(1) The serum ACE activity showed no significant difference between male and female in the control or sarcoidosis groups.
(2) At present, ACE inhibitors are preferred because they are usually better tolerated than conventional vasodilators and are clinically more effective.
(3) We have studied the effect of chronic ACE inhibition with enalapril on renal structure and function in rats with the two-kidney one-clip model of renovascular hypertension.
(4) In 33 patients with heart failure (NYHA II-III), the 24-h blood pressure rhythm was examined before and after the titration period of two ACE inhibitors.
(5) In contrast to the intact endothelial monolayers, in homogenates additional kininase activity was found which was not affected by either ACE and NEP inhibitors nor by amastatin and MGTA.
(6) We investigated the effects of local angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition by captopril on the autoregulatory efficiency of glomerular blood flow (GBF).
(7) Thus ACE-inhibitors are to be considered for all patients requiring medical therapy for congestive heart failure.
(8) These data indicate that ACE inhibitors are able to unmask a release of bradykinin from cultured human endothelial cells.
(9) However, neither before nor during lisinopril therapy did any changes in urinary protein loss occur during the infusions of Ang II, despite the fact that Ang II reversed the long-term systemic and renal hemodynamic changes induced by the ACE inhibitor.
(10) The mechanisms underlying the positive effects of ACE inhibition and beta-adrenergic blockade are largely unknown, but hemodynamic factors (vasodilation) may contribute by improving the access of glucose and insulin to skeletal muscle.
(11) The choice of antihypertensive drugs in patients with single therapy or combined therapy in the young was beta blockers in 49.7%, Ca blockers in 39.4%, diuretics in 30.7% and ACE inhibitors in 17.8%, and those in the elderly were Ca blockers in 46.1%, diuretics in 44.2%, beta blockers in 33.8%, and ACE inhibitors in 16.4%.
(12) The effects of the neutral metalloendopeptidase (NEP) inhibitor, thiorphan, and the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor, captopril, on airway responses to SP5-11 were examined in order to test the hypothesis that differences in degradation of SP and SP5-11 contribute to the difference in airway responsiveness to the two peptides.
(13) In the case of somatic ACE, the second equivalent of inhibitor binds to a second zinc-containing site as evidenced by the ability of a moderate excess of inhibitor to protect both zinc ions against dissociation.
(14) ACE inhibition reduces hyperfiltration and is capable of blocking the AA-induced rise in GFR in these patients.
(15) Angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) is a circulating dipeptidase which has a broad specificity and is known to metabolise a range of circulating peptides.
(16) To assess the degree of the differential ability of serum angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity as compared with 13 conventional biochemical tests, we studied 76 healthy subjects and 107 patients with chronic liver diseases.
(17) A review of the literature indicated that out of 1087 patients reported, 72 patients were on the combination of an AN69 dialyzer and ACE inhibitor therapy and 41 (57%) demonstrated AR.
(18) It was found that the mean values of serum ACE activity were significantly different between the healthy group and groups with liver disease.
(19) Decreased plasma angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) activity and increased levels of von Willebrand Factor Antigen (vWF:Ag) were found in all patients with SSc.
(20) In respect of reversal of interstitial fibrosis, ACE inhibitors seem to be effective because the growth of fibroblasts was found to be stimulated by angiotensin II.
Ares
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was made of the dynamics of the changes occurring in the curve of restoration of the test response amplitude in the thalamo-cortical fibers to the pared stimulation of the medial lemniscus with various actions on the somatosensory ared.
(2) According to attorney general Arely Gómez, his narcissism knew no limits and he wanted to take his fame further, to the silver screen in the form of a biopic.
(3) We calculated cardiac output (CO), extravascular lung water (EVLW), the difference between 125I-albumin and 51Cr-erythrocyte distribution volumes (EV albumin), the difference between 14C-urea and 51Cr-erythrocyte distribution volumes (EV urea) and 14C-urea extraction (E) and permeability -surface ares (PS) products.
(4) They include the so-called Ludovisi Ares, a Roman copy of a 4th-century BCE Greek original, and the Ludovisi Gaul, part of the same group as the better-known Dying Gaul in the Capitoline Museums.
(5) Virtually no albumin was detected, and IgG (constant isoelectric point), IgM, IgA, IgA dimer, C3, C4, fibrinogen and other unidentified spots were found in the elute from the ARES column.
(6) (3) The skin of the dorsalis pedia area is thinner than that of other flap ares, allowing the flap to be twisted along several planes.
(7) By measuring activities of enzymes involved in synthesis of acetylcholine, gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), dopamine or noradrenaline, extent of innervation of cholinergic, GABA-ergic, dopaminergic and noradrenergic fibers were analysed in discrete brain areas and subareas of the baboon and the rabbit with a special reference to the hypothalamus and the preoptic ares.
(8) These advantages ares presented from the viewpoint of logopaedia and corroborated by experience with 77 children treated up to now.
(9) The initial ares of involvement included the hands and feet, then the scalp, face, and suprapubic skin.
(10) While this could be due to the fact that the GRE-like sequences present in the other fragments are not strong AREs, alternative hypotheses are being investigated currently.
(11) In 12 patients treated by percutaneous implantation, 5 received, from epidural electrodes, an anterior medullary electrical stimulation which caused analgesia without paraesthesiae in the painful ares.
(12) The aim of the quantitative Golgi analysis was to obtain data on the spatial arrangement of arely neurons, their relations to the interneurons, on the spatial architecture of the arborizations of optic fibers and their relations to the main neuron types.
(13) "C aring for someone you love is a real privilege fraught with sorrow," said one contributor to our Guardian Witness project about unpaid caring .
(14) In patients presenting an open or cicatricial decubitus ulcer, at scar level, in the surrounding skin area with modified colour--and even in a contiguous few millimeters large skin strip normally coloured,--a marked decrease of the level of hertzian waves capture in comparison with the healthy skin ares situated off the decubitus ulcers has been pointed out.
(15) (2) Immunoelectrophoresis and autoradiography of labeled serum reacted against antiserum to human Gc revealed labeling by (14-C)vitamin D3 of Gc-antibody precipitation ares.
(16) Four IUGR fetuses showed the ARED (absent or reversed and diastolic flow) pattern.
(17) The murine ODC promoter contains an androgen-responsive element (ARE)-like sequence at about -910 nucleotides from the cap site; this element binds to androgen receptor in vitro, albeit with much lower affinity than some other AREs.
(18) The budget could also spell the end for Nasa's successor to the space shuttle, the Ares 1 rocket, which has already cost billions of dollars to develop.
(19) Four cases had absent or reversed enddiastolic (ARED) flow velocities.
(20) In certain ares of the craniofacial skeleton the plate systems commonly used for rigid internal fixation seem to be over-dimensioned.