Calcium channel blockers enhance cholesteryl ester hydrolysis and decrease total cholesterol accumulation in human aortic tissue.

abstract：RATIONALE:Although mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) transplantation has been shown to promote cardiac repair in acute myocardial injury in vivo, its overall restorative capacity appears to be restricted mainly because of poor cell viability and low engraftment in the ischemic myocardium. Specific chemokines are upregulated ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Huang J,Zhang Z,Guo J,Ni A,Deb A,Zhang L,Mirotsou M,Pratt RE,Dzau VJ

更新日期：2010-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue repair after injury is generally inversely related to the extent of scarring, suggesting the possibility that regeneration could be promoted by interventions that inhibit scar formation. New work by Dulauroy et al has identified a myofibroblast progenitor with pericyte characteristics as an important mediator o...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Steinhauser ML,Lee RT

更新日期：2013-01-18 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：:Fetal ventricular performance has been considered limited because ventricular output does not increase with rapid volume expansion above mean left atrial pressures (mLAPs) of 5-7 mm Hg. To explore relations between preload, afterload, and stroke volume (SV) in the fetal left ventricle, we instrumented 126-129 days ges...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hawkins J,Van Hare GF,Schmidt KG,Rudolph AM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of these experiments was to determine whether or not acetylcholine modulated the electrophysiological effects of isoproterenol on canine cardiac Purkinje fibers. Conventional microelectrode techniques were used. Predictably, isoproterenol produced shortening of action potential duration; acetylcholine sign...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bailey JC,Watanabe AM,Besch HR Jr,Lathrop DA

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The impact of severe cardiovascular disease and critical limb ischemia (CLI) on the bone marrow (BM) is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE:To investigate microvascular and neuropathic changes in BM of patients with CLI. METHODS AND RESULTS:BM biopsies were obtained from patients with CLI (n=33) included in the Reju...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Teraa M,Fledderus JO,Rozbeh RI,Leguit RJ,Verhaar MC,Juventas Study Group{dagger}.

更新日期：2014-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of contracture in the manifestation of calcium paradox-induced damage was examined using 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM) to inhibit myofibrillar activity. Calcium and sodium gain, loss of intracellular components, and changes in structure were monitored. If 30 mM BDM was added at the time of calcium repletion ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Daly MJ,Elz JS,Nayler WG

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myocardial stunning is a form of reversible myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury associated with systolic and diastolic contractile dysfunction. In the isolated rat heart model, myocardial stunning is characterized by specific C-terminal proteolysis of the myofilament protein, troponin I (cTnI) that yields cTnI1-193...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Foster DB,Noguchi T,VanBuren P,Murphy AM,Van Eyk JE

更新日期：2003-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Effects of blood flow on the production of prostacyclin (PGI2) were examined in the canine femoral artery perfused ex vivo. Each artery was perfused in situ with medium 199, under conditions of simulated blood flow. To simulate the normal and abnormal blood flow waveforms at the same mean flow rate, we developed a flo...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Onohara T,Okadome K,Yamamura S,Mii S,Sugimachi K

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-wave alternans (TWA), an ABAB oscillation, has been postulated as the initial pattern in a stepwise progression to higher-order oscillations, culminating in sudden arrhythmic death. The present study is the first to provide experimental evidence to support this intriguing concept. Epicardial and endocardial ECGs fro...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nearing BD,Verrier RL

更新日期：2002-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Generation of proapoptotic sphingolipids by neutral sphingomyelinase activation is an early response to hypoxia/reoxygenation (HR) in cardiomyocytes. Factor associated with neutral sphingomyelinase activation (FAN) mediates activation of sphingomyelinase and subsequent apoptosis. However, the participation of FAN in H...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： O'Brien NW,Gellings NM,Guo M,Barlow SB,Glembotski CC,Sabbadini RA

更新日期：2003-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to test the hypotheses that 1) myoplasmic [Ca2+] is the primary determinant of crossbridge phosphorylation and that 2) phosphorylation is the primary determinant of crossbridge interactions with the thin filament in swine carotid arterial smooth muscle. We tested these hypotheses by evaluating the re...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rembold CM,Murphy RA

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiments were performed to investigate whether neurogenic inflammation in rat trachea (with edema formation and protein extravasation when the circulation is intact) induced by electrical field stimulation of neuropeptide-containing C fibers in the vagal nerve is accompanied by increased negativity of i...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Woie K,Koller ME,Heyeraas KJ,Reed RK

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Loss-of-function studies in cardiac myocytes (CMs) are currently limited by the need for appropriate conditional knockout alleles. The factors that regulate CM maturation are poorly understood. Previous studies on CM maturation have been confounded by heart dysfunction caused by whole organ gene inactivation....

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Guo Y,VanDusen NJ,Zhang L,Gu W,Sethi I,Guatimosim S,Ma Q,Jardin BD,Ai Y,Zhang D,Chen B,Guo A,Yuan GC,Song LS,Pu WT

更新日期：2017-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) functions principally as a diffusible paracrine effector. The exception is in cardiomyocytes where both NO synthases (NOS) and target proteins coexist, allowing NO to work in an autocrine/intracrine fashion. However, the most abundant myocyte isoform (NOS3) is far more expressed in vascular endotheli...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Champion HC,Georgakopoulos D,Takimoto E,Isoda T,Wang Y,Kass DA

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinopeptide A (FPA) levels were measured in a group of 130 controls and patients with various types of primary hyperlipidemia to investigate whether an increased steady state level of thrombin activity is present in hyperlipidemic patients. In a subset of 56 subjects, levels of clotting factors II, VII, and X were ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nossel HL,Smith FR,Seplowitz AH,Dell RB,Sciacca RR,Merskey C,Goodman DS

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the pulmonary vascular effects of prostacylin, PGI2, in the cat with intact chest under conditions of controlled blood flow. Intralobar injections of PGI2, 0.03--1 microgram, decreased arterial pressure in the perfused lobe in a dose-dependent manner. Inasmuch as lobar blood flow was held constant and left ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hyman AL,Kadowitz PJ

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Myocardial infarction causes irreversible tissue damage, leading to heart failure. We recently discovered that canonical Wnt signaling and the Wnt10b ligand are strongly induced in mouse hearts after infarction. Wnt10b regulates cell fate in various organs, but its role in the heart is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Paik DT,Rai M,Ryzhov S,Sanders LN,Aisagbonhi O,Funke MJ,Feoktistov I,Hatzopoulos AK

更新日期：2015-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Smooth muscle precursor cells have previously been reported to reside in bone marrow and in the circulation, but little is currently known regarding the proximate stimuli for smooth muscle cell differentiation of these putative progenitors. OBJECTIVE:Because local thrombin generation occurs as an initial res...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Martin K,Weiss S,Metharom P,Schmeckpeper J,Hynes B,O'Sullivan J,Caplice N

更新日期：2009-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Transmural dispersion of repolarization has been shown to play a role in the genesis of ventricular tachycardia and fibrillation in different animal models of heart failure (HF). Heterogeneous changes of repolarization within the midmyocardial population of ventricular cells have been considered an important ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Glukhov AV,Fedorov VV,Lou Q,Ravikumar VK,Kalish PW,Schuessler RB,Moazami N,Efimov IR

更新日期：2010-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)γ agonists attenuate atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). PPARγ, a nuclear receptor, is expressed on many cell types including smooth muscle cells (SMCs). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a PPARγ agonist reduces angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Subramanian V,Golledge J,Ijaz T,Bruemmer D,Daugherty A

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The fluorescent dye 2',7'-bis(carboxyethyl)-5,6-carboxyfluorescein (BCECF) was used to measure pHi in the spontaneously hypertensive rat (SHR) and in normal rat cardiac myocytes under nominally HCO3-free (20 mmol/L HEPES-buffered) conditions. When only the Na-H exchanger was blocked, the intrinsic buffering power (bet...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wu ML,Tsai ML,Tseng YZ

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells (MPCs) have been effective in large animal models of ischemic and nonischemic heart failure (HF). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the feasibility and safety of 3 doses (25, 75, or 150 million cells) of immunoselected allogeneic MPCs in chronic HF patients in a phase 2 trial. MET...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Perin EC,Borow KM,Silva GV,DeMaria AN,Marroquin OC,Huang PP,Traverse JH,Krum H,Skerrett D,Zheng Y,Willerson JT,Itescu S,Henry TD

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The sphingolipid metabolites, sphingosine (SPH), SPH 1-phosphate (S1P), and sphingosylphosphorylcholine (SPC), can act as intracellular as well as extracellular signaling molecules. These compounds have been implicated in the regulation of cell growth, differentiation, and programmed cell death in nonmyocytes, but the...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sekiguchi K,Yokoyama T,Kurabayashi M,Okajima F,Nagai R

更新日期：1999-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this study was to test the hypothesis that the cardioprotective effects of the late phase of ischemic preconditioning (PC) can be mimicked by treatment with NO donors. In phase I (studies of myocardial stunning), conscious rabbits underwent a sequence of six 4-minute coronary occlusion/4-minute reperfusion...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Takano H,Tang XL,Qiu Y,Guo Y,French BA,Bolli R

更新日期：1998-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondria play a key role in determining cell fate during exposure to stress. Their role during ischemia/reperfusion is particularly critical because of the conditions that promote both apoptosis by the mitochondrial pathway and necrosis by irreversible damage to mitochondria in association with mitochondrial perme...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Weiss JN,Korge P,Honda HM,Ping P

更新日期：2003-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteases of the plasminogen activator (PA) and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) system play an important role in smooth muscle cell (SMC) migration and neointima formation after vascular injury. Inhibition of either PAs or MMPs has previously been shown to result in decreased neointima formation in vivo. To inhibit bot...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lamfers ML,Grimbergen JM,Aalders MC,Havenga MJ,de Vries MR,Huisman LG,van Hinsbergh VW,Quax PH

更新日期：2002-11-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent pharmacological studies have shown that perivascular nerves can influence the development and function of vascular endothelial cells (ECs). However, morphological studies have not yet been carried out to investigate whether these functional changes are associated with changes in vasoactive substances in ECs. We...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Aliev G,Ralevic V,Burnstock G

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heptanol blocks sodium current (INa) in nerve, but its effects on cardiac INa have not been well characterized. Block of INa by heptanol was studied in 16 internally perfused voltage-clamped cardiac Purkinje cells at reduced Na+ (45 mM outside, 0 mM inside). Heptanol block of peak sodium conductance was well described...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nelson WL,Makielski JC

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To clarify the physiological role of calcium-activated neutral protease (CANP) in human platelets, we loaded the platelets with a Ca2+ -sensitive fluorescent dye, fura-2, and measured the degree of aggregation, cytosolic calcium ion concentration [( Ca2+]i), and proteolysis by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Toyo-oka T,Shin WS,Okai Y,Dan Y,Morita M,Iizuka M,Sugimoto T

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00