Presence, distribution and physiological function of adrenergic and muscarinic receptor subtypes in the human heart.

abstract：:Atrophy of the rat heart induced by hemodynamic unloading after heterotopic transplantation is associated with impaired relaxation while systolic function remains normal when compared to the heart of the recipient animal. To identify possible underlying mechanisms for the above, we studied some aspects of membrane cal...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Kolár F,MacNaughton C,Papousek F,Korecky B,Rakusan K

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevation of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a well-known complication after percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI). The aims of this study were to quantify the extent of coronary microembolization during elective PCI, to identify predisposing anatomical and procedural factors, and to evaluate its impact on long-term ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Otto S,Seeber M,Fujita B,Kretzschmar D,Ferrari M,Goebel B,Figulla HR,Poerner TC

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardioprotection aims at infarct size reduction and improvement of clinical outcome from myocardial infarction. The translation of cardioprotection from preclinical and promising proof-of-concept studies to clinical benefit for patients has been largely disappointing. Almost all of these studies which did not translat...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Heusch G

更新日期：2019-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Total global ischaemia of the normothermic working rat heart caused an initial positive inotropic response characterized by vigorous contractions. After +/- 15 s this response reached a peak whereafter the isotonic contraction amplitude started to decline. After +/- 3.5 min the heart ceased to beat. The low level of h...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Steinmann CM,Lochner A,Niesler RA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Single electrical field shocks are able to induce ventricular fibrillation (VF) if applied during the vulnerable period. During this period, a shock can either prolong the action potential duration or induce a new action potential. Whether the occurrence of different shock responses contributes to the induct...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Kirchhof PF,Fabritz CL,Behrens S,Franz MR

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) exerts several effects on myocardial contraction, including enhancement of relaxation and diastolic function, modulation of beta-adrenergic inotropic responses, and inotropic effects in the absence of agonist pre-stimulation. Different effects have been observed in different species and preparations,...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Prendergast BD,MacCarthy P,Wilson JF,Shah AM

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired nitric oxide (NO)-soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC)-cGMP signaling is involved in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart diseases, yet the impact of long-term sGC activation on progressive cardiac remodeling and heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI) has not been explored. Moreover, it is unknown whether st...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Fraccarollo D,Galuppo P,Motschenbacher S,Ruetten H,Schäfer A,Bauersachs J

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Ischemic or hypoxic preconditioning has been shown, in multicellular preparations, to reduce post-ischemic injury. In the present study, we attempted to develop a model of preconditioning in isolated rat myocytes in order to facilitate investigation into the mechanism of preconditioning. METHODS:The protecti...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Cave AC,Adrian S,Apstein CS,Silverman HS

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of isoproterenol perfusion on cAMP levels and phosphorylase activity was investigated in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and Kyoto Wistar normotensive control rat (WKY) heart. The basal force of contraction in physiological salt solution perfused hearts was comparable between SHR and WKY. However, ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Sharma RV,Gupta RC,Ramanadham M,Venema RC,Bhalla RC

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thyroid hormone (TH) is critical for tissue differentiation at early stages of development, induces physiological hypertrophy and regulates the expression of important contractile proteins such as myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform and calcium cycling proteins. Furthermore, TH seems to control the response to stress by ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Pantos C,Mourouzis I,Markakis K,Tsagoulis N,Panagiotou M,Cokkinos DV

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-weekly echocardiographic examinations were conducted in nine SHHF-Mc-fa(cp) rats in comparison with eight age-matched Wistar rats. In the SHHF-rats, characterized by progressive LV-dilation and decreasing contractile function between 77-87 weeks of age, left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy was most sensitively demons...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Reffelmann T,Kloner RA

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we review the replacement (i.e., scarring) and reactive (i.e., perivascular and interstitial fibrosis) fibrous tissue responses found in the myocardium in response to effector hormones of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. Experimental data are presented to indicate: a) endogenous or exogenous el...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Weber KT,Brilla CG,Campbell SE,Guarda E,Zhou G,Sriram K

更新日期：1993-01-01 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：:A rat Langendorff heart preparation, perfused at constant pressure, was used to evaluate the role of K(ATP) channels in respiratory acidosis-induced coronary hyperemia. Prior administration of glibenclamide, an inhibitor of K(ATP) channels, reduced basal flow rates and eliminated the hyperemia associated with hypercap...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Phillis JW,Song D,O'Regan MH

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:In dog myocardium, the changes in the levels of creatine phosphate, inorganic phosphate, ATP, ADP, AMP, adenosine and inosine with 8 min of ischemia and subsequent reperfusion for 2, 4, 8, 16 and 32 min have been followed. Creatine phosphate and inorganic phosphate recovered completely within a few minutes as did the ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Van Belle H,Xhonneux R,Flameng W,Wynants J

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified single-plane angiocardiographic method for the measurement of the left ventricular volumes in the reindeer heart has been developed, on the assumption that the left ventricle forms half a revolution ellipsoid. On the basis of a study of 30 ventricular casts the following formulae were constructed for the ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Timisjärvi J,Hirvonen L,Kiviniitty K,Linnaluoto M

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the cardiac current Ik1 in arrhythmogenesis remains highly controversal. To gain further insights into the mechanisms of IK1 involvement in cardiac excitability, we studied the susceptibility of transgenic mice with altered IK1 to arrhythmia during various pharmacological and physiological challenges. Arrh...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Piao L,Li J,McLerie M,Lopatin AN

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of chronic intake of dietary alcohol upon left ventricular function, activities of myocardial antioxidant enzymes, reduced glutathione (GSH) content and lipoperoxidation (measured as the formation of diene conjugates and lipid-soluble fluorescence) were studied in adult domestic Nicholas turkeys. The non-i...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Edes I,Piros G,Forster T,Csanady M

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study indicated that 5 mg/kg aspirin can reverse the cardioprotective effects of thromboxane A2 synthetase inhibitors. We determined in the present study if this dose of aspirin can also reverse the protective effects of the thromboxane A2/PGH2 receptor antagonist SQ 30,741 in the same model of coronary occ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Grover GJ,Parham CS,Schumacher WA

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to clarify the mechanism of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) dysfunction during the genesis of irreversible damage in the ischemic-reperfused myocardium, the changes in SR Ca2(+)-pumping ATPase (Ca2(+)-activated, Mg2(+)-dependent ATPase; Ca2(+)-ATPase) activity were studied during ischemia and subsequent repe...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Yoshida Y,Shiga T,Imai S

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal complement complex C5b-9 is known to participate in inflammatory processes including atherosclerosis. Inflammation appears to be a direct consequence of C5b-9-mediated cell stimulation. 3-Hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitors may exert anti-inflammatory effects on vascular cel...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Viedt C,Shen W,Fei J,Kamimura M,Hänsch GM,Katus HA,Kreuzer J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rate or frequency-dependence is a characteristic property of antiarrhythmic drugs belonging to the Vaughan William classes I and III. The rate-dependence of class I drugs (i.e., increasing blockade of fast Na(+)-channels with faster rates) results from periodical drug binding to Na(+)-channel sites which are preferabl...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Weirich J,Antoni H

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ischaemia-like state in cultured heart cells has been obtained by markedly restricting the volume of extracellular medium combined with total deprivation of oxygen (anoxia) and glucose. Cellular injury, as reflected by the release of both cytoplasmic and lysosomal enzymes was significantly greater than during anoxi...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Vemuri R,Heller M,Pinson A

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the dihydropyridine calcium antagonists, nifedipine, nitrendipine and FR 7534 on the transmural distribution of coronary blood flow (endo/epi) were compared to the structurally unrelated calcium antagonists, verapamil and diltiazem and to the non-calcium antagonist vasodilator drugs, chromonar and dipyr...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Warltier DC,Hardman HF,Brooks HL,Gross GJ

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiarrhythmic effect of carbocromene (Intensain) was studied in 17 anaesthetized dogs. Ventricular tachycardia was induced by infusion of K-strophanthin (mean dose: 154 mug/kg i.v.). In 25 out of 26 experiments carbocromene (4 mg/kg i.v.) was effective. Ventricular tachycardia was converted to sinus rhythm in 16 ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Carp CI,Scholtholt J,Nitz RE

更新日期：1975-07-01 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：:Therapeutic angiogenesis improves tissue ischemia by supplementing and supporting the intrinsic process of angiogenesis. Besides direct administration of angiogenic growth factor proteins, injection of naked DNA, non-viral vectors and viral vector constructs carrying angiogenic genes have been used. A novel approach i...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Lei Y,Haider HKh,Shujia J,Sim ES

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human ventricle two isoforms of the phosphorylatable myosin light chain (MPLC) are expressed. These two forms are designated with increasing acidity as LC-2 and LC-2*. In the normal human heart the relation between LC-2/LC-2*-expression is 70/30, suggesting the existence of three different myosin isoenzymes (MP...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Morano I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00