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Alterations of the sympathetic nervous system and metabolic performance of the cardiomyopathic heart
Little is known about the effects of altered sympathetic innervation on the efficiency of the cardiomyopathic heart. Thus, it was the aim of this study to determine non-invasively the relationship between the...
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Non-invasive estimation of myocardial efficiency using positron emission tomography and carbon-11 acetate – comparison between the normal and failing human heart
The clearance kinetics of carbon-11 acetate, assessed by positron emission tomography (PET),can be combined with measurements of ventricular function for non-invasive estimation of myocardial oxygen consumptio...
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Energy utilization and pyruvate as determinants of pyruvate dehydrogenase in norepinephrine-stimulated heart
The quantitative effects of norepinephrine (NE) on the active form of the cardiac pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDCa) and the rate of oxidative decarboxylation of pyruvate (MVPyr) were compared with those of py...
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Response of acute myelomonocytic leukemia to alkyl-lysophospholipids
Acute myelomonocytic leukemia refractory to treatment with daunomycin, cytosin arabinoside and thioguanine morphologically and clinically responded twice to therapy with alkyl-lysophospholipids (ALP). Beginnin...