Gene expression of proteins influencing the calcium homeostasis in patients with persistent and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.

abstract：:The acute haemodynamic effects of taurine were studied in normal and in beta blocker (propranolol) or calcium antagonist (diltiazem) treated rabbits and in rabbits with experimentally produced chronic aortic regurgitation. The administration of taurine (25 mg.kg-1) did not affect heart rate and left ventricular end di...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Awata N,Azuma J,Hamaguchi T,Tanaka Y,Ohta H,Takihara K,Harada H,Sawamura A,Kishimoto S

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The acute administration of growth hormone (GH) or insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) improves cardiac performance, possibly contributing to the beneficial effects of GH therapy on heart failure (HF). GH can induce the production of IGF-1 and thus the actions of GH may be mediated through its IGF-1 inductio...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Kinugawa S,Tsutsui H,Ide T,Nakamura R,Arimura K,Egashira K,Takeshita A

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In the present study, we delivered vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) gene to a rabbit model of hind limb ischemia utilizing an ex vivo method of gene transfer, and evaluated the functional performance of the developed collateral vessels. METHOD:The left femor...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Kondoh K,Koyama H,Miyata T,Takato T,Hamada H,Shigematsu H

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stretch-activated cation channels (SAC) have been suggested to act as endothelial mechanosensors for hemodynamic forces. Ca(2+) influx through SAC could induce an intracellular Ca(2+) signal stimulating Ca(2+)-dependent synthesis of vasodilators like NO, prostacyclin, or EDHF. In the present study we tested w...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Brakemeier S,Eichler I,Hopp H,Köhler R,Hoyer J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether altered PCO2 or HCO3- at normal pH potentiate agonist-induced vasoconstriction of small pulmonary arteries, and if so to determine the mechanism. METHODS:Small intrapulmonary arteries (IPA) from rats were mounted on a myograph and PGF2alpha (3 microM)-induced tension recorded before and 40...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Vanková M,Snetkov VA,Knock GA,Aaronson PI,Ward JP

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acadesine is the prototype of a new class of therapeutic compounds termed adenosine regulating agents. Acadesine is pharmacologically silent in normal circumstances, but its activity becomes operative during situations of net ATP catabolism, when it increases local adenosine levels. Thus acadesine is able to harness t...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Mullane K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS :Activation of the angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7)/Mas receptor (R) axis protects from sympathetic overactivity. Endocytic trafficking is an essential process that regulates receptor (R) function and its ultimate cellular responses. We investigated whether the blunted responses to Ang-(1-7) in hypertensive rats are associ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Cerniello FM,Silva MG,Carretero OA,Gironacci MM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Calcitonin gene related peptide (CGRP) is a potent vasodilator found in sensory nerve endings in coronary arteries. The effect of intravenous CGRP on myocardial ischaemia, cardiovascular haemodynamics, and epicardial coronary artery stenoses was studied in patients with angina to investigate the possible role...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Uren NG,Seydoux C,Davies GJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Recently, we have found that rat CMV (RCMV) infected smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in rat carotid arteries when administered 14 days after balloon injury. In the present study we investigated (1) the long term effects of CMV infection on neointimal cross-sectional area, and (2) whether the phenotype of the intim...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Persoons MC,Daemen MJ,van Kleef EM,Grauls GE,Wijers E,Bruggeman CA

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans-isomerases are a highly conserved family of immunophilins. The three peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans-isomerase subfamilies are cyclophilins, FK-506-binding proteins, and parvulins. Peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans-isomerases are expressed in multiple human tissues and regulate different cellular functions...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Perrucci GL,Gowran A,Zanobini M,Capogrossi MC,Pompilio G,Nigro P

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The concept of lethal reperfusion injury in ischemic myocardium has been the subject of controversy. Adenosine administered during reperfusion has been reported to limit lethal reperfusion injury in several studies. On the contrary, it has been reported that cardioprotection may not be achieved with adenosin...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Vander Heide RS,Reimer KA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Angiotensin II stimulates vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) growth, and is considered to be an important mediator of intimal thickening after vascular injury. Recent evidence has indicated that VSMC apoptosis plays a major role in the response to balloon injury, and we therefore examined the effect of angiot...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Holm AM,Andersen CB,Haunsø S,Hansen PR

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Recent publications have shed new light on the role of the adaptive and innate immune system in the pathogenesis of hypertension. However, there are limited data whether receptors of the innate immune system may influence blood pressure. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), a pattern recognition receptor, is a key compone...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Sollinger D,Eißler R,Lorenz S,Strand S,Chmielewski S,Aoqui C,Schmaderer C,Bluyssen H,Zicha J,Witzke O,Scherer E,Lutz J,Heemann U,Baumann M

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Notch signalling is essential for blood vessel formation. During angiogenesis, the Notch ligand DLL4 on the leading tip cell activates Notch receptors on the adjacent stalk cells. DLL4-Notch signalling is impaired by the Notch ligand JAG1 in endothelial cells. The Delta/Serrate/Lag2 (DSL) domain of the Notch ligan...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Klose R,Berger C,Moll I,Adam MG,Schwarz F,Mohr K,Augustin HG,Fischer A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pulsed, range gated, directional, ultrasonic, Doppler blood velocity meter was used to record signals from the pulmonary artery in 52 normal subjects ranging in age from less than 1 week to over 30 years. Signals were obtained from an unfocused transducer in the second or third left intercostal space using a 2.25 MH...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Targett RC,Heldt GP,McIlroy MB

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major advances in molecular biology over the past decade have increased our understanding of how genes are expressed and regulated in mammalian cells in vivo. This knowledge has been translated to investigations of the molecular and cellular biology of the cardiovascular system. Gene transfer, the introduction of a re...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Nabel EG,Pompili VJ,Plautz GE,Nabel GJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Human congenital heart disease linked to mutations in the homeobox transcription factor, NKX2-5, is characterized by cardiac anomalies, including atrial and ventricular septal defects as well as conduction and occasional defects in contractility. In the mouse, homozygous germline deletion of Nkx2-5 gene results in...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Terada R,Warren S,Lu JT,Chien KR,Wessels A,Kasahara H

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Vascular calcification often occurs with advancing age, atherosclerosis, and metabolic disorders such as diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease. Vascular calcification is associated with cardiovascular events and increased mortality. Nitric oxide (NO) is crucial for maintaining vascular function, but little...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Kanno Y,Into T,Lowenstein CJ,Matsushita K

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:To investigate the role of chromobox protein homolog 3 (Cbx3) in vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation, migration, and neointima formation following vascular injury. Methods and results:Overexpression of Cbx3 led to a significant increase in VSMC contractile gene expression and VSMC apoptosis as well a...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Zhang C,Chen D,Maguire EM,He S,Chen J,An W,Yang M,Afzal TA,Luong LA,Zhang L,Lei H,Wu Q,Xiao Q

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:n-3 Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) are known to protect the cardiovascular system and improve blood pressure control. These important dietary constituents are converted into bioactive metabolites, but their role in regulation of the cardiovascular system is unclear. In particular, the functions of the cytochr...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Wang RX,Chai Q,Lu T,Lee HC

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study the effect of thyroid hormone on collagen gene expression in the myocardium of the tight skin mouse (TSK), a genetic model of myocardial fibrosis. METHODS:Heterozygous male (TSK/+) (n = 20) and normal (+/+) homozygous mice (n = 20), 1.5-2 months old of the C57 BL/6 strain were studied. V...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Yao J,Eghbali M

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microvascular barrier dysfunction is implicated in the initiation and progression of inflammation, posttraumatic complications, sepsis, ischaemia-reperfusion injury, atherosclerosis, and diabetes. Under physiological conditions, a precise equilibrium between endothelial cell-cell adhesion and actin-myosin-based centri...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Shen Q,Rigor RR,Pivetti CD,Wu MH,Yuan SY

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nitric oxide (NO) attenuates neutrophil (PMN)-mediated damage, partly by inhibiting superoxide anion (O2-) generation and adherence to the coronary artery endothelium. L-Arginine is the endogenous substrate for production of NO via the NO synthase pathway. This study tested the hypothesis that the endogenous...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Sato H,Zhao ZQ,Vinten-Johansen J

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:ATP sensitive K(+) channels (K(ATP)) sense adenine nucleotide concentrations and thus couple the metabolic state of the cell to membrane potential. The hetero-octameric complex of a sulphonylurea receptor (SUR2B) and an inwardly rectifying K(+) channel (Kir6.1) and the corresponding native channel in smooth muscle...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Farzaneh T,Tinker A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To elucidate the effect of selective endothelin ET(A)- and mixed ET(A/B)-receptor antagonists on endothelial vasomotor dysfunction in rats with heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI). METHODS:Vasoreactivity and superoxide anion formation were determined in aortic rings from Wistar rats 12 weeks afte...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bauersachs J,Fraccarollo D,Galuppo P,Widder J,Ertl G

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional antithrombotic treatments with antiplatelet, anticoagulant or fibrinolytic drugs are not uniformly successful and are associated with hemorrhagic side effects. Thus, new approaches to the prevention and treatment of arterial thrombosis are desirable. The gene transfer approach is particularly attractive b...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Vassalli G,Dichek DA

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to study the contractility of the conduit coronary artery to vasoactive agents in developing and established volume overload cardiac hypertrophy and to compare it with structural alterations in the artery. METHODS:Aortic valve insufficiency in rabbits was used to produce a volume overloaded heart...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Gerová M,Holécyová A,Kristek F,Fízel' A,Fízel'ová A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preexposure of macrophages to oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) attenuates formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon stimulation with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) or acute exposure to oxLDL. We examined whether attenuation of the oxidative burst is attributed to down-regulation of protei...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Köhl R,Preiss S,von Knethen A,Brüne B

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Chlamydia pneumoniae infection has been associated with atherosclerosis, although the mechanisms by which C. pneumoniae contribute to atherogenesis remain unclear. Altered production of nitric oxide, a known bactericidal and anti-inflammatory agent, represents one possible mechanistic link. To examine this is...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Chesebro BB,Blessing E,Kuo CC,Rosenfeld ME,Puolakkainen M,Campbell LA

更新日期：2003-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Adverse cardiovascular events in humans occur with a day/night pattern, presumably related to a daily pattern of behaviours or endogenous circadian rhythms in cardiovascular variables. Healthy humans possess a scale-invariant/fractal structure in heartbeat fluctuations that exhibits an endogenous circadian rhythm ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Hu K,Scheer FA,Buijs RM,Shea SA

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00