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The spontaneous activity of guinea-pig renal pelvis-ureter is regulated by the adrenergic system. Spontaneous rhythmic contractions, and contractions induced by Noradrenaline are inhibited by Dihidroergotamine and Phentolamine. Alpha-adrenergic blocking agents block also contractions induced by histamine, angiotensin and barium chloride, but not contractions induced by electric stimulation. The Authors suggest an hypothetical model for the activation of the adrenergic receptor: Noradrenaline (NE) recognition sites are activated only by NE, whereas complementary sites can be activated by NE or other agonists. Both sites are blocked by alpha-adrenergic blocking agents.
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PMID:[Sympathetic mediation of induced and spontaneous activity of the pelvis-ureter in vitro]. 4 5

After a group of autoptic kidneys, taken from new-born babies, had been injected via the ureter with micronised barium at various pressures, they were examined micro-radiographically and histologically in order to observe the appearance of intra-renal reflux and the anatomical structures involved. The radiological patterns, clinically observed during cysto-uretrography, were also considered. The intra-renal reflux is tubular, when injection is carried out at a low pressure, whereas at higher pressures one can observe the erosion of the fornices of the calyces and the following sino-lymphatic and/or venous drainage.
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PMID:[Anatomy of papilla and intra-renal reflux: microradiographic and histologic investigations (author's transl)]. 39 41

Alta and Clara, the Dominican Republic conjoined twins (ischiopagus, omphalopagus, tetrapus) were evaluated prior to separation with plain films, vaginograms, arteriograms, intravenous pyelogram, barium enema, and upper gastrointestinal series with small bowel follow-through. The clear demonstration of their internal anatomy allowed the surgeons to plan the operative approach and to make a reasonable judgment regarding viability of each baby. Each twin had a semicircular pelvis which joined the other to form a complete ring. There were a few hepatic arterial twigs from Alta which crossed the midline, proving at surgery to be a small bridge of tissue connecting the two livers. Clara's superior mesenteric arteries supplied the majority of the small bowel. Portal venous drainage was separate for each twin. Each baby had two kidneys in normal position with the bladders laterally placed. Each bladder received one ureter from each twin. Two separate small bowels joined proximal to the single colon which terminated in an anus related to Clara's pelvic structures. Following separation, each baby did well. Their postoperative anatomy is described.
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PMID:The Dominican Republic conjoined twins: ischiopagus, tetrapus, omphalophagus. 41 92

Smooth muscle preparations of the urethra, bladder, and ureter were obtained from patients undergoing operations for various urological disorders. The urethral preparations were contracted by noradrenaline (0.1-3 microgram . ml-1), prostaglandin F2alpha (1-10 microgram . ml-1), and potassium (127 mM), the bladder preparations by carbacholine (0.004-1 microgram . ml-1), prostaglandin F2alpha (1-10 microgram . ml-1), potassium (127 mM), and barium chloride (3 mM), and the ureter preparations by potassium (127 mM), and barium chloride (3 mM). Irrespective of the mode of activation, pretreatment with nifedipine (0.1 microgram . ml-1) for 10 min. reduced the responses. Nifedipine also relaxed preparations contracted by the contractile agents used. In 19 female patients, aged 20 to 73 years, undergoing investigation because of urgency and/or urge incontinence, simultaneous urethrocystometry at rest was performed before and after oral administration of 20 to 40 mg nifedipine. Bladder capacity and residual urine were also determined. Nifedipine did not affect the pressures within the bladder and urethra, nor did it increase the bladder capacity. However, after nifedipine intake there was a statistically significant increase in residual urine. The results suggest that nifedipine can inhibit contractile activity induced by drugs with different modes of action; the drug does not affect the tone in bladder and urethra.
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PMID:Effects of nifedipine on the smooth muscle of the human urinary tract in vitro and in vivo. 69 40

Report about the employment of a sterile 35% barium sulphate (Falibaryt)-suspension for cystography in course of preoperative examination for correction of urinary stress incontinence. The Falibaryt-suspension was found to be an eminently suitable, harmless and cheap medium in 928 examinations. In one case the authors observed a unilateral vesico-renal reflux. By osmodiuresis with intravenous infusion of 200 ml mannitol 15% the contrast medium was removed out of the ureter and kidney's pelvic in a short time. The authors give references to make provision for retrograde instillation of barium sulphate suspensions. By consideration of these provisions the use of barium sulphate (Falibaryt)-suspension is harmless and recommended.
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PMID:[Falibaryt as a contrast medium]. 122 Apr 44

In presence of the specific Na(+)-K(+)-pump blocking agent ouabain reestablishment of spike activity of the ureter smooth muscle cells occurred, the latters having been preliminarily incubated in sodium-free solution. The reestablishment lasted not over 15 minutes. After substitution of calcium ions with barium ones, the period of the spike generation increased. The lithium ions are able to substitute the sodium ions for reestablishing the calcium action potentials. The ureter activity seems to be reestablished in sodium-free solution with participation of the Na+/Ca(++)-exchange mechanism, which is quite specific for the calcium ions.
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PMID:[The regulation of the spontaneous activity of the ureter by a Na+/Ca++-metabolic mechanism]. 215

1. Calcium channel currents were recorded in single, enzymatically isolated smooth muscle cells of the guinea-pig ureter using a single-electrode whole-cell voltage clamp technique. Calcium and barium currents through voltage-activated Ca2+ channels were recorded in cells dialysed with Cs(+)- or Na(+)-containing saline which suppressed K+ currents. 2. Inward currents in Ca2+ (1.5-7.5 mM) or Ba2+ (1.5-7.5 mM) were recorded at potentials positive to -50 to -30 mV. Inward currents were maximal at 0 mV in 1.5 mM-Ca2+ and at +10 mV in 7.5 mM-Ba2+. Current flow through Ca2+ channels in Cs(+)-filled cells (in 1.5 mM-Ca2+ or 7.5 mM-Ba2+) changed from inward to outward at potentials positive to +70 mV. In Na(+)-filled cells this reversal potential was between +50 and +60 mV. 3. Replacing Ca2+ or Ba2+ with Co2+ (1.5 mM) blocked all inward current flow through these Ca2+ channels; outward currents at potentials positive to +40 mV, however, were increased. Cadmium (100 microM) and nifedipine (0.1-10 microM) reduced both inward and outward current flow. 4. Calcium channel activation showed a sigmoidal relationship with membrane potential; the potential of half-maximal activation was -8.4 mV in 1.5 mM-Ca2+ and -10.8 mV in 7.5 mM-Ba2+. The maximum membrane conductance to Ca2+ (in 1.5 mM-Ca2+) was 2.57 nS/cell or approximately 0.05 mS/cm2. 5. Evidence for a voltage-dependent inactivation mechanism included (a) the time-dependent relaxation of the outward currents at potentials positive to the reversal potential and (b) a steady-state inactivation (f infinity (V] vs. membrane potential relationship (in 7.5 mM-Ba2+) which ranged between -80 and 0 mV, with a half-maximal availability at -40.5 mV. 6. The voltage dependencies of the inward current elicited from -80 and -30 mV were similar, suggesting that depolarization activated only L-type Ca2+ channels. 7. It was concluded that the processes controlling the time course of the Ca2+ current in single ureteral cells bathed in physiological concentrations of Ca2+ were mostly voltage-dependent.
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PMID:The whole-cell Ca2+ channel current in single smooth muscle cells of the guinea-pig ureter. 216 65

Venous intravasation of barium following a barium enema is a rare event. We report a case of barium venous intravasation into the inferior mesenteric vein. Because of the close proximity to the course of the left ureter, this condition was interpreted initially as a coloureteral fistula. After further analysis of the original films, and left retrograde pyelography the true diagnosis was established. A literature review of barium intravasation is presented.
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PMID:Venous intravasation of barium into the inferior mesenteric vein mimicking a coloureteral fistula: a case report and literature review. 264 8

Cystic lymphangiomas of the abdomen are an uncommon kind of hamartoma. Their diagnosis is often difficult and calls for an accurate differential diagnosis of this disease and such lesions as cystic pancreatic neoplasms, pseudocysts, hematomas, abscesses and urinomas. Eight cases of abdominal lymphangioma are reported, in patients ranging 35 to 68 years; all lesions were uni/multilocular containing serous fluid. Lymphangiomas were located in the retroperitoneal space (3 cases), in the mesenteric bed (3 cases), close to the left lumbar ureter (1 case), and on the left colon wall (1 case); the symptoms were little characteristic, mostly due to pressure on the adjacent organs. Both CT and US were able to detect and evaluate the lesions; in particular, CT provided also with exact topography. A small lymphangioma in the left colon was revealed only by barium enema. In 2 huge retroperitoneal lymphangiomas the diagnostic evaluation was improved by the use of CT-guided fine-needle biopsy; in patients with mesenteric lesions angiography was employed, also for surgical planning. Lymphography was never performed because CT and US proved the best diagnostic procedures. All patients underwent surgery, whose results confirmed the previous diagnosis, but for the patient with para-ureteral location the surgeon thought nephrectomy necessary.
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PMID:[Cystic lymphangiomas of the abdomen. CT and US findings]. 267 85

We describe 4 infants who had chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction caused by visceral myopathy. Three of the 4 were girls. Two were symptomatic at birth and 2 were symptomatic by 3 wk of age. All had abdominal distention and emaciation, 3 of the 4 had severe obstipation and fecal impactions, and 3 had signs of urologic obstruction. All had gaseous distention of the small bowel and colon, and barium studies showed dilated small bowel and colon, with slow transport through the small intestine. Two of 3 had enlarged stomachs and slowed gastric emptying, and 3 had dilated bladders and ureters. The 1 infant studied by esophageal manometry had absence of esophageal contractions. Despite total parenteral nutrition in 3, all died within 10-18 mo. The pathologic features of visceral myopathy were identified in variable sample sites from the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, colon, bladder, and ureter of the 4 infants. Of 170 family members related to 3 of the infants, there was no consanguinity and no one appeared to be clinically affected. Thus, an infantile form of visceral myopathy exists which, pathologically, is identical to the familial and sporadic forms of visceral myopathy previously identified in adolescents and adults.
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PMID:Visceral myopathy of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts in infants. 334 89


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