Slow channel inhibitors verapamil and nifedipine in the management of hypertension.

abstract：:The acute effects of doxorubicin on coronary perfusion and left ventricular pressures and intracellular phosphate metabolite levels, the latter obtained by 31P nuclear magnetic resonance, were measured simultaneously in isolated, isovolumic rat hearts (Langendorf preparation) perfused at constant flow. Nineteen experi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Pelikan PC,Weisfeldt ML,Jacobus WE,Miceli MV,Bulkley BH,Gerstenblith G

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidemiologic studies of recent years have demonstrated an association between low plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels and the development of atherosclerosis. The PROCAM (Prospective Cardiovascular Münster) study has identified HDL cholesterol as the single parameter predictor with the highest pot...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Assmann G,Funke H

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardioprotective effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in cardiac ischemia/reperfusion damage is assumed to result largely from inhibition of the enzymatic breakdown of endogenous bradykinin (BK). We assessed the role of nitric oxide (NO) in mediating the beneficial actions of BK and the possibl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Massoudy P,Becker BF,Gerlach E

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously demonstrated that endothelin-1 (ET-1) is essential to the development of neural crest-derived craniofacial and cardiovascular structures. In this study we evaluated the intrauterine growth and development of the thyroid and thymus glands in Edn1-/- homozygous mice. Edn1-/- homozygous mice were small...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kurihara Y,Kurihara H,Maemura K,Kuwaki T,Kumada M,Yazaki Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insulin resistance is an important risk factor for the development of hypertension, atherosclerotic heart disease, left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction, and heart failure. It reflects a disturbance of glucose metabolism and potentially worsens metabolic efficiency of both skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle. Th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Coats AJ,Anker SD

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The in vivo vasoconstrictor effect of endothelin-1 (ET-1) was investigated on feline and canine basilar arteries. The basilar artery caliber was angiographically measured after either vertebral artery perfusion or cisternal injection of the peptide. In both cats and dogs, ET-1 (5-500 pmol) induced a dose-dependent bas...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Shigeno T,Mima T,Takakura K,Yanagisawa M,Saito A,Goto K,Masaki T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of intracellular calcium and particularly Ca2+-uptake in the initiation of lymphocyte mitogenesis, the effect of mibefradil, which blocks both L- and T-type calcium channels with a more selective blockade of T-type channels, on the proliferation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lijnen P,Fagard R,Petrov V

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of 5-hydroxypropafenone (5-OH-P), the main metabolite of propafenone, were studied in guinea pig papillary muscles obtained from untreated animals and from animals pretreated with 5-OH-P, 3 mg/kg for 24 days. In untreated muscles perfused with 2.7 and 5.4 mM K+, 5-OH-P depressed action potential amplitude ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Valenzuela C,Delgado C,Tamargo J

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that endothelin (ET) induces the release of endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF). To explore the possible modification of ET-induced renal vasoconstriction by EDRF, we examined the effects of ET on renal vascular resistance (RVR) and urinary Na excretion (UNaV) in the rat isolated perfused ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Hirata Y,Matsuoka H,Kimura K,Sugimoto T,Hayakawa H,Suzuki E,Sugimoto T

更新日期：1991-01-01 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：:We evaluated the antiischemic effects of nifedipine in isolated working rat hearts from age-matched normotensive Wistar-Kyoto rats (WKY), diabetic WKY, spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and diabetic SHR. Diabetes was induced by streptozotocin. First, we constructed concentration-response curves for the negative i...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Pijl AJ,Hendriks MG,Kam KL,Pfaffendorf M,van Zwieten PA

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BMY 20064 is a dihydropyridine Ca2+ entry blocker with potent and selective alpha 1-adrenoceptor antagonist properties. The drug was equal in potency to nifedipine as a Ca2+ entry blocker in depolarized smooth muscle preparations. It was less active than nifedipine in antagonizing Ca2+-induced contractions of isolated...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Stanton HC,Rosenberger LB,Hanson RC,Fleming JS,Poindexter GS

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is a complex vascular disease initiated by abnormal accumulation of plasma lipoproteins in the subendothelial space. Elevated levels of plasma triglycerides (TG) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol as well as low concentrations of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) play a causal role in the devel...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Declercq V,Yeganeh B,Moshtaghi-Kashanian GR,Khademi H,Bahadori B,Moghadasian MH

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) is a potent inhibitor of platelet aggregation. However, the benefits of NO-based therapies can be confounded by concomitant hypotension. Monophosphoryl lipid A (MLA) is a nontoxic derivative of endotoxin that purportedly increases nitric oxide synthase (NOS) activity and, presumably, NO production, y...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Przyklenk K,Hata K,Whittaker P,Elliott GT

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We conducted a double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel study of the effect of the aldosterone antagonist spironolactone, administered once daily for 1 week to normal male subjects, on blood pressure, intracellular cationic concentrations, and transmembrane cation transport systems and plasma or urinary variables. Af...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lijnen P,Petrov V

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical model has been developed that relates wall tension in resistance vessels to changes in both distending pressure and flow; the effect of alterations in wall: lumen ratio is taken into account. The model indicates that increased autoregulatory activity in the forearm circulation of patients with primary h...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Robinson BF,Benjamin N

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We wished to test (a) whether single-drug therapy with a low dose of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor perindopril has the capacity to improve early survival of the cardiomyopathic Syrian hamster (CSH); (b) whether early treatment with perindopril modifies CSH survival to a greater extent than perindop...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Chemla D,Scalbert E,Desché P,Lerebours G,Suard I,Lecarpentier Y

更新日期：1994-07-01 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：:In this study, we examined glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) biotransformation and cyclic GMP elevation in vascular smooth muscle before onset of GTN-induced relaxation. Isolated rabbit aortic strips (RAS) and strips of bovine pulmonary artery (BPA) and bovine pulmonary vein (BPV) were contracted submaximally and incubated wi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kawamoto JH,McLaughlin BE,Brien JF,Marks GS,Nakatsu K

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway has been found to exert a protective role in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury (MIRI). Alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (α7nAChR) is a regulator of cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway; however, little information is available on the effect of α7nAChR on MIRI. In ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Li H,Zhang ZZ,Zhan J,He XH,Song XM,Wang YL

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac endothelial nitric oxide synthase (ecNOS) was suppressed and inducible NOS (iNOS) enhanced at the decompensated heart failure stage in 18-week-old Dahl salt-sensitive (DS) hypertensive rats to which a high-salt diet had been administered from the age of 6 weeks. Nicorandil (NIC) enhanced ecNOS by activating Ad...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Horinaka S,Kobayashi N,Yagi H,Mori Y,Matsuoka H

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In humans, three endothelin (ET) isoforms are predicted to exist by analysis of genomic DNA. However, evidence for the presence of all three mature ET peptides and their precursors remains unclear. Our aim was to identify the ET isoforms present in human heart, using radioimmunoassay (RIA) and reverse-phase high-perfo...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Plumpton C,Champeney R,Ashby MJ,Kuc RE,Davenport AP

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium antagonists can be used with a number of other antihypertensive compounds. The combined use of a dihydropyridine calcium antagonist and beta-blocker is well established and is probably the most efficacious combination for routine use. Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors may also constitute a suitabl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Hansson L,Himmelmann A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assessed the contribution of angiotensin-(1-7) [Ang-(1-7)] to captopril-induced cardiovascular protection in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) chronically treated with the nitric oxide synthesis inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (SHR-l). NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (80 mg/L) administration for 3 ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Benter IF,Yousif MH,Al-Saleh FM,Raghupathy R,Chappell MC,Diz DI

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute phase of myocardial infarction promotes an inflammatory response that stimulates inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). We investigated the iNOS role on the rat tail vascular bed reactivity 3 days after myocardial infarction. Vasodilator and vasoconstrictor responses were determined in isolated caudal vascu...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sartório CL,Pinto VD,Cutini GJ,Vassallo DV,Stefanon I

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is an endothelium-derived peptide with powerful vasoconstrictor and mitogenic properties. A pathophysiologic role for ET-1 has been suggested, because increased plasma and tissue levels of this peptide have been described in a number of disease states, including atherosclerosis. Immunocytochemistry...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Timm M,Kaski JC,Dashwood MR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess flecainide's ability to suppress ventricular fibrillation during reperfusion, we compared flecainide acetate (2 mg/kg i.v.) with saline placebo in 50 pentobarbital-anesthetized dogs undergoing proximal anterior descending coronary artery occlusion for 20 min followed by sudden release. Treatment selection wa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lederman SN,Wenger TL,Bolster DE,Strauss HC

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-B- (ETB) receptors located in vascular beds mainly mediate vasorelaxation, however, long-term treatment with a mixed ETA/ETB receptor antagonist has been shown to improve the survival rate of rats with heart failure in a similar way to ETA-receptor inhibitors. The inhibition of ETB-receptor-mediated action ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sawaki M,Wada A,Tsutamoto T,Ohnishi M,Fujii M,Matsumoto T,Kinoshita M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of long-term treatment with differing dosages of captopril and hydrochlorothiazide in combination were evaluated in 22 hypertensive patients. There was no significant difference in antihypertensive efficacy between captopril 25 mg twice a day in combination with hydrochlorothiazide 25 mg once or twice dail...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Costa FV,Borghi C,Boschi S,Ambrosioni E

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intracellular calcium ([Ca]i) overload on reperfusion may be one of the mechanisms responsible for ischemia-induced regional myocardial dysfunction. Because inhibiting the Na-H exchanger (NHE) limits intracellular sodium ([Na]i) and subsequent [Ca]i accumulation, we hypothesized that NHE inhibition would attenuate reg...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Symons JD,Correa SD,Schaefer S

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00