Chronotropic responses of chick atria to field stimulation after various neural crest ablations.

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

abstract：:Our goal in this review is to discuss the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of stroke caused by atherosclerosis of the major intracranial arteries. References for the review were identified by searching PubMed for related studies published from 1955 to June 2016 using search terms intracranial stenosis and int...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Banerjee C,Chimowitz MI

更新日期：2017-02-03 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：:High sodium intake (HNa) increases brain ouabainlike activity (OLA) in rats. In spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), HNa exaggerates development of hypertension and pressor and sympathoexcitatory responses to stress. To investigate whether dietary sodium-induced changes in brain OLA play a functional role, responses...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Huang BS,Leenen FH

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aging population is increasing in developed countries. Because the incidence of cardiac disease increases dramatically with age, it is important to understand the molecular mechanisms through which the heart becomes either more or less susceptible to stress. Cardiac aging is characterized by the presence of hypert...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shirakabe A,Ikeda Y,Sciarretta S,Zablocki DK,Sadoshima J

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent advances in our understanding of the contribution of thrombin generation to arterial thrombosis and the role of platelets in venous thrombosis have prompted new treatment paradigms. Nonetheless, bleeding remains the major side effect of such treatments spurring the quest for new antithrombotic regimens with bet...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Chan NC,Weitz JI

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cells (MPCs) have been effective in large animal models of ischemic and nonischemic heart failure (HF). OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the feasibility and safety of 3 doses (25, 75, or 150 million cells) of immunoselected allogeneic MPCs in chronic HF patients in a phase 2 trial. MET...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Perin EC,Borow KM,Silva GV,DeMaria AN,Marroquin OC,Huang PP,Traverse JH,Krum H,Skerrett D,Zheng Y,Willerson JT,Itescu S,Henry TD

更新日期：2015-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:MicroRNA (miR)-1 and -133 play a crucial role in skeletal and cardiac muscle biology and pathophysiology. However, their expression and regulation in vascular cell physiology and disease is currently unknown. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study was to evaluate the role, if any, of miR-1 and miR-133 in vas...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Torella D,Iaconetti C,Catalucci D,Ellison GM,Leone A,Waring CD,Bochicchio A,Vicinanza C,Aquila I,Curcio A,Condorelli G,Indolfi C

更新日期：2011-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Atrial fibrillation (AF) may result from stationary reentry in the left atrium (LA), with fibrillatory conduction toward the right atrium (RA). We hypothesize that periodic input to the RA at an exceedingly high frequency results in disorganized wave propagation, compatible with fibrillatory conduction. Simultaneous e...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Berenfeld O,Zaitsev AV,Mironov SF,Pertsov AM,Jalife J

更新日期：2002-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：:p21ras is a potent regulator of myogenic cell growth and differentiation. It has been implicated as playing a major role in the genesis of cardiac hypertrophy. We examined the effect of Ras overexpression on human atrial natriuretic peptide (hANP) gene expression, a marker of hypertrophy, in neonatal rat ventricular m...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kovacic-Milivojevic B,Zlock DW,Gardner DG

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As early as the 4th embryonic day, the ventricle of the chick embryo responded to isoproterenol (Iso) with an increase in the force of contraction; at all ages studied, this positive inotropic effect was accompanied by an increased rate of tension development. There was a transient, 10-fold decrease in the sensitivity...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Higgins D,Pappano AJ

更新日期：1981-02-01 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：:We recently established a new transgenic mouse model with brain-restricted overexpression of angiotensin II (Ang II) type 1a receptors (NSE-AT(1a)) to unmask the role of the brain renin-angiotensin system in hypertension. To test the hypothesis that these mice would exhibit an early exacerbation of renovascular hypert...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lazartigues E,Lawrence AJ,Lamb FS,Davisson RL

更新日期：2004-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisotropic impulse conduction was studied in neonatal rat heart cell monolayers produced by culturing cells on a growth-directing substrate of collagen. Monolayers consisting of parallel-oriented cells without visible intercellular clefts were selected for experiments; cell lengths and widths were 65.8 +/- 12.5 and 1...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fast VG,Kléber AG

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We determined whether local bradykinin production modulates cardiac adrenergic activity. Depolarization of guinea pig heart sympathetic nerve endings (synaptosomes) with 1 to 100 mmol/L K+ caused the release of endogenous norepinephrine (10% to 50% above basal level). This release was exocytotic, because it depended o...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Seyedi N,Win T,Lander HM,Levi R

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:True propagation coefficients of pulse wave harmonics in an artery can be determined in vivo by measuring pulsatile blood pressure and flow at each of two points along the length of the vessel. These coefficients, which are complex numbers that describe the attenuation and the phase shift imposed on a traveling wave, ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Milnor WR,Nichols WW

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is stored with norepinephrine in sympathetic nerves throughout the cardiovascular system and is released during activation of the sympathetic nervous system in humans and other animals. After stimulation of the cardiac sympathetic nerves in anesthetized dogs, the action of the vagus nerve on heart...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hall GT,Gardner TD,Potter EK

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium channel blockers are among the most commonly used therapeutic drugs. Nevertheless, the utility of calcium channel blockers for heart disease is limited because of the potent vasodilatory effect that causes hypotension, and other side effects attributable to blockade of noncardiac channels. Therefore, focal cal...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Murata M,Cingolani E,McDonald AD,Donahue JK,Marbán E

更新日期：2004-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Activin is a member of the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily, and it modulates the proliferation and differentiation of various target cells. In this study, we investigated the role of activin in the initiation and progression of human atherosclerosis. The expression of activin, its physiological inhibitor f...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Engelse MA,Neele JM,van Achterberg TA,van Aken BE,van Schaik RH,Pannekoek H,de Vries CJ

更新日期：1999-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The consequences of endothelin receptor activation were examined in atrial tumor myocytes derived from transgenic mice (AT-1 cells). Endothelin-1 (endothelin) stimulates phosphoinositide hydrolysis in a dose-dependent manner. Endothelin also induces the rapid and transient translocation of protein kinase C (PKC)-epsil...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Jiang T,Pak E,Zhang HL,Kline RP,Steinberg SF

更新日期：1996-04-01 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：: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：:The kinetics of contractions and Ca(2+) transients are slowed in myocytes from failing hearts. The mechanisms accounting for these abnormalities remain unclear. Myocardial infarction (MI) was produced by ligation of the circumflex artery in rabbits. We used confocal microscopy to record spatially resolved Ca(2+) trans...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Litwin SE,Zhang D,Bridge JH

更新日期：2000-11-24 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：:Recent studies have shown that the primary heart tube continues to grow by addition of cells from the coelomic wall. This growth occurs concomitantly with embryonic folding and formation of the coelomic cavity, making early heart formation morphologically complex. A scarcity of data on localized growth parameters furt...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： van den Berg G,Abu-Issa R,de Boer BA,Hutson MR,de Boer PA,Soufan AT,Ruijter JM,Kirby ML,van den Hoff MJ,Moorman AF

更新日期：2009-01-30 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：:Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) play important roles in cardiovascular development. However, how BMP-signaling pathways regulate cardiac gene expression is less clear. We have previously identified myocardin as a cardiac and smooth muscle-specific transcriptional cofactor for serum response factor (SRF). Myocardin ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Callis TE,Cao D,Wang DZ

更新日期：2005-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Myogenic tone, an important regulator of vascular resistance, is dependent on vascular smooth muscle (VSM) depolarization, can be modulated by endothelial factors, and is increased in several models of hypertension. Intermittent hypoxia (IH) elevates blood pressure and causes endothelial dysfunction. Hydrogen...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Jackson-Weaver O,Paredes DA,Gonzalez Bosc LV,Walker BR,Kanagy NL

更新日期：2011-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Senescence of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PA-SMCs) caused by telomere shortening or oxidative stress may contribute to pulmonary hypertension associated with chronic lung diseases. OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether cell senescence contributes to pulmonary vessel remodeling and pulmonary hypertension...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Noureddine H,Gary-Bobo G,Alifano M,Marcos E,Saker M,Vienney N,Amsellem V,Maitre B,Chaouat A,Chouaid C,Dubois-Rande JL,Damotte D,Adnot S

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro and in vivo evidence indicates that hemodynamic wall shear stress evokes a diversity of biological responses in vascular endothelial cells, ranging from cell shape changes to alterations in low density lipoprotein receptor expression. The signal transduction mechanisms by which the level of fluid mechanical s...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Prasad AR,Logan SA,Nerem RM,Schwartz CJ,Sprague EA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00