L-type calcium channel blockers exert an antiinflammatory effect by suppressing expression of plasminogen receptors on macrophages.

abstract：:Deepak Srivastava’s group at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, University of California San Francisco, reported in the August 6 issue of the journal Cell that to make heart muscle cells, all you need are three factors and some fibroblasts. But is it really that easy? ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Williams R

更新日期：2010-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss-of-function mutations in the human ERG1 potassium channel (hERG1) frequently underlie the long QT2 (LQT2) syndrome. The role of the ERG potassium channel in cardiac development was elaborated in an in vivo model of a homozygous, loss-of-function LQT2 syndrome mutation. The hERG N629D mutation was introduced into ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Teng GQ,Zhao X,Lees-Miller JP,Quinn FR,Li P,Rancourt DE,London B,Cross JC,Duff HJ

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrarapid freezing has been applied to monitor the structure of the freeze-fractured myocardial sarcolemma. Our two goals were to demonstrate that large areas of membrane can be preserved free of visible ice crystal damage and, thus, be amenable to quantitative analysis and to compare the structure of directly frozen...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Frank JS,Beydler S,Mottino G

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In addition to its role in reverse cholesterol transport, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol has direct action on numerous cell types that influence cardiovascular and metabolic health. Cellular responses to HDL entail its capacity to invoke cholesterol efflux that causes signal initiation via scavenger recept...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mineo C,Shaul PW

更新日期：2012-09-28 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：:The role of Ca(2+)-dependent potassium channels in mediating vascular responses to activation of adenylate cyclase in vivo is not known. The goal of this study was to examine the hypothesis that dilatation of cerebral arterioles in response to activation of adenylate cyclase is mediated by activation of Ca(2+)-depende...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Taguchi H,Heistad DD,Kitazono T,Faraci FM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) continues to be a major cause of late graft failure after cardiac transplantation. We have demonstrated that Rho-kinase, an effector of the small GTPase Rho, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis. In this study, we examined whether the Rho-kinase-mediated ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hattori T,Shimokawa H,Higashi M,Hiroki J,Mukai Y,Kaibuchi K,Takeshita A

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:During sustained isometric exercise, central command has very little effect on muscle sympathetic nerve activity (MSNA). To determine if central command has a greater effect on MSNA during intermittent than during sustained contractions, MSNA was recorded with microelectrodes (peroneal nerve) during intermittent isome...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Victor RG,Secher NH,Lyson T,Mitchell JH

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of the inward Na+ current (I(Na)) by protein kinase C (PKC) was investigated by intracellular perfusion of a peptide corresponding to the catalytic subunit of PKC (PKCP). The effects of PKC activation independent of membrane-receptor pathways were studied in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes using whole-cel...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Watson CL,Gold MR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis causes clinical disease through luminal narrowing or by precipitating thrombi that obstruct blood flow to the heart (coronary heart disease), brain (ischemic stroke), or lower extremities (peripheral vascular disease). The most common of these manifestations is coronary heart disease, including stable ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bentzon JF,Otsuka F,Virmani R,Falk E

更新日期：2014-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant cardiac Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase (CaMK) is CaMKIIdelta. Here we acutely overexpress CaMKIIdeltaC using adenovirus-mediated gene transfer in adult rabbit ventricular myocytes. This circumvents confounding adaptive effects in CaMKIIdeltaC transgenic mice. CaMKIIdeltaC protein expression a...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kohlhaas M,Zhang T,Seidler T,Zibrova D,Dybkova N,Steen A,Wagner S,Chen L,Brown JH,Bers DM,Maier LS

更新日期：2006-02-03 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied a Syrian family with 3 children who had low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) concentrations of 13.3, 12.2, and 8.6 mmol/L, respectively. Three other siblings and the parents all had LDL values <4.52 mmol/L, suggesting an autosomal-recessive mode of inheritance. The extended pedigree had 66 additional p...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Al-Kateb H,Bähring S,Hoffmann K,Strauch K,Busjahn A,Nürnberg G,Jouma M,Bautz EK,Dresel HA,Luft FC

更新日期：2002-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Abnormal phenotypic switch of vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) is a hallmark of vascular disorders such as atherosclerosis and restenosis after angioplasty. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have emerged as important regulators for VSMC function, and we recently identified miR-663 as critical for controlling human aortic ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Li P,Zhu N,Yi B,Wang N,Chen M,You X,Zhao X,Solomides CC,Qin Y,Sun J

更新日期：2013-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Overexpression of muscle atrophy F-box (MAFbx/atrogin-1), an E3 ubiquitin ligase, induces proteasomal degradation in cardiomyocytes. The role of endogenous MAFbx in regulating cardiac hypertrophy and failure remains unclear. OBJECTIVE:We investigated the role of MAFbx in regulating cardiac hypertrophy and fu...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Usui S,Maejima Y,Pain J,Hong C,Cho J,Park JY,Zablocki D,Tian B,Glass DJ,Sadoshima J

更新日期：2011-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Urea transporters have been cloned from kidney medulla (UT-A) and erythrocytes (UT-B). We determined whether UT-A proteins could be detected in heart and whether their abundance was altered by uremia or hypertension or in human heart failure. In normal rat heart, bands were detected at 56, 51, and 39 kDa. In uremic ra...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Duchesne R,Klein JD,Velotta JB,Doran JJ,Rouillard P,Roberts BR,McDonough AA,Sands JM

更新日期：2001-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane potentials, extracellular potassium activity, and intracellular sodium activity were determined during acute global ischemia in Langendorff perfused guinea pig ventricles by microelectrode techniques. Resting membrane potential decreased with a sigmoidal time course from -82 mV to -49.5 +/- 2.7 mV (SD, n...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kléber AG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene transfer to blood vessels is a promising new approach to the treatment of the vascular diseases, but the feasibility of gene transfer to adult human vessels has not been explored. We introduced an adenovirus vector encoding a marker gene human placental alkaline phosphatase into normal and atherosclerotic human v...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rekhter MD,Simari RD,Work CW,Nabel GJ,Nabel EG,Gordon D

更新日期：1998-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The solid angle theory has long been applied to the interpretation of the ECG; however, quantitative evaluation of its applicability has been minimal. We applied solid angle analysis to the interpretation of the TQ-ST deflection during acute ischemia. Five anesthetized pigs were studied 1--3 hours after coronary occlu...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Richeson JF,Akiyama T,Schenk E

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inwardly rectifying K+ (Kir) channels are responsible for maintaining endothelial membrane potential and play a key role in endothelium-dependent vasorelaxation. In this study, we show that endothelial Kir channels are suppressed by hypercholesterolemic levels of lipoproteins in vitro and by serum hypercholesterolemia...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fang Y,Mohler ER 3rd,Hsieh E,Osman H,Hashemi SM,Davies PF,Rothblat GH,Wilensky RL,Levitan I

更新日期：2006-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Red blood cells and lysate products (erythrolysate) are observed consistently in lymph draining acute and chronic inflammatory reactions and from tissues subjected to trauma or surgical procedures. Using hemoglobin as a marker for erythrolysate, we have measured hemoglobin in lymph up to the 10(-6) M range in a number...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Elias RM,Wandolo G,Ranadive NS,Eisenhoffer J,Johnston MG

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of risk markers has transformed cardiovascular medicine, exemplified by the routine assessment of troponin, for both diagnosis and assessment of prognosis in patients with chest pain. Clinical risk factors form the basis for risk assessment of cardiovascular disease and the addition of biochemical, cellular, a...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Thomas MR,Lip GY

更新日期：2017-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The cardiac inwardly rectifying K(+) current (I(K1)) plays a critical role in modulating excitability by setting the resting membrane potential and shaping phase 3 of the cardiac action potential. OBJECTIVE:This study aims to analyze the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on human atrial I(K1) and on Kir2.1 channe...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gómez R,Caballero R,Barana A,Amorós I,Calvo E,López JA,Klein H,Vaquero M,Osuna L,Atienza F,Almendral J,Pinto A,Tamargo J,Delpón E

更新日期：2009-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In nonischemic heart failure (HF), ventricular tachycardia initiates by a nonreentrant mechanism, but there is altered conduction (that could lead to re-entry) that could arise from changes in gap junctional proteins, especially connexin43 (Cx43). We studied Cx43 expression and phosphorylation state in the left ventri...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ai X,Pogwizd SM

更新日期：2005-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:E1A can evoke G1 exit in cardiac myocytes and other cell types by displacing E2F transcription factors from tumor suppressor "pocket" proteins and by a less well-characterized p300-dependent pathway. Bypassing pocket proteins (through overexpression of E2F-1) reproduces the effect of inactivating pocket proteins (thro...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Akli S,Zhan S,Abdellatif M,Schneider MD

更新日期：1999-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombin stimulates synthesis and secretion of endothelin-1 (ET-1), a vasoactive peptide that triggers responses in the vascular endothelium and smooth muscle. We investigated the signal transduction pathways by which thrombin stimulates preproET-1 gene expression and ET-1 peptide secretion in macrovascular cells (hum...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Marsen TA,Simonson MS,Dunn MJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether the vasoconstriction evoked by A1-adenosine receptor stimulation in the skin circulation caused the release of other substances or whether A1 stimulation modulated the vasoconstriction evoked by other compounds, a potent A1-selective, synthetic agonist, cyclohexyladenosine (CHA), was topically app...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Proctor KG,Stojanov I

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Telomeres-the specialized DNA-protein structures at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes-are essential for maintaining genome stability and integrity and for extended proliferative life span in both cultured cells and in the whole organism. Telomerase and additional telomere-associated proteins are necessary for preserv...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Serrano AL,Andrés V

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous work has shown that neutrophils isolated from whole blood adhere to cardiac-myocytes via CD18 (beta 2 integrin) to cause injury to the heart cells. In vitro, we have found that upon endothelial transmigration, neutrophils can also express alpha 4 beta 1; however, whether this contributes to neutrophil adhesio...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Reinhardt PH,Ward CA,Giles WR,Kubes P

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho regulates various cell functions, including cell morphology and motility. However, the functional role of Rho on the signaling pathway in myocardial cells (MCs) is unknown. In the present study, we attempted to explore the mode of Rho action for c-fos gene expression in MCs. Expression of the c-fos promoter/enhanc...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ueyama T,Sakoda T,Kawashima S,Hiraoka E,Hirata K,Akita H,Yokoyama M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional regulation of cardiovascular development requires precise spatiotemporal control of gene expression, and heterozygous mutations of transcription factors have frequently been implicated in human cardiovascular malformations. A novel mechanism involving posttranscriptional regulation by small, noncod...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Cordes KR,Srivastava D

更新日期：2009-03-27 00:00:00