Mechanisms of automaticity in subsidiary pacemakers from cat right atrium.

abstract：:This review reflects and expands on the contents of my presentation at the Thomas W. Smith Memorial Lecture at American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, 2011. "Decoding the cardiac message" refers to accumulating results from ongoing microRNA research that is altering longstanding concepts of the mechanisms for,...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Dorn GW 2nd

更新日期：2012-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular actions of the synthetic natriuretic peptide, atriopeptin II, were examined in conscious unrestrained spontaneously hypertensive rats and normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats. The animals were chronically instrumented with miniaturized pulsed Doppler flow probes to allow measurement of regional blood flow...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lappe RW,Smits JF,Todt JA,Debets JJ,Wendt RL

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shear stress-induced activation of endothelial ion channels, one of the earliest responses to flow, is implicated in mechano-signal transduction that results in the regulation of vascular tone. The effects of laminar flow on endothelial membrane potential were studied in vitro using both fluorescent potentiometric dye...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Barakat AI,Leaver EV,Pappone PA,Davies PF

更新日期：1999-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline acetyltransferase activity, which is rate limiting in acetylcholine biosynthesis, was measured in the four heart chambers of guinea pigs subjected to (1) sham surgery, (2) constriction of the ascending aorta, (3) constriction of the descending thoracic aorta, and (4) constriction of the pulmonary artery. After...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Roskoski R Jr,Schmid PG,Mayer HE,Abboud FM

更新日期：1975-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) continues to be a major cause of late graft failure after cardiac transplantation. We have demonstrated that Rho-kinase, an effector of the small GTPase Rho, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis. In this study, we examined whether the Rho-kinase-mediated ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hattori T,Shimokawa H,Higashi M,Hiroki J,Mukai Y,Kaibuchi K,Takeshita A

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exercise training on the coronary vasodilation following activation of the Bezold-Jarisch reflex were examined in conscious dogs. Mongrel dogs were chronically instrumented using sterile techniques for measurements of systemic hemodynamics and left circumflex coronary blood flow (CBF). With the heart ra...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zhao G,Zhang X,Xu X,Ochoa M,Hintze TH

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aldose reductase (AR), a member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily, has been shown to metabolize toxic aldehydes generated by lipid peroxidation, suggesting that it may serve as an antioxidant defense. To investigate its role in the late phase of ischemic preconditioning (PC), conscious rabbits underwent 6 cycles ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shinmura K,Bolli R,Liu SQ,Tang XL,Kodani E,Xuan YT,Srivastava S,Bhatnagar A

更新日期：2002-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned from cultured vascular smooth muscle cells a protein tyrosine phosphatase, rat density-enhanced phosphatase-1 (rDEP-1), which is a probable rat homologue of DEP-1/HPTP eta. rDEP-1 is encoded by an 8.7-kb transcript and is expressed as a 180- to 220-kD protein. The rDEP-1 gene is located on human chromos...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Borges LG,Seifert RA,Grant FJ,Hart CE,Disteche CM,Edelhoff S,Solca FF,Lieberman MA,Lindner V,Fischer EH,Lok S,Bowen-Pope DF

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested a number of hypotheses concerning the mechanism of K+-induced vasodilation of the coronary vascular bed. Blood flow in the circumflex artery was measured in pentobarbital-anesthetized, open-chest dogs. Intracircumflex artery bolus injections of 40 mumol of isomotic KCl produced decreases in coronary vascular...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Murray PA,Sparks HV

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic elevation of 3'-5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) levels has been associated with cardiac remodeling and cardiac hypertrophy. However, enhancement of particular aspects of cAMP/protein kinase A signaling seems to be beneficial for the failing heart. cAMP is a pleiotropic second messenger with t...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zoccarato A,Surdo NC,Aronsen JM,Fields LA,Mancuso L,Dodoni G,Stangherlin A,Livie C,Jiang H,Sin YY,Gesellchen F,Terrin A,Baillie GS,Nicklin SA,Graham D,Szabo-Fresnais N,Krall J,Vandeput F,Movsesian M,Furlan L,Corse

更新日期：2015-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the role of copper as a potential mediator of postischemic reperfusion injury in the isolated, perfused rat heart. Hearts were equilibrated with Krebs-Henseleit buffer for 10 minutes and then loaded with copper by way of perfusion with buffer containing 20 microM copper(II)-bis-histidial for 30 minutes. Con...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Powell SR,Hall D,Shih A

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-conductance Ca2+-dependent K+ channels (KCa), which are abundant on the sarcolemma of vascular myocytes, provide negative feedback via membrane hyperpolarization that limits Ca2+ entry through L-type Ca2+ channels (ICaL). We hypothesize that local accumulation of subsarcolemmal Ca2+ during ICaL openings amplifie...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Guia A,Wan X,Courtemanche M,Leblanc N

更新日期：1999-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the kinetic parameters of the crossbridge cycle that regulate force and shortening in cardiac muscle, we compared the mechanical properties of cardiac trabeculae with either ATP or 2-deoxy-ATP (dATP) as the substrate for contraction. Comparisons were made in trabeculae from untreated rats (predominantly...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Regnier M,Rivera AJ,Chen Y,Chase PB

更新日期：2000-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is a debilitating disease characterized by a stiff heart with impaired ventricular relaxation. Mutations in cardiac troponin I (cTnI) were identified as causal for RCM. Acute genetic engineering of adult cardiac myocytes was used to identify primary structure/function effects...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Davis J,Wen H,Edwards T,Metzger JM

更新日期：2007-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular aging is associated with decreased endothelial vasoreactivity and prolonged diastolic relaxation. As diminished NO signaling contributes to age-associated endothelial dysfunction, we tested the hypothesis that impaired NO signaling or bioactivity also contributes to slowed ventricular relaxation with ag...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zieman SJ,Gerstenblith G,Lakatta EG,Rosas GO,Vandegaer K,Ricker KM,Hare JM

更新日期：2001-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, it was shown that the D enantiomer of isoidide dinitrate was 10-fold more potent than the L enantiomer and 10-fold less potent than glyceryl trinitrate for stimulating cyclic GMP accumulation and relaxation of isolated rat aorta. In the present study, these organic nitrates were tested for their ability to...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bennett BM,Schröder H,Hayward LD,Waldman SA,Murad F

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulsatile pulmonary hemodynamics were analyzed in a chronic awake canine high flow model. Standard mean flow and pulsatile flow hemodynamics were measured and alterations in the proximal pulmonary vascular physical properties were quantified by the characteristic impedance (Zo). Pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), wh...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hopkins RA,Hammon JW Jr,McHale PA,Smith PK,Anderson RW

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats, we studied blood pressure and heart rate responses to static contraction and passive stretch of the triceps surae muscle before and after microdialyzing the mu-opioid agonist [D-Ala2]-methionine enkephalinamide (DAME, 200 mumol/L) into the L-7 dorsal horn of the spinal cord. I...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Meintjes AF,Nóbrega AC,Fuchs IE,Ally A,Wilson LB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that a cryoactivatable inactive form of renin, which we have tentatively termed prorenin, occurs in human plasma. Plasma prorenin is measured by subtracting the endogenous plasma renin activity (PRA) from the total renin activity measured after cryoactivation. Cryoactivation is accomplished by...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sealey JE,Moon C,Laragh JH,Atlas SA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular identity of receptor-operated, nonselective cation channels (ROCs) of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells is not known for certain. Mammalian homologues of the Drosophila canonical transient receptor potential channels (TRPCs) are possible candidates. This study tested the hypothesis that heteromultimeric...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Maruyama Y,Nakanishi Y,Walsh EJ,Wilson DP,Welsh DG,Cole WC

更新日期：2006-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Confocal imaging was used to study the influence of cytosolic ATP on the properties of spontaneous Ca(2+) sparks in permeabilized ventricular myocytes. Cells were perfused with mock intracellular solutions containing fluo 3. Reducing [ATP] to <0.5 mmol/L decreased the frequency but increased the amplitude of spontaneo...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yang Z,Steele DS

更新日期：2001-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Modulation of the inward Na+ current (I(Na)) by protein kinase C (PKC) was investigated by intracellular perfusion of a peptide corresponding to the catalytic subunit of PKC (PKCP). The effects of PKC activation independent of membrane-receptor pathways were studied in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes using whole-cel...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Watson CL,Gold MR

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether atrial fibrillation might produce local changes in the atrium which could facilitate the tendency of this arrhythmia to become chronic and self-perpetuating, we compared the effect of atrial fibrillation, atrial pacing, and acute volume loading on the perfusion and oxygen consumption of the atrium in ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： White CW,Kerber RE,Weiss HR,Marcus ML

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerotic plaque rupture is the main cause of coronary thrombosis and myocardial infarcts. Currently, there is no animal model of plaque disruption. We have developed a rabbit model in which an atherosclerotic plaque can be ruptured at will after an inflatable balloon becomes embedded into the plaque. Furthermor...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rekhter MD,Hicks GW,Brammer DW,Work CW,Kim JS,Gordon D,Keiser JA,Ryan MJ

更新日期：1998-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence shows that circulating granulocytes play an important role in capillary stasis and tissue injury. We investigated two aspects of the problem in a Wiggers hemorrhagic shock model of the rat: the survival rate and the microvascular no-reflow phenomenon. A conventional group of rats with normal blood cell...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Barroso-Aranda J,Schmid-Schönbein GW,Zweifach BW,Engler RL

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cardiac myocyte-specific deletion of either glycogen synthase kinase (GSK)-3α and GSK-3β leads to cardiac protection after myocardial infarction, suggesting that deletion of both isoforms may provide synergistic protection. This is an important consideration because of the fact that all GSK-3-targeted drugs, ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zhou J,Ahmad F,Parikh S,Hoffman NE,Rajan S,Verma VK,Song J,Yuan A,Shanmughapriya S,Guo Y,Gao E,Koch W,Woodgett JR,Madesh M,Kishore R,Lal H,Force T

更新日期：2016-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Activation of the mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channel (mitoK(ATP)) has been implicated in the mechanism of cardiac ischemic preconditioning, yet its molecular composition is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To use an unbiased proteomic analysis of the mitochondrial inner membrane to identify the mitochondrial K(...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Foster DB,Ho AS,Rucker J,Garlid AO,Chen L,Sidor A,Garlid KD,O'Rourke B

更新日期：2012-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Rat myocardium expresses the 240- and 235-kD polypeptides antigenically related to alpha- and beta-subunits of brain calspectin (nonerythroid spectrin or fodrin), respectively. In the subcellular fractions of the myocardium, alpha-calspectin was found in the 600g, 10,000g, and 100,000g pellets, whereas beta-calspectin...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yoshida K,Inui M,Harada K,Saido TC,Sorimachi Y,Ishihara T,Kawashima S,Sobue K

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukocyte rolling along the endothelium in inflammation is caused by continuous formation and breakage of bonds between selectin adhesion molecules and their ligands. We investigated trauma-induced leukocyte rolling in venules (diameter, 23 to 58 microns; wall shear stress, 1.2 to 35 dyne/cm2) of the exteriorized rat ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Damiano ER,Westheider J,Tözeren A,Ley K

更新日期：1996-12-01 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