, Xincheng Street No. 2888, Changchun 130118, China.
The worrying issue of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria is aggravated by the scarcity of novel therapeutic agents. Antibiotic adjuvants offer a promising solution due to their cost-effectiveness and high efficacy in addressing this issue, such as the β-lactamase inhibitor sulbactam (a β-lactam adjuvant) and the dihydrofolate reductase inhibitor trimethoprim (a sulfonamide adjuvant). This study aimed to discover potential adjuvants for tetracyclines from a list of previously approved drugs to restore susceptibility to carrying the gene.
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October 2024
Department of Cell Physiology, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, 1, Kawasumi, Mizuho-Cho, Mizuho-Ku, Nagoya, 467-8601, Japan.
In the gastrointestinal tract, nitrergic inhibition of the arteriolar contractility has not been demonstrated. Here, we explored whether neurally-released nitric oxide (NO) inhibits sympathetic vasoconstrictions in the rat rectal arterioles. Changes in sympathetic vasoconstrictions and their nitrergic modulation in rats exposed to water avoidance stress (WAS, 10 days, 1 h per day) were also examined.
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July 2024
Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Objective: The sympathetic-parasympathetic (or axo-axonal) interaction mechanism mediated that neurogenic relaxation, which was dependent on norepinephrine (NE) releases from sympathetic nerve terminal and acts on β-adrenoceptor of parasympathetic nerve terminal, has been reported. As NE is a weak β-adrenoceptor agonist, there is a possibility that synaptic NE is converted to epinephrine by phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT) and then acts on the β-adrenoceptors to induce neurogenic vasodilation.
Methods: Blood vessel myography technique was used to measure relaxation and contraction responses of isolated basilar arterial rings of rats.
J Physiol
May 2024
Department of Cell Physiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya City University, Nagoya, Japan.
During the urine storage phase, tonically contracting urethral musculature would have a higher energy consumption than bladder muscle that develops phasic contractions. However, ischaemic dysfunction is less prevalent in the urethra than in the bladder, suggesting that urethral vasculature has intrinsic properties ensuring an adequate blood supply. Diameter changes in rat or mouse urethral arterioles were measured using a video-tracking system.
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October 2024
Smooth Muscle Research Centre, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Dublin Road, Dundalk, Co. Louth, Ireland.
Stimulation of sympathetic nerves in the vas deferens yields biphasic contractions consisting of a rapid transient component resulting from activation of P2X1 receptors by ATP and a secondary sustained component mediated by activation of α-adrenoceptors by noradrenaline. Noradrenaline can also potentiate the ATP-dependent contractions of the vas deferens, but the mechanisms underlying this effect are unclear. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mechanisms underlying potentiation of transient contractions of the vas deferens induced by activation of α-adrenoceptors.
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