Direct evidence for increased hydroxyl radicals originating from superoxide in the failing myocardium.

abstract：RATIONALE:Transcatheter, intramyocardial injections of bone marrow-derived cell therapy produces reverse remodeling in large animal models of ischemic cardiomyopathy. OBJECTIVE:We used cardiac MRI (CMR) in patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction related to remote myocardial infarction (MI) to test the hypothes...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Williams AR,Trachtenberg B,Velazquez DL,McNiece I,Altman P,Rouy D,Mendizabal AM,Pattany PM,Lopera GA,Fishman J,Zambrano JP,Heldman AW,Hare JM

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were designed to determine the contribution of endothelial cells to the heterogeneous behavior of the arterial and venous wall. Rings of canine femoral, pulmonary, saphenous, and splenic arteries and veins, with and without endothelium, were mounted for isometric tension recording in Krebs-Ringer bicarbona...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： De Mey JG,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the relation between atrial natriuretic peptide and ventricular dysfunction, we simultaneously measured both atrial and plasma immunoreactive atrial natriuretic peptide concentrations in rats 4 weeks after myocardial infarction induced by left coronary artery ligation. When compared to controls (n = 39), rat...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tsunoda K,Hodsman GP,Sumithran E,Johnston CI

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Topical application of sodium arachidonate (50-200 micrograms/ml) or bradykinin (0.1-10 micrograms/ml) on the brain surface of anesthetized cats caused dose-dependent cerebral arteriolar dilation. This dilation was blocked by 67-100% in the presence of superoxide dismutase and catalase. These enzymes did not affect th...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kontos HA,Wei EP,Povlishock JT,Christman CW

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure-function relationships of the sarcomeric proteins in the mammalian cardiac compartment remain ill-defined because of the lack of a suitable model in which they can be readily manipulated or exchanged in vivo. To establish the validity of the transgenic paradigm for remodeling the mammalian heart, the mur...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Palermo J,Gulick J,Colbert M,Fewell J,Robbins J

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic activation appears to accelerate the development of atherosclerosis, an effect that may be inhibited by beta-receptor blockade. It is unclear, however, which mechanisms mediate this effect. In view of the significance attached to endothelial injury in the initial phases of atherogenesis, we decided to test...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Pettersson K,Bejne B,Björk H,Strawn WB,Bondjers G

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alterations in voltage-dependent Ca2+ channels in the arterial smooth muscle cells of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) were investigated using the whole-cell voltage clamp and compared with Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats. Single cells were freshly isolated from resistance mesenteric arteries from 4- to 5-week-old (young...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ohya Y,Abe I,Fujii K,Takata Y,Fujishima M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selective history of the pathophysiological, structural, and metabolic changes found during an episode of severe myocardial ischemia in the canine heart is presented. The changes that cause ischemic injury to become irreversible are discussed in detail because these changes are the target of any successful therapy d...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Jennings RB

更新日期：2013-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 (GSK-3) protects the heart during ischemia/reperfusion (I/R), yet the underlying mechanisms of cardioprotection afforded by beta isoform-specific inhibition GSK-3 remain to be elucidated. OBJECTIVE:We studied the molecular mechanism mediating the effect of GSK-3β acti...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zhai P,Sciarretta S,Galeotti J,Volpe M,Sadoshima J

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological or pathological stresses and strains produce longer or wider muscle cells, but resting sarcomere length remains constant. Our goal was to investigate the cellular mechanisms for controlling this optimal, resting sarcomere length. To do so, we cultured neonatal rat cardiomyocytes on microfabricated peg-an...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mansour H,de Tombe PP,Samarel AM,Russell B

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasoactive mechanisms of the serine protease alpha-thrombin were examined in isolated coronary arteries from dogs. In resting coronary arteries with endothelium, alpha-thrombin caused concentration-dependent contractions that were characterized by an initial transient relaxation followed by slowly developing susta...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tesfamariam B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is a complex mixture of lipoproteins that is associated with many minor proteins and lipids that influence the function of HDL. Although HDL is a promising marker and potential therapeutic target based on its epidemiological data and the effects of healthy HDL in vitro in endothelial cel...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lüscher TF,Landmesser U,von Eckardstein A,Fogelman AM

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Hibernating myocardium, characterized by reductions in flow and function at rest, has limited contractile reserve in response to increases in external workload. We hypothesized that this attenuation of function reflects an adaptive downregulation that prevents the development of metabolic evidence of ischemia during s...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fallavollita JA,Malm BJ,Canty JM Jr

更新日期：2003-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early (3-day) stage of development, long-lasting openings of the L-type Ca2+ channels (mode 2) occur in embryonic chick heart cells. Since mode-2 behavior is infrequently observed in adult heart cells of other species, in the present study, developmental change in behavior of the Ca2+ channel was examined in yo...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tohse N,Mészáros J,Sperelakis N

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increases in free Mg2+ from 0.04 to 10.0 mM with constant pH 7.0 TO 0.10 M ionic strength, and 2 mM MgATP2- caused a rightward shift of the free Ca-relative ATPase relation for both cardiac skeletal myofibrils. The specific activity of cardiac myofibrillar ATPase over a wide range of free Ca2+ was, however, depressed ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Solaro RJ,Shiner JS

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In newborn lambs, pulmonary prostacyclin (PGI2) production increases acutely in response to low oxygen. We tested the hypothesis that decreased oxygenation directly stimulates PGI2 synthesis in arterial segments and cultured endothelial cells from newborn lamb intrapulmonary arteries. In segments studied at PO2 of 680...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： North AJ,Brannon TS,Wells LB,Campbell WB,Shaul PW

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 4 decades, heart transplantation (HTx) has evolved as a mainstream therapy for heart failure. Approximately half of patients needing HTx have organ failure consequent to atherosclerosis. Despite advances in immunosuppressive drugs, long-term success of HTx is limited by the development of a particular ty...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rahmani M,Cruz RP,Granville DJ,McManus BM

更新日期：2006-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The subcellular distribution of cardiac muscarinic receptors was defined in canine ventricular myocardium, and receptors were solubilized from subcellular fractions enriched in muscarinic receptor content. The subcellular location of muscarinic receptors in cardiac tissue was determined by measurement of the distribut...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Manalan AS,Werth DK,Jones LR,Watanabe AM

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The development of the cardiac outflow tract (OFT) and great vessels is a complex process that involves coordinated regulation of multiple progenitor cell populations. Among these populations, neural crest cells make important contributions to OFT formation and aortic arch remodeling. Although numerous signal...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Singh N,Trivedi CM,Lu M,Mullican SE,Lazar MA,Epstein JA

更新日期：2011-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelins exert potent excitatory cardiac effects by acting on specific receptors on myocytes. In this study, we have examined the signal transduction mechanism for the chronotropic effect of endothelins in guinea pig atria. A competition binding of [125I]endothelin 1 ([125I]ET-1) using the recently developed ETA re...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ono K,Eto K,Sakamoto A,Masaki T,Shibata K,Sada T,Hashimoto K,Tsujimoto G

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery of neutral active choline and ethanolamine glycerophospholipid specific phospholipase C in myocardium (Wolf RA, Gross RW. J Biol Chem 1985;260:7295) has demonstrated a novel catabolic pathway that potentially contributes to the accumulation of amphiphilic metabolites during myocardial ischemia. To...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ford DA,Gross RW

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smaller Ca2+ transients and systolic dysfunction in heart failure (HF) can be largely explained by reduced total sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca2+ content ([Ca]SRT). However, it is unknown whether low [Ca]SRT is manifest as reduced: (1) intra-SR free [Ca2+] ([Ca2+]SR), (2) intra-SR Ca2+ buffering, or (3) SR volume (as ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Guo T,Ai X,Shannon TR,Pogwizd SM,Bers DM

更新日期：2007-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Focal ectopic activity in cardiac tissue is a key factor in the initiation and perpetuation of tachyarrhythmias. Because myofibroblasts as present in fibrotic remodeled myocardia and infarct scars depolarize cardiomyocytes by heterocellular electrotonic interactions via gap junctions in vitro, we investigated using st...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Miragoli M,Salvarani N,Rohr S

更新日期：2007-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the pulmonary vascular effects of prostacylin, PGI2, in the cat with intact chest under conditions of controlled blood flow. Intralobar injections of PGI2, 0.03--1 microgram, decreased arterial pressure in the perfused lobe in a dose-dependent manner. Inasmuch as lobar blood flow was held constant and left ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hyman AL,Kadowitz PJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) may result from stationary reentry in the left atrium (LA), with fibrillatory conduction toward the right atrium (RA). We hypothesize that periodic input to the RA at an exceedingly high frequency results in disorganized wave propagation, compatible with fibrillatory conduction. Simultaneous e...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Berenfeld O,Zaitsev AV,Mironov SF,Pertsov AM,Jalife J

更新日期：2002-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II exerts positive inotropic and chronotropic effects on the mammalian heart by binding to specific membrane receptors. Recently, two subtypes of angiotensin II receptors (AT1 and AT2) have been distinguished by using the nonpeptide antagonists losartan (previously known as DuP 753) and PD123177. To evalua...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sechi LA,Griffin CA,Grady EF,Kalinyak JE,Schambelan M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether nifedipine, a calcium antagonist, protects ischemic myocardium, conscious dogs were subjected to coronary occlusion and given nifedipine by intravenous infusion beginning 30 minutes after the onset of ischemia and lasting for 24 hours while systemic arterial pressure, left atrial pressure, and car...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Henry PD,Shuchleib R,Borda LJ,Roberts R,Williamson JR,Sobel BE

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac extracellular matrix (ECM) provides the architectural scaffold to support efficient contraction and relaxation of cardiomyocytes. The elegant design of the ECM facilitates optimal force transduction, electric transmission, intercellular communication, and metabolic exchange within the myocardial microenvir...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Li AH,Liu PP,Villarreal FJ,Garcia RA

更新日期：2014-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have postulated an important role for the inwardly rectifying potassium current (I(K1)) in controlling the dynamics of electrophysiological spiral waves responsible for ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation. In this study, we developed a novel tissue model of cultured neonatal rat ventricular myocy...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sekar RB,Kizana E,Cho HC,Molitoris JM,Hesketh GG,Eaton BP,Marbán E,Tung L

更新日期：2009-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the essential role played by gap junctions in the coordination of cardiac muscle contraction, it is plausible that down-regulation of gap junctional conduction is in part responsible for the contractile dysfunction observed in hypertrophied and failing hearts. In the present study, we analyzed the expression and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Toyofuku T,Yabuki M,Otsu K,Kuzuya T,Tada M,Hori M

更新日期：1999-10-15 00:00:00