American Journal of Physiology, Volume 52American Physiological Society, 1920 - Physiology Volumes for 1898-1941, 1948-56 include the Society's proceedings (primarily abstracts of papers presented at the 10th-53rd annual meetings, and the 1948-56 fall meetings). |
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15 minutes 15 seconds 20 seconds a.m. Before sciatic abdomen acceleration adrenal vein clipped adrenalin amount animal arterial asphyxia average beats beginning stimulation blood pressure blood sugar capillary pressure carbonate catalase caused cava cent exchange CO₂ corpuscles curve dead air space decrease Eck fistula effect end of asphyxia epinephrin epinephrin output excised experiments femoral femoral vein fibrin figure gastric hemolysis histamine hydrogen increase injection injury intestine Journ kilos Laevulose left adrenal left splanchnic liver Locke's solution method muscle nerve normal nucleotide observations obtained p.m. Before stimulation perfusion period phosphoric acid Physiol plasma depletion plasmapharesis protein pudding pulse rabbits red cells removal resistance respiration rise sciatic stimulation seconds after beginning seconds after end seconds of stimulation secretion segments serum proteins shock slight stomach string superior cervical ganglion tetany tion tissue tolerance tube urine weight yeast nucleic acid
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Page 34 - ... raw vegetables low in protein, as carrots, celery, tomatoes, cabbage, lettuce, and cucumber, leave the stomach rapidly — and without great change." In studying the effect of water, tea, coffee, and cocoa upon digestion in the stomach the following conclusions were made by Hawk2 and his associates: "Evacuation of the stomach was not appreciably delayed by the drinking of 1 liter of cold water, cold or hot 1 Hawk, PB, and associates: The Gastric Response to Foods, American Journal of Physiology,...
Page 54 - FRANCISCO (From the George Williams Hooper Foundation for Medical Research University of California Medical School, San Francisco) MUCH has been written about the interesting type of intoxication which develops with an intestinal obstruction.
Page 505 - Acid extracts of the mucous membrane normally contain a body which causes a fall of blood pressure. This body is not secretin, and the latter may be prepared free from the depressor substance by acting on desquamated epithelial cells with acid.
Page 262 - A study of the digestion in the stomach of puddings, pies, and cakes gives an average time for puddings of two hours; pies, two hours and twenty-four minutes; cakes, three hours. Pies were digested more rapidly than cakes. "The addition of 50 grams of ice-cream to a small piece of pie did not increase the burden of the stomach to any marked extent.
Page 229 - CO2 combining power of the plasma, coincident with the development of tetany and concludes that tetany is a condition of alkalosis in which a disproportion between the rates of secretion of acids and alkalies by the gastro-intestinal tract may be a factor.
Page 181 - Stammering was accompanied by much more marked increase in brain volume than could be accounted for by either the physical or mental work used in normal speech.
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Page 232 - CO2 capacity of plasma, a change in the reaction of the urine to the alkaline side, a decreased excretion of ammonia, and a slight increase in the calcium content of the serum.
Page 376 - We3 found that the ingestion of food produced an increase in catalase, an enzyme possessing the property of liberating oxygen from hydrogen peroxide...