The renin-angiotensin system and its receptors.

abstract：:Large controlled trials have shown that intake of fish oil (marine n-3 fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid, and docosahexaenoic acid), whether from dietary sources or fish oil supplements, may exhibit beneficial effects on total and cardiovascular disease mortality. Stabilization of cell membranes and suppression of ca...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： de Leiris J,de Lorgeril M,Boucher F

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is no systematic study in which the effects of vasoactive substances were investigated on pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) in in vivo mouse by directly measuring cardiac output and the inflow and outflow pressures in the pulmonary circulation. We determined the responses of PVR, total peripheral resistance (T...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Wang M,Shibamoto T,Shinomiya S,Yamamoto Y,Kurata Y,Kuda Y,Tanida M,Toga H

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 80 patients with moderate hypertension the effects of nisoldipine 10 mg b.i.d., nifedipine 10 mg and 20 mg t.i.d., diltiazem 60 mg and 120 mg t.i.d., and verapamil 40 mg q.i.d. (all after single dose and 14 days' treatment) on blood pressure; hemodynamic parameters (cardiac output, stroke volume, left ventricular e...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Belousov Y,Kushnaryov V

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the role of sulfhydryl (-SH) group in improvement of endothelial dysfunction with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in experimental high dose of methionine dieted rats. We compared the effects of Captopril (an ACE inhibitor with -SH group), enalapril (an ACE-inhibitor without -SH group), N-acet...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Liu YH,Liu LY,Wu JX,Chen SX,Sun YX

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of mature active neuropeptides such as substance P (SP) from their glycine extended precursors entails alpha-amidation of peptide precursors by the sequential enzymatic action of peptidylglycine alpha-monooxygenase (PAM) and peptidylamidoglycolate lyase (PGL). We reported that these two enzymes that can prod...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Abou-Mohamed GA,Huang J,Oldham CD,Taylor TA,Jin L,Caldwell RB,May SW,Caldwell RW

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The electrophysiologic and antiarrhythmic effects of oral and intravenous UM424 were studied in canine models of acute and chronic myocardial injury. In the first phase of this study, reentrant ventricular tachyarrhythmias and/or ventricular fibrillation were initiated by programmed electrical stimulation techniques i...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Gibson JK,Patterson E,Lucchesi BR

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an initial double-blind randomized study with three parallel groups, 48 patients, mean age 49.6 years (32-65 years), with hypertension WHO I-II, were given bisoprolol in doses of 5, 10, and 20 mg. Bisoprolol is a new beta 1-selective beta-blocking agent with a plasma half-life of 10-12 h and without intrinsic sympa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Weiner L,Frithz G

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasodilator action of organic nitrates can be severely impaired by induction of drug tolerance. A critical depletion of sulfhydryl groups has been proposed to play a key role in impairment of the biotransformation of organic nitrates to nitric oxide (NO). We studied the effects of the new cysteine-containing nitra...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zanzinger J,Feelisch M,Bassenge E

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) and donors of nitric oxide (NO) (glyceryl trinitrate, SIN-1--a metabolite of molsidomine--S-nitroso-N-acetyl-penicillamine, and sodium nitroprusside) but not prostacyclin and its analog, iloprost, relax strips of rabbit aorta. Strips of human coronary artery also relax when e...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Gryglewski RJ,Korbut R,Trabka-Janik E,Zembowicz A,Trybulec M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The role of mitochondrial transporters in the cardioprotection of rat hearts exposed to high [K+]-low [Ca2+]-cardioplegia (CPG) and ischemia and reperfusion (I/R) was studied through the mechano-energetic consequences of target drugs. The total heat rate (Ht) and the left intraventricular pressure (LVP) were...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ragone MI,Consolini AE

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythropoietin (EPO) has been linked to cardioprotective effects. However, its effects during the aging process are little known. We investigated the effect of EPO administration on hemodynamic parameters, cardiac function, oxidative damage, and erythropoietin receptor (EPOR) expression pattern in the hypovolemic stat...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Puchulu MB,Arreche N,Zotta E,Donato M,Ogonowski N,Fellet A,Balaszczuk AM

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of adrenomedullin on left ventricular myocardial contraction and relaxation, coronary blood flow, and myocardial oxygen consumption in comparison with those of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). Fourteen patients who had had myocardial infarctions were randomly assigned to receive IV...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nagaya N,Goto Y,Satoh T,Sumida H,Kojima S,Miyatake K,Kangawa K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimetazidine has no hemodynamic/antithrombotic actions. Hence, its anti-ischemic properties have been mostly attributed to its metabolic effects. However, this issue is not completely elucidated. We investigated whether inhibition of neutrophil activation may also contribute to its cardioprotective action. We first s...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tritto I,Wang P,Kuppusamy P,Giraldez R,Zweier JL,Ambrosio G

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is an endothelium-derived peptide with powerful vasoconstrictor and mitogenic properties. A pathophysiologic role for ET-1 has been suggested, because increased plasma and tissue levels of this peptide have been described in a number of disease states, including atherosclerosis. Immunocytochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Timm M,Kaski JC,Dashwood MR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously showed that preoperative nicorandil, a hybrid potassium channel opener and nitrate compound, conferred cardioprotective effects in a hypoxia/reoxygenation model of isolated human atrial muscle by using functional recovery as an end point, and that ischaemic preconditioning surprisingly abolished the prot...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Imagawa J,Baxter GF,Yellon DM

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrhythmias occur 24 h after occlusion of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery in the canine heart and have been attributed to the abnormal spontaneous activity in subendocardial Purkinje fibers, which are markedly depolarized. The major current underlying normal automaticity in these fibers is i(f). Alt...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lasker SM,Han D,Kline RP

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium-antagonist drugs are therapeutic agents of first choice in patients with coronary artery disease. We have reviewed a number of clinical trials in which the safety and efficacy of calcium blockers have been tested and discuss the established clinical effects of these compounds, which range from relief of angina...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ghio S,Specchia G

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a potent vasoconstrictive peptide produced by endothelial cells of blood vessels. This peptide has quite a unique structure and pharmacological properties. ET-1 is produced in endothelial cells and may be secreted in a similar way to some paracrine hormones. The pressor response of ET-1 is large...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Masaki T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regeneration of the heart after a stroke would be the best biologic response to restore its function. However, although this phenomenon occurs in primitive organisms, the regenerative potential is lost in mammals. Thus, the search for an appropriate cardiac progenitor with the potential to differentiate into a functio...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Neri T,Stefanovic S,Pucéat M

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mode of action of Crataegus extracts in the treatment of heart failure is still under examination. WS 1442, a standardized special extract from Crataegus leaves with flowers, exerts direct positive inotropic effects. This study was designed to investigate the mode of inotropic action of WS 1442 in human myocardium...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Schwinger RH,Pietsch M,Frank K,Brixius K

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the role of angiotensin II (AII) in development of myocardial injury during ischemia and reperfusion, the effects of short-term treatment with the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor lisinopril were compared with the effects of short-term treatment with L-158,338, an AII antagonist, in isolated wor...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Werrmann JG,Cohen SM

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary hemodynamics (blood flow, coronary reserve, myocardial oxygen consumption) were analyzed in both experimental and clinical hypertension. Significantly reduced coronary reserve was found in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy. Medial hypertrophy of small coronary vessels associated with a m...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Strauer BE,Schwartzkopff B,Motz W,Vogt M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microvascular pericytes contain predominantly endothelin A (ET(A))-like binding sites and also a smaller number of ETB binding sites. In this study we verified the expression of both receptors in these cells. We then examined the effect of insulin, a potent mediator of vasodilatation, on the expression of these recept...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： McDonald D,Bailie J,Archer D,Chakravarthy U

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the tolerance-inducing effects of nitroglycerin (NTG) and nicorandil (NIC) in porcine isolated coronary arteries and assessed the role of KATP channels in the response to NIC in nitrate-tolerant and nontolerant preparations. In coronary arteries contracted with U46619 (1-3 x 10(-9) M), NTG, NIC, sodium nit...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： O'Rourke ST

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) play a critical role in maintenance of the endothelial integrity and vascular homeostasis, as well as in neovascularization. Dysfunctional EPCs are believed to contribute to the endothelial dysfunction and are closely related to the development of various cardiovascular diseases, su...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Peng J,Liu B,Ma QL,Luo XJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium sensitizers increase myocardial contractile function without affecting Ca2+ homeostasis, which might be beneficial in the treatment of patients with heart failure. However, it remains uncertain whether Ca sensitizers induce quantitatively similar inotropic responses in control and failing hearts. To compare th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tsutsui H,Kinugawa S,Ide T,Hayashidani S,Suematsu N,Satoh S,Nakamura R,Egashira K,Takeshita A

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is mainly involved in the regulation of arterial blood pressure and fluid balance. One of the main stimuli for the secretion of renin present in the renal juxtamedullary cells, but also in some other tissues, is provided by the sympathetic nervous system via the action of norep...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Saxena PR

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The understanding of blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) variation, circadian changes, and the responses to nonclinical situations has been improved by automated ambulatory recordings. The antihypertensive efficacy of a once-daily regimen (10/20 mg) of nitrendipine was evaluated in detail using the lightest availa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Meyer-Sabellek W,Schulte KL,Streitberg B,Gotzen R,Distler A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha) is an inflammatory cytokine involved in atherogenesis. Adipose tissue is an important source of endogenous TNFalpha production. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of atorvastatin on TNFalpha serum concentration and mRNA expressions of subcutaneous adipose in hyperch...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zhao SP,Wu ZH,Wu J,Hong SC,Deng P

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the inotropic and possible antioxidant effects of levosimendan in human atrial strips, before and after induction of oxidative stress induced by H2O2. Levosimendan (10(-9) to 10(-6) M) increased contractions induced by electrical stimulation (ES) in human atrial strips. The maximal positive inotropic effect...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sahin AS,Görmüş N,Duman A

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00