Membrane-bound protein kinase A inhibits smooth muscle cell proliferation in vitro and in vivo by amplifying cAMP-protein kinase A signals.

abstract：RATIONALE:Dual cell transplantation of cardiac progenitor cells (CPCs) and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) after infarction improves myocardial repair and performance in large animal models relative to delivery of either cell population. OBJECTIVE:To demonstrate that CardioChimeras (CCs) formed by fusion between CPCs an...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Quijada P,Salunga HT,Hariharan N,Cubillo JD,El-Sayed FG,Moshref M,Bala KM,Emathinger JM,De La Torre A,Ormachea L,Alvarez R Jr,Gude NA,Sussman MA

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm involves substantial proteolysis of the arterial extracellular matrix. The lysosomal cysteine proteases can exert potent elastolytic and collagenolytic activity. Human atherosclerotic plaques have increased cysteine protease content and decreased levels...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sukhova GK,Wang B,Libby P,Pan JH,Zhang Y,Grubb A,Fang K,Chapman HA,Shi GP

更新日期：2005-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:We have previously demonstrated that the importance of endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor (EDHF) increases as the vessel size decreases and that endothelium-derived hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) is an EDHF in animals and humans, for which endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) is the major source. Re...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nakajima S,Ohashi J,Sawada A,Noda K,Fukumoto Y,Shimokawa H

更新日期：2012-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Although the fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling axis plays important roles in heart development, the molecular mechanism by which the FGF regulates cardiogenesis is not fully understood. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the mechanism by which FGF signaling regulates cardiac progenitor cell differentiation. ME...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zhang J,Liu J,Huang Y,Chang JY,Liu L,McKeehan WL,Martin JF,Wang F

更新日期：2012-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The goals of this article were (1) to identify cell surface proteins whose expression was regulated by diabetes and (2) to assess their contribution to diabetic complications. We purified heat shock protein 90alpha (Hsp90alpha) from the membrane fraction of high glucose-treated endothelial cells (ECs) as a binding par...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lei H,Romeo G,Kazlauskas A

更新日期：2004-04-16 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：RATIONALE:Diabetes mellitus increases cardiovascular disease risk in humans and remains elevated despite cholesterol-lowering therapy with statins. Consistent with this, in mouse models, diabetes mellitus impairs atherosclerosis plaque regression after aggressive cholesterol lowering. MicroRNA 33 (miR33) is a key negat...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Distel E,Barrett TJ,Chung K,Girgis NM,Parathath S,Essau CC,Murphy AJ,Moore KJ,Fisher EA

更新日期：2014-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) are novel natriuretic peptides, originally isolated from porcine brain. Similar to atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP), BNP is also synthesized in and secreted from cardiocytes, but CNP is not expressed at significant levels in normal adult myocardium. ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Takahashi T,Allen PD,Izumo S

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because phospholemman (PLM) regulates the Na(+)/K(+) pump (NKA) and is a major cardiac phosphorylation target for both protein kinase A (at Ser68) and protein kinase C (PKC) (at both Ser63 and Ser68), we evaluated whether PLM mediates the PKC-dependent regulation of NKA function and protein kinase A/PKC crosstalk in v...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Han F,Bossuyt J,Despa S,Tucker AL,Bers DM

更新日期：2006-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitated phasic epimyocardial microcirculatory coronary blood flow velocity patterns in the beating left ventricle. Using a newly developed floating objective and high-speed cinematography, red cell velocities in small arterioles, capillaries, and small venules and microvascular diameters in the superficial laye...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ashikawa K,Kanatsuka H,Suzuki T,Takishima T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypercholesterolemia induces atheroma formation, and the concentration of sphingomyelin is increased compared with that in the normal aortic intima-media. The aortic intima-media sphingomyelin concentration appears to increase exponentially with time on the cholesterol diet. Moreover, the entry rate of serum sphingomy...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Seth SK,Newman AI

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Subthreshold potentials are thought to be mediated by time-independent, "passive" background currents. In this study, we show that the background current-voltage (I-V) relation of guinea pig ventricular myocytes is changed significantly by repetitive stimulation, in such a way that cell excitability becomes enhanced. ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Delmar M,Ibarra J,Davidenko J,Lorente P,Jalife J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Lymphatic vessels in the respiratory tract normally mature into a functional network during the neonatal period, but under some pathological conditions they can grow as enlarged, dilated sacs that result in the potentially lethal condition of pulmonary lymphangiectasia. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine wheth...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yao LC,Testini C,Tvorogov D,Anisimov A,Vargas SO,Baluk P,Pytowski B,Claesson-Welsh L,Alitalo K,McDonald DM

更新日期：2014-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical properties of mammalian ventricular cardiac muscle have been studied in the presence and in the absence of an intact endocardial surface. Isotonic and isometric twitch contractions were obtained from papillary muscles of the right ventricle of cat at 29 degrees and 37 degrees C, at different extracellul...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Brutsaert DL,Meulemans AL,Sipido KR,Sys SU

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) include most major constituents of the arterial wall as substrates. A common promotor polymorphism (5A/6A) is associated with differences in MMP-3 (stromelysin-1) activity, and associations with certain forms of vascular disease have been shown. This study investigated whether the MMP-...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Medley TL,Kingwell BA,Gatzka CD,Pillay P,Cole TJ

更新日期：2003-06-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of histamine and H1 or H2 blockers on the diameter of pial arteries (39-227 micron) using microapplication into the perivascular space. Concentration-response curves for histamine showed dilations which started at 10(-7) M and were maximal at 10(-5) and 10(-4) M. The H2 blocker, cimetidine, induc...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wahl M,Kuschinsky W

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adenosine analogue phenylisopropyladenosine decreased the basal and isoproterenol-stimulated contractile state of isolated rat left atria. The ED50 levels for both responses were similar, suggesting that direct and antiadrenergic effects may be mediated by the same receptor. Phenylisopropyladenosine decreased the ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Linden J,Hollen CE,Patel A

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Increased sympathetic nerve activity has been linked to the pathogenesis of hypertension in humans and animal models. Enhanced peripheral chemoreceptor sensitivity which increases sympathetic nerve activity has been observed in established hypertension but has not been identified as a possible mechanism for i...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tan ZY,Lu Y,Whiteis CA,Simms AE,Paton JF,Chapleau MW,Abboud FM

更新日期：2010-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cardiac muscle adapts to increase workload by altering cardiomyocyte size and function resulting in cardiac hypertrophy. G protein-coupled receptor signaling is known to govern the hypertrophic response through the regulation of ion channel activity and downstream signaling in failing cardiomyocytes. OBJECTI...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Seth M,Zhang ZS,Mao L,Graham V,Burch J,Stiber J,Tsiokas L,Winn M,Abramowitz J,Rockman HA,Birnbaumer L,Rosenberg P

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial stunning is a form of reversible myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury associated with systolic and diastolic contractile dysfunction. In the isolated rat heart model, myocardial stunning is characterized by specific C-terminal proteolysis of the myofilament protein, troponin I (cTnI) that yields cTnI1-193...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Foster DB,Noguchi T,VanBuren P,Murphy AM,Van Eyk JE

更新日期：2003-11-14 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：:Cyclosporine A (CsA)-induced hypertension appears to be caused in part by neurogenic vasoconstriction, but the mechanism by which CsA activates the sympathetic nervous system is unknown. In T lymphocytes, the cellular target of CsA and the macrolide immunosuppressant FK506 (as complexes with their endogenous cytoplasm...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lyson T,Ermel LD,Belshaw PJ,Alberg DG,Schreiber SL,Victor RG

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

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: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：:Since the first description of the anatomical atrioventricular nodes (AVNs), a large number of studies have provided insights into the heterogeneity of the structure as well as a repertoire of ion channel proteins that govern this complex conduction pathway between the atria and ventricles. These studies have revealed...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zhang Q,Timofeyev V,Lu L,Li N,Singapuri A,Long MK,Bond CT,Adelman JP,Chiamvimonvat N

更新日期：2008-02-29 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：: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：:Elastance-resistance [E(t)-R] representations of the left ventricle (LV) were evaluated for their ability to reproduce instantaneous pressure [P(t)] and outflow [Q(t)]. Experiments were performed in open-chest rats. P(t) and Q(t) were measured during steady-state ejecting beats and during a beat in which the aorta was...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Campbell KB,Kirkpatrick RD,Knowlen GG,Ringo JA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the possible roles of strongly binding myosin crossbridges in determining loaded shortening and power output in cardiac myocytes. Single skinned cardiac myocytes were attached between a force transducer and position motor, and shortening velocities were measured over a range of loads during var...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： McDonald KS,Moss RL

更新日期：2000-10-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated, cultured arterial endothelial cells express an acetylcholine (ACh)-activated K+ current in addition to an inward rectifier current whose conductance is unaffected by ACh. The cholinergic K+ current is specifically blocked by atropine (1 microM) and shows single saturation kinetics with ACh (half-maximal stim...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Olesen SP,Davies PF,Clapham DE

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00