Effects of nicorandil and its interaction with isoproterenol on force of contraction and cyclic nucleotide levels of canine atrial muscle: comparison with carbachol.

abstract：:The present study has been designed to explore the beneficial effect of rosiglitazone, a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-gamma agonist, in hyperhomocysteinemia-induced cardiac hypertrophy in rats. The hyperhomocysteinemia was induced in rats by feeding L-methionine (1.7 g/kg per day orally) for 8 weeks. The...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Pal Singh A,Kaur T,SinghDahiya R,Singh N,Singh Bedi PM

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute discontinuation of statins induces vascular dysfunction and increases cardiovascular events. The mechanisms underlying these events are under investigation. We showed an increase in angiotensin II (AngII) signaling after acute statin withdrawal. We investigated whether AngII-AT1-receptor expression (AT1-R mRNA) ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Castejon AM,Zollner E,Tristano AG,Cubeddu LX

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotonin (5-HT2A) antagonistic activities and the protective effect on laurate-induced peripheral vascular lesions of AT-1015, a novel 5-HT2 receptor antagonist, were investigated. In platelet aggregation, AT-1015 selectively inhibited in vitro 5-HT2A receptor-mediated aggregation, and the activity was almost equ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kihara H,Hirose K,Koganei H,Sasaki N,Yamamoto H,Kimura A,Nishimori T,Shoji M,Yoshimoto R

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vascular endothelium has a number of functions that may mediate many of the ischemia-reperfusion (IR) phenomena. The gatekeeper function is disturbed and increased capillary permeability results in edema and organ dysfunction. Vasomotor function is altered, with impairment of relaxation and augmentation of constri...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Verrier E

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of olprinone (0.2 microg/kg per minute, i.v.) on cerebral blood flow were examined using technetium-99m-ethyl cysteinate dimer (99mTc-ECD) brain single-photon emission computed tomography in 14 stroke patients (69.0 +/- 5.6 years) and 12 normal subjects (68.1 +/- 6.2 years). The regional cerebral blood flo...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Yukiiri K,Mizushige K,Ueda T,Nishiyama Y,Aoyama T,Kohno M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the cardiovascular protective effects of calcium channel antagonists has increased in the past decade. We investigated prevention of vascular wall remodeling by the long-acting calcium channel antagonist pranidipine in 12-week-old Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rats with high-salt-induced (4% NaCl) hypertension....

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Uehara Y,Kawabata Y,Ohshima N,Hirawa N,Takada S,Numabe A,Nagata T,Goto A,Yagi S,Omata M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the radioactive microsphere technique, we studied the acute systemic and regional hemodynamic effects of felodipine (10, 30, and 100 nmol/kg, i.v.) in conscious renal hypertensive rabbits. A dose-dependent decrease in arterial blood pressure was observed after felodipine administration, accompanied by tachycardi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Bolt GR,Saxena PR

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vasoconstrictor actions of endothelin-1 (ET) were compared between endothelium-removed strips of cerebral (basilar, posterior cerebral, and middle cerebral) and peripheral (coronary and mesenteric) arteries of the dog. ET produced a concentration-dependent contraction in these arteries. A threshold concentration and E...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tanoi C,Suzuki Y,Shibuya M,Sugita K,Masuzawa-Ito K,Asano M

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiotrophin-1 (CT-1) a novel IL-6-related cytokine, induces distinct hypertrophic responses to endothelin-1 (ET-1) on cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocytes. We found that ET-1 and CT-1 show a distinct pattern of gene induction of natriuretic peptides. Elucidation of the transcriptional mechanisms of brain natriuret...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Kuwahara K,Saito Y,Ogawa Y,Tamura N,Ishikawa M,Harada M,Ogawa E,Miyamoto Y,Hamanaka I,Kamitani S,Kajiyama N,Takahashi N,Nakagawa O,Masuda I,Nakao K

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxazosin has been shown to lower serum cholesterol levels in the cholesterol-fed (0.75% in a synthetic diet that contains sucrose and cholic acid) C57BR/cdJ mouse. These studies show that the drug's main effect is to lower low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and leave high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Krupp MN,Hoover KW,Valentine JJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:beta-Adrenoceptor antagonists such as propranolol and atenolol ameliorate the symptoms of human hyperthyroidism. We wished to define whether the cardiac changes of hyperthyroidism are attenuated by treatment with the beta-adrenoceptor antagonist atenolol. Rats were treated with triiodothyronine (T3) [1 mg/kg/day subcu...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Amos G,Kerr D,Sernia C,Brown L

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this retrospective study, a group of 435 patients provided meaningful analyses of blood pressure and dosage data for treatment periods of up to 4.5 years. The protocol, study objectives, and pretreatment demographic characteristics of the group are summarized in this report, which is the first in a series in this i...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Itskovitz HD,Menduke H

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In patients routinely treated with metoprolol, influences of CYP2D6 genotype on the response of heart rate to isoproterenol (IP) were studied at its peak and trough concentrations and were compared with those of bisoprolol. In 72 patients treated with metoprolol or bisoprolol, CYP2D6 genotype (ie, CYP2D6*1, *2, *4, *5...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nozawa T,Taguchi M,Tahara K,Hashimoto Y,Igarashi N,Nonomura M,Kato B,Igawa A,Inoue H

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elderly are reported to be less sensitive to the beta-blocking effects of propranolol. However, age-related changes in the stereoselective pharmacokinetics or protein binding of propranolol enantiomers could have confounded the results of previous studies because only 1-propranolol contributes significantly to the...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tenero DM,Bottorff MB,Burlew BS,Williams JB,Lalonde RL

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gangliosides, sialic acid-containing glycosphigolipids, are localized mostly to the outer leaflet of the lipid bilayer in the plasma membrane, particularly in brain. Gangliosides reduce edema formation, restore glucose metabolism, and increase cerebral blood flow after focal ischemia in the rat brain. We wished to det...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Maulik N,Das DK,Gogineni M,Cordis GA,Avrova N,Denisova N

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is known to alter the pharmacokinetics of several antiarrhythmic agents. To study the effects of AMI on the kinetics of mexiletine (MEX), a single intravenous dose of 200 mg MEX HCl was infused over 30 min in 11 patients with AMI. The study was performed within 24 h of the onset of pa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Pentikäinen PJ,Halinen MO,Helin MJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structurally and pharmacologically diverse vasodilators are known to lower blood pressure, increase heart rate, and produce acute injury to right coronary arteries in the dog. Administration of low concentrations of endothelin-1 (ET-1) to anesthetized dogs causes coronary vasoconstriction and reductions in coronary bl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Louden C,Nambi P,Branch C,Gossett K,Pullen M,Eustis S,Solleveld HA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the effects of adrenomedullin on left ventricular myocardial contraction and relaxation, coronary blood flow, and myocardial oxygen consumption in comparison with those of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP). Fourteen patients who had had myocardial infarctions were randomly assigned to receive IV...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nagaya N,Goto Y,Satoh T,Sumida H,Kojima S,Miyatake K,Kangawa K

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the acute effects of transmitter release induced by intracisternal (i.c.) 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) from mainly noradrenergic (NA) neurons and by 5,6-dihydroxytryptamine (5,6-DHT) from serotonergic (5HT) neurons. Each group of neurons affects blood pressure and heart rate in conscious rabbits through both ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Korner PI,Head GA,Badoer E,Bobik A,Angus JA

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors are widely used for treatment of heart failure after myocardial infarction (MI). The beneficial effects consist of a combination of hemodynamic effects and interference with cardiac structural alterations. These effects are believed to depend on inhibition of angiotensin ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Smits JF,van Krimpen C,Schoemaker RG,Cleutjens JP,Daemen MJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Left ventricular (LV) function and end-diastolic dimensions were determined during antegrade and retrograde perfusions, respectively. Isolated hearts from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHRs) and renal hypertensive rats and SHRs to which either feldopine, nifedipine, alpha-methyldopa, or a combination of felodipine ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nordlander M,Wåhlander H,Friberg P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen hypertensive patients were treated with increasing doses of the new angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor MK 421. Twenty milligrams orally reduced blood pressure from 180/112 +/- 6.8/3.6 (mean +/- SEM) to 160/100 +/- 6.5/3.3 mm Hg (p less than 0.005) while heart rate increased from 75 +/- 2 to 87 +/- 3 beat...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Biollaz J,Brunner HR,Gavras I,Waeber B,Gavras H

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to evaluate the effects of big endothelin (ET) on renal hemodynamics and excretory functions in rats with experimental congestive heart failure (CHF) produced by aortocaval fistula. Clearance studies were performed in control and in chronic (7 day) CHF rats. Administration of bit ET (1 a...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Gurbanov K,Winaver J,Haramati A,Hoffman A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pro-arrhythmia by noncardiac drugs has become an important safety concern in the pharmaceutical industry. The most common underlying mechanism for induction of arrhythmias by noncardiac drugs is off-target block of the native cardiac repolarizing current, I Kr. The pore-forming subunit of I Kr is encoded by the human ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Margulis M,Sorota S

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baboons were given eight doses of clonidine hydrochloride (0.04--40 micrograms/kg) via indwelling femoral venous catheters. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures and heart rates were assessed for time course, magnitude of change, time-to-peak change, and duration of effect at each dosage level. The response to clonid...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Turkkan JS,Lukas SE,Harris AH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study the effects of chronic in vivo inhibition of NO synthase on endothelium-dependent hyperpolarization, cell-membrane potential (in individual vascular smooth-muscle cells) and changes in tension (in isolated rings) were recorded from isolated canine coronary arteries and guinea-pig carotid arteries and aortas. ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Corriu C,Félétou M,Puybasset L,Bea ML,Berdeaux A,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which tolerance to organic nitrates develops are still poorly understood. Enhanced oxidative stress, i.e., increased free radical production following organic nitrate administration, has been recently suggested as a possible mechanism. A randomized, double-blind, crossover study assessed in 18 health...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Keimer R,Stutzer FK,Tsikas D,Troost R,Gutzki FM,Frölich JC

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several 3,5-pyridinedicarboxylic acid [4-(2,3-dichlorophenyl)-1,4-dihydro-2,6-dimethyl-] esters, which are analogs to felodipine, were synthesized and tested for peroral activity and vascular selectivity. Structure-activity relationships demonstrate that felodipine has biological properties (selectivity and oral activ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Berntsson P,Johansson E,Westerlund C

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we showed that blocking the endothelin (ET)A receptor subtype with BQ-153 inhibited the vasoconstrictor effects of intravenously administered ET-1. In the presence of the ET(A) antagonist, ET-1 produced marked reductions in myocardial contractility and renal blood flow. We postulated that either the ET(B) r...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Cirino M,Martin E,Yano M,Rodger IW

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural alterations after myocardial infarction (MI) in rats are usually examined only after death of the experimental animal. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows repeated and noninvasive measurements of important structural [left ventricular (LV) mass, LV wall thickness, LV chamber radius] as well as function ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Zierhut W,Rudin M,Robertson E,Zerwes HG,Novosel D,Evenou JP,Stirnimann R,Hof RP

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00