Abstract:
:Endocannabinoids, such as anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol, are synthesized from membrane phospholipids in the heart and other cardiovascular tissues. They activate cannabinoid CB1 and CB2 receptors, transient receptor potential V1 (TRPV1), peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, and perhaps a novel vascular G-protein-coupled receptor. Inactivation is by cellular uptake and fatty acid amide hydrolase. Endocannabinoids relax coronary and other arteries and decrease cardiac work but seem not to be involved in tonic regulation of cardiovascular function. They act as a stress response system, which is activated, for example, in myocardial infarction and circulatory shock. Endocannabinoids are largely protective; they decrease tissue damage and arrhythmia in myocardial infarction and may reduce progression of atherosclerosis (CB2 receptor stimulation inhibits lesion progression), and fatty acid amide hydrolase knockout mice (which have enhanced endocannabinoid levels) show decreased cardiac dysfunction with age compared with wild types. However, endocannabinoids may mediate doxorubicin-induced cardiac dysfunction. Their signaling pathways are not fully elucidated but they can lead to changed expression of a variety of genes, including those involved in inflammatory responses. There is potential for therapeutic targeting of endocannabinoids and their receptors, but their apparent involvement in both protective and deleterious actions on the heart means that careful risk assessment is needed before any treatment can be introduced.
journal_name
J Cardiovasc Pharmacoljournal_title
Journal of cardiovascular pharmacologyauthors
Hiley CRdoi
10.1097/FJC.0b013e318192671dsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-04-01 00:00:00pages
267-76issue
4eissn
0160-2446issn
1533-4023journal_volume
53pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract::The study was designed to assess the antihypertensive effect of combined angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibition and angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT1) antagonism in patients with essential hypertension. Twenty patients with uncontrolled ambulatory diastolic blood pressure (BP) after 6 weeks of ACE inhibitor ...
journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00005344-200006000-00017
更新日期:2000-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-199911000-00015
更新日期:1999-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1989-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
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更新日期:1986-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/FJC.0b013e31820d1b89
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-199117002-00030
更新日期:1991-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-198501000-00003
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-198806000-00015
更新日期:1988-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1988-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/00005344-199321002-00008
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-199307000-00025
更新日期:1993-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-198500077-00003
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-199800001-00109
更新日期:1998-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1987-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/FJC.0b013e31821209ee
更新日期:2011-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-199711000-00008
更新日期:1997-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00005344-198507001-00014
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/FJC.0000000000000608
更新日期:2018-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-199009000-00008
更新日期:1990-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1988-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/FJC.0000000000000520
更新日期:2017-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-200211000-00009
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors have been extensively studied and established in the treatment of hypertension, heart failure, and ventricular dysfunction. They have various cardiac and vascular protective effects, but the relevant mechanisms of action in these areas remain to be fully understood. Possible ef...
journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:
更新日期:1993-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Forty patients (aged 28-66 years) with essential hypertension were randomized to 14 weeks of treatment with diltiazem or hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) in a double-blind, parallel study design. A significant reduction in supine body weight (-6.0 +/- 1.5 lb; p less than 0.001) and increase in pulse (+6 +/- 2 beats/min; p l...
journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00005344-198704000-00002
更新日期:1987-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::On the basis of animal studies, it has been proposed that calcium antagonists selectively interfere with the pressor response to alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonists and have less direct action on alpha 1-adrenoceptor mechanisms. In placebo-controlled randomized studies in healthy normotensives, we have found that verapam...
journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/00005344-198500076-00036
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Clobutinol has been clinically reported to induce long QT syndrome. To clarify its cardiac electrophysiological properties, we compared effects of clobutinol on the isolated myocardium and anesthetized guinea pig heart with those of a hERG K channel blocker, E-4031. In isolated guinea pig ventricular tissues, clobutin...
journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/FJC.0b013e3181bfb17c
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cardiovascular properties of Ro 13-6438 (R-6-chloro-1,5-dihydro-3- methylimidazo -[2,1-b] quinazolin -2[ 3H]-one), a novel nonglycoside , noncatechol cardiotonic agent, were investigated in vitro and in vivo by both intravenous and oral administration. Ro 13-6438 increased tension development of isolated guinea pi...
journal_title:Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00005344-198405000-00021
更新日期:1984-05-01 00:00:00