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ANTIHYPERTENSIVE EFFECT OF THE ORALLY-ACTIVE CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITOR (SQ 14225) IN RENAL HYPERTENSION
No full textThree hypertensive patients with plasma renin hyperactivity were treated with orally-active inhibitor of angiotensin I converting enzyme, SQ 14225. In two patients, case 1 and 3, surgical therapy was not indicated according to the renal vein renin determination. In the other patient, case 2, right partial nephrectomy was carried out, but the arterial blood pressure failed to fall for several months after the operation. In response to first oral administration of 100 mg of SQ 14225, arterial blood pressure decreased from 168/106 to 120/84 mmHg in case I, from 166/88 to 106/76 mmHg in case 2, from 184/84 to 130/ 64 mmHg in case 3, and the effect continued for almost 5 hours. Plasma renin activity increased, while plasma aldosterone decreased. In response to long-term oral administration of SQ 14225 (75~150 mg/day), urinary sodium excretion increased in case 1 and 2, but serum potassium showed no remarkable change. As unexpected side effects of SQ 14225, case 2 showed orthostatic hypotension and case 3 taste disturbance
Effects of the oral converting enzyme inhibitor SQ 14225 in experimental high output failure
No full text The relation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system to sodium retention was studied in dogs with an aortic-caval fistula and high output failure by administering orally the new converting enzyme inhibitor SQ 14225. The acute response to an initial oral dose of SQ 14225 (10 mg/kg) consisted in a fall in arterial pressure (BP) from 97 to 67 mmHg, plasma aldosterone concentration (PAC) from 21.7 to 11.3 ng/100 ml, creatinine clearance (CCr) from 89 to 44 ml/min, and filtration fraction (FF) from 39 to 18%, whereas plasma renin activity (PRA) increases from 12.7 to 36.1 ng angiotensin I.ml-1.h-1 and renal sodium excretion was unchanged. It is suggested that the marked fall in BP and CCr offset the drop in PAC and FF which favored a natriuresis. The daily responses to SQ 14225 for 3 days also showed a fall in BP and PAC but sodium excretion increased. In the animal with the best response, a striking natriuresis occurred. These findings demonstrate an important role for the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in experimental high output failure. </jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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