Role for matrix metalloproteinase-2 in oxidized low-density lipoprotein-induced activation of the sphingomyelin/ceramide pathway and smooth muscle cell proliferation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pregnant women with congenital heart disease (CHD) are susceptible to cardiovascular, obstetric, and offspring complications. In women with CHD, cardiac dysfunction may compromise uteroplacental flow and contribute to the increased incidence of obstetric and offspring events. METHODS AND RESULTS:We performe...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pieper PG,Balci A,Aarnoudse JG,Kampman MA,Sollie KM,Groen H,Mulder BJ,Oudijk MA,Roos-Hesselink JW,Cornette J,van Dijk AP,Spaanderman ME,Drenthen W,van Veldhuisen DJ,ZAHARA II investigators.

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, it has been shown that stem/progenitor cells may repair damaged/lost endothelial cells in vein grafts and wire-injured arteries. In the present study, we investigated endothelial cell turnover and regeneration in apolipoprotein E (apoE)(-/-)/transgenic mice carrying LacZ genes driven by an endothel...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Foteinos G,Hu Y,Xiao Q,Metzler B,Xu Q

更新日期：2008-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The continuity equation suggests that a ratio of velocities at two different cardiac valves is inversely proportional to the ratio of cross-sectional areas of the valves. To determine whether a ratio of mitral/aortic valve orifice velocities is useful in determining aortic valve area in patients with aortic stenosis, ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Richards KL,Cannon SR,Miller JF,Crawford MH

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemia is associated with endothelial dysfunction. On the basis of the hypothesis that high plasma cholesterol per se may be a sufficient stimulus to upregulate endothelial adhesiveness and that this phenomenon might be reversible, soluble endothelial leukocyte adhesion molecules (sELAMs) were ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sampietro T,Tuoni M,Ferdeghini M,Ciardi A,Marraccini P,Prontera C,Sassi G,Taddei M,Bionda A

更新日期：1997-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiogenesis is a promising treatment strategy for patients who are not candidates for standard revascularization, because it promotes the growth of new blood vessels in ischemic myocardium. METHODS AND RESULTS:We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of basic fibroblast growth fact...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Laham RJ,Sellke FW,Edelman ER,Pearlman JD,Ware JA,Brown DL,Gold JP,Simons M

更新日期：1999-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Angiogenic placental growth factor (PlGF) concentrations rise during pregnancy, peaking at the end of midpregnancy. Low PlGF concentrations during pregnancy are associated with pregnancy complications with recognized later-life cardiovascular risk. We hypothesized that low PlGF concentrations, especially in ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Benschop L,Schalekamp-Timmermans S,Broere-Brown ZA,Roeters van Lennep JE,Jaddoe VWV,Roos-Hesselink JW,Ikram MK,Steegers EAP,Roberts JM,Gandley RE

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Myocardial perfusion reserve can be noninvasively assessed with cardiovascular MR. In this study, the diagnostic accuracy of this technique for the detection of significant coronary artery stenosis was evaluated. METHODS AND RESULTS:In 15 patients with single-vessel coronary artery disease and 5 patients wi...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Al-Saadi N,Nagel E,Gross M,Bornstedt A,Schnackenburg B,Klein C,Klimek W,Oswald H,Fleck E

更新日期：2000-03-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), acute thrombosis frequently occurs in coronary arteries with only mild or moderate stenoses. Obesity increases the risk of atherosclerosis, but it is not known whether it also increases the risk of coronary thrombosis. We hypothesized that body mass index (BMI)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Wolk R,Berger P,Lennon RJ,Brilakis ES,Somers VK

更新日期：2003-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A major advantage of coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) relative to percutaneous coronary intervention is its durability, yet there is a paucity of information on rates and predictors of repeat coronary revascularization after CABG in the modern era. METHODS AND RESULTS:We included patients ≥65 yea...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Fosbøl EL,Zhao Y,Shahian DM,Grover FL,Edwards FH,Peterson ED

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal (NT)-proBNP have recently emerged as promising parameters for risk assessment in acute pulmonary embolism (PE). However, their positive predictive value is low, and the prognostic implications of NT-proBNP or troponin elevation alone are questionable. METHODS A...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Binder L,Pieske B,Olschewski M,Geibel A,Klostermann B,Reiner C,Konstantinides S

更新日期：2005-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:After addition of a low concentration of thrombin to normal plasma, a progressive and significant increase in crosslinked fibrin polymers was found by sodium dodecyl sulfate agarose gel electrophoresis, reaching 27% of total fibrinogen and fibrin before gel formation. As measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay w...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Francis CW,Doughney K,Brenner B,Klingbiel K,Marder VJ

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recognition of the complex pathophysiology of heart failure and its high mortality has emphasized the need for prognostic markers that can be used in clinical assessment as well as in the design of mortality trials. Data from the Department of Veterans Affairs Cooperative Vasodilator-Heart Failure Trials (V-...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Cohn JN,Johnson GR,Shabetai R,Loeb H,Tristani F,Rector T,Smith R,Fletcher R

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied isochronal maps of ventricular activation during ventricular arrhythmias induced by programmed premature stimulation in dogs 3-5 days after ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. The entire epicardial surface and selective intramural sites were recorded using a computerized multiplexing t...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Mehra R,Zeiler RH,Gough WB,El-Sherif N

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The clinical efficacy of alcohol septal ablation for drug-refractory hypertrophic cardiomyopathy remains unclear. This study examines the outcome of alcohol septal ablation performed at a tertiary hypertrophic cardiomyopathy referral center. METHODS AND RESULTS:Among 601 patients with severely symptomatic o...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sorajja P,Valeti U,Nishimura RA,Ommen SR,Rihal CS,Gersh BJ,Hodge DO,Schaff HV,Holmes DR Jr

更新日期：2008-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mechanisms responsible for the association between advanced age and atherosclerotic diseases are not clear. Because atherosclerosis develops in response to local endothelial injuries, we investigated the effect of aging on vascular healing and reendothelialization. METHODS AND RESULTS:Endothelium denuda...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gennaro G,Ménard C,Michaud SE,Rivard A

更新日期：2003-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Finn Waagstein was born in Copenhagen in 1938. He graduated from Aarhus University Medical School in 1964. He received his cardiology training in the Sahlgrenska University Hospital at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He was appointed Associate Professor in 1980, and he assisted in establishing and directing the ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Waagstein F,Rutherford JD

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An effect of diet in determining blood pressure is suggested by epidemiological studies, but the role of specific nutrients is still unsettled. METHODS AND RESULTS:The relation of various nutritional factors with hypertension was examined prospectively among 30,681 predominantly white US male health profess...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Ascherio A,Rimm EB,Giovannucci EL,Colditz GA,Rosner B,Willett WC,Sacks F,Stampfer MJ

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In our approach to dynamic cardiomyoplasty, which consists of wrapping a skeletal muscle around the heart and stimulating the former in synchrony with heart contractions to augment ventricular contractility, we have transferred a latissimus dorsi muscle flap to the heart by way of a partial resection of the second rib...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chachques JC,Grandjean P,Schwartz K,Mihaileanu S,Fardeau M,Swynghedauw B,Fontaliran F,Romero N,Wisnewsky C,Perier P

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently demonstrated that exercise training can induce important hemodynamic and metabolic adaptations in patients with chronic heart failure due to severe left ventricular dysfunction. This study examines the accompanying changes in submaximal exercise performance and the ventilatory response to exercise in ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Sullivan MJ,Higginbotham MB,Cobb FR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ranolazine is a novel antianginal agent that may reduce symptoms without affecting hemodynamics and has shown cardiac antiischemic effects in in vivo and in vitro models. In one study it increased active pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDHa). Other agents that increase PDHa and so increase glucose and decrease fatty...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： McCormack JG,Barr RL,Wolff AA,Lopaschuk GD

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The substitution variants K35A,E38A,K74A, E75A,R77A (SakSTAR.M38) and K74A,E75A,R77A,E80A, D82A (SakSTAR.M89) of recombinant staphylokinase (SakSTAR) with reduced antibody reactivity were assayed for thrombolytic potency and antibody induction in animal models and in patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:In a 125I-...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Collen D,Moreau H,Stockx L,Vanderschueren S

更新日期：1996-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A warm-water bath (WWB) or sauna bath (SB) has generally been considered inappropriate for patients with severe congestive heart failure (CHF). However, a comprehensive investigation of the hemodynamic effects of thermal vasodilation in CHF has not been previously undertaken. METHODS AND RESULTS:To investig...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tei C,Horikiri Y,Park JC,Jeong JW,Chang KS,Toyama Y,Tanaka N

更新日期：1995-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The combination of statin therapy and PCSK9 (proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9) inhibition markedly lowers low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) and reduces cardiovascular event rates. Whether residual inflammatory risk as measured by on-treatment high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hsCRP)...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Pradhan AD,Aday AW,Rose LM,Ridker PM

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular tachycardia is unusual in infancy. Three infants are described in whom this arrhythmia was documented by electrophysiologic studies. The ability to start and terminate this rhythm by critically timed premature ventricular stimulation suggests a reentrant mechanism. All three patients have remained free of ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Gaum WE,Schwartz DC,Kaplan S

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ten percent to 20% of potential cardiac donors with brain injury and no previous cardiac history have myocardial dysfunction. We assessed components of the beta-receptor-G-protein-adenylyl cyclase complex as well as the contractile response in 10 explanted acutely failing human hearts (donor heart dysfunctio...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： White M,Wiechmann RJ,Roden RL,Hagan MB,Wollmering MM,Port JD,Hammond E,Abraham WT,Wolfel EE,Lindenfeld J

更新日期：1995-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sirt7, 1 of the 7 members of the mammalian sirtuin family, promotes oncogenic transformation. Tumor growth and metastasis require fibrotic and angiogenic responses. Here, we investigated the role of Sirt7 in cardiovascular tissue repair process. METHODS AND RESULTS:In wild-type mice, Sirt7 expression increa...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Araki S,Izumiya Y,Rokutanda T,Ianni A,Hanatani S,Kimura Y,Onoue Y,Senokuchi T,Yoshizawa T,Yasuda O,Koitabashi N,Kurabayashi M,Braun T,Bober E,Yamagata K,Ogawa H

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ability of apolipoprotein (apo)A-I to induce regression of preexisting atherosclerotic lesions has not been determined, and a mouse model of atherosclerosis regression has not yet been reported. METHODS AND RESULTS:LDL receptor-deficient mice were fed a western-type diet for 5 weeks to induce atheroscle...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tangirala RK,Tsukamoto K,Chun SH,Usher D,Puré E,Rader DJ

更新日期：1999-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Data from single-center studies suggest that echocardiographic parameters of mechanical dyssynchrony may improve patient selection for cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). In a prospective, multicenter setting, the Predictors of Response to CRT (PROSPECT) study tested the performance of these parameters ...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Chung ES,Leon AR,Tavazzi L,Sun JP,Nihoyannopoulos P,Merlino J,Abraham WT,Ghio S,Leclercq C,Bax JJ,Yu CM,Gorcsan J 3rd,St John Sutton M,De Sutter J,Murillo J

更新日期：2008-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) provides controlled operative conditions but induces a whole-body inflammatory response capable of initiating devastating morbidity and mortality. Although technically more demanding, deliberate avoidance of CPB in off-pump surgery att...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tomic V,Russwurm S,Möller E,Claus RA,Blaess M,Brunkhorst F,Bruegel M,Bode K,Bloos F,Wippermann J,Wahlers T,Deigner HP,Thiery J,Reinhart K,Bauer M

更新日期：2005-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Persons with end-stage renal disease and those with lesser degrees of chronic kidney disease (CKD) have an increased risk of death after myocardial infarction (MI) that is not fully explained by associated comorbidities. Future cardiovascular event rates and the relative response to therapy in persons with m...

journal_title：Circulation

authors： Tokmakova MP,Skali H,Kenchaiah S,Braunwald E,Rouleau JL,Packer M,Chertow GM,Moyé LA,Pfeffer MA,Solomon SD

更新日期：2004-12-14 00:00:00