Beneficial effects of the calcium antagonist PN 200-110 in patients with congestive heart failure.

abstract：:We used isolated superior mesenteric arteries (SMAs) from hemorrhagic-shock rats and hypoxia-treated vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs; mimicking the shock state) to observe the effects of platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF; Rac1 stimulator) and NSC23766 (Rac1 antagonist) on vascular reactivity and the relationshi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Li T,Yang G,Xu J,Zhu Y,Liu L

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study the contribution of alternating architecture and Ca2+ handling of mitochondria to cytosolic Ca2+ homeostasis was elucidated under normoglycemic and hyperglycemic (HGC) conditions in the human endothelial cell line EA.hy926. Exposure of endothelial cells to hyperglycemic medium elevated basal cytosolic fr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Paltauf-Doburzynska J,Malli R,Graier WF

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated perfused rat kidney was used to examine the possible mechanisms involved in the hypotensive/vasodilator actions of cryptolepine. In kidneys preconstricted by phenylephrine (PE 5-7.5 x 10(-7) M), cryptolepine at bolus doses of 2.5, 5, and 10 micrograms elicited dose-dependent reductions in perfusion pressure b...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Oyekan AO

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have addressed the possibility that brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) possesses a profile of bioactivity that is distinct from that of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). Accordingly, we assessed the biologic actions of BNP in the setting of maximal or near-maximal ANP-induced biologic activity. Background ANP...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Charles CJ,Espiner EA,Nicholls MG,Rademaker MT,Richards AM

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments were designed to examine mechanisms of relaxations to nitric oxide (NO) in venous smooth muscle. Rings of canine femoral veins without endothelium were suspended for measurement of isometric force in organ chambers. Concentration-response curves to NO and 8-Br-cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) were obt...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Bracamonte MP,Burnett JC Jr,Miller VM

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier study in vivo showed that a lower dose of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) brought greater enhancement in fibrin gel permeability (Ks) than a higher dose. To assess whether this finding related to modifications of fibrinogen clotting property by ASA, purified fibrinogen was incubated with ASA and/or salicylic ac...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： He S,Bark N,Wang H,Svensson J,Blombäck M

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure is unique among the major cardiovascular disorders in that it alone is increasing in prevalence while there has been a striking decrease in other conditions. Some of this can be attributed to the aging of the U.S. and European populations. The ability to salvage patients with myocardial damage is also a ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Greenberg B

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute occlusion of a coronary artery can result in myocardial infarction-a leading cause of premature death. Prompt restoration of blood flow to the myocardium can prevent excessive death of cardiomyocytes and improve clinical outcome. Although the major mechanism of cell death after reperfusion is necrosis, it is now...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Rauf A,Shah M,Yellon DM,Davidson SM

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the acute effects of the antianginal drug carbocromene (chromonar) in dogs (20 mg/kg p.o., twice daily for 8 weeks) on mortality, hemodynamics, coronary collateral blood flow, and myocardial infarct size. Following the chronic pretreatment and during acute phase of the experiments, the animals rece...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Fiedler VB,Nitz RE,Buchheim S

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta-adrenoceptor antagonists (beta-blockers) are commonly used in clinical pharmacotherapy of cardiovascular diseases. Carvedilol and nebivolol possess beneficial effects on myocardial function in situations of oxidative stress associated with intracellular calcium overload. This preservation of contractile function ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zeitz O,Rahman A,Hasenfuss G,Janssen PM

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the potential role of atorvastatin, given at reperfusion, to improve survival of the ischemic/reperfused myocardium by activation of p44/42 MAPK and p38 MAPK with its downstream effector, HSP27. We have previously shown that atorvastatin attenuates lethal reperfusion-induced injury via activation of th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Efthymiou CA,Mocanu MM,Yellon DM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Guanfu base A (GFA) and Guanfu base G (GFG) are chemicals isolated from Aconitum coreanum. The potassium channel encoded by the human ether-a-go-go related gene (HERG) plays an important role in repolarization of the cardiac action potential. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Huang X,Yang Y,Zhu J,Xu D,Peng J,Liu J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, we provided in vitro and in vivo evidence that several vastatins with different potencies decrease arterial smooth-muscle cell (SMC) proliferation independently of their hypocholesterolemic properties. In this study, the in vivo dose-dependent antiproliferative activity of fluvastatin on neointimal formation...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Soma MR,Parolini C,Donetti E,Fumagalli R,Paoletti R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelins (ETs) are a family of peptide hormones that act on G protein-coupled ET(A) and ET(B) receptors. ETs exert inotropic and chronotropic actions in the heart. Myocardial ischemia is associated with increased plasma levels of ET and cell swelling. We examined the effect of ETs on dog atrial swelling-induced chl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Du XY,Sorota S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antihypertensive efficacy and tolerability of amlodipine in combination with enalapril were assessed in this two-center study. Patients with moderate to severe hypertension and with diastolic blood pressure > 95 mm Hg after 4 weeks of treatment with open-label enalapril 5-10 mg daily were randomized to receive aml...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Davies J,Jensen H,Garsdal P

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current drug screening methods are insufficiently predictive of clinical toxicity and efficacy. Recent advances in stem cell technology have the potential to improve drug screening. For tests of cardiotoxicity and efficacy of cardioactive drugs, cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells and/or human induc...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Laposa RR

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:Endothelin (ET) receptor subtypes in human prostate with benign prostatic hyperplasia were investigated by binding and functional studies. In the displacement experiment, LU224332 [endothelin-A/-B (ET(A)/ET(B)) nonselective antagonist] competed for [125I]ET-1 binding with a monophasic curve. On the other hand, LU13525...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Hiraoka Y,Oshita M,Morikawa K,Nagata O,Hahn KJ,Hahn A,Okada K,Taniguchi T,Muramatsu I

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intravenous (i.v.) administration of bromocriptine (150 micrograms/kg) in conscious normotensive rats with chronic spinal cord transection (at T5-T7), pretreated or not with i.v. propranolol (0.5 mg/kg), induced significant decreases in mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) which were greater and longer lasting than thos...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lahlou S,Demenge P

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nebivolol, a chemically novel beta 1-adrenoceptor antagonist, acutely lowers blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats, anaesthetised normotensive dogs, and hypertensive patients. We have investigated the actions of dl-nebivolol in five conscious normotensive rabbits (sham, mean blood pressure (BP) of 82.2 +/-...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ward JE,Coles P,Cox H,Eisenhofer G,Angus JA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), an increase in the muscle mass of the left ventricle, has been identified as a powerful risk factor for future cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The risk of acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, sudden death, and other cardiovascular events increases six- to e...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Messerli FH,Ketelhut R

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to examine whether physiologically tolerable insulin, which maintains lower blood glucose, can protect the myocardium against ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury in a preclinical large animal model. Adult dogs were subjected to 50 minutes of myocardial ischemia (80% reduction in coronary blood fl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zhang HX,Zang YM,Huo JH,Liang SJ,Zhang HF,Wang YM,Fan Q,Guo WY,Wang HC,Gao F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epoxyeicosatrienoic acids, substrates for soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH), exhibit vasodilatory and antihypertrophic activities. Inhibitors of sEH might therefore hold promise as heart failure therapeutics. We examined the ability of sEH inhibitors GSK2188931 and GSK2256294 to modulate cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis, a...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Morgan LA,Olzinski AR,Upson JJ,Zhao S,Wang T,Eisennagel SH,Hoang B,Tunstead JR,Marino JP Jr,Willette RN,Jucker BM,Behm DJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the acute intravenous (i.v.) effects of the antiarrhythmic agents ibutilide, sematilide, lidocaine, and encainide in a canine Y-shaped right atrial incision model of atrial flutter. After baseline determination of atrial effective refractory period (AERP), sustained atrial flutter (AFL) was initiated by atr...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Buchanan LV,Kabell G,Gibson JK

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hibernating myocardium is characterized by chronic reduction of myocardial blood flow due to obstructive coronary artery disease, causing reversible left ventricular dysfunction and flow-metabolism mismatch. The condition is unstable and increasing demand may lead to further left ventricular dysfunction or necrosis ca...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lahiri A,Senior R,Khattar R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of canrenone, an antialdosterone and partial ouabain-agonist drug, was studied in rats that developed volume expansion and hypertension after renal mass reduction and excess Na+ intake (RRM-salt). The RRM-salt was characterized by: (1) increased endogenous "digitalis-like" compounds in plasma [cross reactiv...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： de Mendonça M,Grichois ML,Pernollet MG,Wauquier I,Trouillet-Thormann B,Meyer P,Devynck MA,Garay R

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrendipine, a calcium entry blocker, was administered by gavage (3 mg/100 g body weight/day) to rats with prolonged angiotensin-II-(AII) induced hypertension. AII was infused by osmotic minipump implanted subcutaneously. Persistent hypertension was established after 5 days. Normotensive control rats had empty sham p...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sterzel RB,Huelsemann JL,McKenzie DE,Wilcox CS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute hemodynamic, hormonal, and pharmacokinetic responses to the oral angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor spirapril were studied in 15 patients with moderate to severe congestive heart failure in a baseline controlled dose-ranging study. Doses of 0.3, 1.0, 1.5, 3.125, and 6.25 mg were investigated for 2...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： van den Broek SA,van Bruggen A,de Graeff PA,Hillege H,van Gilst WH,Wesseling H,Lie KI

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute and chronic arterial effects of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor ramipril were studied in hypertensive patients. Hemodynamic and biological parameters were measured 3 h after the first dose of 5 mg of ramipril, and then again after 4 weeks of treatment, 3 and 24 h after drug administration. ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Benetos A,Vasmant D,Thiéry P,Safar M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：SUMMARY:The present study reports the effects of apomorphine (APO) on blood pressure and the principal site of action of this agonist in 4-week deoxycorticosterone-acetate (DOCA)-hypertensive conscious rats. In these preprations, intravenous (i.v.) administration of APO (0.50-1 mg/kg) induced short-lasting and dose-dep...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Toscano CF,Lahlou S

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00