Connexin and pannexin (hemi)channels in the liver.

abstract：:Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (AC) has originally been described as a disorder characterized by fibrofatty replacement of the myocardium, primarily of the right ventricle (RV), and ventricular tachyarrhythmias, sudden death, and at a late stage progressive heart failure. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia or c...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Hauer RN,Cox MG,Groeneweg JA

更新日期：2012-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: High altitude (HA) exposure can lead to changes in resting heart rate variability (HRV), which may be linked to acute mountain sickness (AMS) development. Compared with traditional HRV measures, non-linear HRV appears to offer incremental and prognostic data, yet its utility and relationship to AMS have be...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Boos CJ,Bye K,Sevier L,Bakker-Dyos J,Woods DR,Sullivan M,Quinlan T,Mellor A

更新日期：2018-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Following partial hepatectomy, a coordinated series of molecular events occurs to regulate hepatocyte entry into the cell cycle to recover lost mass. In rats during the first 6 h following resection, hepatocytes are primed by a tightly controlled cytokine response to prepare hepatocytes to begin replication. Although ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Cook DJ,Patra B,Kuttippurathu L,Hoek JB,Vadigepalli R

更新日期：2015-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The arterial baroreflexes, located in the carotid sinus and along the arch of the aorta, are essential for the rapid short term autonomic regulation of blood pressure. In the past, they were believed to be inactivated during exercise because blood pressure, heart rate, and sympathetic activity were radically changed f...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Schwartz CE,Stewart JM

更新日期：2012-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Post-ligation cardiac syndrome (PLCS) is a common complication of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) surgical closure in low birth weight infants. It has been associated with mortality, but there is a lack of information about the neurodevelopmental outcome of the survivors. We aimed to explore the prevalence of...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Bravo MC,Ybarra M,Madero R,Pellicer A

更新日期：2019-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) has a good effect of alleviating symptoms and improving quality of life and exercise tolerance in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but it wasn't sufficiently valued and promoted because of the lack of evidence-based medical evidence. Aim: T...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Wang J,Yang R,Zhang F,Jia C,Wang P,Liu J,Gao K,Xie H,Wang J,Zhao H,Chen J,Wang W

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle strain is one of the most frequent sports injuries, having the rectus femoris (RF) muscle as the reported preferred site of quadriceps muscle strain. The decrease muscle stiffness could be an effective RF muscle strain prevention. In recent studies, a high-intensity static stretching intervention decreased pass...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Nakamura M,Sato S,Murakami Y,Kiyono R,Yahata K,Sanuki F,Yoshida R,Fukaya T,Takeuchi K

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-selective mechanosensitive ion channel PIEZO1 controls erythrocyte volume homeostasis. Different missense gain-of-function mutations in PIEZO1 gene have been identified that cause Hereditary Xerocytosis (HX), a rare autosomal dominant haemolytic anemia. PIEZO1 expression is not limited to erythrocytes and expr...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Aglialoro F,Hofsink N,Hofman M,Brandhorst N,van den Akker E

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Invasive coronary revascularization has been shown to improve prognoses in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS), but the optimal timing of intervention remains unclear. This meta-analysis is to evaluate the outcomes in immediate (<2 h), early (<24 h), and delayed invasive group an...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Li Y,Zhang Z,Xiong X,Cho WC,Hu D,Gao Y,Shang H,Xing Y

更新日期：2017-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) refers to the conversion of epithelial cells to mesenchymal phenotype, which endows the epithelial cells with enhanced migration, invasion, and extracellular matrix production abilities. These characteristics link EMT with the pathogenesis of organ fibrosis and cancer progressio...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Xu Z,Ding W,Deng X

更新日期：2019-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) display a unique ability to promote angiogenesis and restore endothelial function in injured blood vessels. NADPH oxidase 4 (NOX4)-derived hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) serves as a signaling molecule and promotes endothelial cell proliferation and migration as well as prote...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Hakami NY,Ranjan AK,Hardikar AA,Dusting GJ,Peshavariya HM

更新日期：2017-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:For many model organisms traditionally in use for cardiac electrophysiological studies, characterization of ion channel genes is lacking. We focused here on two genes encoding the inward rectifier current, KCNJ2 and KCNJ12, in the dog heart. A combination of RT-PCR, 5'-RACE, and 3'-RACE demonstrated the status of KCNJ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Houtman MJ,Takanari H,Kok BG,van Eck M,Montagne DR,Vos MA,de Boer TP,van der Heyden MA

更新日期：2012-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:In the mammalian ear, transduction of sound stimuli is initiated by K+ entry through mechano-sensitive channels into inner hair cells. K+ entry is driven by a positive endocochlear potential that is maintained by the marginal cell layer of the stria vascularis. This process requires basolateral K+ import by NKCC1 Na+-...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Tan H,Bungert-Plümke S,Fahlke C,Stölting G

更新日期：2017-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant-insect interactions constitute a complex of system, whereby plants synthesize toxic compounds as the main defense strategy to combat herbivore assault, and insects deploy detoxification systems to cope with toxic plant compounds. Cytochrom P450s are among the main detoxification enzymes employed by insects to co...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Peng L,Zhao Y,Wang H,Song C,Shangguan X,Ma Y,Zhu L,He G

更新日期：2017-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cell (RBC) deformability is an important determinant of the microcirculation. It is influenced by various hematological parameters but also by nitric oxide (NO) which is produced in RBC from L-arginine by RBC-NO synthase. Longitudinal studies on blood profile, deformability at rest and NO levels but also dif...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Grau M,Cremer JM,Schmeichel S,Kunkel M,Bloch W

更新日期：2018-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women and despite recent advances in the medical field, there are still some inherent limitations in the currently used screening techniques. The radiological interpretation of screening X-ray mammograms often leads to over-diagnosis and, as a consequence, to unnec...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Gerasimova E,Audit B,Roux SG,Khalil A,Gileva O,Argoul F,Naimark O,Arneodo A

更新日期：2014-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The grand challenge to physiology, as was first described in an essay published in the inaugural issue of Frontiers in Physiology in 2010, remains to integrate function from molecules to intact organisms. In order to make sense of the vast volume of information derived from, and increasingly dependent upon, reductioni...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Billman GE

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The sense of taste is responsible for the detection and ingestion of food to cover energetic requirements in health and disease. The change in taste perception might lead to malnutrition that is usually one of the frequent causes of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer. In this review, we summarize the mech...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Murtaza B,Hichami A,Khan AS,Ghiringhelli F,Khan NA

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) and children at risk for DCD (r-DCD) present motor impairments interfering in their school, leisure and daily activities. In addition, these children may have abnormalities in their cardiac autonomic control, which together with their motor impairments, restrict ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Cavalcante Neto JL,Zamunér AR,Moreno BC,Silva E,Tudella E

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Understanding the microscopic dynamics of the beating heart has been challenging due to the technical nature of imaging with micrometer resolution while the heart moves. The development of multiphoton microscopy has made in vivo, cell-resolved measurements of calcium dynamics and vascular function possible...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Jones JS,Small DM,Nishimura N

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00697.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Roumbedakis K,Alexandre MN,Puch JA,Martins ML,Pascual C,Rosas C

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Most sense organs of arthropods are ensconced in small exoskeletal compartments that hinder direct access to plasma membranes. We have developed a method for exposing live sensory and supporting cells in such structures. The technique uses a viscous light cured resin to embed and support the structure, which is then s...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Kay AR,Raccuglia D,Scholte J,Sivan-Loukianova E,Barwacz CA,Armstrong SR,Guymon CA,Nitabach MN,Eberl DF

更新日期：2016-09-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The term myocardial contractility is thought to have originated more than 125 years ago and has remained and enigma ever since. Although the term is frequently used in textbooks, editorials and contemporary manuscripts its definition remains illusive often being conflated with cardiac performance or inotropy. The abse...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Muir WW,Hamlin RL

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac arrest is a prevalent condition with a poor prognosis, attributable in part to persistent myocardial dysfunction following resuscitation. The molecular basis of this dysfunction remains unclear. We induced cardiac arrest in a porcine model of acute sudden death and assessed the impact of ischemia and reperfusi...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Woodward M,Previs MJ,Mader TJ,Debold EP

更新日期：2015-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The Proline, Glutamate, Valine and Lysine-rich (PEVK) region of titin constitutes an entropic spring that provides passive tension to striated muscle. To study the functional and structural repercussions of a small reduction in the size of the PEVK region, we investigated skeletal muscles of a mouse with the constitut...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： van der Pijl RJ,Hudson B,Granzier-Nakajima T,Li F,Knottnerus AM,Smith J,Chung CS,Gotthardt M,Granzier HL,Ottenheijm CAC

更新日期：2020-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Drosophila melanogaster has served as an excellent genetic model to decipher the molecular basis of the circadian clock. Two key proteins, PERIOD (PER) and TIMELESS (TIM), are particularly well explored and a number of various arrhythmic, slow, and fast clock mutants have been identified in classical genetic screens. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Singh S,Giesecke A,Damulewicz M,Fexova S,Mazzotta GM,Stanewsky R,Dolezel D

更新日期：2019-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Gases, such as nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), or hydrogen sulfide (H2S), termed gasotransmitters, play an increasingly important role in understanding of how electrical signaling of cells is modulated. H2S is well-known to act on various ion channels and receptors. In a previous study we reported...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Sitdikova GF,Fuchs R,Kainz V,Weiger TM,Hermann A

更新日期：2014-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR), a characteristic of asthma that involves an excessive reduction in airway caliber, is a complex mechanism reflecting multiple processes that manifest over a large range of length and time scales. At one extreme, molecular interactions determine the force generated by airway smooth mus...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Lauzon AM,Bates JH,Donovan G,Tawhai M,Sneyd J,Sanderson MJ

更新日期：2012-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Being the central metabolic organ of vertebrates, the liver possesses the largest repertoire of metabolic enzymes among all tissues and organs. Almost all metabolic pathways are resident in the parenchymal cell, hepatocyte, but the pathway capacities may largely differ depending on the localization of hepatocytes with...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Berndt N,Holzhütter HG

更新日期：2018-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Although cardiac recovery is an important criterion for ranking horses in endurance competitions, heart rate variability (HRV) has hardly ever been studied in the context of this equestrian discipline. In the present study, we sought to determine whether HRV is affected by parameters such as age, exercise duration and...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Younes M,Robert C,Barrey E,Cottin F

更新日期：2016-05-02 00:00:00