Peripheral alpha 2 adrenoceptor stimulation contributes to the sympatholytic effect of guanfacine in humans.

abstract：:Reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is an important target of antihypertensive therapy. Nonpharmacological approaches such as weight reduction and exercise training have favorable effects on other risk factors. However, there are few data on their effects on LVH. Athletes have eccentric rather than concentr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Jennings G,Dart A,Meredith I,Korner P,Laufer E,Dewar E

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromocriptine, a dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, has been reported to have hypotensive effects in anesthetized and conscious normotensive rats but its mechanism of action is still not fully understood. Therefore, we studied the changes in mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) elicited by an intravenou...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lahlou S,Demenge P

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary artery reperfusion established by thrombolytic agents early in the evolution of an acute myocardial infarction is known to result in the salvage of otherwise jeopardized heart muscle. Recently, experimental evidence has suggested that reactive products of oxygen are formed as a result of reperfusion and can i...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Mickelson JK,Simpson PJ,Jackson CV,Lucchesi BR

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We investigate the impact of different regimens of parenteral hydrogen sulfide (H2S) administration on myocardium during ischemia-reperfusion (IR) and the molecular pathways involved in its cytoprotective effects. METHODS:Eighteen male Yorkshire pigs underwent 60 minutes of mid-left anterior descending coron...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Osipov RM,Robich MP,Feng J,Liu Y,Clements RT,Glazer HP,Sodha NR,Szabo C,Bianchi C,Sellke FW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 12 patients receiving either chronic oral (p.o.) maintenance bretylium and/or acute intravenous (i.v.) bretylium to evaluate drug efficacy and pharmacokinetics. All patients were survivors of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. A new assay for bretylium was applied, and it proved sensitive and reliable...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Anderson JL,Patterson E,Wagner JG,Johnson TA,Lucchesi BR,Pitt B

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute systemic and regional hemodynamic responses to a single oral dose (4 mg) of the angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor perindopril were investigated in 10 patients with severe congestive heart failure. Perindopril produced significant and long-lasting decreases in systemic vascular resistance (-18%), right ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Thuillez C,Richard C,Loueslati H,Auzepy P,Giudicelli JF

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accelerated atherosclerosis and its long-term sequelae are a major cause of late mortality among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Traditional Framingham risk factors such as hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and smoking do not account in entirety for this risk. SLE specific factors like di...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Stojan G,Petri M

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trans-diclofurime has been shown to be a very potent class II calcium antagonist (see preceding report), and we have examined its molecular interactions with the different receptor sites at the Ca2+ channel. Trans-diclofurime did not affect [3H]nitrendipine binding to rat cortical membranes at 37 degrees C and showed ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Mir AK,Spedding M

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study we characterized the effects of and receptors for endothelins (ETs) in the guinea pig mesenteric arterial and venous vasculatures. Endothelin-1 (ET-1) (10-500 pmol) induced a dose-dependent increase of perfusion pressure of the arterial and venous beds. ET-2 (10-500 pmol) also induced a dose-depen...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Berthiaume N,Claing A,Yano M,D'Orléans-Juste P

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hallmark of vascular disease is the inappropriate proliferative and synthetic behavior of smooth muscle cells. This phenotypically immature behavior arises as a consequence of the myocytes undergoing conversion from a contractile to proliferative/secretory cell type. The stimulus invoked for this dedifferentiative p...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Scott-Burden T,Hahn AW,Bühler FR,Resink TJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are important in innate immune responses, which are crucial in collateral artery formation (arteriogenesis). TLR4⁻/⁻ mice undergoing hind limb ischemia show decreased perfusion recovery accompanied by an impaired infiltration of inflammatory cells. TLR antagonists are currently developed and...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： van den Borne P,Bastiaansen AJ,de Vries MR,Quax PH,Hoefer IE,Pasterkamp G

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salusin-alpha and salusin-beta are newly identified bioactive peptides with hemodynamic and mitogenic activities. Recent studies have shown that salusins improve calcium uptake and protein synthesis in neonatal rat cardiomyocytes, suggesting that salusins may be regulatory factors for myocardial growth and hypertrophy...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Xiao-Hong Y,Li L,Yan-Xia P,Hong L,Wei-Fang R,Yan L,An-Jing R,Chao-Shu T,Wen-Jun Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hypotensive effects of ketanserin, a selective blocker of 5-hydroxytryptamine2, are well defined, but its electrophysiologic effects in humans are not. Intravenous ketanserin (0.15 mg/kg) was therefore given to 10 patients undergoing electrophysiologic evaluation, and data were obtained before and after drug admin...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nademanee K,Lockhart E,Pruitt C,Singh BN

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the effect of Vitis vinifera grape skin ACH09 extract (ACH09) on metabolic disorders and oxidative stress in adult offspring of rats fed a high-fat diet (HF) during lactation. Four groups of female rats were fed: control diet (7% fat); ACH09 (7% fat + 200 mg·kg·d ACH09 orally); HF (24% fat); HF+ AC...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Emiliano AF,de Cavalho LC,da Silva Cristino Cordeiro V,da Costa CA,de Oliveira PB,Queiroz EF,Col Moreira DD,Boaventura GT,de Moura RS,Resende AC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of long-term monotherapy with four beta-blockers provided with different pharmacological properties on plasma lipids in both normocholesterolemic and hypercholesterolemic hypertensive patients. After a 1-month run-in period on placebo, 70 hypertensive patients with bas...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Fogari R,Zoppi A,Tettamanti F,Poletti L,Lazzari P,Pasotti C,Corradi L

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In untreated hypertensive patients, blood pressure is decreased during the hours that follow a single bout of exercise, but the mechanisms involved are as yet unknown. As antihypertensive chemotherapy may interfere with cardiovascular regulation, we investigated the effects of calcium antagonism with isradipine (slow-...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Cléroux J,Kouamé N,Yardley C,Marshall A,Lacourcière Y

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo vasoconstrictor effect of endothelin-1 (ET-1) was investigated on feline and canine basilar arteries. The basilar artery caliber was angiographically measured after either vertebral artery perfusion or cisternal injection of the peptide. In both cats and dogs, ET-1 (5-500 pmol) induced a dose-dependent bas...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Shigeno T,Mima T,Takakura K,Yanagisawa M,Saito A,Goto K,Masaki T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since beta-adrenoceptor blocking drugs were originally discovered and shown to be important therapeutic agents in the management of both angina pectoris and hypertension, many other similar drugs have become available. These share the common property of beta-adrenoceptor antagonism, though they may vary in terms of po...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： McDevitt DG

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor captopril on infarct size and cardiovascular hemodynamics were studied in 35 conscious dogs subjected to 24 h of coronary occlusion. Following occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 10 dogs were infused with captopril 0.25 mg/kg/h i.v. (group 1...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Daniell HB,Carson RR,Ballard KD,Thomas GR,Privitera PJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Amlodipine Cardiovascular Community Trial (ACCT), which was a large multicenter study designed to assess the effects of the calcium channel blocker amlodipine besylate (Norvasc) as monotherapy for treatment of mild to moderate hypertension, we sought to determine the effects of amlodipine on regression ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kloner RA,Sowers JR,DiBona GF,Gaffney M,Wein M

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of coronary hemodynamics is a complex process. One important factor that interferes with the regulation of coronary tone is the pathophysiological state of the vessels: stimuli that in normal vessels provoke no or only a slight vasoconstriction may cause a severe vasoconstriction in diseased vessels. Th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： van Gilst WH,Tio RA,van Wijngaarden J,de Graeff PA,Wesseling H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As cyclic 3',5'-guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) is still discussed as a possible mediator of the negative inotropic effects of cholinergic agents, the influence of acetylcholine (ACh) on force of contraction and cGMP tissue levels was studied in isolated, electrically driven guinea pig auricles in the presence of methy...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Groschner K,Holzmann S,Kukovetz WR

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors captopril, enalapril, HOE 498, and its prodrug on reperfusion arrhythmias after 15 min of coronary ligation were investigated in the isolated rat heart. Drug concentrations were equipotent in their effect on angiotensin I pressor response. Furthermore, ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： van Gilst WH,de Graeff PA,Wesseling H,de Langen CD

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some recent studies complementing earlier reports on the pharmacology and pharmacokinetics of indoramin are briefly reviewed. Competitive blockade of peripheral postsynaptic alpha 1-adrenoceptors is confirmed as the primary mechanism for the antihypertensive activity of indoramin. Various reasons have been proposed to...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Archibald JL

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a complex vascular disease initiated by abnormal accumulation of plasma lipoproteins in the subendothelial space. Elevated levels of plasma triglycerides (TG) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol as well as low concentrations of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) play a causal role in the devel...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Declercq V,Yeganeh B,Moshtaghi-Kashanian GR,Khademi H,Bahadori B,Moghadasian MH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This open, general practice study looked at the pharmacokinetics of ramipril over a period of 1 year in elderly (greater than 65 years) hypertensive patients. Ten patients with a diastolic blood pressure between 95 and 125 mm Hg were treated with 5 mg of ramipril daily for 4 weeks, followed by an additional 11 months ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Hosie J,Meredith P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested the presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzyme in human platelets. We herein provide definitive evidence for the presence of both endothelial constitutive NOS (ecNOS) and inducible NOS (iNOS) isoforms and their mRNA in human platelets. Total RNA was isolated from human platelets, an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Chen LY,Mehta JL

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured vascular smooth muscle cells derived by enzymatic dissociation of rabbit aortic media were used for study of alpha 1-adrenergic receptors (AAR) and receptor-coupled calcium flux. AAR were characterized by binding of the alpha 1-selective radioligand [3H]prazosin, and norepinephrine-stimulated 45calcium efflux...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Colucci WS,Brock TA,Atkinson WJ,Alexander RW,Gimbrone MA Jr

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amylin is a 37-amino acid peptide that shares considerable homology with calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Both peptides exert glycoregulatory actions and produce vasodilation of the cardiovascular system. We wished to determine if amylin exerts vasodilatory action in the perfused mesenteric arterial bed in a ma...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Westfall TC,Curfman-Falvey M

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes mellitus is associated with significant morbidity and mortality caused by the micro- and macro-vascular complications that all too frequently develop during the lifetime of the diabetic patient. In attempts to treat the complications of diabetes, several different treatment strategies have been investigated. ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Savage S,Miller LA,Schrier RW

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00