Changes of the renin-angiotensin and of the kallikrein-kinin system after administration of saline, christalloid and colloid solution in the rat. Effects of captopril.

Drug-induced variations of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in rats. I. Diuretics.

Summary Groups of 10 rats were treated with diuretics (furosemide, hydrochlorotiazide, spironolactone, triamterene) under conditions of high or low plasma renin activity (PRA) brought about by administering distilled water or saline load, respectively. PRA, plasma aldosterone levels, urine aldosterone concentration as well as diuresis and Na+ and K+ excretion were

Changes in surgicaL behaviOrs dUring the CoviD-19 pandemic. The SICE CLOUD19 Study

Abstract Background The spread of the SARS-CoV2 virus, which causes COVID-19 disease, profoundly impacted the surgical community. Recommendations have been published to manage patients needing surgery during the COVID-19 pandemic. This survey, under the aegis of the Italian Society of Endoscopic Surgery, aims to analyze how Italian surgeons have changed their practice during the pandemic. Methods The authors designed an online survey that was circulated for completion to the Italian departments of general surgery registered in the Italian Ministry of Health database in December 2020. Questions were divided into three sections: hospital organization, screening policies, and safety profile of…

Drug induced variations of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in rats. II. Antihypertensives

Summary Groups of male rats were treated with antihypertensive drugs (alpha-methyl-dopa, clonidine, propranolol, reserpine, diazoxide) which were administered under conditions causing the onset of high plasma renin activity (PRA) and high plasma and urine aldosterone levels, i.e. together with distilled water load (5% of body weight). Alpha-methyl-dopa and propranolol, which fail to significantly alter PRA and plasma aldosterone levels when administered without distilled water load, cause a marked decrease of plasma and urine aldosterone levels and of PRA when administered together with distilled water load, while diazoxide, and reserpine cause a marked increase of these values. Clonidine c…

Modifications induced in the renin-angiotensin-aldo-sterone system of rats by alpha-blocking drugs.

Summary The data reported in the present paper refer to quantitative variations of plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone levels after administration of alpha-blocking agents, i.e. phentolamine, phenoxybenzamine and gihydroergotoxin derivatives, either to rats kept on a standard diet with water ad libitum or to rats receiving distilled water load, the latter treatment causing an increase of both plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone levels if compared to control values. No strict correlation between (a) drug-induced modifications of plasma renin activity and plasma aldosterone levels and (b) blood pressure drop caused by the same drugs was shown to occur under either experiment…

Variations of plas14a benin activity and aldostehone levels in the rat after administration of saline, chrystalloid and colloid solutions

Abstract The data reported in the present paper refer to quantitative variations of plasma renin activity (PRA.) and of plasma aldosterone levels in rats after adiministration of saline, chrystalloid and colloid solutions. In our experimental conditions PRA and plasma aldosterone levels were shown to increase significantly after administration of distilled water and glucose solution. Variations of PRA and plasma aldosterone levels were only slight when plasma volume was made to increase due to administration of polyvinylpirrolidone solution. PRA, instead, was significantly lower in rats having received saline salution.

La réponse neuro-endocrinienne à l'anesthésie par isoflurane

Resume Dans le contexte de la reaction endocrinienne et metabolique a l'anesthesie et a la chirurgie, les effets de l'isoflurane sur l'axe hypothalamohypophysocorticosurrenalien et le systeme hypothalamothyroidien ont ete etudies. L'ACTH, le cortisol, la TSH, la T3, la T4 et la prolactine ont ete doses chez 16 patients avant et au cours de l'intervention chirurgicale sous anesthesie avec isoflurane. Les resultats objectivent une augmentation significative des valeurs de la prolactine, du cortisol et de T4, permettant de conclure que l'isoflurane ne bloque pas l'augmentation du taux plasmatique de ces hormones au cours du stress chirurgical et se comporte donc a ce point de vue comme l'enflu…