...E. Fiaccadori; S. Del Canale; U. Arduini; C. Antonucci; E. Coffrini; P. Vitali; R. Meley; A. Guariglia 1. Quadriceps femoris muscle needle biopsies were performed in 21 patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) and acute respiratory failure (ARF) and in 21 age-matched healthy control...

... binding sites. The stable GTP analogue guanyl-5′-imidodiphosphate had no effect on the Hill slopes of agonists or antagonists. 3. The number of binding sites was significantly less in lung tissue from patients with chronic obstructive lung disease. 18 10 1983 10 11 1983 © 1984...

... for the change in forearm vascular response to induced hypoxaemia in older subjects was not apparent from these studies. Key words : forearm blood flow, cardiac output, peripheral resistance, hypoxaemia, hypocapnia, age, chronic obstructive lung disease. In normal individuals, acute hypoxaemia has been shown...