pressor in English

adjective
1
producing an increase in blood pressure by stimulating constriction of the blood vessels.
a pressor response
noun
    vasoconstrictor

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1. Pressor amines (e. g., adrenaline) Possible decreased response to pressor amines but not sufficient to preclude their use

2. Adrenal demedullation performed 24–48 h before the experiments selectively prevented the secondary pressor component.

3. However, the long latency pressor and cardioacceleratory responses were not altered by ganglionic blockade and adrenalectomy.

4. The final product, a pressor substance formed through the interaction of renin and its activator, was named Angiotonin 38–41 and was, probably, the actual effector of the renin pressor action

5. A kinetic analysis of the renin-Angiotonin pressor system and the standardization of the enzymes renin and angiotonase

6. A crystalline pressor substance (Angiotonin) resulting from the reaction between renin and renin-activator

7. This effect of Angiotonin contrasts sharply with the renal ischemia which accompanies its pressor action in normotensive subjects

8. Hypotension and loss of pressor response to Angiotonin as the result of trauma to the central nervous system and severe hemorrhage.

9. 26 Objective To evaluate the function of the vas endothelium cell by the peripheral artery blood stream drawing before and after the cold pressor test.

10. Volume 82 Number 2 Pressor response to Angiotonin 247 Methods and material A total of 29 healthy subjects without any previous history of cardiovascular or renal diseases was studied.

11. The pressor effect of intravenous infusions of α-angiotensin and β-angiotensin was equal in 16 healthy adults and 35 out of 38 patients with essential hypertension, adrenal insufficiency, chronic renal and hepatobiliary diseases.

12. Norepinephrine in pressor doses causes in part a decrease of plasma renin activity in patients with secondary aldosteronism or adrenal insufficiency and an increase in the normotensive and hypertensive groups.

13. Angiotonin - any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels angiotensin, Hypertensin angiotensin I - a physiologically inactive form of angiotensin that is the precursor to angiotensin II angiotensin II - a potent vasopressor agent formed from angiotensin I pressor

14. And highly purified natural decapeptide Angiotonin and synthetic octapeptid3 Dosage Angiotonin.e of Angiotonin is expressed in units, one unit having approximately % of the pressor activity of 1 7 of norepinephrine in normal adult mongrel dogs anes-thetized with sodium pentobarbital

15. Bartter syndrome [bahr´ter] hypertrophy and hyperplasia of the juxtaglomerular cells of the kidney, producing hypokalemic alkalosis and hyperaldosteronism, characterized by absence of hypertension in the presence of markedly increased plasma renin concentration and by insensitivity to the pressor effects of angiotensin

16. Hypernyms ("Angiotonin" is a kind of): pressor; vasoconstrictive; vasoconstrictor (any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure)

17. In contrast, acute adrenalectomy carried out during the experiment to impair the adrenomedullary secretions eliminated the secondary pressor response to stimulation of the locus coeruleus only in sympathectomized or in sotalol-treated rats but not in intact rats in which the response persisted.