Controversies regarding hormone therapy: Insights from inflammation and hemostasis.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Insulin seems to have vasodilator properties, but it is unclear if insulin in postprandial concentrations is a specific vasodilator of skeletal muscle resistance arterioles only or that various types of vessels are affected. The aim of the present study was to determine the direct effects and the time course ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： de Haan CH,van Dielen FM,Houben AJ,de Leeuw PW,Huvers FC,De Mey JG,Wolffenbuttel BH,Schaper NC

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major advances in molecular biology over the past decade have increased our understanding of how genes are expressed and regulated in mammalian cells in vivo. This knowledge has been translated to investigations of the molecular and cellular biology of the cardiovascular system. Gene transfer, the introduction of a re...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Nabel EG,Pompili VJ,Plautz GE,Nabel GJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS :Activation of the angiotensin (Ang)-(1-7)/Mas receptor (R) axis protects from sympathetic overactivity. Endocytic trafficking is an essential process that regulates receptor (R) function and its ultimate cellular responses. We investigated whether the blunted responses to Ang-(1-7) in hypertensive rats are associ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Cerniello FM,Silva MG,Carretero OA,Gironacci MM

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Stretch-activated cation channels (SAC) have been suggested to act as endothelial mechanosensors for hemodynamic forces. Ca(2+) influx through SAC could induce an intracellular Ca(2+) signal stimulating Ca(2+)-dependent synthesis of vasodilators like NO, prostacyclin, or EDHF. In the present study we tested w...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Brakemeier S,Eichler I,Hopp H,Köhler R,Hoyer J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most of our knowledge about the modulation of platelet function by catecholamines is based on observations of acute in vitro actions. Little is known about the effects of chronically elevated or reduced adrenergic stimulation of the platelets. We therefore treated rats for 8 weeks with either adrenaline or the beta-bl...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Terres W,Becker BF,Schrödl W,Gerlach E

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We recently showed that mitochondrial coupling factor 6 (CF6) is present as a pressor substance and a prostacyclin inhibitor in systemic circulation. However, the regulation mechanism for circulating CF6 is unknown. We investigated the role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) in the generation and rele...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Sasaki S,Osanai T,Tomita H,Matsunaga T,Magota K,Okumura K

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyperhomocysteinemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Most previous investigations focused on the role of homocysteine as direct pathogenetic factor for these adverse vascular events. However, the exact pathophysiological mechanism is still unknown. In this review we discuss the hypothesis tha...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Riksen NP,Rongen GA,Blom HJ,Russel FG,Boers GH,Smits P

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Important physiological and pathophysiological conditions are associated with changes in secretion and synthesis of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP). The aim of this study was to examine the effects of mechanical stretch and endothelin-1 on ANF and BNP secretion and gene exp...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bruneau BG,de Bold AJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The functional status of heart failure (HF) is conventionally evaluated by peak exercise oxygen consumption (VO2 max). Dobutamine echocardiography can be used to evaluate myocardial reserve. The aim of this study was to estimate the functional status of chronic HF in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, by ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Paraskevaidis IA,Tsiapras DP,Adamopoulos S,Kremastinos DT

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac hypertrophy occurs in a number of disease states associated with chronic increases in cardiac work load. Although cardiac hypertrophy may initially represent an adaptive response of the myocardium, ultimately, it often progresses to ventricular dilatation and heart failure. Much investigation has focused on th...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Fiedler B,Wollert KC

更新日期：2004-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The risk of mortality from the coronavirus disease that emerged in 2019 (COVID-19) is increased by comorbidity from cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases. Air pollution also causes excess mortality from these conditions. Analysis of the first severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-1) outcomes in 2...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Pozzer A,Dominici F,Haines A,Witt C,Münzel T,Lelieveld J

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD) occur commonly in patients with heart failure. We found T-box 5 (TBX5) dysregulated in ventricular myocardium from heart failure patients and thus we hypothesized that TBX5 reduction contributes to arrhythmia development in these patients. To understand the underlying mec...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Rathjens FS,Blenkle A,Iyer LM,Renger A,Syeda F,Noack C,Jungmann A,Dewenter M,Toischer K,El-Armouche A,Müller OJ,Fabritz L,Zimmermann WH,Zelarayan LC,Zafeiriou MP

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Dexamethasone-eluting stents are currently under evaluation to prevent post-angioplasty restenosis. The efficacy and safety of dexamethasone as an anti-restenotic agent is still unclear. We assess the effect of perivascular delivery of dexamethasone on vascular pathology in a mouse model of restenosis. METHO...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Pires NM,Schepers A,van der Hoeven BL,de Vries MR,Boesten LS,Jukema JW,Quax PH

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the level and pace of population aging display high geographical variability, virtually all countries have been experiencing growth in their elderly population, particularly in developed nations. Because aging is a major risk factor for atherosclerosis and associated disease, it is of up most importance to un...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Edo MD,Andrés V

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In mammalian ventricles, electrical gradients establish electrical heterogeneities as essential tissue mechanisms to optimize mechanical efficiency and safeguard electrical stability. Electrical gradients shape mammalian electrocardiographic patterns; disturbance of electrical gradients is proarrhythmic. The zebra...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Zhao Y,James NA,Beshay AR,Chang EE,Lin A,Bashar F,Wassily A,Nguyen B,Nguyen TP

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We have attempted to demonstrate the induction of inducible nitric oxide synthase in human vascular tissue and define the capacity of different cytokines to induce this enzyme. METHODS:Segments of human arteries were stimulated with lipopolysaccharide (10 micrograms/ml), interleukin-1 beta (5 U/ml), tumor ne...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Chester AH,Borland JA,Buttery LD,Mitchell JA,Cunningham DA,Hafizi S,Hoare GS,Springall DR,Polak JM,Yacoub MH

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:STUDY OBJECTIVE - The aim of the study was to determine the changes in the beta adrenergic system induced by cardiac hypertrophy due to valvular aortic stenosis. DESIGN - Density of beta adrenoceptors, cardiac tissue noradrenalime concentrations, coronary blood flow (using radioactive microspheres), and haemodynamic v...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Scholz PM,Upsher ME,Eliades D,Kedem J,Weiss HR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Research in the pathophysiology of ischemia/reperfusion or redox signaling is hindered by lack of simple methodology to measure short-lived oxygen radicals. In the presence of hydroxyl radical ((*)OH), d-phenylalanine (d-Phe) yields para-, meta- and ortho-tyrosine. We have previously demonstrated that d-Phe c...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Biondi R,Ambrosio G,Liebgott T,Cardounel AJ,Bettini M,Tritto I,Zweier JL

更新日期：2006-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Atherosclerotic vascular disease has an inflammatory pathogenesis. Heme from intraplaque hemorrhage may drive a protective and pro-resolving macrophage M2-like phenotype, Mhem, via AMPK and ATF1. The anti-diabetic drug metformin may also activate AMPK-dependent signalling. HYPOTHESIS:Metformin systematically indu...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Seneviratne A,Cave L,Hyde G,Moestrup SK,Carling D,Mason JC,Haskard DO,Boyle JJ

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the prevalence of electrocardiogram (ECG)-documented atrial fibrillation (or flutter) (AF) across eight regions of the world, and to examine anti-thrombotic use and clinical outcomes. METHODS AND RESULTS:Baseline ECGs were collected in 153,152 middle-aged participants (ages 35 to 70 years) to document ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Joseph PG,Healey JS,Raina P,Connolly SJ,Ibrahim Q,Gupta R,Avezum A,Dans AL,Lopez-Jaramillo P,Yeates K,Teo K,Douma R,Bohonar A,Chifamba J,Lanas F,Dagenais GR,Lear SA,Kumar R,Kengne AP,Keskinler M,Mohan V,Mony P,

更新日期：2020-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of ventricular interdependence, part of the measured left ventricular diastolic pressure can be attributed to the right ventricle. Therefore, we examined the hypothesis that left ventricular diastolic properties are modified by alterations in right ventricular compliance and pressure even without a change in r...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Santamore WP,Constantinescu M,Vinten-Johansen J,Johnston WE,Little WC

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Peripheral chemoreflex sensitivity is potentiated in both clinical and experimental chronic heart failure (CHF). NADPH oxidase-derived superoxide mediates angiotensin II (Ang II)-enhanced carotid body (CB) chemoreceptor sensitivity in CHF rabbits, and tempol, the superoxide dismutase (SOD) mimetic, inhibits this A...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Ding Y,Li YL,Zimmerman MC,Davisson RL,Schultz HD

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Pericardial effusion has long been associated with low voltage of the surface electrocardiogram and its clinical utility is well known. The cause of this reduced QRS voltage has usually been attributed to short circuiting of the impulses by the pericardial fluid, but its precise mechanism has not been clearl...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Karatay CM,Fruehan CT,Lighty GW Jr,Spear RM,Smulyan H

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the establishment of the inflammatory basis of atherosclerosis, several pro- or anti-inflammatory agents have been examined as potential mediators of the biochemical pathways of lesion formation. Interleukin (IL)-8 was first characterized in 1987. Since then, knowledge regarding its role in leucocyte trafficking...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Apostolakis S,Vogiatzi K,Amanatidou V,Spandidos DA

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Papillary muscles isolated from the left ventricle of 17-20 day old Syrian hamsters with genetic cardiomyopathy (BIO 14.6 strain) were examined for their mechanophysiological response to the beta adrenoceptor agonist isoprenaline. The indices of isometric twitch for both myopathic and aged matched normal (BIO RB strai...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Rossner KL,Coudrai PR

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:While natriuretic peptides can inhibit growth of vascular muscle cells (VSMC), controversy exists as to whether this effect is mediated via the guanylate cyclase-coupled receptors, NPR-A and NPR-B, or the clearance receptor, NPR-C. The original aim of this study was to examine the mechanism by which the NPR-C...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Hutchinson HG,Trindade PT,Cunanan DB,Wu CF,Pratt RE

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate clinically recorded jugular vein pulses it is necessary to understand the transmission process of the right atrial pressure pulse through the caval veins up to the jugular veins. The transmission speed at distinct points of the venous pressure curve was studied in the superior vena cava of 20 anae...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Minten J,Van de Werf F,Aubert AE,Kesteloot H,De Geest H

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Neointimal hyperplasia is a common feature of fibro-proliferative vascular disease and characterizes initial stages of atherosclerosis. Neointimal lesions mainly comprise smooth muscle-like cells. The presence of these lesions is related to local differences in shear stress. Neointimal cells may arise through migr...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Moonen JR,Lee ES,Schmidt M,Maleszewska M,Koerts JA,Brouwer LA,van Kooten TG,van Luyn MJ,Zeebregts CJ,Krenning G,Harmsen MC

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the genomic response following a preconditioning stimulus. Initial studies demonstrated that classical ischemic preconditioning mediated by cyclic episodes of short durations of reversible ischemia and reperfusion could result in the reprogramming of gene expression. Some of these genes are tran...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Das DK,Maulik N

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Myocardial ischemia results in an early phase of arrhythmias that primarily involves reentrant mechanisms. However, the trigger that initiates reentry remains unknown. We studied the initiation of reentry attending the development of electrical heterogeneity during simulated ischemia in isolated canine right...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Lukas A,Antzelevitch C

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00