16. Schwartz SM, Campbell GR, Campbell JH. Replications of smoothmuscle cells in vascular diseases. Circ Res. 1986;58:427-444.17. Gabbiani G, Kocher 0, Bloom WS, Vandekerckhova J, Weber K.Actin expression in smooth muscle cells of rat aortic intimalthickening, human atheromatous plaque, andcultured rat aorta media. J Clin Invest. 1984;73:148-152.18. Morishita R, Gibbons ...

All patients with heart failure should have an echocardiogram to establish a diagnosis, both to aid treatment as well as for prognostic reasons. An audit of 100 case notes of patients admitted with acute left ventricular failure over a 12-month period found that 26 patients had not had an echocardiogram. Of the 74 who did have an echocardiogram 68 patients had reduced systolic function (mean ej...

16. Schwartz SM, Campbell GR, Campbell JH. Replications of smoothmuscle cells in vascular diseases. Circ Res. 1986;58:427-444.17. Gabbiani G, Kocher 0, Bloom WS, Vandekerckhova J, Weber K.Actin expression in smooth muscle cells of rat aortic intimalthickening, human atheromatous plaque, andcultured rat aorta media. J Clin Invest. 1984;73:148-152.18. Morishita R, Gibbons ...

The authors reviewed the literature on the agents proposed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Different classes of drugs have been tested for this indication including psychostimulants, anticoagulants, vasodilators, hyperbaric oxygen, hormones, nootropics, cholinomimetics, monoaminergics and neuropeptides without conclusive evidence of being beneficial for the treatment of this cond...

Purified Pseudomonas elastase injected subcutaneously into the skin of an Evans blue dye-injected (intravenously) guinea pig caused dye leakage similar to that observed when histamine or bradykinin was injected in the same animal. The histamine-induced dye leakage was ablated in antihistamine-treated guinea pigs, but elastase- and bradykinin-induced dye leakages were not. Local injections of sp...