How To Use Contractility In A Sentence
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Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control.
Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
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Studies performed in undernourished patients without respiratory disease have suggested that malnutrition may impair skeletal muscle contractility.
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This would facilitate the calculation of peristaltic velocity and the speed of contractility of gut smooth muscle with high temporal resolution.
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Activation of the adrenergic system triggers the release of catecholamines, which stimulate contractility, heart rate, and blood pressure.
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The effects of sleep on respiration include changes in central respiratory control, airways resistance, and muscular contractility.
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It is essential for the nidation of the conceptus and is thought to inhibit myometrial contractility, thereby ensuring that the uterus is kept in a quiescent state throughout pregnancy.
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Echocardiography found typical features of early recipient twin cardiomyopathy, with thickening and decreased contractility of the wall of the right ventricle and abnormal function (regurgitation) of the tricuspid valve connecting the right atrium to the right ventricle.
Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
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The regulation of contractility in striated muscle by calcium is effected via tropomyosin on the actin filament.
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Hypercapnia can also decrease respiratory muscle contractility, leading to a vicious circle of carbon dioxide retention.
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The extract also improved anaphylactic cardiac dysfunction in passively sensitized isolated guinea hearts: improvement was noted in the contractility, arrhythmic duration and lactate dehydrogenase elevation.
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We collaborated with my good friend William Sleator of the Physiology Department in the study of changes in cellular action potentials (measured with intracellular microelectrodes) associated with the changes in contractility of the guinea pig atrium in response to epinephrine and acetylcholine, and a number of other inotropic agents.
Robert F. Furchgott - Autobiography
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Objective To characterize the isometric contractility of Bufo gastrocnemius ex vivo in light of the rest tension.
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ISOM: An echocardiogram tells you about the valves and the thickness of the heart and the contractility, how well it's pumping.
CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008
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This would facilitate the calculation of peristaltic velocity and the speed of contractility of gut smooth muscle with high temporal resolution.
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They possessed indeed properties, such as contractility, which were not inorganic, but as far as their visible structure was concerned there was little to raise them above the inorganic level.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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ISOM: The echocardiogram tells you about the valves and the thickness of the heart and contractility how well it's pumping.
CNN Transcript Jun 18, 2008
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It is also possible that the close proximity between the infected lung and the diaphragm contributed to the preferential impairment of diaphragmatic contractility.
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Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression.
Publications of the Urology Division
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This functional improvement was associated with improved myocardial contractility.
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Little is known about the relative importance of glycogen versus exogenous glucose for contractility of cardiac tissue in trout.
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The muscular layers create vein contractility, which maintains venous tone.
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Echocardiography found typical features of early recipient twin cardiomyopathy, with thickening and decreased contractility of the wall of the right ventricle and abnormal function (regurgitation) of the tricuspid valve connecting the right atrium to the right ventricle.
Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS)
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Larger doses of fluoride can cause life-threatening hypocalcemia with convulsions, tetany, decreased myocardial contractility, ventricular arrhythmias, and cardiac arrest.
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Current areas of investigation include neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility, airway smooth muscle growth and cell surface receptor expression; regulation of postnatal development and growth of the lung; developmental effects of pulmonary inflammation and oxidative lung injury on airway and pulmonary vascular reactivity; biochemical and molecular regulation of membrane ion channels in cystic fibrosis; maturational changes in chest wall and airway function; pulmonary manifestations of sickle cell disease; the physiological basis of ventilator dependence in children with chronic respiratory insufficiency; and developmental aspects of respiratory mechanics and ventilatory control.
Fellowship Program in Pulmonary Medicine
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When the muscles are put into action, what is termed their contractility is called into play -- that is, the force which was dormant before is roused into activity.
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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_erythrin_, which acts upon the central nervous system, diminishing its normal functions even to the point of abolishment, without modifying motor excitability or muscular contractility.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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In order to improve the hemodynamic profile of the heart and increase cardiac contractility, a physician may also administer an intravenous inotropic agent such as dobutamine (beta-adrenergic agonist) or milrinone (PDE3-inhibitor).
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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The latter results in recruitment of fast-twitch, fatigable muscle fibers and a significant increase the force of wing contractility.
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Both groups of children were born with left ventricles that, on average, had higher mass and lower contractility, or a diminished ability to pump.
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Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression.
Publications of the Urology Division
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Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression.
Publications of the Urology Division
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Decrease myocardial oxygen demand by decreasing heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and contractility.
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The muscular layers create vein contractility, which maintains venous tone.
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Austin JC, Chacko SK, DiSanto M, Canning DA, Zderic SA: A male murine model of partial bladder outlet obstruction reveals changes in detrusor morphology, contractility and myosin isoform expression.
Publications of the Urology Division
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In these the contractility of the active protoplasm no longer suffices to break up the huge mass of the passive deutoplasm completely into cells; this is only possible in the upper or dorsal part, but not in the lower or ventral section.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
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Objective To observe the effects of polyphenol from pomegranate peel on the heart rate and cardiac contractility of Bufo gargarizans in vivo.
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Neurohumoral, cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating airway contractility
Research: cystic fibrosis, asthma, airways
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Activation of the adrenergic system triggers the release of catecholamines, which stimulate contractility, heart rate, and blood pressure and promote myocyte hypertrophy.
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Conclusions - Junctin is an essential regulator of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca release and contractility in normal hearts.
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The movements of the lobster are due to muscular contractility.
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Because of a similar depressive effect on left ventricular contractility, esmolol should be used with caution if initial treatment with a calcium channel blocker is not successful.
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When the muscles are put into action, what is termed their contractility is called into play — that is, the force which was dormant before is roused into activity.
The Art of Living in Australia
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Drugs that impair detrusor contractility and increase urethral tone include calcium channel blockers, anticholinergics, alpha- and beta-adrenergic agonists, narcotics, antidepressants, and antipsychotics.
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And not only was this gradually discovered, but it was found that these semifluid contents of the plant cell had, in many cases, a remarkable power of contractility quite like that of the substance of animals.
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