Endothelial dysfunction after repeated Chlamydia pneumoniae infection in apolipoprotein E-knockout mice.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several studies have observed an inverse association between height and risk for coronary disease, but it is unclear whether other traditional coronary disease risk factors may have confounded this association. We examined the original Framingham Heart Study cohort to determine whether short stature is assoc...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kannam JP,Levy D,Larson M,Wilson PW

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Rho/Rho-associated kinase (Rho-kinase) system is implicated in various cellular functions, including migration, proliferation, and apoptosis. Because a possible role of the system is suggested in neointima formation after vascular injury, we sought to examine whether a new specific Rho-kinase inhibitor, ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Shibata R,Kai H,Seki Y,Kato S,Morimatsu M,Kaibuchi K,Imaizumi T

更新日期：2001-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In heart failure, sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+)-ATPase (SERCA2a) activity is decreased, resulting in abnormal calcium handling and contractile dysfunction. We have previously shown that increasing SERCA2a expression by gene transfer improves ventricular function in a rat model of heart failure created b...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： del Monte F,Williams E,Lebeche D,Schmidt U,Rosenzweig A,Gwathmey JK,Lewandowski ED,Hajjar RJ

更新日期：2001-09-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk of syncope occurring while driving has obvious implications for personal and public safety. We aimed to define the clinical characteristics, causes, and prognosis of syncope while driving. METHODS AND RESULTS:In this case-control study of consecutive patients evaluated for syncope from 1996 through...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sorajja D,Nesbitt GC,Hodge DO,Low PA,Hammill SC,Gersh BJ,Shen WK

更新日期：2009-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gaps of sufficient cross-sectional dimensions within linear radiofrequency (RF) lesions may allow conduction through the lesion. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of different gap geometries on conduction through discontinuous RF lesions. METHODS AND RESULTS:Radiofrequency lesions were cr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pérez FJ,Wood MA,Schubert CM

更新日期：2006-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An asymptomatic 14-year-old male was found at cardiac catheterization to have a coronary artery fistula involving a vessel originating from the left main coronary artery and terminating in the right heart. Chest X-ray and electrocardiogram were within normal limits and shunt flow was too small to be detected by oximet...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Shubrooks SJ Jr,Naggar CZ

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four hour noninvasive ambulatory blood pressure and heart rate monitoring was performed on patients who underwent orthotopic cardiac transplantation, as part of the investigation of the de novo hypertension that developes in such patients. Patients with essential hypertension served as control subjects. The res...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Reeves RA,Shapiro AP,Thompson ME,Johnsen AM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thrombin plays a role in mediating ischemic injury and cardiac arrhythmias, but the mechanisms involved are poorly understood. Because voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSCs) have not previously been considered, putative effects of thrombin on VGSC function were investigated in human isolated cardiomyocytes. ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pinet C,Le Grand B,John GW,Coulombe A

更新日期：2002-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whether cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is effective in patients older than 75 years, who have been excluded from most trials, remains unclear. We enrolled patients 46 to 86 years old in a randomized trial and assessed the effects of 2 months of post-myocardial infarction (MI) CR on total work capacity (TWC, in ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Marchionni N,Fattirolli F,Fumagalli S,Oldridge N,Del Lungo F,Morosi L,Burgisser C,Masotti G

更新日期：2003-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:High-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays can help to identify patients who are at low risk of myocardial infarction in the emergency department. We aimed to determine whether the addition of clinical risk scores would improve the safety of early rule-out pathways for myocardial infarction. METHODS:In 1935 p...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chapman AR,Hesse K,Andrews J,Lee KK,Anand A,Shah ASV,Sandeman D,Ferry AV,Jameson J,Piya S,Stewart S,Marshall L,Strachan FE,Gray A,Newby DE,Mills NL

更新日期：2018-10-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To define the prevalence, frequency and characteristics of premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) in adults free of recognizable heart disease, we performed 24-hour ambulatory electrocardiography on 101 subjects (51 men and 50 women, mean age 48.8 years) in whom physical examination, chest x-ray, ECG, echocardiogram, ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Kostis JB,McCrone K,Moreyra AE,Gotzoyannis S,Aglitz NM,Natarajan N,Kuo PT

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endogenous opioid system includes three major families of peptides: dynorphins (derived from pre-proenkephalin B), endorphins (derived from pre-proopiomelanocortin), and enkephalins (derived from pre-proenkephalin A). Multiple species of opioid peptides are derived from these major precursors and many of them poss...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Feuerstein G,Sirén AL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After addition of a low concentration of thrombin to normal plasma, a progressive and significant increase in crosslinked fibrin polymers was found by sodium dodecyl sulfate agarose gel electrophoresis, reaching 27% of total fibrinogen and fibrin before gel formation. As measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay w...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Francis CW,Doughney K,Brenner B,Klingbiel K,Marder VJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms of simple faint remain elusive. We propose that postural fainting is related to excessive thoracic hypovolemia and splanchnic hypervolemia during orthostasis compared with healthy subjects. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied 34 patients 12 to 22 years old referred for multiple episodes of postura...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Stewart JM,McLeod KJ,Sanyal S,Herzberg G,Montgomery LD

更新日期：2004-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model to measure infarct size from serial estimates of CPK has been developed by Shell et al. Norris et al. have recently introduced a modification of this method by calculating an individualized disappearance rate parameter (Kd) from the uniformly monoexponential portion of the CPK vs time curve. This ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Slutsky AS

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During septic shock, the vasoconstrictor response to norepinephrine is seriously blunted. Animal experiments suggest that hyperpolarization of smooth muscle cells by opening of potassium (K) channels underlies this phenomenon. In the present study, we examined whether K-channel blockers and/or nitric oxide (...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pickkers P,Dorresteijn MJ,Bouw MP,van der Hoeven JG,Smits P

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In cardiac arrest, use of percutaneous cardiopulmonary bypass support (PCPS) may lead to left ventricular loading, with deleterious effects on the myocardium, and is often accompanied by an increase in pulmonary artery pressure. The present study was designed to assess the potential of artificially induced p...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Scholz KH,Figulla HR,Schröder T,Hering JP,Bock H,Ferrari M,Kreuzer H,Hellige G

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:C-kit is a receptor tyrosine kinase family member expressed in hematopoietic stem cells. C-kit is also transiently expressed in cardiomyocyte precursors during development and in a rare cell population in the normal adult heart. In the present study, the cardiomyogenic potential of c-kit(+) cells isolated fr...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Zaruba MM,Soonpaa M,Reuter S,Field LJ

更新日期：2010-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heterogeneous electrophysiological properties, which may be due in part to autonomic innervation, are important in the maintenance of atrial fibrillation (AF). We hypothesized that heterogeneous sympathetic denervation with phenol would create a milieu for sustained AF. METHODS AND RESULTS:After the determi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Olgin JE,Sih HJ,Hanish S,Jayachandran JV,Wu J,Zheng QH,Winkle W,Mulholland GK,Zipes DP,Hutchins G

更新日期：1998-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between elevated blood triglyceride levels and subsequent mortality risk in patients with established coronary heart disease (CHD) has been investigated rarely. The aim of the present study was to investigate this association. METHODS AND RESULTS:We evaluated mortality over a mean follow-up ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Haim M,Benderly M,Brunner D,Behar S,Graff E,Reicher-Reiss H,Goldbourt U

更新日期：1999-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of cycle length on atrial vulnerability was studied in 14 patients manifesting reproducible repetitive atrial firing during atrial extra-stimulus (A2) testing. Repetitive atrial firing was defined as the occurrence of two or more premature atrial responses with return cycle (A2-A3) of 250 msec or less and s...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wyndham CR,Amat-y-Leon F,Wu D,Denes P,Dhingra R,Simpson R,Rosen KM

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is characterized by myocardial hypertrophy of unknown etiology. Missense mutations of the cardiac beta-myosin-heavy-chain (beta-MHC) gene that may be responsible for cardiac hypertrophy have been detected in patients with HCM. On the other hand, gross structural abnormalitie...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Nishi H,Kimura A,Harada H,Koga Y,Adachi K,Matsuyama K,Koyanagi T,Yasunaga S,Imaizumi T,Toshima H

更新日期：1995-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Experience with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of multiple vessels was reviewed to assess short-term outcome and long-term results. PTCA of multiple vessels was performed in 100 of the initial 500 patients (20%) who underwent PTCA at the Medical College of Virginia between July 1979 and August 1...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cowley MJ,Vetrovec GW,DiSciascio G,Lewis SA,Hirsh PD,Wolfgang TC

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mechanisms favoring the occurrence of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) are complex and poorly defined. This study was designed to analyze dynamic changes in autonomic tone preceding the onset of PAF in a large group of patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:Holter tapes from 77 unselected consecutive patients (6...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Bettoni M,Zimmermann M

更新日期：2002-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial perfusion during adenosine-induced hyperemia is used both in clinical diagnosis of coronary heart disease and for scientific investigations of the myocardial microcirculation. The objective of this study was to clarify whether adenosine-induced hyperemia is dependent on endothelial NO production o...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Buus NH,Bøttcher M,Hermansen F,Sander M,Nielsen TT,Mulvany MJ

更新日期：2001-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many members of families with inherited long-QT (LQT) syndrome have mutations in HERG, a gene encoding a cardiac potassium channel that is modulated by extracellular potassium. We hypothesized that an increase in serum potassium would normalize repolarization in these patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studie...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Compton SJ,Lux RL,Ramsey MR,Strelich KR,Sanguinetti MC,Green LS,Keating MT,Mason JW

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether a ventricular (LV) end-systolic dimension (ESD) greater than or equal to 55 mm and LV left fractional shortening less than 25% are risk factors for aortic valve replacement (AVR) in patients with aortic insufficiency, we analyzed the clinical course and M-mode echocardiograms in 47 consecutive pat...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fioretti P,Roelandt J,Bos RJ,Meltzer RS,van Hoogenhuijze D,Serruys PW,Nauta J,Hugenholtz PG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

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：: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：BACKGROUND:Uncoupling protein 2 (UCP2) regulates the production of reactive oxygen species in macrophages. However, its role in atherosclerosis is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS:Irradiated low-density lipoprotein receptor deficient mice (LDLR-/-) were transplanted with bone marrow from either UCP2 deficient mice (Ucp2-/...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Blanc J,Alves-Guerra MC,Esposito B,Rousset S,Gourdy P,Ricquier D,Tedgui A,Miroux B,Mallat Z

更新日期：2003-01-28 00:00:00