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B Karlberg

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Calcium antagonism in essential hypertension: effect on renal haemodynamics and microalbuminuria.

Sixteen middle-aged men with primary hypertension were treated with the calcium antagonist isradipine over a 9-week period in a randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind cross-over manner. At the end of the intervention period the urinary albumin excretion rate, systemic and renal haemodynamics, haemorheological properties of blood and plasma concentrations of atrial natriuretic peptide, noradrenaline and peripheral renin activity were determined. Treatment with isradipine resulted in a substantial reduction in blood pressure due to a reduction in peripheral resistance. The mean albumin excretion rate was not influenced by the isradipine treatment. In a multivariate analysis, changes in the urinary albumin excretion rate were only related to changes in blood pressure.

Albuminuria

Reflexogenic neuronal and humoral responses to selective stimulation of low-pressure cardiopulmonary receptors in man.

This study was conducted to determine the relative importance of efferent muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSA), vasopressin (ADH) and atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) in the short-term neurohumoral response to moderate changes in low-pressure cardiopulmonary receptor activity. The low-pressure receptors were stimulated and unloaded, respectively, by autotransfusion of blood (450 ml) and the application of lower body negative pressure (LBNP, -20 mmHg), and in 11 healthy men we measured MSA in the left peroneal nerve, indirect blood pressure, ECG, central venous pressure (CVP) and venous plasma concentrations of ANP and ADH (radioimmunoassay). Total MSA rose by 30% during LBNP and decreased during a rapid autotransfusion of blood, and the changes in MSA were significantly related to changes in CVP. The plasma concentrations of ADH and ANP were not significantly affected by either procedure. It is suggested that during moderate short-term changes in venous return, MSA responded more rapidly and/or at a lower threshold than the ADH and ANP systems.

Adult

Automated in vitro dissolution rate analysis of potassium in plastic matrix slow release tablets.

A fully automated system for dissolution rate analysis of potassium in slow release tablets is described. Aliquots are removed after 1, 2, and 4 hr from six samples, and potassium is analyzed in a flame photometer at 768 nm. A complete study of six samples takes 5.5 hr. The system may be run overnight. During the time intervals between the removal of aliquots, the system can be used for the determination of the total assay of tablets.

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