Cardiac myocytes express multiple gap junction proteins.

abstract：:Oxygen free radicals have the ability to oxidize cholesterol. However, nothing is known about the effects of cholesterol oxidation on ion transport in isolated myocardial membranes. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of in situ oxidative modification of sarcolemmal cholesterol on Ca2+ flux...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kutryk MJ,Maddaford TG,Ramjiawan B,Pierce GN

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Available data demonstrate that oxygen free radicals and derived reactive species of oxygen are produced during myocardial ischemia as well as upon reperfusion of the ischemic tissue. The present study was designed to determine if polyethylene glycol-conjugated superoxide dismutase (PEG-SOD), with its extended plasma ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Chi LG,Tamura Y,Hoff PT,Macha M,Gallagher KP,Schork MA,Lucchesi BR

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although enhanced growth of the vascular myocyte is believed to play a role in hypertensive cardiovascular disease, the cellular basis of altered growth regulation is not completely understood. The present study demonstrates that in the presence of 10% fetal calf serum, the logarithmic growth rate of cultured mesenter...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bukoski RD,DeWan P,Bo J

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypothesis that neurally mediated coronary vasodilation occurs as part of the carotid baroreceptor reflex was investigated. The left main coronary artery was cannulated and perfused at constant pressure (100 mm Hg) in closed-chest, chloralose-anesthetized dogs. The heart was paced at a constant rate between 60 and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ito BR,Feigl EO

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Congenital heart disease (CHD) is among the most common birth defects. Most cases are of unknown pathogenesis. OBJECTIVE:To determine the contribution of de novo copy number variants (CNVs) in the pathogenesis of sporadic CHD. METHODS AND RESULTS:We studied 538 CHD trios using genome-wide dense single nucle...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Glessner JT,Bick AG,Ito K,Homsy J,Rodriguez-Murillo L,Fromer M,Mazaika E,Vardarajan B,Italia M,Leipzig J,DePalma SR,Golhar R,Sanders SJ,Yamrom B,Ronemus M,Iossifov I,Willsey AJ,State MW,Kaltman JR,White PS,Shen Y

更新日期：2014-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate the limitations of the double sucrose gap voltage clamp technique in the determination of tension-voltage relationships for frog atrial muscle. Tension-voltage relationships were determined under two conditions. In one case we determined both the tension response and slow inwa...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tarr M,Trank JW

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:In normal and diseased vascular smooth muscle (SM), the RhoA pathway, which is activated by multiple agonists through G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), plays a central role in regulating basal tone and peripheral resistance. This occurs through inhibition of myosin light chain phosphatase, leading to incre...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Momotani K,Artamonov MV,Utepbergenov D,Derewenda U,Derewenda ZS,Somlyo AV

更新日期：2011-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia, a risk factor for cardiovascular disease, is caused by nutritional or genetic disturbances in homocysteine metabolism. A polymorphism in methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) is the most common genetic cause of mild hyperhomocysteinemia. To examine mechanisms by which an elevation in plasma...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mikael LG,Genest J Jr,Rozen R

更新日期：2006-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Inflammatory processes underlie a broad spectrum of conditions that injure the heart muscle and cause both structural and functional deficits. In this article, we address current knowledge regarding 4 common forms of myocardial inflammation: myocardial ischemia and reperfusion, sepsis, viral myocarditis, and immune re...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Marchant DJ,Boyd JH,Lin DC,Granville DJ,Garmaroudi FS,McManus BM

更新日期：2012-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmural heterogeneity of myocardial metabolism and function are present in the left ventricle under normal and ischemic conditions. To determine if endocardial versus epicardial differences of [Ca2+]i are also present, perfused rat heart studies using indo-1 fluorescence as an index of [Ca2+]i were performed in the...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Figueredo VM,Brandes R,Weiner MW,Massie BM,Camacho SA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite improvements in the therapy of underlying heart disease, sudden cardiac death is a major cause of death worldwide. Disturbed Na and Ca handling is known to be a major predisposing factor for life-threatening tachyarrhythmias. In cardiomyocytes, many ion channels and transporters, including voltage-gated Na and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wagner S,Maier LS,Bers DM

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of inhibition of the Na+ pump, with secondary stimulation of Na+-Ca++ exchange, on cellular Ca++ distribution is examined using the on-line scintillation disk technique and cultured neonatal rat myocardial cells. Under control conditions, La+++ displaced 78.1 +/- 1.13% (SEM) of the total cell associated ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Burt JM,Langer GA

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catecholamines have been implicated in the phenomenon of ischemic preconditioning. We have previously demonstrated that ischemic preconditioning against postischemic mechanical dysfunction in the isolated rat heart is mediated by the alpha 1-adrenergic receptor. The purpose of this study was to delineate the signal tr...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mitchell MB,Meng X,Ao L,Brown JM,Harken AH,Banerjee A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although diabetes is recognized as a potent and prevalent risk factor for ischemic heart disease, less is known as to whether diabetes causes an altered cardiac phenotype independent of coronary atherosclerosis. Left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction, left ventricular hypertrophy, and alterations in the c...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Poornima IG,Parikh P,Shannon RP

更新日期：2006-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) causes endothelial cell injury both in vitro and in vivo. It is widely believed that this injury in vivo enhances the transport of macromolecules from plasma into the interstitial space of the underlying artery wall. A new technique was used in rats to obtain high resolution transmural profile...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Penn MS,Chisolm GM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The positive inotropic effect of the beta-adrenoceptor agonist isoproterenol is accompanied by inhibition of phosphatase type 1 activity in myocardium. Indirect assays suggest that this effect is due to activation of protein phosphatase inhibitor-1, which inhibits phosphatase activity only when phosphorylated. To test...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Neumann J,Gupta RC,Schmitz W,Scholz H,Nairn AC,Watanabe AM

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternans in heart is important as pulsus alternans in cardiac failure and electrophysiological alternans in myocardial ischemia. The explanation of this phenomenon is still unclear. We attempted to investigate the cellular mechanisms of alternans by measuring intracellular free calcium concentration [( Ca2+]i) with t...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lab MJ,Lee JA

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although clinical trials of cell-based approaches to cardiovascular disease have yielded some promising results, no cell-based therapy has achieved regulatory approval for a cardiovascular indication. To broadly assess the challenges to regulatory approval and identify strategies to facilitate this goal, the Cardiac S...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fanaroff AC,Morrow V,Krucoff MW,Seltzer JH,Perin EC,Taylor DA,Miller LW,Zeiher AM,Fernández-Avilés F,Losordo DW,Henry TD,Povsic TJ

更新日期：2018-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the kinetic parameters of the crossbridge cycle that regulate force and shortening in cardiac muscle, we compared the mechanical properties of cardiac trabeculae with either ATP or 2-deoxy-ATP (dATP) as the substrate for contraction. Comparisons were made in trabeculae from untreated rats (predominantly...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Regnier M,Rivera AJ,Chen Y,Chase PB

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of new phenylethanolamines with 2-methoxy and/or 4-methyl, 4-chloro, or 4-bromo ring substituents and either N-isopropyl or N-tert butyl substituents have been synthesized and tested for beta 1- and beta 2-adrenoceptor blocking activity using isolated guinea pig atrial and tracheal preparations. Each of the d...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Letts LG,Temple DM,Williams LR

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tyrosine phosphorylated protein Crk-associated substrate (CAS) has previously been shown to participate in the cellular processes regulating dynamic changes in the actin architecture and arterial constriction. In the present study, treatment of rat mesenteric arteries with phenylephrine (PE) led to the increase in...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Anfinogenova Y,Wang R,Li QF,Spinelli AM,Tang DD

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In the first 4 hours after occlusion of the anterior septal coronary artery, 18 dogs developed bundle branch block, heart block, or both. The hearts were then excised, and preparations were dissected to expose the His bundle and the bundle branches, which were superfused with modified Tyrode's solution at 37 degrees C...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lazzara R,El-Sherif N,Scherlag BJ

更新日期：1975-03-01 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：:A method was developed for recording isometric tension from isolated small arteries (mean internal diameter, 169 microns) and veins (mean internal diameter, 273 microns) of the term fetal lung and was then applied to the study of the mechanisms controlling perinatal pulmonary hemodynamics. The specific purpose was to ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wang Y,Coceani F

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The myocardium contains collagen matrix that is a major determinant of its architecture, structural integrity, and mechanical properties. This fibrillar matrix consists primarily of type I and type III collagens having epimysial, perimysial, and endomysial components. The present study shows the alteration of collagen...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mukherjee D,Sen S

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many indices have been proposed to describee the diastolic pressure-volume curve mathematically and permit quantification of the elastic properties of the myocardium itself in hopes that changes in the muscle caused by disease would b.e reflected in the diastolic pressure-volume curve. To date, none of the proposed in...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Glantz SA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) serves as a key endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor mediating flow-induced dilation in human coronary arterioles (HCAs). The precise mechanisms by which H(2)O(2) elicits smooth muscle hyperpolarization are not well understood. An important mode of action of H(2)O(2) involve...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zhang DX,Borbouse L,Gebremedhin D,Mendoza SA,Zinkevich NS,Li R,Gutterman DD

更新日期：2012-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Uncoupling protein (UCP)2 is a mitochondrial inner membrane protein that is expressed in mammalian myocardium under normal conditions and upregulated in pathological states such as heart failure. UCP2 is thought to protect cardiomyocytes against oxidative stress by dissipating the mitochondrial proton gradien...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Turner JD,Gaspers LD,Wang G,Thomas AP

更新日期：2010-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently showed that the transient expression of a hemagglutinin (HA) epitope-tagged, constitutively active mutant of the G protein alpha(q) subunit (HAalpha(q)*) in the hearts of transgenic mice is sufficient to induce cardiac hypertrophy and dilatation that continue to progress after HAalpha(q)* protein becomes u...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mende U,Kagen A,Meister M,Neer EJ

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular calcification is a common finding in atherosclerosis and a serious problem in diabetic and uremic patients. Because of the correlation of hyperphosphatemia and vascular calcification, the ability of extracellular inorganic phosphate levels to regulate human aortic smooth muscle cell (HSMC) culture mineralizat...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Jono S,McKee MD,Murry CE,Shioi A,Nishizawa Y,Mori K,Morii H,Giachelli CM

更新日期：2000-09-29 00:00:00