The aorta can act as a site of naïve CD4+ T-cell priming.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:We investigated whether Angiotensin II (Ang II) modulates peripheral chemoreflex function through carotid body (CB) chemoreceptors in chronic heart failure (CHF). METHODS:We measured renal sympathetic nerve activity (RSNA) in response to graded hypoxia before and after intravenous administration of Ang II (...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Li YL,Xia XH,Zheng H,Gao L,Li YF,Liu D,Patel KP,Wang W,Schultz HD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and environmental factors influence the development of coronary artery disease (CAD). Genetic analyses of families and the population continue to yield important fundamental insights for CAD. For the past four decades, CAD human genetic research focused largely on the study of germline genetic variation in CAD...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Patel AP,Natarajan P

更新日期：2019-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II has been implicated as an important factor in cardiac remodeling, particularly in the development of pathological left ventricular hypertrophy. It is generally assumed that angiotensin II is able to alter the phenotype of cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts, and several experiments have suggested that this...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bouzegrhane F,Thibault G

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Angiotensin II stimulates vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) growth, and is considered to be an important mediator of intimal thickening after vascular injury. Recent evidence has indicated that VSMC apoptosis plays a major role in the response to balloon injury, and we therefore examined the effect of angiot...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Holm AM,Andersen CB,Haunsø S,Hansen PR

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardioprotective effects of mioflazine, a recently developed cardiovascular drug, were investigated in 41 anaesthetised open chest Beagle dogs subjected to 1 h normothermic global myocardial ischaemia. The severity of the model is evidenced by the finding that only one out of 20 control dogs could be weaned from e...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Flameng W,Xhonneux R,Van Belle H,Borgers M,Van de Water A,Wouters L,Wijnants J,Thoné F,Van Daele P,Janssen PA

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:During restenosis, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) migrate from the vascular media to the developing neointima. Preventing VSMC migration is therefore a therapeutic target for restenosis. Drugs, such as prostacyclin analogues, that increase the intracellular concentration of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cA...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： McKean JS,Murray F,Gibson G,Shewan DA,Tucker SJ,Nixon GF

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic haemodynamics and regional myocardial blood flow responses to hypertonic mannitol were studied in 10 conscious and 23 anaesthetized dogs. Mannitol infusion significantly increased regional myocardial blood flow in the conscious, intact dogs. Mannitol increased total coronary flow 20% in anasethetized animals ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Hutton I,Marynick SP,Fixler DE,Templeton GH,Willerson JT

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Gap junctions have been demonstrated ultrastructurally in cardiac regions where connexin40 (Cx40) and connexin43 (Cx43) protein could not be detected immunohistochemically. We investigated therefore the distribution of their mRNAs with more sensitive techniques. METHODS:In situ hybridizations with Cx40 and ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Van Kempen MJ,Vermeulen JL,Moorman AF,Gros D,Paul DL,Lamers WH

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Myocardial cellular electrophysiology and intracellular Ca2+ regulation are altered in heart failure. The extent of these changes may vary within the layers of the ventricular wall. To examine this, cell size, action potential and intracellular Ca2+ transient characteristics (Fura-2) were measured in single c...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： McIntosh MA,Cobbe SM,Smith GL

更新日期：2000-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Exogenous angiotensin II causes noradrenaline supersensitivity in rat mesenteric vasculature preparations. The noradrenaline supersensitivity of tissues from renal/salt hypertensive rats, with low plasma renin activity, is not caused by endogenous angiotensin II since it was unaffected by Sar1 Ileu8 angiotensin II. Di...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Collis MG,Alps BJ

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In isolated electrically stimulated guinea pig papillary muscles tiapamil exerts a negative inotropic action that corresponds to its presumptive inhibitory effects on the slow-channel-mediated transmembrane Ca2+ influx. However, contractile depression is always accompanied by marked alterations of the normal Na+-carri...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Späh F

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effect of alpha,beta(1) and beta(2) adrenergic receptor (AR) stimulation on coronary hemodynamics, myocardial oxygen consumption (M(v)O(2)) and metabolic substrate preference in advanced dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). METHODS:We studied 19 conscious, instrumented dogs with pacing-induced D...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Nikolaidis LA,Hentosz T,Doverspike A,Huerbin R,Stolarski C,Shen YT,Shannon RP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The pulmonary circulation may contribute to elevated plasma levels of endothelin-1 (ET-1) in congestive heart failure (CHF). The aims of the present study were to determine the mechanisms of increased secretion of ET-1 from the pulmonary circulation in CHF. METHODS:Juvenile pigs were subjected to sham operat...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： von Lueder TG,Kjekshus H,Edvardsen T,ØIe E,Urheim S,Vinge LE,Ahmed MS,Smiseth OA,Attramadal H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolated perfused heart has been used increasingly during the last decade as a model for identifying actions of drugs on ventricular fibrillation (VF) induced by myocardial ischaemia. In addition, it has been used to explore the mechanisms responsible for the initiation and maintenance of VF, the concept of endoge...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Curtis MJ

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Felodipine (4(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,4-dihydro-2, 6-dimethyl-3-ethoxycarbonyl-5-methoxycarbonyl pyridine)), a selective vasodilating anti-hypertensive drug, was used in the treatment of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and age-matched Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKYs) from age 6 to 14 weeks, ie during the time of high blo...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Nyborg NC,Mulvany MJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:β1-adrenergic receptor autoantibodies (β1-AAs) and β2-adrenergic receptor autoantibodies (β2-AAs) are present in patients with heart failure (HF); however, their interrelationship with cardiac structure and function remains unknown. This study explored the effects of the imbalance between β1-AAs and β2-AAs on card...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Cao N,Chen H,Bai Y,Yang X,Xu W,Hao W,Zhou Y,Chai J,Wu Y,Wang Z,Yin X,Wang L,Wang W,Liu H,Fu MLX

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to investigate whether infusion of either atrial natriuretic factor (ANF, 800 ng.h-1.rat-1) or a specific inhibitory of neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (NEI, UK 73,967, 5.4 mg.kg-1.d-1) can influence the reversal of the pulmonary vascular remodelling produced by exposure to hypoxia. METHODS:Male Wist...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Zhao L,Hughes JM,Winter RJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common type of arrhythmia in humans, yet the genetic cause of AF remains elusive. Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have reported risk variants in four distinct genetic loci, and more recently, a meta-GWAS has further implicated six new loci in AF. However, the functional...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Lozano-Velasco E,Hernández-Torres F,Daimi H,Serra SA,Herraiz A,Hove-Madsen L,Aránega A,Franco D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, we summarize current knowledge on the genetics of coronary artery disease, based on 10 years of genome-wide association studies. The discoveries began with individual studies using 200K single nucleotide polymorphism arrays and progressed to large-scale collaborative efforts, involving more than a 100 ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Erdmann J,Kessler T,Munoz Venegas L,Schunkert H

更新日期：2018-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Reperfusion of the heart after a period of ischaemia leads to the opening of a nonspecific pore in the inner mitochondrial membrane, known as the mitochondrial permeability transition pore (MPTP). This transition causes mitochondria to become uncoupled and capable of hydrolysing rather than synthesising ATP. Unrestrai...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Halestrap AP,Clarke SJ,Javadov SA

更新日期：2004-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The contractile response to beta-adrenoceptor stimulation has been found to be reduced in single myocytes from failing human ventricle. A portion of that reduction was statistically related to the age of the patient. We have developed a method for obtaining viable contracting myocytes from small biopsies of human vent...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Davies CH,Ferrara N,Harding SE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The functional status of heart failure (HF) is conventionally evaluated by peak exercise oxygen consumption (VO2 max). Dobutamine echocardiography can be used to evaluate myocardial reserve. The aim of this study was to estimate the functional status of chronic HF in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, by ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Paraskevaidis IA,Tsiapras DP,Adamopoulos S,Kremastinos DT

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Cardiac energetics and performance depend on the expression level of the fast (alpha-) and slow (beta-) myosin heavy chain (MHC) isoform. In ventricular tissue, the beta-MHC isoform predominates, whereas in atrial tissue a variable mixture of alpha- and beta-MHC is found. In several cardiac diseases, the slow...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Narolska NA,van Loon RB,Boontje NM,Zaremba R,Penas SE,Russell J,Spiegelenberg SR,Huybregts MA,Visser FC,de Jong JW,van der Velden J,Stienen GJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemokines, originally discovered as mediators of directional migration of immune cells to sites of inflammation and injury, have a function beyond their role in leukocyte chemotaxis. Indeed, they participate in organ development, angiogenesis, tumourigenesis and, more importantly, in the immune response. The chemokin...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Balestrieri ML,Balestrieri A,Mancini FP,Napoli C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:Compensatory mechanisms of the left ventricle for volume overloading caused by acute aortic regurgitation and associated changes in physiological properties of the aorta were studied in rabbits. DESIGN:Aortic regurgitation was produced by aortic valve perforation, and haemodynamic measurements were per...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Wainai Y

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Saphenous vein graft failures, resulting from thrombosis and the abnormal proliferation, migration and apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) are major limitations of coronary artery bypass surgery. We investigated whether surgical trauma of human saphenous vein induces the early response gene c-fo...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Galea J,Armstrong J,Francis SE,Cooper G,Crossman DC,Holt CM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Expression of extracellular matrix protein CCN1 is induced in end-stage ischaemic cardiomyopathy in humans, and after cardiac ischaemia and reperfusion in experimental animal models. Despite its well-documented angiogenic activities, CCN1 increases the cytotoxicities of the tumour necrosis factor family cytokines,...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Hsu PL,Su BC,Kuok QY,Mo FE

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) has a well-established role in lipoprotein metabolism, but the effect of its overexpression or inhibition on the efficiency of reverse cholesterol transport (RCT) is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS:Neither overexpression of CETP nor treatment with CETP inhibitor Torcetrapib ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Tchoua U,D'Souza W,Mukhamedova N,Blum D,Niesor E,Mizrahi J,Maugeais C,Sviridov D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Coronary artery often reoccludes after thrombolytic therapy with recombinant tissue-plasminogen activator (rt-PA). This reocclusion is thought to be due to in situ platelet activation mediated by thromboxane (Tx) A2 and thrombin; hence, aspirin and thrombin inhibitors are often used in patients with acute my...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Chen LY,Nichols WW,Mattsson C,Teger-Nilson AC,Wallin R,Saldeen TG,Mehta JL

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In obesity, chronic low-grade inflammation and overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in fat contribute to the development of metabolic syndrome. Suppression of inflammation and ROS production in fat may attenuate the metabolic syndrome. Activation of mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) promotes inflammation ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Hirata A,Maeda N,Hiuge A,Hibuse T,Fujita K,Okada T,Kihara S,Funahashi T,Shimomura I

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00