Beta-adrenergic receptor-stimulated apoptosis in cardiac myocytes is mediated by reactive oxygen species/c-Jun NH2-terminal kinase-dependent activation of the mitochondrial pathway.

abstract：RATIONALE:Several studies have demonstrated links between infectious diseases and cardiovascular conditions. Malaria and hypertension are widespread in many low- and middle-income countries, but the possible link between them has not been considered. OBJECTIVE:In this article, we outline the basis for a possible link ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Etyang AO,Smeeth L,Cruickshank JK,Scott JA

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Using alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats, we studied blood pressure and heart rate responses to static contraction and passive stretch of the triceps surae muscle before and after microdialyzing the mu-opioid agonist [D-Ala2]-methionine enkephalinamide (DAME, 200 mumol/L) into the L-7 dorsal horn of the spinal cord. I...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Meintjes AF,Nóbrega AC,Fuchs IE,Ally A,Wilson LB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism(s) by which mutations in sarcomeric proteins cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) remains unknown. A leading hypothesis proposes that mutant sarcomeric proteins impair cardiac myocyte contractility, providing an impetus for compensatory hypertrophy. To test this hypothesis, we determined the impact of...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Marian AJ,Zhao G,Seta Y,Roberts R,Yu QT

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hypoxia promotes renal damage and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The erythrocyte is the only cell type for oxygen (O2) delivery. Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P)-a highly enriched biolipid in erythrocytes-is recently reported to be induced under high altitude in normal humans to enhance O2 delivery...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Xie T,Chen C,Peng Z,Brown BC,Reisz JA,Xu P,Zhou Z,Song A,Zhang Y,Bogdanov MV,Kellems RE,D'Alessandro A,Zhang W,Xia Y

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The contractile response of the aged adult heart to beta-adrenergic stimulation is known to be reduced compared with the young adult heart. Since endogenous adenosine exerts an antiadrenergic action in the heart, this study was undertaken to determine if the basal endogenous level of myocardial adenosine increases wit...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Dobson JG Jr,Fenton RA,Romano FD

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldosterone is associated with the pathogenesis and progression of left ventricular hypertrophy and heart failure, independent of its relation with arterial blood pressure. However, little information exists about the possible influence of this mineralocorticoisteroid on cardiomyocyte electrical activity. The present ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bénitah JP,Vassort G

更新日期：1999-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:MicroRNA (miR)-1 and -133 play a crucial role in skeletal and cardiac muscle biology and pathophysiology. However, their expression and regulation in vascular cell physiology and disease is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role, if any, of miR-1 and miR-133 in vas...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Torella D,Iaconetti C,Catalucci D,Ellison GM,Leone A,Waring CD,Bochicchio A,Vicinanza C,Aquila I,Curcio A,Condorelli G,Indolfi C

更新日期：2011-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of these studies was to evaluate cardiovascular structural and functional changes in a model of hypertension-induced myocardial hypertrophy in which vasodilator therapy decreased blood pressure to normal levels. Thus, we determined the separate contributions of hypertension and hypertrophy on myocardial an...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Anderson PG,Bishop SP,Digerness SB

更新日期：1989-06-01 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：:Experimental and clinical studies have suggested an increased production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the failing myocardium. The present study aimed to obtain direct evidence for increased ROS and to determine the contribution of superoxide anion (*O(2)(-)), H(2)O(2), and hydroxy radical (*OH) in failing myoca...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ide T,Tsutsui H,Kinugawa S,Suematsu N,Hayashidani S,Ichikawa K,Utsumi H,Machida Y,Egashira K,Takeshita A

更新日期：2000-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of the mouse natriuretic peptide type-B (BNP) gene was determined by isolating and sequencing genomic clones. The mouse BNP gene was structurally similar to other natriuretic peptide genes and comprised three exons and two introns. Expression of the mouse BNP gene was found only in cardiac tissue as dete...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Steinhelper ME

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A surgical technique was developed to place sutures around the pulmonary arteries of young rats (about 1 month old and 100 g body weight). As the operated rats grew, the pulmonary arteries were gradually constricted, leading after 4-6 weeks to the development of severe right ventricular hypertrophy with free wall weig...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Julian FJ,Morgan DL,Moss RL,Gonzalez M,Dwivedi P

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spatial and temporal organization of signal transduction is coordinated through the segregation of signaling enzymes in selected cellular compartments. This highly evolved regulatory mechanism ensures the activation of selected enzymes only in the vicinity of their target proteins. In this context, cAMP-responsive tri...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Perino A,Ghigo A,Scott JD,Hirsch E

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied product inhibition of the actin-activated ATPase of myosin subfragment-1 (S-1) from the three types of muscle tissue: skeletal, cardiac, and smooth. Increasing levels of [MgADP] in the 0-1-mM range caused significant inhibition of the actin-activated MgATPase activity of cardiac and gizzard but not skeletal...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Drew JS,Harwalkar VA,Stein LA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sinoatrial node, which resides at the junction of the right atrium and the superior caval vein, contains specialized myocardial cells that initiate the heart beat. Despite this fundamental role in heart function, the embryonic origin and mechanisms of localized formation of the sinoatrial node have not been define...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mommersteeg MT,Hoogaars WM,Prall OW,de Gier-de Vries C,Wiese C,Clout DE,Papaioannou VE,Brown NA,Harvey RP,Moorman AF,Christoffels VM

更新日期：2007-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The microelectrode technique of intracellular constant current application and intracellular transmembrane voltage recording was used to study the effects of procaine amide (PA) on cardiac excitability. We measured the effect of PA in a concentration equivalent to clinically effective antiarrhythmic plasma levels (5 m...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Arnsdorf MF,Bigger JT Jr

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanical overload elicits functional and structural adaptive mechanisms in cardiac muscle. Signaling pathways linked to integrin/cytoskeleton complexes may have a function in mediation of the effects of mechanical stimulus in myocardial cells. We investigated the tyrosine phosphorylation and the assembly of the mult...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Franchini KG,Torsoni AS,Soares PH,Saad MJ

更新日期：2000-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Connexins have been hypothesized to play an important role in intercellular communication within the vascular wall and may provide a mechanistic explanation for conduction of vasomotor responses. To test this hypothesis, we studied the transmission of vasomotor responses in the intact skeletal muscle microcirculation ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： de Wit C,Roos F,Bolz SS,Kirchhoff S,Krüger O,Willecke K,Pohl U

更新日期：2000-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activity in the guinea pig fetal-placental unit was assessed at the different oxygen tensions found in utero, during labor, and at birth. To determine fetal-placental ACE activity, we separately perfused in situ term guinea pig fetuses and their placentas via the umbilical vessels u...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Davidson D,Stalcup SA,Mellins RB

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetic attributes of the afferent arteriole myogenic response were investigated using the in vitro perfused hydronephrotic rat kidney. Equations describing the time course for pressure-dependent vasoconstriction and vasodilation, and steady-state changes in diameter were combined to develop a mathematical model o...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Loutzenhiser R,Bidani A,Chilton L

更新日期：2002-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the relative roles of cardiac and sinoaortic baroreceptors in mediation of arginine vasopressin (AVP) release, hemorrhage was performed in five groups of conscious splenectomized dogs: 1) all nerves intact; 2) either chronic surgical or acute pharmacological (intrapericardial lidocaine) cardiac denervatio...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shen YT,Cowley AW Jr,Vatner SF

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of risk markers has transformed cardiovascular medicine, exemplified by the routine assessment of troponin, for both diagnosis and assessment of prognosis in patients with chest pain. Clinical risk factors form the basis for risk assessment of cardiovascular disease and the addition of biochemical, cellular, a...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Thomas MR,Lip GY

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of endothelium-derived relaxing factor as nitric oxide (NO) dramatically altered the course of vascular biology, as well as other biomedical disciplines. The ubiquity of this natural product of cell metabolism and the complexity of its biochemistry provide a rich source of molecular mediators of phe...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Loscalzo J

更新日期：2013-07-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular pH (pHo) and intracellular pH (pHi) were simultaneously measured with H(+)-sensitive microelectrodes in the rabbit papillary muscle during normal arterial perfusion and no-flow ischemia. The preparation was kept in an artificial gaseous atmosphere (N2 and CO2 during ischemia) without a surrounding fl...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yan GX,Kléber AG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore the changes in fetal blood volume that occur after fetal hemorrhage. Fifteen unanesthetized, chronically catheterized fetal sheep averaging 130 +/- 3 (SD) days gestation were studied 4 to 6 (average 5) days after catheter implantation. The fetuses were hemorrhaged by continuous...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Brace RA

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is well known that electrical pacing may either terminate or change the rate and/or ECG appearance of reentrant ventricular tachycardia. However, the dynamics of interaction of reentrant waves with waves initiated by external pacing are poorly understood. Prevailing concepts are based on simplistic models in which ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Davidenko JM,Salomonsz R,Pertsov AM,Baxter WT,Jalife J

更新日期：1995-12-01 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：:Increasing evidence indicates that the control of cell proliferation and apoptosis are linked. The c-myc proto-oncogene is induced early after cell-cycle entry in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in vitro and after arterial injury and regulates both cell proliferation and apoptosis. Although both proliferation and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Macdonald K,Bennett MR

更新日期：1999-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the functional consequences of a tropomyosin (TM) mutation associated with familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC), we generated transgenic mice that express mutant alpha-TM in the adult heart. The missense mutation, which results in the substitution of asparagine for aspartic acid at amino acid posi...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Muthuchamy M,Pieples K,Rethinasamy P,Hoit B,Grupp IL,Boivin GP,Wolska B,Evans C,Solaro RJ,Wieczorek DF

更新日期：1999-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The mutation A341V in the S6 transmembrane segment of KCNQ1, the α-subunit of the slowly activating delayed-rectifier K(+) (I(Ks)) channel, predisposes to a severe long-QT1 syndrome with sympathetic-triggered ventricular tachyarrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. OBJECTIVE:Several genetic risk modifiers have...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Heijman J,Spätjens RL,Seyen SR,Lentink V,Kuijpers HJ,Boulet IR,de Windt LJ,David M,Volders PG

更新日期：2012-01-20 00:00:00