NaCl-Acetate Turbidity Test

A new liver function turbidity test.

The various liver flocculation tests proposed in recent years by several investigators cannot be considered as specific, hence clinicians tend to use many of them simultaneously. Obviously, the simplicity and the rapidity with which any one of these tests can be performed are essential advantages. The following new liver function turbidity test is simple and rapid, and is more sensitive than th...

Thymol Turbidity as a Liver Function Test

NaCl does not affect hypothalamic noradrenergic input in deoxycorticosterone acetate/NaCl and Dahl salt-sensitive rats.

Previous studies from our laboratories demonstrated that dietary NaCl supplementation in NaCl-sensitive spontaneously hypertensive rats elevates blood pressure, increases peripheral sympathetic nervous system activity, and depresses endogenous norepinephrine stores and turnover in the anterior hypothalamus. These findings suggest that reduced noradrenergic input to sympathoinhibitory neurons in...

Deoxycorticosterone acetate-salt rats: hypertension and sympathoexcitation driven by increased NaCl levels.

Using deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA)-salt rats, we tested the hypothesis that increased plasma NaCl concentration supports sympathetic activity and blood pressure (BP) during salt-sensitive hypertension. One day before experimentation, femoral catheters and an electrode for measurement of lumbar sympathetic nerve activity (LSNA) probe were surgically positioned in DOCA-salt and Sham-salt ra...

Mechanism and Significance of the Thymol Turbidity Test for Liver Disease.

An increase in the amounts of the globulin components of the serum has long been recognized in advanced states of liver disease (1, 2, 3), although the significance of the alteration has never been defined. It has been the basis of the Takata-Ara, Weltmann and the formol-gel reactions which have been used for many years in the diagnosis of liver disease. The nonspecific nature of these tests is...