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At-sea distribution, movements and diving behavior of Magellanic penguins reflect small-scale changes in oceanographic conditions around the colony
Penguins are highly specialized divers that are expected to reflect environmental variation by adjusting their foraging behavior. We performed a comprehensive analysis of the at-sea distribution, diving, and f...
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Migrating birds avoid flying through fog and low clouds
Different weather conditions are known to affect bird migration, yet the influence of fog and low clouds on migrating birds has been rarely examined so far, and hence, their impact on bird movement is not well...
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Open AccessInteractions between commercial fishing vessels and a pelagic seabird in the southern Mediterranean Sea
Fishing activities can influence foraging behaviour of many seabird species worldwide. Seabirds are attracted by fishing vessels which can facilitate access to demersal fish as a novel food resource that other...
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Differential effects of testosterone metabolites oestradiol and dihydrotestosterone on oxidative stress and carotenoid-dependent colour expression in a bird
Despite extensive research, the potential costs that keep secondary sexual traits honest and evolutionary stable remain somewhat elusive. Many carotenoid-based signals are regulated by testosterone (T), which ...
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Dysglycaemia in non-diabetic hypertensive patients: comparison of the impact of two different classifications of impaired fasting glucose on the cardiovascular risk profile
The clinical correlates and risk profile of prediabetes (fasting plasma glucose (FPG) values in the upper normal limits but below the diabetic threshold) in hypertension, an insulin-resistant, prodiabetogenic ...
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Coronary microcirculation into different models of left ventricular hypertrophy—hypertensive and athlete's heart: a contrast echocardiographic study
The study was carried out in two different models of left ventricular hypertrophy: athlete's heart and essential arterial hypertension. Three groups of strictly age-matched males were studied: one group of 10 ...
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Comparative Effects of Exposure to an Organophosphate Pesticide on Locomotor Activity of Laboratory Mice and Five Species of Wild Rodents
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Microalbuminuria, an integrated marker of cardiovascular risk in essential hypertension
This paper reviews the existing epidemiological and clinical evidence about the relationships of non-diabetic microalbuminuria with cardiovascular risk factors such as elevated blood pressure (BP), systolic pa...
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Calcium channel blockers, postural vasoconstriction and dependent oedema in essential hypertension
Treatment with calcium channel blocker (CCB)s, dihydropyridines and others, is frequently complicated by dependent oedema in the absence of sodium retention or cardiac failure, a bothersome side effect of uncl...
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Dissociation between microalbuminuria and common carotid thickness in essential hypertensive men
Background: The reasons why microalbuminuria (albuminuria ⩾15 μg/min), an expression of a renal microcirculatory abnormality, predicts cardiovascular disease in essential hypertension are unsettled. To test the h...
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Ultrasonic myocardial textural parameters and midwall left ventricular mechanics in essential arterial hypertension
Background: The evaluation of the systolic left ventricular performance in hypertensive patients presents some problems related to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) which alters the ventricular geometry. The vid...
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35th Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes
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Dissociation between albuminuria and insulinaemia in hypertensive and atherosclerotic men
To better understand the links between circulating insulin and albuminuria in essential hypertension, the plasma insulin response to a 75 gram glucose load and albuminuria were evaluated in 53 glucose-tolerant...
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Does Sub-Lethal Exposure to Organophosphate Pesticide Affect Capture Rates in Free-Living Rodents?
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Behavioral effects of acute sublethal exposure to dimethoate on wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus: II—Field studies on radio-tagged mice in a cereal ecosystem
The effects of direct exposure to an organophosphate (OP) pesticide, dimethoate, were examined in free-living wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus, in a wheat field. Male mice were radio-tagged at night and followed du...
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Behavioral and physiological effects of acute sublethal exposure to dimethoate on wood mice, Apodemus sylvaticus [I—Laboratory studies]
The effects on behavior and cholinesterase (ChE) of an OP pesticide, dimethoate, were examined in wood mice under laboratory conditions. Mice were administered 0, 5, 15, or 50 mg/kg intraperitoneal dimethoate ...
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A comparison of behavioural effects of prenatally administered oxazepam in mice exposed to open-fields in the laboratory and the real world
Prenatal benzodiazepine exposure has been reported to result in abnormal neurobehavioural development in laboratory animals but little is known about the behavioural relevance of this effect in a naturalistic ...
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Pressor, renal and endocrine effects of l-arginine in essential hypertensives
The pressor, renal and endocrine effect of the physiological precursor of endothelial derived nitric oxide, l-arginine was compared, with a substrate inactive on nitric oxide, hypertonic d-glucose, in hypertensiv...
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Species Specificity of Organ Toxicity: Behavioral Differences
A contribution on behavioral differences in a discussion on species specificity of organ toxicity must first provide at least a tentative answer to a general question. This question is: what is the rationale f...
