Decoding the cardiac message: the 2011 Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture.

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：:The spatial and dynamic properties of ventricular fibrillation (VF) may be random or related to cellular electrical properties of the normal heart. Local activation intervals (AIs) in VF may depend on the local refractory period (RP), and sustained VF may require a steep action potential (AP) restitution curve. In gui...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Choi BR,Liu T,Salama G

更新日期：2001-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Mutations in vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) receptor-3 (VEGFR3 or FLT4) cause Milroy disease, an autosomal dominant condition that presents with congenital lymphedema. Mutations in VEGFR3 are identified in only 70% of patients with classic Milroy disease, suggesting genetic heterogeneity. OBJECTIV...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gordon K,Schulte D,Brice G,Simpson MA,Roukens MG,van Impel A,Connell F,Kalidas K,Jeffery S,Mortimer PS,Mansour S,Schulte-Merker S,Ostergaard P

更新日期：2013-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitral regurgitation (MR) causes ventricular dilation, a blunted myocardial force-frequency relation, and increased crossbridge force-time integral (FTI). The mechanism of FTI increase was investigated using sinusoidal length perturbation analysis to compare crossbridge function in skinned left ventricular (LV) epicar...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mulieri LA,Barnes W,Leavitt BJ,Ittleman FP,LeWinter MM,Alpert NR,Maughan DW

更新日期：2002-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a low-density lipoprotein-like lipoprotein and important cardiovascular risk factor whose cognate receptor and intracellular fate remains unknown. OBJECTIVE:Our study aimed to determine the intracellular trafficking pathway for Lp(a) and the receptor responsible for its uptake in li...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sharma M,Redpath GM,Williams MJ,McCormick SP

更新日期：2017-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied postclamp renal artery pressure and renin release in eight conscious dogs with one-kidney Goldblatt hypertension. On normal sodium intake, intrarenal blockade of angiotensin II with Sar1-Ala8-angiotension II (P-113, saralasin acetate) markedly decreased postclamp renal artery pressure and increased renin re...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ayers CR,Katholi RE,Vaughan ED Jr,Carey RM,Kimbrough HM Jr,Yancey MR,Morton CL

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and its complication pulmonary embolism have high morbidity reducing quality of life and leading to death. Cellular mechanisms of DVT initiation remain poorly understood. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine the role of mast cells (MCs) in DVT initiation and validate MCs as a potential...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ponomaryov T,Payne H,Fabritz L,Wagner DD,Brill A

更新日期：2017-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Mononuclear phagocytes (MPs) relevant to atherosclerosis include monocytes, macrophages, and dendritic cells. A decade ago, studies on macrophage behavior in atherosclerotic lesions were often limited to quantification of total macrophage area in cross-sections of plaques. Although technological advances are still nee...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Randolph GJ

更新日期：2014-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The realization of regenerative cardiac medicine depends on the availability of cardiomyocytes in sufficient numbers for transplantation of cardiac tissue and the accompanying blood vessels. Embryonic stem (ES) cells, bone marrow (BM) stem cells, and tissue-derived stem cells are all potential cell sources. Although E...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fukuda K,Yuasa S

更新日期：2006-04-28 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Elevations in C-reactive protein (CRP) are associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk and endothelial dysfunction. CRP antagonizes endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) through processes mediated by the IgG receptor Fcγ receptor IIB (FcγRIIB), its immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motif, ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sundgren NC,Zhu W,Yuhanna IS,Chambliss KL,Ahmed M,Tanigaki K,Umetani M,Mineo C,Shaul PW

更新日期：2011-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The tyrosine phosphorylated protein Crk-associated substrate (CAS) has previously been shown to participate in the cellular processes regulating dynamic changes in the actin architecture and arterial constriction. In the present study, treatment of rat mesenteric arteries with phenylephrine (PE) led to the increase in...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Anfinogenova Y,Wang R,Li QF,Spinelli AM,Tang DD

更新日期：2007-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Heparin inhibits the development of intimal thickening after carotid injury in the rat; however, the specific cellular events responsible for this effect have not been defined. In this study, smooth muscle cell growth fraction and migration into the intima were quantitatively measured in heparin-treated animals. All r...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Clowes AW,Clowes MM

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular Ca2+ regulation is abnormal in diseased hearts. We designed this study to assess the role of the Na(+)-Ca2+ exchanger in excitation-contraction coupling in surviving myocardium of the infarcted heart. We measured cellular contractions and whole-cell currents in single left ventricular myocytes isolated from t...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Litwin SE,Bridge JH

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently discovered class of endogenous, small, noncoding RNAs that regulate about 30% of the encoding genes of the human genome. However, the role of miRNAs in vascular disease is currently completely unknown. Using microarray analysis, we demonstrated for the first time that miRNAs are aberr...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ji R,Cheng Y,Yue J,Yang J,Liu X,Chen H,Dean DB,Zhang C

更新日期：2007-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Because current therapy to treat abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), and particularly to manage small AAA, is limited to elective surgical repair, we explored less invasive molecular therapy by simultaneous inhibition of the transcription factors nuclear factor (NF)kappaB and ets using a decoy strategy. Both NFkappaB and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Miyake T,Aoki M,Masaki H,Kawasaki T,Oishi M,Kataoka K,Ogihara T,Kaneda Y,Morishita R

更新日期：2007-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Blockade of angiotensin type 1 (AT1) receptors induces smooth muscle cell (SMC) death and regression of aortic hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR). We postulated that SMC death and vascular remodeling in this model may be attenuated by z-Val-Ala-Asp(OMe)-CH2F (z-VAD-fmk), a tripeptide inhibitor of cas...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Marchand EL,Der Sarkissian S,Hamet P,deBlois D

更新日期：2003-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:When exposed to an increasing transmural pressure, middle cerebral arteries of the cat exhibit reduction of internal diameter which is mediated by vascular muscle cell depolarization. This laboratory has recently demonstrated that this "pressure-induced" activation is dependent upon the presence of an intact endotheli...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Harder DR,Sanchez-Ferrer C,Kauser K,Stekiel WJ,Rubanyi GM

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have uncovered over a 100 genetic loci associated with atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common arrhythmia. Many of the top AF-associated loci harbor key cardiac transcription factors, including PITX2, TBX5, PRRX1, and ZFHX3. Moreover, the vast majority of the AF-associated variants li...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： van Ouwerkerk AF,Hall AW,Kadow ZA,Lazarevic S,Reyat JS,Tucker NR,Nadadur RD,Bosada FM,Bianchi V,Ellinor PT,Fabritz L,Martin JF,de Laat W,Kirchhof P,Moskowitz IP,Christoffels VM

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Hypoxia promotes renal damage and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The erythrocyte is the only cell type for oxygen (O2) delivery. Sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P)-a highly enriched biolipid in erythrocytes-is recently reported to be induced under high altitude in normal humans to enhance O2 delivery...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Xie T,Chen C,Peng Z,Brown BC,Reisz JA,Xu P,Zhou Z,Song A,Zhang Y,Bogdanov MV,Kellems RE,D'Alessandro A,Zhang W,Xia Y

更新日期：2020-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Caspase-1 processes the interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL-18 inactive precursors to the biologically active cytokines that are known to have proatherogenic effects. The present study investigated the genetic variability of the CASP1 gene and plasma levels of caspase-1 in relation to cardiovascular risk. In Europeans, 3 ta...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Blankenberg S,Godefroy T,Poirier O,Rupprecht HJ,Barbaux S,Bickel C,Nicaud V,Schnabel R,Kee F,Morrison C,Evans A,Lackner KJ,Cambien F,Münzel T,Tiret L,AtheroGene Investigators.

更新日期：2006-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Gap junction pharmacology is a nascent field. Previous studies have identified molecules that enhance intercellular communication, and may offer potential for innovative antiarrhythmic therapy. However, their specific molecular target(s) and mechanism(s) of action remain unknown. Previously, we identified a 34-aa pept...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Verma V,Larsen BD,Coombs W,Lin X,Spagnol G,Sorgen PL,Taffet SM,Delmar M

更新日期：2009-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC) gene encodes a major contractile protein whose expression exclusively marks the smooth muscle cell (SMC) lineage. To better understand smooth muscle differentiation at the transcriptional level, we have initiated studies to identify those DNA sequences critical for express...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Madsen CS,Regan CP,Hungerford JE,White SL,Manabe I,Owens GK

更新日期：1998-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular potassium activity in guinea pig left atria was measured using potassium ion-selective microelectrodes and conventional microelectrodes. The effects of extracellular potassium concentration and acetylcholine on both intracellular potassium activity and the relationship between the resting membrane potent...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Baumgarten CM,Singer DH,Fozzard HA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) stimulates the formation of a collateral circulation on arterial occlusion. The present study served to determine whether these proarteriogenic properties of MCP-1 are preserved in hyperlipidemic apolipoprotein E-deficient (apoE-/-) mice and whether it affects the systemic de...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： van Royen N,Hoefer I,Böttinger M,Hua J,Grundmann S,Voskuil M,Bode C,Schaper W,Buschmann I,Piek JJ

更新日期：2003-02-07 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：:We determined the effects of changing the spatial dispersion of acetylcholine release on the phase-dependent chronotropic responses to vagal stimulation in anesthetized dogs. We stimulated the vagus nerves with one brief burst of electrical pulses each cardiac cycle, and we changed the timing of the stimulus by a smal...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yang TE,Cheng J,Levy MN

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High affinity binding sites of angiotensin II (A II) have been characterized in rabbit renomedullary interstitial cells in tissue culture. Binding was rapid, specific, and saturable. Scatchard analysis of steady state saturation binding data at 22 degrees C indicated a single binding site with an equilibrium dissociat...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Brown CA,Zusman RM,Haber E

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were carried out to determine the contribution of cardiopulmonary receptors to the renal responses to head-out water immersion in the nonhuman primate. Immersion to the suprasternal notch was associated with significant increases in central venous pressure, urine flow, and sodium excretion. The increased sodiu...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gilmore JP,Zucker IH

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein kinase A (PKA)-mediated enhancement of L-type calcium currents (I(Ca,L)) is essential for sympathetic regulation of the heartbeat and is the classic example of channel regulation by phosphorylation, and its loss is a common hallmark of heart failure. Mechanistic understanding of how distinct Ca(V) channel subu...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Miriyala J,Nguyen T,Yue DT,Colecraft HM

更新日期：2008-04-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm involves substantial proteolysis of the arterial extracellular matrix. The lysosomal cysteine proteases can exert potent elastolytic and collagenolytic activity. Human atherosclerotic plaques have increased cysteine protease content and decreased levels...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sukhova GK,Wang B,Libby P,Pan JH,Zhang Y,Grubb A,Fang K,Chapman HA,Shi GP

更新日期：2005-02-18 00:00:00