Optogenetic Termination of Cardiac Arrhythmia: Mechanistic Enlightenment and Therapeutic Application?

abstract：:Electrical stimulation of the central and peripheral nervous systems - such as deep brain stimulation, spinal cord stimulation, and epidural cortical stimulation are common therapeutic options increasingly used to treat a large variety of neurological and psychiatric conditions. Despite their remarkable success, there...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Golestanirad L,Gale JT,Manzoor NF,Park HJ,Glait L,Haer F,Kaltenbach JA,Bonmassar G

更新日期：2018-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:There are animal species that have adapted to life at high altitude and hypobaric hypoxia conditions in the Andean highlands. One such species is the llama (Lama glama), which seem to have developed efficient protective mechanisms to avoid maladaptation resulting from chronic hypoxia, such as a resistance to the devel...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： López V,Moraga FA,Llanos AJ,Ebensperger G,Taborda MI,Uribe E

更新日期：2018-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock proteins are molecular chaperones that are involved in numerous normal cellular processes and stress responses, and heat shock factors are transcriptional activators of heat shock proteins. Heat shock factors and heat shock proteins are coordinated in various biological processes. The regulatory function of...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Jin J,Li Y,Zhou Z,Zhang H,Guo J,Wan F

更新日期：2020-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin (Hb) continuously undergoes autoxidation producing superoxide which dismutates into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and is a potential source for subsequent oxidative reactions. Autoxidation is most pronounced under hypoxic conditions in the microcirculation and for unstable dimers formed at reduced Hb concentrati...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Rifkind JM,Mohanty JG,Nagababu E

更新日期：2015-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The heart is a highly structured organ consisting of different cell types, including myocytes, endothelial cells, fibroblasts, stem cells, and inflammatory cells. This pluricellularity provides the opportunity of intercellular communication within the organ, with subsequent optimization of its function. Intercellular ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Segers VFM,Brutsaert DL,De Keulenaer GW

更新日期：2018-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel approach to quantify heart rate variability (HRV) and the results of applying this approach to synthetic and original data sets. Our approach evaluates the periodicity of heart rate by calculating the transform of Relative Shannon Entropy, the maximum value of the RR interval periodogram, and the ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Thungtong A,Knoch MF,Jacono FJ,Dick TE,Loparo KA

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent progress in high-throughput data acquisition has shifted the focus from data generation to processing and understanding of how to integrate collected information. Context specific reconstruction based on generic genome scale models like ReconX or HMR has the potential to become a diagnostic and treatment tool t...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Pacheco MP,Pfau T,Sauter T

更新日期：2016-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Sirtuins (SIRT) are ubiquitous histone and protein deacetylases and a member of this family, SIRT1, is the best-studied one. Its functions in endothelial cells encompass branching angiogenesis, activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase, regulation of proapoptotic and proinflammatory pathways, among others. Defec...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Lipphardt M,Dihazi H,Müller GA,Goligorsky MS

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：Introduction:Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) has been associated with non-dipping blood pressure (BP). The precise mechanism is still under investigation, but repetitive oxygen desaturation and arousal induced sleep fragmentation are considered the main contributors. Methods:We analyzed beat-to-beat measurements of hemo...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Staats R,Barros I,Fernandes D,Grencho D,Reis C,Matos F,Valença J,Marôco J,de Almeida AB,Bárbara C

更新日期：2020-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 354 in vol. 10, PMID: 30984032.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Clos P,Laroche D,Stapley PJ,Lepers R

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ontologies and standards are very important parts of today's bioscience research. With the rapid increase of biological knowledge, they provide mechanisms to better store and represent data in a controlled and structured way, so that scientists can share the data, and utilize a wide variety of software and tools to ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Mi H,Thomas PD

更新日期：2011-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose: This study aimed to examine the exercise-mediated musculoskeletal recovery following hindlimb suspension (HS) in order to identify whether bone modeling and muscle hypertrophy would eventuate in a synchronized manner during recovery stage. Methods: To identify whether 2-week HS would be sufficient to induce a...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Song H,Cho S,Lee HY,Lee H,Song W

更新日期：2018-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The brain-gut axis plays a critical role in the regulation of different diseases, many of which are characterized by sympathetic dysregulation. However, a direct link between sympathetic dysregulation and gut dysbiosis remains to be illustrated. Bone marrow (BM)-derived immune cells continuously interact with the gut ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Yang T,Ahmari N,Schmidt JT,Redler T,Arocha R,Pacholec K,Magee KL,Malphurs W,Owen JL,Krane GA,Li E,Wang GP,Vickroy TW,Raizada MK,Martyniuk CJ,Zubcevic J

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Red yeast rice supplements are broadly accepted as treatment for dyslipidaemia in subjects without high cardiovascular (CV) risk. Their effect on lipid profile is well known, but few data are available on their effect on endothelial function. Objectives: To study the effect of a novel nutraceutical compoun...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Cimaglia P,Vieceli Dalla Sega F,Vitali F,Lodolini V,Bernucci D,Passarini G,Fortini F,Marracino L,Aquila G,Rizzo P,Ferrari R,Campo G

更新日期：2019-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, two alternative targets in insect periphery nerve system have been explored for environmentally-friendly approaches in insect pest management, namely odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) and odorant receptors (ORs). Located in insect antennae, OBPs are thought to be involved in the transport of odorants to ORs fo...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Venthur H,Zhou JJ

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiome is extremely important for maintaining homeostasis with host intestinal epithelial, neuronal, and immune cells and this host-microbe interaction is critical during times of stress or disease. Environmental, nutritional, and cognitive stress are just a few factors known to influence the gut microbiot...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Pearce SC,Coia HG,Karl JP,Pantoja-Feliciano IG,Zachos NC,Racicot K

更新日期：2018-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Whether neurally-mediated vasodilatation may contribute to exercise hyperemia has not been completely understood. Bülbring and Burn (1935) found for the first time the existence of sympathetic cholinergic nerve to skeletal muscle contributing to vasodilatation in animals. Blair et al. (1959) reported that atropine-sen...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Matsukawa K,Ishii K,Liang N,Endo K

更新日期：2013-02-15 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：:Molecular chaperones are stress proteins that allow the correct folding or unfolding as well as the assembly or disassembly of macromolecular cellular components. Changes in expression and post-translational modifications of chaperones have been linked to a number of age- and stress-related diseases including cancer, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Penna C,Sorge M,Femminò S,Pagliaro P,Brancaccio M

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our development of the diffusion tensor imaging modality for the bovine ocular lens. Diffusion gradients were added to a spin-echo pulse sequence and the relevant parameters of the sequence were refined to achieve good diffusion weighting in the lens tissue, which demonstrated heterogeneous regions of diff...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Vaghefi E,Donaldson PJ

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current scientific debates center on the impact of lipids and mitochondrial function on diverse aspects of human health, nutrition and disease, among them the association of lipotoxicity with the onset of insulin resistance in skeletal muscle, and with heart dysfunction in obesity and diabetes. Mitochondria play a fun...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Aon MA,Bhatt N,Cortassa SC

更新日期：2014-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We investigated if oral ingestion of ibuprofen influenced leucocyte recruitment and infiltration following an acute bout of traditional resistance exercise Methods: Sixteen male subjects were divided into two groups that received the maximum over-the-counter dose of ibuprofen (1200mg d(-1)) or a similarly admin...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Vella L,Markworth JF,Paulsen G,Raastad T,Peake JM,Snow RJ,Cameron-Smith D,Russell AP

更新日期：2016-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The striped stem borer, Chilo suppressalis (Walker), is a notorious pest of rice that causes large losses in China. Breeding and screening of resistance rice cultivars are effective strategies for C. suppressalis management. In this study, insect-resistant traits of 47 rice cultivars were investigated by C. suppressal...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Wang Y,Ju D,Yang X,Ma D,Wang X

更新日期：2018-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:There is compelling evidence that the "what it feels like" subjective experience of sensory stimuli arises in the cerebral cortex in both humans as well as mammalian experimental animal models. Humans are alone in their ability to verbally communicate their experience of the external environment. In other species, sen...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Key B,Brown D

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:RASA3 is a Ras GTPase activating protein that plays a critical role in blood formation. The autosomal recessive mouse model scat (severe combined anemia and thrombocytopenia) carries a missense mutation in Rasa3. Homozygotes present with a phenotype characteristic of bone marrow failure that is accompanied by alternat...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Hartman ES,Brindley EC,Papoin J,Ciciotte SL,Zhao Y,Peters LL,Blanc L

更新日期：2018-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Apolipophorin III (ApoLp-III) is a well-known hemolymph protein having a functional role in lipid transport and immune responses of insects. Here we report the molecular and functional characterization of Anopheles stephensi Apolipophorin-III (AsApoLp-III) gene. This gene consists of 679 nucleotides arranged into two ...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Dhawan R,Gupta K,Kajla M,Kakani P,Choudhury TP,Kumar S,Kumar V,Gupta L

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum aerobic power ([Formula: see text]) as an indicator of body fitness is today a very well-known concept not just for athletes but also for the layman. Unfortunately, the accurate measurement of that variable has remained a complex and exhaustive laboratory procedure, which makes it inaccessible to many active p...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Storniolo JL,Pavei G,Minetti AE

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Constant blood flow despite changes in blood pressure, a phenomenon called autoregulation, has been demonstrated for various organ systems. We hypothesized that by changing hydrostatic pressures in peripheral arteries, we can establish these limits of autoregulation in peripheral arteries based on local pu...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Tripathi A,Obata Y,Ruzankin P,Askaryar N,Berkowitz DE,Steppan J,Barodka V

更新日期：2017-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoxic environments at high altitude have significant effects on kidney injury. Following injury, renal primary cilia display length alterations. Primary cilia are mechanosensory organelles that regulate tubular architecture. The effect of hypoxia on cilia length is still controversial in cultured cells, and no corre...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Shamloo K,Chen J,Sardar J,Sherpa RT,Pala R,Atkinson KF,Pearce WJ,Zhang L,Nauli SM

更新日期：2017-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: It is well known that regular physical activity improves cardiovascular health, and higher baroreflex sensitivity and heart rate variability are associated with cardiovascular health. Adolescence is the age when an individual's behavior is easily modified; early intervention at this stage in terms of phy...

journal_title：Frontiers in physiology

authors： Subramanian SK,Sharma VK,Arunachalam V,Rajendran R,Gaur A

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00