In addition to many overly restrictive simplifications of this type, the text offers some extraordinary and equally arresting therapeutic suggestions. In 1964, it is intriguing to discover that relief in pericarditis "is often obtained from the application of four or five leeches over the praecordium," that extract of ox gall may help the symptoms of acute hepatitis, and that "Kaolin poultices ...

In experimental obstructive chronic pancreatitis the normal hyperaemic response to secretory stimulation is lost, suggesting abnormal vascular regulation. Vascular regulatory mechanisms were investigated by observing the effect of increments in portal pressure on pancreatic blood flow in normal cats and cats with chronic pancreatitis. Normal cats maintained pancreatic blood flow until portal pr...

A human ex vivo thrombosis model was used to investigate whether recombinant annexin V (rANV) can prevent thrombus formation under venous and arterial blood flow conditions. In this model, blood from an antecubital vein of healthy donors was allowed to flow directly over the extracellular matrix of tumor necrosis factor-stimulated endothelial cells (TNF-ECMs). TNF-ECMs were preincubated with rA...

Blood flow in arteries is dominated by unsteady flow phenomena. The cardiovascular system is an internal flow loop with multiple branches in which a complex liquid circulates. A nondimensional frequency parameter, the Womersley number, governs the relationship between the unsteady and viscous forces. Normal arterial flow is laminar with secondary flows generated at curves and branches. The arte...

Rapid vascular resistance adjustments in the brain and in the circle of Willis have been continuously measured and enhanced by signal averaging methods. Naftidrofuryl, a drug chemically similar to local anesthetics and to beta adrenergic blocking agents, increases local CBF by reducing resistance in brain and in extracerebral supply arteries. It has also been reported to affect brain metabolism...

CEREBRAL BLOOD FLOW Edited by M. Brock, C. Fieschi, D. H. Ingvar, N. A. Lassen, and K. Schurmann. (Pp. xx + 291; 113 figures; DM 58). Springer: Berlin. 1970. Measurement of the cerebral blood flow using isotope techniques is a field in which European centres have held the lead since their introduction by Lassen and Ingvar and by Harper exactly 10 years ago. Conferences at which the initiated ar...