Prospects of X-ray microanalysis in the study of pathophysiology of myocardial contraction.

abstract：:Receptor for advanced glycation end products (RAGE) and connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) play a key role in diabetic myocardial fibrosis, and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma (PPAR-gamma) activation has been reported to reduce RAGE and CTGF expression. This study investigated the effects of the P...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Ihm SH,Chang K,Kim HY,Baek SH,Youn HJ,Seung KB,Kim JH

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out in 39 barbiturate-anesthetized dogs to determine whether the renin-angiotensin system is important in control of hemodynamics and coronary flow during myocardial ischemia. Plasma renin activity (PRA) was 2.2 +/- 0.4 ng x ml-l x hr-1 immediately before coronary artery occlusion (CAO) and increa...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Ertl G,Alexander RW,Kloner RA

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：:It is generally believed that the increased contractility and tachycardia of the hyperthyroid heart are a result of thyroid hormone-induced alterations of the mechanical and electrical properties of the heart, respectively. We compared the contractility (dP/dtmax) and the spontaneous beating rate of hyperthyroid and e...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wheatley AM,Butkow N,Marcus RH,Lippe IT,Rosendorff C

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reopening of the infarct-related coronary artery is the treatment of choice in the clinical setting of acute myocardial infarction. Nevertheless the removal of the total occlusion obtained either by thrombolysis or by primary angioplasty is followed by the ischemia/reperfusion sequelae. One of many proposed ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Schäfer U,Kurz T,Jain D,Hartmann F,Dendorfer A,Tölg R,Raasch W,Dominiak P,Katus H,Richardt G

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Long QT syndrome is a potentially life-threatening disease characterized by delayed repolarization of cardiomyocytes, QT interval prolongation in the electrocardiogram, and a high risk for sudden cardiac death caused by ventricular arrhythmia. The genetic type 3 of this syndrome (LQT3) is caused by gain-of-function mu...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Malan D,Zhang M,Stallmeyer B,Müller J,Fleischmann BK,Schulze-Bahr E,Sasse P,Greber B

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the not so distant past, the idea of using beta-blockers as a primary therapy for congestive heart failure to improve symptoms and prognosis seemed paradoxical. The cardiac community reacted with skepticism when, in 1975, the pioneering report of Waagstein et al. appeared in the British Heart Journal. Since then nu...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Dietz R,Osterziel KJ,Willenbrock R,Hänlein D,von Harsdorf R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP) was found to improve contractile function of stunned myocardium in pigs. The peptide is released from coronary endothelial cells during ischemia and significantly improves post-ischemic recovery. The present study was aimed to decide whether such an induction of contractile ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Lütteke D,Ross G,Abdallah Y,Schäfer C,Piper HM,Schlüter KD

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short repeated cycles of peripheral ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) can protect distant organs from subsequent prolonged I/R injury; a phenomenon known as remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC). A RIPC-mediated release of humoral factors might play a key role in this protection and vascular endothelial cells are potential ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Weber NC,Riedemann I,Smit KF,Zitta K,van de Vondervoort D,Zuurbier CJ,Hollmann MW,Preckel B,Albrecht M

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have demonstrated the presence of autoantibodies against alpha(1)-adrenoceptor (alpha(1)-AAB) in the serum of patients with primary hypertension, and that these autoantibodies exert adrenergic-agonist-like effects. However, their role in the development of hypertension remains unclear. The current study...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Yan L,Xu Y,Yao H,Xue W,Tian J,Ren H,Wu Y,Yang G,Ma XL,Liu H

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemodynamic and metabolic effects of acetate were studied in rats in vivo and in the isolated perfused heart. Hemodynamic parameters, myocardial phosphagens, inorganic phosphate, and adenosine were measured in vivo. Acetate uptake, coronary flow, O2 consumption, parameters of the cellular energy state, and hypoxan...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Kiviluoma KT,Karhunen M,Lapinlampi T,Peuhkurinen KJ,Hassinen IE

更新日期：1988-07-01 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

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：:Ventricular and atrial cardiac muscle cells isolated from the adult rat have been cultured and characterized. Once established in culture these myocytes resemble morphologically their in vivo counterparts except that they are flattened on the surface of the culture flask. These cultured cells possess differentiated ul...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Claycomb WC

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis is a multifactorial process. A possible anti-atherosclerotic drug should therefore interfere with different targets that are important during the development of an atherosclerotic lesion. Two of the early events are the activated migration and proliferation of arterial smooth muscle...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wülfroth P,Grünwald J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of regional hypoxemia and ischemia on epicardial electrogram were studied in anesthetized, open-chest dogs. The left circumflex artery (LCx) was cannulated and perfused with either arterial blood or hypoxic solution. A contact electrode for recording monophasic action potential (MAP) was applied to the epi...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Ikeno E,Kubota I,Kondo T,Yamaki M,Shibata T,Tomoike H

更新日期：1995-11-01 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：:Coronary artery disease causes an increase in glutamate uptake and alanine output by the heart. We assessed the effects of acute myocardial ischemia on alanine and glutamate exchange and ammonia production in 10 anesthetized open-chest domestic swine (46.9 +/- 0.7 kg). Coronary blood flow was controlled through an ext...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Hacker TA,Hall JL,Stone CK,Stanley WC

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is theoretically described to test the accuracy of various lead system of the ecg. The priniciple of this method consists in the following procedure. The heart position is changed maximally in a proband by varying the position of the body and by deep inspiration and exspiration. If the lead field is parallel,...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Hiltmann WD,Schaefer H

更新日期：1975-01-01 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：AIMS:There is a need for better identification of patients at high risk for malignant arrhythmias who would benefit from implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD). The purpose of this study was to assess whether the C825T polymorphism in the G-protein beta3 subunit gene, GNB3, might serve as a genetic marker for re...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wieneke H,Naber CN,Piaszek L,Sack S,Frey UH,Heusch G,Erbel R,Siffert W

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The characterization of various ion transport systems has led to a better understanding of the effects, which seem to take part in the impairment of ischemic and reperfused cardiac tissue. This review discusses the role of the Na+/H+ exchange system in the pathophysiology of ischemia and reperfusion and the beneficial...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Scholz W,Albus U

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:K201 has previously been shown to reduce diastolic contractions in vivo during β-adrenergic stimulation and elevated extracellular calcium concentration ([Ca(2+)](o)). The present study characterised the effect of K201 on electrically stimulated and spontaneous diastolic sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR)-mediated Ca(2+) rel...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Elliott EB,Hasumi H,Otani N,Matsuda T,Matsuda R,Kaneko N,Smith GL,Loughrey CM

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：:We have characterized the aerobic blood-perfused isolated heart model evaluating the hemodynamics and metabolism of both the blood donor animal and the isolated organ. Anaesthesia of the blood donor with sodium pentobarbital (30 mg/kg) increases arterial concentration of non esterified fatty acids (NEFA) from 80 +/- 6...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Pasini E,Solfrini R,Bachetti T,Marino M,Bernocchi P,Visioli F,Ferrari R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Migration of CD4-positive lymphocytes into the vessel wall is a critical step in atherogenesis. Recent data suggest that CD4-positive lymphocytes express the nuclear transcription factors Liver-X-Receptor (LXR) alpha and beta with an effect of LXR activators on TH1-cytokine release from these cells. However, the role ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Walcher D,Vasic D,Heinz P,Bach H,Durst R,Hausauer A,Hombach V,Marx N

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat hearts were exposed and injured locally by direct cryoapplication. The hearts were examined 2, 4, 20 and 48 hours, 7 and 12 days later. In the first 48 hours mast cell and polymorphonuclear (mainly eosinophilic) granulocyte infiltration was followed by proliferation of mononuclear phagocytic and fibroblastic cells...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Yarom R,Havivi Y,Heling I

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of 0.1 mg/kg Verapamil on the extent of the ischemic area following ligation of a branch of the left descending coronary artery was studied in anesthetized open chest dogs. The sum of the ST-segment elevation during the entire period of occlusion in the epicardial ECG was 15 mV in control infarction compare...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Wende W,Bleifeld W,Meyer J,Stühlen HW

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular remodeling following nonfatal myocardial infarction includes an excentric hypertrophy of the surviving myocardium, associated with hemodynamic overload. Disseminated cardiomyocyte apoptosis and phenotype changes of the surviving myocardium, such as a labile calcium homeostasis of the hypertrophied cardiomy...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Holtz J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper, we review the hypothesis that activated tissue renin-angiotensin systems play a detrimental role in heart failure. The main arguments for this idea are discussed: a) tissue renin-angiotensin systems behave functionally distinct from the circulating renin-angiotensin system; b) tissue renin-angiotensin s...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Pinto YM,Buikema H,van Gilst WH,Lie KI

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00