Investigational analysis reveals a potential role for neutrophils in giant-cell arteritis disease progression.

abstract：:Pinacidil belongs to a novel group of compounds that enhance the potassium permeability of vascular smooth muscle. Evidence also exists that this drug enhances the potassium permeability of cardiac tissue. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine if pinacidil alters potassium-channel activity in heart...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Arena JP,Kass RS

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：RATIONALE:Atherosclerosis proceeds through a multistep reaction that begins with endothelial injury caused by a host of stress signals, among which oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) plays a critical role. OxLDL disrupts normal functionality of the endothelium by upregulating adhesion molecules (eg, ICAM-1) and c...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fang F,Yang Y,Yuan Z,Gao Y,Zhou J,Chen Q,Xu Y

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric data from stable (nonedematous) isolated dog lungs, perfused with nearly cell-free perfusates, were compared to similar stereological evaluations of isolated dog lungs after induction of severe acute hydrostatic edema. In the edematous lungs, capillary surface and volume densities were substantially incre...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： DeFouw DO,Berendsen PB

更新日期：1978-07-01 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：: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：:We used two experimental techniques to study the effect of lidocaine hydrochloride on the early inward transient (sodium) current as it is reflected by the maximum rate of change of action potential phase 0 (Vmax). We assessed the effect of lidocaine on Vmax as Purkinje fibers were slowly depolarized by increasing the...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Weld FM,Bigger JT Jr

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of centrally originating sympathetic activity to the myocardial extracellular accumulation of noradrenaline during the early phase of ischemia has been assessed in a perfused (Langendorff) rat heart preparation isolated except for its sympathetic innervation. A 10-minute electrical stimulation (4 Hz, ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Dart AM,Schömig A,Dietz R,Mayer E,Kübler W

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The vascular adventitia is a complex layer of the vessel wall consisting of vasa vasorum microvessels, nerves, fibroblasts, immune cells, and resident progenitor cells. Adventitial progenitors express the stem cell markers, Sca1 and CD34 (adventitial sca1-positive progenitor cells [AdvSca1]), have the potenti...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Majesky MW,Horita H,Ostriker A,Lu S,Regan JN,Bagchi A,Dong XR,Poczobutt J,Nemenoff RA,Weiser-Evans MC

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the mechanism(s) of hypotensive action of platelet-activating factor (PAF) in anesthetized dogs. PAF (0.5 micrograms/kg i.v.) caused a biphasic hypotension; the first phase was transient and was accompanied by a decrease in systemic vascular resistance and an increase in cardiac output. Aspirin-DL-lysine, ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yamanaka S,Miura K,Yukimura T,Okumura M,Yamamoto K

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Proteasomal degradation is altered in many disease phenotypes including cardiac hypertrophy, a prevalent condition leading to heart failure. Our recent investigations identified heterogeneous subpopulations of proteasome complexes in the heart and implicated multiple mechanisms for their regulation. OBJECTIV...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Drews O,Tsukamoto O,Liem D,Streicher J,Wang Y,Ping P

更新日期：2010-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to determine if opioids were detectable in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and if these concentrations were altered by hemorrhagic hypotension. This study was further designed to determine the effects of topically administered opioids on pial arteriolar diameter during normotension and hypotension. C...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Armstead WM,Mirro R,Busija DW,Desiderio DM,Leffler CW

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vasoactive mechanisms of the serine protease alpha-thrombin were examined in isolated coronary arteries from dogs. In resting coronary arteries with endothelium, alpha-thrombin caused concentration-dependent contractions that were characterized by an initial transient relaxation followed by slowly developing susta...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tesfamariam B

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sulfinpyrazone on endothelial injury induced by homocysteine has been studied both in vitro, using cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells, and in vivo, using a primate model of homocysteine-induced arteriosclerosis. Oral sulfinpyrazone (250 mumol/kg body weight per day in three divided doses) in...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Harker LA,Harlan JM,Ross R

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis and developmental remodeling of cardiovascular tissues involve coordinated regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis. In the heart, clear evidence points toward focal apoptosis as a contributor to development of the embryonic outflow tract, cardiac valves, conducting system, and the developing coron...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fisher SA,Langille BL,Srivastava D

更新日期：2000-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of obesity has increased worldwide over the past few decades. In 2013, the prevalence of obesity exceeded the 50% of the adult population in some countries from Oceania, North Africa, and Middle East. Lower but still alarmingly high prevalence was observed in North America (≈30%) and in Western Europe (...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ortega FB,Lavie CJ,Blair SN

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms underlying the blunted contractile response to beta-adrenergic receptor (beta-AR) stimulation in heart failure (HF) are incompletely understood, especially with regard to beta-AR subtype-specific regulation of L-type Ca2+ channels. We evaluated the impact of HF induced by pacing tachycardia on beta-AR r...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： He JQ,Balijepalli RC,Haworth RA,Kamp TJ

更新日期：2005-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle ring finger (MuRF) proteins have been implicated in transmitting mechanical forces to cell signaling pathways through their interactions with the giant protein titin. Recent evidence has linked mechanically-induced stimuli with the control of serum response factor activity and localization through MuRF2. This o...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Willis MS,Ike C,Li L,Wang DZ,Glass DJ,Patterson C

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a highly atherogenic genetic disorder leading to premature coronary heart disease (CHD), usually before 60 years of age. We studied an extended multigenerational kindred with FH linked to chromosome 1p32 in which atherosclerotic complications were either delayed or pr...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Canizales-Quinteros S,Aguilar-Salinas CA,Reyes-Rodríguez E,Riba L,Rodríguez-Torres M,Ramírez-Jiménez S,Huertas-Vázquez A,Fragoso-Ontiveros V,Zentella-Dehesa A,Ventura-Gallegos JL,Vega-Hernández G,López-Estrada A,Aurón-Gómez M,G

更新日期：2003-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes and carotid arterial and superior vena caval (SVC) catheters were placed in eight nonpregnant ewes and 11 fetuses (109-129 days gestation) to measure heart rate, arterial presssure, P-R interval, left ventricular pre-ejection period (PEP), and left ventricular ejection time (LVET), b...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Berman W Jr,Ravenscroft PJ,Sheiner LB,Heymann MA,Melmon KL,Rudolph AM

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrotonic coupling of cardiac myocytes at gap junctions may influence patterns of conduction in myocardium. To delineate the three-dimensional structure and distribution of intercellular junctions, we analyzed serial ultrathin sections of canine myocardium with transmission electron microscopy and disaggregated myo...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hoyt RH,Cohen ML,Saffitz JE

更新日期：1989-03-01 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：:Adipose tissue (AT) plays a central role in both metabolic health and pathophysiology. Its expansion in obesity results in increased mortality and morbidity, with contributions to cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus, fatty liver disease, and cancer. Obesity prevalence is at an all-time high and is projected to b...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Weinstock A,Moura Silva H,Moore KJ,Schmidt AM,Fisher EA

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the absence of a systematic development plan, β-blockers have reached the top tier of medical therapies for chronic heart failure. The successful outcome was due to the many dedicated investigators who produced, over a 30-year period, increasing evidence that β-blocking agents should or actually did improve th...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bristow MR

更新日期：2011-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been proposed that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) bound to the 60-kD LPS binding protein (LBP) forms an LPS/LBP complex that, in turn, binds to the CD14 receptor on monocytes/macrophages and stimulates the release of cytokines. We examined the role of LBP and CD14 in tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) production...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ishii Y,Wang Y,Haziot A,del Vecchio PJ,Goyert SM,Malik AB

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitated phasic epimyocardial microcirculatory coronary blood flow velocity patterns in the beating left ventricle. Using a newly developed floating objective and high-speed cinematography, red cell velocities in small arterioles, capillaries, and small venules and microvascular diameters in the superficial laye...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ashikawa K,Kanatsuka H,Suzuki T,Takishima T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Diabetes mellitus is frequently complicated by cardiovascular disease, such as vascular calcification and endothelial dysfunction, which have been associated with bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether hyperglycemia in vitro and diabetes in vivo promote vascular BMP activity and c...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Boström KI,Jumabay M,Matveyenko A,Nicholas SB,Yao Y

更新日期：2011-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Circumstantial evidence links the development of heart failure to posttranslational modifications of mitochondrial proteins, including lysine acetylation (Kac). Nonetheless, direct evidence that Kac compromises mitochondrial performance remains sparse. OBJECTIVE:This study sought to explore the premise that ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Davidson MT,Grimsrud PA,Lai L,Draper JA,Fisher-Wellman KH,Narowski TM,Abraham DM,Koves TR,Kelly DP,Muoio DM

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells with endothelial phenotype generated from adult peripheral blood have emerging diagnostic and therapeutic potential. This study examined the lineage relationship between, and angiogenic function of, early endothelial progenitor cells (EPCs) and late outgrowth endothelial cells (OECs) in culture. Culture conditio...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gulati R,Jevremovic D,Peterson TE,Chatterjee S,Shah V,Vile RG,Simari RD

更新日期：2003-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradykinin relaxes arterioles on the brain's surface. This response is endothelium-dependent. The data presented here confirm the hypothesis that hydroxyl free radical mediates this response and may be the endothelium-dependent relaxing factor for bradykinin in this microvascular bed. The response to a locally applied...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rosenblum WI

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00