Arrhythmogenic potential of positive inotropic agents.

abstract：:The isolated working rabbit heart preparation was used to study whether the "contractile machinery" remains unchanged in globally stunned myocardium. The function of the heart has been measured in nonischemic and postischemic conditions. The effect of isoprenaline or calcium chloride administration in both conditions ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Andres J,Moczarska A,Stepkowski D,Kakol I

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantitative predominance of free and total cholesterol over the amount of mural calcium is a most significant criterion of healthy human coronary arteries during the whole life span (0-90 years). However, this normal ratio increasingly changes as soon as arteriosclerotic alterations of the coronary walls set in. ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Frey M,Just H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increased activity of the sympathetic system is an important feature contributing to the pathogenesis and progression of chronic heart failure. While the mechanisms and consequences of enhanced norepinephrine release from sympathetic nerves have been intensely studied, the role of the adrenal gland in the development ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Schneider J,Lother A,Hein L,Gilsbach R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system play a powerful role in controlling cardiac function by activating adrenergic and muscarinic receptors. In the human heart there exist alpha1-, beta1- and beta2-adrenoceptors and M2-muscarinic receptors and possibly also (prejunctional) alpha2-adrenoceptors. Beta1- an...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Brodde OE,Bruck H,Leineweber K,Seyfarth T

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elucidation of the subcellular mechanism of myocardial ischemic preconditioning should be facilitated by precise knowledge of the biology of the cardioprotective response. Any proposed molecular mechanism for preconditioning must be initiated during the required ischemic stress period. The studies reported in this pap...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Schwartz LM,Jennings RB,Reimer KA

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At 36 degrees C and 2 mM [Ca2+]o, single guinea-pig ventricular myocytes were voltage clamped with patch electrodes. When paired pulsing had potentiated the contraction to the maximum, the cells were shock-frozen for electron probe microanalysis (EPMA). Shock-freezing was timed at the end of diastole (-80 mV) or at di...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wendt-Gallitelli MF,Isenberg G,Voigt T,Ross C

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behavior of Ca(2+)-activated K+ channels of large conductance (BKCa) in smooth muscle cells, which were obtained from atherosclerotic plaque material (SMCP) and from media segments (SMCM) of human coronary arteries, were compared using the patch-clamp technique. Voltage-clamp protocols in cell-attached patches rev...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wiecha J,Schläger B,Voisard R,Hannekum A,Mattfeldt T,Hombach V

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic defect in the cardiomyopathic (CM) hamster is a mutation in the glycoprotein-sarcoglycan (a component of the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex). Apoptosis has been identified in skeletal muscle of dystrophin-deficient mice, and therefore the role of myocardial apoptosis in relation to oncosis in causing myoc...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Ryoke T,Gu Y,Ikeda Y,Martone ME,Oh SS,Jeon ES,Knowlton KU,Ross J Jr

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diseases accompanied by severe cardiac impairment like sepsis and chronic uremia are frequently linked to an increase in cytokine release. In order to investigate possible toxic effects of the immune mediators on myocardial cells, we studied the contractility of cardiac myocytes and the de novo formation of stress pro...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Löw-Friedrich I,Weisensee D,Mitrou P,Schoeppe W

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated cells obtained from adult myocardium are proving invaluable for a wide range of studies concerned with the mechanisms underlying many important cardiological processes. Although care must always be taken to ensure that the single myocyte is an appropriate model for the particular question to be researched, it...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Powell T

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of endothelium-mediated modulation of coronary vasomotor tone in the intact human circulation under physiologic conditions requires very precise determination of both epicardial artery diameters, reflecting effects within the conduit vessels, as well as coronary blood flow, reflecting effects within the...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wollschläger H,Zeiher AM,Drexler H,Just H

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Delta-opioid receptors are known to participate in the protection found following ischemic preconditioning (IPC), but the role of kappa-receptors in IPC is currently controversial. Langendorff-perfused rat hearts received 35 min regional ischemia and 2 h reperfusion. PC (2 cycles 5 min global ischemia) substantially r...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Aitchison KA,Baxter GF,Awan MM,Smith RM,Yellon DM,Opie LH

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the discovery of a novel mechanism of cell death that differs from traditional necrosis, i.e., apoptosis, there have been numerous studies concluding that increased apoptosis augments myocardial infarction and heart failure and that limiting apoptosis protects the heart. Importantly, the vast majority of cells i...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Jose Corbalan J,Vatner DE,Vatner SF

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complete length-tension diagrams of myocardium were measured on isolated papillary muscles of cat right ventricle. These diagrams clearly demonstrate that irrespective of loading conditions there is no uniform maxima curve. As a function of preload the curves of afterloaded isotonic maxima obey totally separate nonlin...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Gülch RW

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:8 mm long sections of common carotid arteries of conscious, freely moving rabbits were electrically stimulated with DC-impulses by chronically implanted gold-electrodes daily for 1/2 h or two times 1/2 h per day for 4--6 weeks. The electrodes were arranged in such a way that the wall was stimulated transmurally, In th...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Betz E,Schlote W

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Two types of hemodynamic overload, pressure and volume overload, result in morphologically distinct types of cardiac remodeling. We explored the possibility that distinct hemodynamic overload may differentially activate the signal transduction pathway. METHODS:Pressure and volume overload were induced by tho...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Miyamoto T,Takeishi Y,Takahashi H,Shishido T,Arimoto T,Tomoike H,Kubota I

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cell (BM-MNC) therapy for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has produced inconsistent results, possibly due to BM-MNC product heterogeneity. Patient-specific cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) may contribute to variations in BM-MNC composition. We sough...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Contreras A,Orozco AF,Resende M,Schutt RC,Traverse JH,Henry TD,Lai D,Cooke JP,Bolli R,Cohen ML,Moyé L,Pepine CJ,Yang PC,Perin EC,Willerson JT,Taylor DA,Cardiovascular Cell Therapy Research Network (CCTRN).

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From January 2020, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) originated in China has spread around the world. The disease is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The presence of myocarditis, cardiac arrest, and acute heart failure in COVID-19 patients suggests the existence of a relationshi...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Rizzo P,Vieceli Dalla Sega F,Fortini F,Marracino L,Rapezzi C,Ferrari R

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews the recent data concerning the force-frequency relations in experimental animals with heart failure. After a brief overview of the nature of these relations, which are induced by 2 opposite phenomena, the potentiation of force of contraction by heart rate and the restitution process, the paper revie...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Crozatier B

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Affinity labelling of the digitalis receptor has indicated that it is situated on the N-terminal part of the alpha-subunit of the (Na+,K+)ATPase. Biochemical and pharmacological properties of the (Na+,K+)ATPase studied on intact chick embryonic hearts and under heart cell culture conditions have indicated the existenc...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Lazdunski M,Kazazoglou T,Renaud JF,Rossi B

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopexamine is a newly developed sympathetic catecholamine which combines dopaminergic (DA-1) and beta 2-adrenergic agonist activity with only minor beta 1-adrenergic action. Thereby, this compound exerts systemic and preferential renal vasodilation, causing afterload reduction, increases in cardiac output, and improve...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Meinertz T,Drexler H,Just H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular cell therapy offers the first real potential to treat the underlying injuries associated with cardiac and vascular disease. By delivering appropriate exogenous cells to an injury site, the potential exists to mitigate injury or even to begin to reverse damage. Based on their inordinate pre-clinical prom...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Ott HC,McCue J,Taylor DA

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac glycosides like ouabain are used in the therapy of heart failure and atrial fibrillation. They exert a positive inotropic effect on cardiomyocytes by inhibiting the plasma membrane sodium pump (Na,K-ATPase), decreasing the Ca-extrusion by the sarcolemmal cardiac sodium/calcium exchanger (NCX) and increasing th...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Müller-Ehmsen J,Nickel J,Zobel C,Hirsch I,Bölck B,Brixius K,Schwinger RH

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to clarify the genesis of the characteristic pressure and flow pulse contours of the common carotid artery of man, at first transcutaneous pulse recordings were carried out on healthy resting subjects during breathing of room air and of a mixture of 95% O2 and 5% CO2 (Carbogen). The latter was used to cause v...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Busse R,Bauer RD,Schabert A,Summa Y,Zinecker U,Wetterer E

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six dogs were subjected to an acute stenosis of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The mean aortic pressure was fixed with a windkessel and an occluder on four different levels. A significant decrease of coronary blood flow and poststenotic coronary pressure was closely related to the level of mean aortic ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Dietze W,Mittmann U,Schmier J,Wirth RH

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms through which ghrelin exerts its cardioprotective effects during cardiac remodeling post-myocardial infarction (MI) are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the cardioprotection mechanisms are mediated by modulation of JAK/STAT signaling and what triggers this mo...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Eid RA,Alkhateeb MA,Eleawa S,Al-Hashem FH,Al-Shraim M,El-Kott AF,Zaki MSA,Dallak MA,Aldera H

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray microanalysis was used to compare chemically untreated cryosections of quick-frozen myocardial tissue in "caffeine contracture" with cryosections of normal muscle. Our goal was to find out if it is possible by means of this method to detect changes in the calcium compartmentalization of the myocardial cell occur...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wendt-Gallitelli MF,Wolburg H,Schlote W,Schwegler M,Holubarsch C,Jacob R

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid change in length of cat papillary muscle induces two reciprocal diastolic and systolic processes: stretching causes a viscoelastic relaxation of the muscle. The opposite behavior is observed after abrupt releases when - subsequent to an increase in resting tension - diastolic force attains its new equilibrium....

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Maisch B

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypertrophy which occurs during chronic mechanical overload is one of the numerous examples of biological adaptation to environmental requirements. As such, it is obtained at random by trial and error, and adaptation represents the sum of various modifications in gene expression, including the shift in isoform...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Chevalier B,Charlemagne D,Callens-el Amrani F,Carre F,Moalic JM,Delcayre C,Mansier P,Swynghedauw B

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capillary wall, due to its diffusional resistance, causes concentration differences between the vascular space and the interstitial space for substances which are released or taken up by the heart. Estimation of capillary transfer and interstitial concentration in isolated hearts, however, indicates a variable dif...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Kammermeier H,Wein B,Gerards P,Lang U,Wendtland B,Schmitz D,Rose H

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00