Calcium antagonists and vascular smooth muscle cells in atherogenesis.

abstract：:Several lines of evidence support a fundamental role for voltage-gated sodium channels in mediating ischemic Na rise. We examined the effect of the novel anti-ischemic compound KC 12291 on veratridine-stimulated and lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC)-induced sustained sodium current (I(NAL)) mediated by sodium channels in ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tamareille S,Le Grand B,John GW,Feuvray D,Coulombe A

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milrinone, a newly developed analogue of amrinone, possesses potent positive inotropic effects. Electrophysiologic actions of the drug have thus far been reported in only one study conducted on canine Purkinje fibers. The present study used microelectrode techniques to evaluate the electrophysiologic effects of milrin...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Davidenko J,Antzelevitch C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine if combinations of mexiletine and sotalol retain Class I and III electrophysiologic actions, using standard microelectrode techniques, we examined the electrophysiologic effects on canine Purkinje fibers of solutions of mexiletine (3.1-100 microM), sotalol (3.1-400 microM), and combinations of the two dru...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Berman ND,Loukides JE

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study was to inquire about the mechanism(s) involved in the catabolism of S-nitrosothiols by vascular tissue under in vitro conditions. Incubations of S-nitrosocysteine (CYSNO) or S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO) with homogenates isolated from porcine aortic smooth muscle resulted in only a marginal de...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kostka P,Xu B,Skiles EH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral anticoagulant edoxaban, a factor Xa inhibitor, will likely be coadministered with digoxin in some patients with atrial fibrillation. Both drugs are substrates for P-glycoprotein. The objective of this phase 1, parallel study was to assess the effects of coadministration of both drugs on their respective pharm...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Mendell J,Noveck RJ,Shi M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinacidil is one of a number of new antihypertensive agents possessing an action that involves an enhanced potassium efflux in cardiac and vascular smooth muscle. An associated feature of pinacidil is a shortening of the cardiac action potential duration, which may constitute a potentially proarrhythmic effect. The pr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Chi L,Uprichard AC,Lucchesi BR

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously reported that production of endothelin (ET)-1 is markedly increased in failing hearts of rats with chronic heart failure (CHF). It was also reported that the production of angiotensin II (Ang II) is increased in the failing heart. In this study we investigated both converting enzymes of the ET-1 sys...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kobayashi T,Miyauchi T,Sakai S,Yamaguchi I,Goto K,Sugishita Y

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of presynaptic angiotensin II receptors at postganglionic sympathetic terminal axons under conditions of uninterrupted sympathetic impulse traffic was studied in anesthetized rabbits (alfadolone + alfaxalone). Mean arterial pressure, postganglionic renal sympathetic firing rate, the arterial plasma noradr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Szabo B,Hedler L,Schurr C,Starke K

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the effect of verapamil slow-release (VSR) and the combination of nifedipine plus propranolol on transient myocardial ischemia in a double-blind study comprising 20 patients with proven coronary artery disease and chronic stable angina. According to the results of 24-h Holter-monitoring recording, patients...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Molinero E,Salcedo A,Sagastagoitia JD,Arzubiaga J,Iriarte MM,Gómez Pajuelo C,Fernández Vidal P

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channel blockers (CCBs) have variable efficacy in the treatment of heart failure. We hypothesized that modulation of left ventricular diastolic pressure (LVDP) may play a role in the variable efficacy of CCBs in this condition. Isolated perfused hearts from 200- to 250-day-old UM-X7.1 cardiomyopathic hamsters ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Beaucage P,Massicotte J,Boileau JF,Dumont L

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of lidocaine on the conduction of extrasystoles was studied in 8 open-chest dogs after atrioventricular nodal block. Simultaneous recording of endocardial and epicardial activation provided separate measures of endocardial (Purkinje) conduction as well as myocardial (muscle) conduction. Lidocaine (1.25--10....

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Carson DL,Dresel PE

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, antihypertensive medications were used in few children or adolescents, usually just those with underlying renal or other organ system disease. However, with recent data suggesting that the incidence of primary hypertension may be increasing in the young, it is possible that more children and adolescents...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Flynn JT

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oxidative modification of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) hypothesis implies that antioxidants should be effective in suppressing atherosclerosis. This study is designed to test the potential of antioxidants to inhibit atherosclerotic plaque progression in balloon-denuded and irradiated hypercholesterolemic rabbits....

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Leborgne L,Pakala R,Dilcher C,Hellinga D,Seabron R,Tio FO,Waksman R

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines are small secreted proteins with chemoattractant properties that play a key role in inflammation, metastasis, and embryonic development. We previously demonstrated a nonchemotactic role for one such chemokine pair, stromal cell-derived factor-1α and its G-protein coupled receptor, CXCR4. Stromal cell-derive...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： LaRocca TJ,Schwarzkopf M,Altman P,Zhang S,Gupta A,Gomes I,Alvin Z,Champion HC,Haddad G,Hajjar RJ,Devi LA,Schecter AD,Tarzami ST

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new anti-anginal drug ranolazine causes a slight (<10 milliseconds) prolongation of the QT interval, raising the concern that its use may be associated with an increased incidence of torsades de pointes ventricular tachyarrhythmias. The goal of this study was to show that ranolazine inhibits the late component of ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Song Y,Shryock JC,Wu L,Belardinelli L

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypertrophy causes heart failure and is associated with hyperglycemia in patients with diabetes mellitus. Mibefradil, which acts as a T-type calcium channel blocker, exerts beneficial effects in patients with heart failure. In this study, we explored the effects and mechanism of mibefradil on high-glucose-indu...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zhao LG,Li PL,Dai Y,Deng JL,Shan MY,Chen B,Zhang KB,Guo SD,Xu ZH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of myocardial infarction promotes an inflammatory response that stimulates inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). We investigated the iNOS role on the rat tail vascular bed reactivity 3 days after myocardial infarction. Vasodilator and vasoconstrictor responses were determined in isolated caudal vascu...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sartório CL,Pinto VD,Cutini GJ,Vassallo DV,Stefanon I

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effects of felodipine [4-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,4-dihydropyridine-2,6-dimethyl 3,5-dicarboxylic 3-ethylester and 5-methylester] on the coronary vascular bed of pig hearts with an ischemic region in the left ventricle following ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. At an infusion rate...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sjöquist PO,Adler G,Duker G,Almgren O

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the pathophysiologic role(s) of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in pulmonary hypertension, we studied the expression of ETB-receptor mRNA in the lung and venous plasma concentrations of ET-1 in rats with monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension (PH). Three weeks after s.c. injection of monocrotaline (60 mg/kg),...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Yorikane R,Miyauchi T,Sakai S,Sakurai T,Yamaguchi I,Sugishita Y,Goto K

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increased production of nitric oxide (NO) has been implicated as the basis for myocardial dysfunction and the lack of response to vasoconstrictors during endotoxin shock induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Our objective was to evaluate and compare NO production in major organs of rats treated with LPS, 1 or 14 mg...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lecour S,Maupoil V,Siri O,Tabard A,Rochette L

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important in innate immune responses, which are crucial in collateral artery formation (arteriogenesis). TLR4⁻/⁻ mice undergoing hind limb ischemia show decreased perfusion recovery accompanied by an impaired infiltration of inflammatory cells. TLR antagonists are currently developed and...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： van den Borne P,Bastiaansen AJ,de Vries MR,Quax PH,Hoefer IE,Pasterkamp G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to examine whether physiologically tolerable insulin, which maintains lower blood glucose, can protect the myocardium against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in a preclinical large animal model. Adult dogs were subjected to 50 minutes of myocardial ischemia (80% reduction in coronary blood fl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zhang HX,Zang YM,Huo JH,Liang SJ,Zhang HF,Wang YM,Fan Q,Guo WY,Wang HC,Gao F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilazapril (CLZ) is a new, long-acting nonsulfhydril converting enzyme inhibitor (ACE-I). Its effect on peak and trough sitting diastolic blood pressure (SDBP) was studied in a total of 85 patients with uncomplicated, essential hypertension at three centers. After 4 weeks of a single-blind placebo (PLA) run-in period,...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Güntzel P,Kobrin I,Pasquier C,Zimlichman R,Viskoper JR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bronchopulmonary and pressor effects of endothelin-1 (ET-1), a newly described vasoconstrictor peptide produced by endothelial cells, were investigated in the guinea pig. Intravenous injection of ET-1 (1 nmol/kg) induced an increase in pulmonary inflation pressure (PIP) as well as an important and sustained increa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Braquet P,Touvay C,Lagente V,Vilain B,Pons F,Hosford D,Chabrier PE,Mencia-Huerta JM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the interaction of endothelin (ET) with nitric oxide (NO) and the effects on venous circulation and handling of renal water and electrolytes, ET (1.0 ng/kg/min) or saline was administered with or without three doses (0.27, 2.7 and 27 ng/kg/min for 40 min) of N omega-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME), an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ota K,Kimura T,Shoji M,Ota M,Funyu T,Mori T,Sahata T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desethylamiodarone (DA) is a major metabolite of amiodarone (AM), a Class III antiarrhythmic drug. The plasma pharmacokinetics and tissue distribution of AM and DA (10 mg/kg i.v.) were compared in anesthetized dogs. Plasma, white blood cell (WBC), red blood cell (RBC), liver, and skeletal muscle samples were obtained ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Bandyopadhyay S,Somani P

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The majority of deaths attributable to hypertension are coronary artery disease (CAD) deaths and, consequently, the prevention of CAD should be the primary aim of hypertension management. Recent meta-analyses confirm the results of the individual hypertension intervention trials, which demonstrated a disappointing sho...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Poulter NR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasodilatory properties of prostacyclin were studied in 12 intubated patients who underwent coronary artery bypass surgery. When infused in doses of 2.5, 5, 10, and 20 ng/kg/min, prostacyclin produced a dose-dependent decrease in systemic vascular resistance from 2,702 +/- 143 to 1,654 +/- 106 dynes/cm5/m2 (p less...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Chelly JE,Fabiani JN,Tricot AM,Abry B,Carpentier A

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is controversial whether myocardial hypertrophy in essential hypertension represents an adaptive physiologic or pathological response to increased pressure load imposed on the heart. Cardiac structural adaptations in endurance athletes fulfill the criteria of physiologic hypertrophy: maintained cardiac performance ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Schmieder RE,Messerli FH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is increasing interest in initial therapy of hypertension with sympatholytic agents and the influence of antihypertensive therapy on cardiac and renal function. We treated 26 men with essential hypertension with either guanabenz alone (n = 14) or propranolol alone (n = 12) and assessed blood pressure and renal p...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Mosley C,O'Connor DT,Taylor A,Slutsky RA,Cervenka J

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00