Inducible nitric oxide synthase mediates delayed myocardial protection induced by activation of adenosine A(1) receptors: evidence from gene-knockout mice.

abstract：:Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease results in >19 million deaths annually, and coronary heart disease accounts for the majority of this toll. Despite major advances in treatment of coronary heart disease patients, a large number of victims of the disease who are apparently healthy die suddenly without prior sympto...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Naghavi M,Libby P,Falk E,Casscells SW,Litovsky S,Rumberger J,Badimon JJ,Stefanadis C,Moreno P,Pasterkamp G,Fayad Z,Stone PH,Waxman S,Raggi P,Madjid M,Zarrabi A,Burke A,Yuan C,Fitzgerald PJ,Siscovick DS,de Korte CL

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The novel anticoagulant fondaparinux proved to be effective and safe in the postoperative prevention of venous thrombosis. Current phase III trials with this synthetic selective factor Xa inhibitor focus on its use in the treatment of patients with venous and arterial thrombosis. As with any anticoagulant th...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bijsterveld NR,Moons AH,Boekholdt SM,van Aken BE,Fennema H,Peters RJ,Meijers JC,Büller HR,Levi M

更新日期：2002-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously found in a pig coronary balloon injury model that vitamins C and E as well as probucol had beneficial effects on the vessel response to injury measured by morphometry These effects correlated with an inhibition in the ability to oxidize LDLs ex vivo, suggesting that the morphological response w...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nunes GL,Robinson K,Kalynych A,King SB 3rd,Sgoutas DS,Berk BC

更新日期：1997-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma and lipoprotein cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations were measured in Pima Indians, a genetically homogeneous population with a high prevalence of obesity and diabetes and a low frequency of coronary heart disease. The data for nondiabetic Pima Indians were compared with those of U.S. Caucasians measured...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Howard BV,Davis MP,Pettitt DJ,Knowler WC,Bennett PH

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemia is associated with endothelial dysfunction. On the basis of the hypothesis that high plasma cholesterol per se may be a sufficient stimulus to upregulate endothelial adhesiveness and that this phenomenon might be reversible, soluble endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecules (sELAMs) were ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sampietro T,Tuoni M,Ferdeghini M,Ciardi A,Marraccini P,Prontera C,Sassi G,Taddei M,Bionda A

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The involvement of the complement system in brain injury has been scarcely investigated. Here, we document the pivotal role of mannose-binding lectin (MBL), one of the recognition molecules of the lectin complement pathway, in brain ischemic injury. METHODS AND RESULTS:Focal cerebral ischemia was induced in...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Orsini F,Villa P,Parrella S,Zangari R,Zanier ER,Gesuete R,Stravalaci M,Fumagalli S,Ottria R,Reina JJ,Paladini A,Micotti E,Ribeiro-Viana R,Rojo J,Pavlov VI,Stahl GL,Bernardi A,Gobbi M,De Simoni MG

更新日期：2012-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As cardiovascular clinical trials improve in sophistication and therapies target specific cardiac mechanisms of death, a more objective and precise system to identify specific cause of death is needed. Ideally, sudden cardiac death would describe patients dying of ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pratt CM,Greenway PS,Schoenfeld MH,Hibben ML,Reiffel JA

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widespread use of exercise testing for the detection of myocardial ischemia in patients suspected of having coronary artery disease led to the detection of ischemic changes in many subjects who subsequently were found to have angiographically normal epicardial vessels--the false positive response. Such a result is...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Epstein SE,Cannon RO 3rd,Bonow RO

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A family is reported in which two siblings had congenital complete heart block with resultant congestive heart failure, the father and paternal grandfather show adult-onset conduction defects, and the mother has systemic lupus erythematosis. The interaction of heredity and environment is discussed in this context. A r...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Winkler RB,Nora AH,Nora JJ

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The regional wall motion impairment and predisposition to arrhythmias in human ventricular hibernation may plausibly result from abnormal intercellular propagation of the depolarizing wave front. This study investigated the hypothesis that altered patterns of expression of connexin43, the principal gap junct...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kaprielian RR,Gunning M,Dupont E,Sheppard MN,Rothery SM,Underwood R,Pennell DJ,Fox K,Pepper J,Poole-Wilson PA,Severs NJ

更新日期：1998-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if acute lung rejection after heart-lung transplantation can be detected noninvasively with indium-111-labeled (111In) lymphocytes, we studied 33 allogeneic and 18 isogeneic heterotopic heart-lung transplants in rats. Twenty-four hours after injection of isogeneic splenic 111In-lymphocytes (75 +/- 2 micro...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Arai H,Yuda T,Goodgold HM,deMello DE,Hendershott L,Pennington DG

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron catalysis is involved in oxygen-derived free radical generation and subsequent lipid peroxidation, which have been reported to occur during cardiopulmonary bypass in humans. We assessed the effects of the iron chelator deferoxamine on the susceptibility of circulating low density lipoproteins (LDLs) to induced pe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Menasché P,Antebi H,Alcindor LG,Teiger E,Perez G,Giudicelli Y,Nordmann R,Piwnica A

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several noninvasive methods are available to investigate the severity of extracoronary atherosclerotic disease. No population-based study has yet examined whether differences exist between these measures with regard to their predictive value for myocardial infarction (MI) or whether a given measure of athero...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： van der Meer IM,Bots ML,Hofman A,del Sol AI,van der Kuip DA,Witteman JC

更新日期：2004-03-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We tested prospectively the hypothesis that stroke development can be predicted by echolucency of carotid atherosclerotic plaques in previously symptomatic and asymptomatic patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:We followed incidence of ipsilateral ischemic strokes for 4.4 years in 111 asymptomatic and 135 symptomat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Grønholdt ML,Nordestgaard BG,Schroeder TV,Vorstrup S,Sillesen H

更新日期：2001-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The transient outward potassium current (I(to)) encoded by the Kv4 family of potassium channels is important in the repolarization of cardiac myocytes. KChIPs are a recently identified group of Ca2+-binding accessory subunits that modulate Kv4-encoded currents. KChIP2 is the only family member expressed in t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Deschênes I,DiSilvestre D,Juang GJ,Wu RC,An WF,Tomaselli GF

更新日期：2002-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Normal mammalian mitral leaflets have regional heterogeneity of biochemical composition, collagen fiber orientation, and geometric deformation. How leaflet shape and regional geometry are affected in dilated cardiomyopathy is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Nine sheep had 8 radio-opaque markers affixed to the ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Timek TA,Lai DT,Dagum P,Liang D,Daughters GT,Ingels NB Jr,Miller DC

更新日期：2006-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Left ventricular wall motion (WM) abnormalities have recognized prognostic significance in patients with coronary or other heart diseases; however, whether abnormal WM predicts adverse events in adults without overt cardiovascular disease has not been assessed. Our objective was to determine whether echocard...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cicala S,de Simone G,Roman MJ,Best LG,Lee ET,Wang W,Welty TK,Galloway JM,Howard BV,Devereux RB

更新日期：2007-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) can be eliminated with continuous circular lesions (CCLs) around the pulmonary veins (PVs), but it is unclear whether all PVs are completely isolated. METHODS AND RESULTS:Forty-one patients with symptomatic PAF underwent 3D mapping, and all PV ostia were marked on the 3D...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ouyang F,Bänsch D,Ernst S,Schaumann A,Hachiya H,Chen M,Chun J,Falk P,Khanedani A,Antz M,Kuck KH

更新日期：2004-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The outcome of aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis, low transvalvular gradient, and severe left ventricular dysfunction is not well known. METHODS AND RESULTS:Between 1985 and 1995, 52 patients with left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) < or =35% and aortic stenosis with trans...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Connolly HM,Oh JK,Schaff HV,Roger VL,Osborn SL,Hodge DO,Tajik AJ

更新日期：2000-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical depression is associated with an increased risk for mortality in patients with a recent myocardial infarction (MI). Reduced heart rate variability (HRV) has been suggested as a possible explanation for this association. The purpose of this study was to determine if depression is associated with redu...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Carney RM,Blumenthal JA,Stein PK,Watkins L,Catellier D,Berkman LF,Czajkowski SM,O'Connor C,Stone PH,Freedland KE

更新日期：2001-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of angiotensin as a vasoconstrictor is well established. Lately, several other actions of this hormone on vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells have been recognized including the induction of hypertrophy and/or DNA synthesis. Platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF), a mitogen recently shown to increase p...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： van Leeuwen RT,Kol A,Andreotti F,Kluft C,Maseri A,Sperti G

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apoptotic microparticles are responsible for almost all tissue factor activity of the plaque lipid core. We hypothesized that elevated levels of procoagulant microparticles could also circulate in the peripheral blood of patients with recent clinical signs of plaque disruption and thrombosis. METHODS AND RE...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mallat Z,Benamer H,Hugel B,Benessiano J,Steg PG,Freyssinet JM,Tedgui A

更新日期：2000-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior studies have demonstrated the presence of inhomogeneities in myocardial [K+]e after serial 10-minute occlusions of the left anterior descending coronary artery in the pig, even within restricted locations of an ischemic zone. These inhomogeneities are thought to underlie the electrophysiological abnormalities re...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Johnson TA,Engle CL,Boyd LM,Koch GG,Gwinn M,Gettes LS

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reviewed 35 patients undergoing resection of a chronic postinfarction left ventricular aneurysm. There was 5.7% operative mortality. Of the long-term survivors, 80% are functional class I or II. Ten patients had postoperative left ventriculograms studied by means of a computerized analysis of endocardial motion usi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Shaw RC,Connors JP,Hieb BR,Ludbrook PA,Krone R,Kleiger RE,Ferguson TB,Weldon CS

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is an important active protein for the induction of angiogenesis and improvement in cardiac function after myocardial ischemia; however, the lack of a delivery system targeted to the injured myocardium reduces the local therapeutic efficacy of VEGF and increases its ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zhang J,Ding L,Zhao Y,Sun W,Chen B,Lin H,Wang X,Zhang L,Xu B,Dai J

更新日期：2009-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Convincing evidence suggests that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease. The inflammatory response is an important determinant of atherosclerotic plaque instability. Therefore, we investigated the prognostic impact of key inflammatory players, namely the inflammatory marker C-reactive protein (CRP) and ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Heeschen C,Dimmeler S,Hamm CW,Fichtlscherer S,Boersma E,Simoons ML,Zeiher AM,CAPTURE Study Investigators.

更新日期：2003-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one patients with documented coronary atherosclerotic heart disease were studied to determine the effect of high dose oral isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) on heart rate, blood pressure, and exercise time until angina pectoris. Patients were tested in two phases, initially with 0.4 mg of sublingual nitroglycerin and...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Danahy DT,Burwell DT,Aronow WS,Prakash R

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chemokines are important mediators of inflammatory cell recruitment that play a significant role in atherosclerosis. Fractalkine (CX3CL1) is an unusual membrane-bound chemokine that mediates chemotaxis through the CX3CR1 receptor. Recently, functional polymorphisms in the human CX3CR1 gene have been describe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Lucas AD,Bursill C,Guzik TJ,Sadowski J,Channon KM,Greaves DR

更新日期：2003-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) catalyzes the degradation of heme into biliverdin, iron, and carbon monoxide (CO). Although HO-1 is induced in vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs), the biological role of HO-1 in these cells has not been completely characterized. METHODS AND RESULTS:In the present study, we overexpre...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Liu XM,Chapman GB,Wang H,Durante W

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelin (ET), a coronary vasoconstrictor, mediates its activity through the specific receptors ET-A and ET-B, which may demonstrate different activity under pathophysiological conditions. Thoracic inferior vena cava constriction (TIVCC) is an experimental model of congestive heart failure that is characte...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cannan CR,Burnett JC Jr,Lerman A

更新日期：1996-02-15 00:00:00