Contributions of Ca(2+)-influx via the L-type Ca(2+)-current and Ca(2+)-release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum to [Ca2+]i-transients in human myocytes.

abstract：:Mobilization of triacylglycerol stored in heart cells is accomplished by the combined action of lysosomal (acid) lipase and microsomal monoacylglycerol lipase or carboxylesterase. Non(heparin)-releasable neutral or alkaline lipase is similar to non(readily)-releasable lipoprotein lipase (LPL). The enzyme is mainly loc...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Hülsmann WC,Stam H,Jansen H

更新日期：1984-05-01 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：:The cardiac organ manifestation of arterial hypertension comprises the myocardium itself with left-ventricular hypertrophy, the interstitium with perivascular and interstitial fibrosis, and the coronary circulation with disease of large and small coronary arteries. The consequences of the sum and interactions of these...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Vogt M,Motz W,Strauer BE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes involved in the metabolism nitric oxide (NO) and reactive oxygen species (ROS) may play a role for the decreased availability of NO in atherosclerosis. We, therefore, hypothesized that the pattern of gene expression of these enzymes is altered in atherosclerosis. Myocardial tissue from patients with coronary h...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Chen X,Niroomand F,Liu Z,Zankl A,Katus HA,Jahn L,Tiefenbacher CP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) has been shown to have an anti-apoptotic function, but its mechanism is not clear in heart. In this study, we examined the effect of Hsp70 deletion on AIF-induced apoptosis during ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) in vivo. Although Hsp70 KO and WT mice demonstrated similar amounts of AIF release...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Choudhury S,Bae S,Ke Q,Lee JY,Kim J,Kang PM

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it has long been recognized that thyroid hormone is an effective positive inotrope, its efficacy in supporting hemodynamics in the acute setting of ischaemia and reperfusion (R) without worsening reperfusion injury remains largely unknown. Thus, we investigated the effects of triiodothyronine (T3) on reperfus...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Pantos C,Mourouzis I,Saranteas T,Clavé G,Ligeret H,Noack-Fraissignes P,Renard PY,Massonneau M,Perimenis P,Spanou D,Kostopanagiotou G,Cokkinos DV

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The clinical usefulness of class III antiarrhythmic drugs for the treatment of tachyarrhythmias is limited by their potential proarrhythmic effects, mainly torsades-depointes (TdP). The goal of this experimental study was to develop an isolated whole-heart model exhibiting typical characteristics of class III...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Johna R,Mertens H,Haverkamp W,Eckardt L,Niederbröker T,Borggrefe M,Breithardt G

更新日期：1998-04-01 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：:Ceramide has been shown to be a key signaling molecule involved in the apoptotic effect of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and other cytokines. Given the importance of cytokines such as TNF-alpha in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury, we hypothesize that ceramide is increased during ischemia or reperfusion...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Zhang DX,Fryer RM,Hsu AK,Zou AP,Gross GJ,Campbell WB,Li PL

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:In the isometrically contracting rat trabecular muscle strip preparation, contracture tension was induced either by 10 min of hypoxia (low contracture tension) or by 30 min of joint oxygen and glucose withdrawal (severe contracture tension) at optimum length. Using stepwise 0.1 mm releases, length-tension relationship...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Holubarsch C,Jacob R

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes have poor cardiac outcomes following myocardial infarction (MI). The mitochondrial uncoupling protein 3 (UCP3) is down-regulated in the heart with insulin resistance. We hypothesized that decreased UCP3 levels contribute to poor cardiac recovery following ischemia/r...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Edwards KS,Ashraf S,Lomax TM,Wiseman JM,Hall ME,Gava FN,Hall JE,Hosler JP,Harmancey R

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In Langendorff-perfused guinea pig hearts, local myocardial perfusion was evaluated by analysis of FITC-dextran-150 elution kinetics after bolus injection. Locally estimated half-times of the monoexponential elution curves showed good correlation with global undisturbed coronary flow. After ligation of the left anteri...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Rösen R,Marsen A,Klaus W

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of the rhesus monkey to form coronary collaterals was tested in ten animals. Ameroid constrictors were implanted on the left circumflex coronary artery and allowed to remain for 12 weeks. One animal died of an acute myocardial infarction nine days after surgery; the remaining animals survived without clini...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Buss DD,Hyde DM,Steffey EP

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：AIMS:Atrial fibrillation (AF) shortens the atrial action potential and the atrial refractory period. These changes promote persistence of AF. Pharmacological prolongation of atrial action potential duration (APD) may therefore help to prevent recurrent AF. In addition to prolonging APD, sodium channel blockers may prev...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Kirchhof P,Engelen M,Franz MR,Ribbing M,Wasmer K,Breithardt G,Haverkamp W,Eckardt L

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In situ hearts and isolated cardiomyocytes from heterozygous connexin 43-deficient (Cx43+/-) mice cannot be protected by ischemic preconditioning or diazoxide. We have now addressed the role of connexin 43 in ischemic postconditioning (PC). Wild type (WT) and Cx43+/- mice were subjected to 30 min coronary occlusion an...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Heusch G,Büchert A,Feldhaus S,Schulz R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial stunning, a transient contractile dysfunction that appears following a brief period of ischemia, is at least partly due to the production of oxygen-derived free radicals. The objective of the present study was to determine whether the Ginkgo biloba extract EGb761, which has antioxidant properties in vitro, ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Rioufol G,Pietri S,Culcasi M,Loufoua J,Staat P,Pop C,Drieu K,Ovize M

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the human heart several isoforms of the sodium pump (Na,K-ATPase, the cardiac glycoside receptor) are expressed (alpha1beta1, alpha2beta1, and alpha3beta1). Their expression is regulated in a highly specific manner, so that there are region specific differences in the expression pattern. The isoform expression patt...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Müller-Ehmsen J,McDonough AA,Farley RA,Schwinger RH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conflicting data on the inotropic effect of insulin are present in the literature suggesting a positive inotropic property or no inotropic effect or even a negative influence. To clarify the reason for these diverging findings, dose-response curves of insulin have been performed in isolated working rat and guinea pig ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Schmidt HD,Koch M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disregarding the influence of thickness on elevated strength of isolated preparations inevitably leads to erroneous tension-frequency relations, especially in the range of high frequencies. Thus, much of the confusion in interpreting the atypical negative staircase phenomenon of the rat heart is due to this. In view o...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Gülch RW,Ebrecht G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxic peroxides result when oxygen radicals react with various peroxidic precursors in tissue or blood. A colorimetric method based on reactions of malondialdehyde (MDA), a key intermediate in the formation of peroxides, has been described in fresh tissues. The present report adapts this assay to measure MDA levels in...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Liedtke AJ,Mahar CQ,Ytrehus K,Mjøs OD

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine if decreased heart function after hypoxia followed by reoxygenation (H-R) is associated with increased degradation of cardiac myosin light chain 1 (MLC1) by matrix metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2), and to investigate the effects of the increased level of peroxynitrite in the heart...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Doroszko A,Polewicz D,Sawicka J,Richardson JS,Cheung PY,Sawicki G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assessment of proarrhythmic risks of drugs remains challenging. To evaluate the suitability of rat engineered heart tissue (EHT) for detecting proarrhythmic effects. We monitored drug effects on spontaneous contractile activity and, in selected cases, on action potentials (sharp microelectrode) and Ca2+ transients...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Eder A,Hansen A,Uebeler J,Schulze T,Neuber C,Schaaf S,Yuan L,Christ T,Vos MA,Eschenhagen T

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dietary intake of unsaturated fatty acid of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) is thought to reduce the size and incidence of myocardial infarction. These beneficial effects are postulated to be due to chronic antithrombotic properties of EPA itself. We studied the possible direct effects of EPA on vascular smooth muscle as ...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Yanagisawa A,Lefer AM

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of changes in pre- and afterload, heart frequency and inotropic state on the difference between right ventricular dP/dtmax measured isovolumically and auxotonically has been investigated in canine heart-lung preparations. Isovolumic systoles were obtained by occluding the pulmonary artery during diastole...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Hoppe H,Schmidt HD,Seitz E

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ex vivo multicellular preparations are essential tools to study tissue physiology. Among them, the recent methodological and technological developments in living myocardial slices (LMS) are attracting increasing interest by the cardiac research field. Despite this, this research model remains poorly perceived and util...

journal_title：Basic research in cardiology

authors： Watson SA,Dendorfer A,Thum T,Perbellini F

更新日期：2020-09-10 00:00:00