Protein kinase C activation contributes to microvascular barrier dysfunction in the heart at early stages of diabetes.

abstract：:The cellular basis of reactive oxygen intermediate-induced arrhythmias was investigated in isolated rabbit ventricular cells using the whole-cell voltage- and current-clamp techniques. Singlet oxygen and superoxide were generated by the photoactivation of rose bengal. Single ventricular cells exposed to rose bengal (1...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Matsuura H,Shattock MJ

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:autophagy, a bulk degradation process of cytosolic proteins and organelles, is protective during nutrient starvation in cardiomyocytes (CMs). However, the underlying signaling mechanism mediating autophagy is not well understood. OBJECTIVE:we investigated the role of FoxOs and its posttranslational modificat...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hariharan N,Maejima Y,Nakae J,Paik J,Depinho RA,Sadoshima J

更新日期：2010-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Mechanical stress plays an important role in proliferation of venous smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in neointima, a process of formation that contributes to failure of vein grafts. However, it is unknown what intracellular growth signal leads to proliferation of venous SMCs. OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Cheng J,Wang Y,Ma Y,Chan BT,Yang M,Liang A,Zhang L,Li H,Du J

更新日期：2010-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Selective troponin I (TnI) modification has been demonstrated to be in part responsible for the contractile dysfunction observed with myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury. We have isolated and characterized modified TnI products in isolated rat hearts after 0, 15, or 60 minutes of ischemia followed by 45 minutes of ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： McDonough JL,Arrell DK,Van Eyk JE

更新日期：1999-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolongation of the action potential has been postulated to be a major reason for the altered diastolic relaxation of the heart in patients with severe heart failure. To investigate the electrophysiological basis for this action potential prolongation in terminal heart failure, K+ currents were recorded in single vent...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Beuckelmann DJ,Näbauer M,Erdmann E

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lung parenchyma as a tissue has a rather unusual stress-strain relationship. A theoretical derivation of this relationship is presented which connects the surface tension and the tissue elastic stress in the alveolar septa with the alveolar geometry. The mathematical expression contains a few meaningful physical c...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fung YC

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary pressure-flow relations during autoregulated and vasodilated flow states were compared between eight dogs with renovascular hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy and 12 normal dogs. Each relation was constructed from serial steady-state measurements of end-diastolic coronary pressure and flow during p...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Jeremy RW,Fletcher PJ,Thompson J

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed this study to test the hypothesis that in acute mitral regurgitation the mitral regurgitant area (MRA) is a dynamic quantity which varies with the time variation of ventricular volume. Mitral insufficiency was created in five open-chest dogs in which a portion of the anterior leaflet was excised. Phasic ao...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yellin EL,Yoran C,Sonnenblick EH,Gabbay S,Frater RW

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The focal pattern of atherosclerotic lesions in arterial vessels suggests that local blood flow patterns are important factors in atherosclerosis. Although disturbed flows in the branches and curved regions are proatherogenic, laminar flows in the straight parts are atheroprotective. Results from in vitro studies on c...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shyy JY,Chien S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrical activity of enzymatically isolated, smooth muscle cells from hog carotid arteries was recorded under current clamp and voltage clamp. Under the experimental conditions, membrane potential usually was not stable, and spontaneous hyperpolarizing transients of approximately 100-msec duration were recorded. The...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Désilets M,Driska SP,Baumgarten CM

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) affects the integrity of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), the site of synthesis and folding of numerous proteins. Therefore, I/R may activate the unfolded protein response (UPR), resulting in the induction of a collection of ER stress proteins, many of which are protective and function to res...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Martindale JJ,Fernandez R,Thuerauf D,Whittaker R,Gude N,Sussman MA,Glembotski CC

更新日期：2006-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Dimethylarginie dimethylaminohydrolase (DDAH) degrades asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA), an endogenous nitric oxide (NO) synthase inhibitor, and comprises 2 isoforms, DDAH1 and DDAH2. To investigate the in vivo role of DDAH2, we generated transgenic mice overexpressing DDAH2. The transgenic mice manifested reduction...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hasegawa K,Wakino S,Tatematsu S,Yoshioka K,Homma K,Sugano N,Kimoto M,Hayashi K,Itoh H

更新日期：2007-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-amino-3-benzoylthiophene derivative PD 81,723 is an allosteric enhancer of agonist binding to brain A1 adenosine receptors. One aim of this study was to characterize and contrast the effects of PD 81,723 on the A1 receptor-mediated negative dromotropic and A2a receptor-mediated vasodilatory actions of adenosine ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kollias-Baker C,Ruble J,Dennis D,Bruns RF,Linden J,Belardinelli L

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiac high molecular weight proteins/ryanodine receptors were purified to homogeneity from junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes and shown to exhibit large conductance calcium channel activity. High molecular weight proteins were solubilized from junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum in zwitterionic detergent ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rardon DP,Cefali DC,Mitchell RD,Seiler SM,Jones LR

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) delayed rectifier K+ channels (K(DR)) by 4-aminopyridine (4-AP; 200 micromol/L) or correolide (1 micromol/L), a selective inhibitor of Kv1 channels, enhanced myogenic contraction of rat mesenteric arteries (RMAs) in response to increases in intraluminal pressure. The molecula...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Plane F,Johnson R,Kerr P,Wiehler W,Thorneloe K,Ishii K,Chen T,Cole W

更新日期：2005-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined whether cerebral arterioles in vitro adjust their diameters in response to changes in intraluminal flow rate and pressure. Intracerebral arterioles (38- to 55-microns diameter) were isolated from Sprague-Dawley rats and cannulated with a perfusion system that permitted separate control of intraluminal pr...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ngai AC,Winn HR

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although urinary sodium excretion is positively influenced by acute changes in renal perfusion pressure, micropuncture studies show highly conflicting results concerning the response of superficial proximal tubule sodium reabsorption to changes in renal perfusion pressure. In the present study, the changes of superfic...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kinoshita Y,Knox FG

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:POSTN (Periostin) is an ECM (extracellular matrix) protein involved in tissue remodeling in response to injury and a contributing factor in tumorigenesis, suggesting that POSTN plays a role in the pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension (PH). OBJECTIVE:We aimed to gain insight into the mechanistic contributio...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nie X,Shen C,Tan J,Wu Z,Wang W,Chen Y,Dai Y,Yang X,Ye S,Chen J,Bian JS

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells release several compounds, including prostacyclin, NO, and endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF), that mediate the vascular effects of vasoactive hormones. The identity of EDHF remains unknown. Since arachidonic acid causes endothelium-dependent relaxations of coronary arteries through it...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Campbell WB,Gebremedhin D,Pratt PF,Harder DR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic inflammation in the myocardium is involved in the development of left ventricular (LV) remodeling and failure after myocardial infarction (MI). Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells have been shown to produce inflammatory cytokines and orchestrate tissue inflammation. However, no previous studies ha...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sobirin MA,Kinugawa S,Takahashi M,Fukushima A,Homma T,Ono T,Hirabayashi K,Suga T,Azalia P,Takada S,Taniguchi M,Nakayama T,Ishimori N,Iwabuchi K,Tsutsui H

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of angiotensin II type 2 (AT(2)) receptor is closely associated with cell growth, differentiation, and/or injury. We examined the effect of interferon (IFN)-gamma on AT(2) receptor expression in mouse fibroblast R3T3 cells and demonstrated that IFN-gamma treatment increased the expression of AT(2) recep...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Horiuchi M,Hayashida W,Akishita M,Yamada S,Lehtonen JY,Tamura K,Daviet L,Chen YE,Hamai M,Cui TX,Iwai M,Minokoshi Y

更新日期：2000-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal and preliminary human studies of adult cell therapy following acute myocardial infarction have shown an overall improvement of cardiac function. Myocardial and vascular regeneration have been initially proposed as mechanisms of stem cell action. However, in many cases, the frequency of stem cell engraftment and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gnecchi M,Zhang Z,Ni A,Dzau VJ

更新日期：2008-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of endothelin 1 on intracellular Ca2+ transients and isometric contractions was investigated in ferret papillary muscles loaded with the Ca(2+)-regulated bioluminescent indicator aequorin. In concentrations of 3 x 10(-9) to 1 x 10(-7) M, endothelin produced dose-dependent increases in the amplitudes of b...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wang JX,Paik G,Morgan JP

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transverse tubular system (t-system) of cardiac muscle is a structure that allows rapid propagation of excitation into the cell interior. Using 2-photon molecular excitation microscopy and digital image-processing methods, we have obtained a comprehensive overview of the t-system of rat ventricular myocytes in liv...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Soeller C,Cannell MB

更新日期：1999-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate specific markers of both differentiated and proliferating vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), we used the technique of differential cDNA screening using RNA from cultured rat aortic VSMCs. The tissue specificity of expression of all of the cDNAs isolated was determined by Northern analysis. We isolated se...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shanahan CM,Weissberg PL,Metcalfe JC

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of adenosine-induced inhibition of Ca2+ currents was studied by recording single-channel Ca2+ currents from cell-attached patches on isolated guinea pig ventricular cells with pipettes containing 50 or 100 mM Ba2+. Numerous 100-msec depolarization steps were applied repetitively at 2 Hz from the resting ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kato M,Yamaguchi H,Ochi R

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used tryptic digestion to determine whether Ca(2+) can regulate cardiac ryanodine receptor (RyR) channel gating from within the lumen of the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) or whether Ca(2+) must first flow through the channel and act via cytosolically located binding sites. Cardiac RyRs were incorporated into bil...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ching LL,Williams AJ,Sitsapesan R

更新日期：2000-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Transient coronary occlusion (15 minutes) does not result in irreversible myocardial injury but is associated with a depression of contractile function sustained for several hours to days ("stunned myocardium"). The defect in the contractile process responsible for this phenomenon has been suggested to be causally rel...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ito BR,Tate H,Kobayashi M,Schaper W

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcineurin, a calcium/calmodulin-regulated protein phosphatase, modulates gene expression in cardiac and skeletal muscles during development and in remodeling responses such as cardiac hypertrophy that are evoked by environmental stresses or disease. Recently, we identified two genes encoding proteins (MCIP1 and MCIP...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yang J,Rothermel B,Vega RB,Frey N,McKinsey TA,Olson EN,Bassel-Duby R,Williams RS

更新日期：2000-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Although clinical studies suggest that chronic hypercapnic acidosis may be associated with renal sodium retention, little information is available on the effect of acute hypercapnic acidosis on renal sodium excretion. We, therefore, increased PCO2 from 23 to 74 mm Hg in anesthetized dogs and observed a marked antinatr...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Anderson RJ,Henrich WL,Gross PA,Dillingham MA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00