Morphometry of pinocytotic vesicles in the capillary endothelium of rabbit lungs using automated equipment.

abstract：:Neuropeptide Y is stored in sympathetic nerve terminals throughout the heart and has direct and indirect effects on cardiac function. Although neuropeptide Y has been shown to be released upon intense (16-30 Hz) cardiac sympathetic stimulation, we sought to determine whether effective quantities of neuropeptide Y were...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Warner MR,Levy MN

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vivo studies of the rheological behavior of blood in the microcirculation were conducted by direct in situ measurements in cat mesentery. Upstream to downstream pressure drops were measured in unbranched arterioles, capillaries, and venules, with diameters from 7 to 58 micrometer. Simultaneous measurements of red c...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lipowsky HH,Kovalcheck S,Zweifach BW

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Gamma aminobutyric acid (GABA), a neurotransmitter of the central nervous system, is found in the systemic circulation of humans at a concentration between 0.5 and 3 μmol/L. However, the potential source of circulating GABA and its significance on the vascular system remains unknown. We hypothesized that endo...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sen S,Roy S,Bandyopadhyay G,Scott B,Xiao D,Ramadoss S,Mahata SK,Chaudhuri G

更新日期：2016-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinacidil belongs to a novel group of compounds that enhance the potassium permeability of vascular smooth muscle. Evidence also exists that this drug enhances the potassium permeability of cardiac tissue. The purpose of the present investigation was to determine if pinacidil alters potassium-channel activity in heart...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Arena JP,Kass RS

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has been described as a potent angiogenic stimulus, its application in therapy remains difficult: blood vessels formed by exposure to VEGF tend to be malformed and leaky. In nature, the principal form of VEGF possesses a binding site for ECM components that maintain i...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ehrbar M,Djonov VG,Schnell C,Tschanz SA,Martiny-Baron G,Schenk U,Wood J,Burri PH,Hubbell JA,Zisch AH

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of sulfinpyrazone on endothelial injury induced by homocysteine has been studied both in vitro, using cultured human umbilical vein endothelial cells, and in vivo, using a primate model of homocysteine-induced arteriosclerosis. Oral sulfinpyrazone (250 mumol/kg body weight per day in three divided doses) in...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Harker LA,Harlan JM,Ross R

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rate of renin secretion from renal juxtaglomerular (JG) cells is the major determinant of the activity of the renin-angiotensin system. However, the mechanisms involved in the excretion and turnover of secretory granules in the JG cells remain obscure. Therefore, in the present study, the whole-cell patch-clamp te...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Friis UG,Jensen BL,Aas JK,Skøtt O

更新日期：1999-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-wide association studies have provided a rich collection of ≈ 58 coronary artery disease (CAD) loci that suggest the existence of previously unsuspected new biology relevant to atherosclerosis. However, these studies only identify genomic loci associated with CAD, and many questions remain even after a genomic ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nurnberg ST,Zhang H,Hand NJ,Bauer RC,Saleheen D,Reilly MP,Rader DJ

更新日期：2016-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were performed to characterize the morphology and vascular reactivity of the allografted cerebral microcirculation. Cerebral cortical tissue was allografted into the cheek pouch of the hamster so that cerebral parenchymal vessels could be studied. The vascular morphology was characterized by a large number of ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Joyner WL,Young R,Blank D,Eccleston-Joyner CA,Gilmore JP

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital heart defects affect almost 1% of human newborns. Recently, mutations in Notch ligands and receptors have been found to cause a variety of heart defects in rodents and humans. However, the molecular effects downstream of Notch are still poorly understood. Here we report that combined inactivation of Hey1 an...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fischer A,Steidl C,Wagner TU,Lang E,Jakob PM,Friedl P,Knobeloch KP,Gessler M

更新日期：2007-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Mechanisms of angiogenesis in skeletal muscle remain poorly understood. Efforts to induce physiological angiogenesis hold promise for the treatment of diabetic microvascular disease and peripheral artery disease but are hindered by the complexity of physiological angiogenesis and by the poor angiogenic respon...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rowe GC,Raghuram S,Jang C,Nagy JA,Patten IS,Goyal A,Chan MC,Liu LX,Jiang A,Spokes KC,Beeler D,Dvorak H,Aird WC,Arany Z

更新日期：2014-08-15 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：: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：:Many cell types undergo apoptosis under conditions of ischemia. Little is known, however, about the molecular pathways that mediate this response. A cellular and biochemical approach to elucidate such signaling pathways was undertaken in primary cultures of cardiac myocytes, a cell type that is especially sensitive to...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bialik S,Cryns VL,Drincic A,Miyata S,Wollowick AL,Srinivasan A,Kitsis RN

更新日期：1999-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:C-reactive protein (CRP), a characteristic inflammatory marker, is a powerful predictor of cardiovascular events. Recent data suggest that CRP may also promote atherogenesis through inducing endothelial dysfunction. Lectin-like oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) receptor-1 (LOX-1) is a newly identified endotheli...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Li L,Roumeliotis N,Sawamura T,Renier G

更新日期：2004-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Connexins have been hypothesized to play an important role in intercellular communication within the vascular wall and may provide a mechanistic explanation for conduction of vasomotor responses. To test this hypothesis, we studied the transmission of vasomotor responses in the intact skeletal muscle microcirculation ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： de Wit C,Roos F,Bolz SS,Kirchhoff S,Krüger O,Willecke K,Pohl U

更新日期：2000-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Rho regulates various cell functions, including cell morphology and motility. However, the functional role of Rho on the signaling pathway in myocardial cells (MCs) is unknown. In the present study, we attempted to explore the mode of Rho action for c-fos gene expression in MCs. Expression of the c-fos promoter/enhanc...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ueyama T,Sakoda T,Kawashima S,Hiraoka E,Hirata K,Akita H,Yokoyama M

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac alpha-adrenergic receptors mediate cellular responses to norepinephrine through an undefined series of molecular events. We examined the possibility that phosphoinositide hydrolysis was stimulated through alpha-adrenergic receptors in cardiomyocytes purified from adult rat ventricle. Phosphoinositide stores we...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Brown JH,Buxton IL,Brunton LL

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied mitochondrial structure and intermediates of fatty acid metabolism in mitochondria isolated from ischemic hearts. By electron microscopy, no structural difference was detected between mitochondria isolated from control hearts and from ischemic hearts receiving glucose as the only substrate. However, major d...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Feuvray D,Plouët J

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although functional coupling between protein kinase Cepsilon (PKCepsilon) and mitochondria has been implicated in the genesis of cardioprotection, the signal transduction mechanisms that enable this link and the identities of the mitochondrial proteins modulated by PKCepsilon remain unknown. Based on recent evidence t...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Baines CP,Song CX,Zheng YT,Wang GW,Zhang J,Wang OL,Guo Y,Bolli R,Cardwell EM,Ping P

更新日期：2003-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of Bay K 8644 on the high-threshold calcium channel was investigated by means of the whole-cell patch-clamp technique in single guinea pig ventricular myocytes. The goal of the experiments was to characterize the inhibitory effects of Bay K 8644 on the calcium channel, and identify the factors that influen...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hadley RW,Hume JR

更新日期：1988-01-01 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：RATIONALE:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) affects angiogenesis, atherosclerosis, and cancer. Although the heritability of circulating VEGF levels is high, little is known about its genetic underpinnings. OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to identify genetic variants associated with circulating VEGF levels, using an unbi...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Debette S,Visvikis-Siest S,Chen MH,Ndiaye NC,Song C,Destefano A,Safa R,Azimi Nezhad M,Sawyer D,Marteau JB,Xanthakis V,Siest G,Sullivan L,Pfister M,Smith H,Choi SH,Lamont J,Lind L,Yang Q,Fitzgerald P,Ingelsson E,

更新日期：2011-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The sinoatrial node, which resides at the junction of the right atrium and the superior caval vein, contains specialized myocardial cells that initiate the heart beat. Despite this fundamental role in heart function, the embryonic origin and mechanisms of localized formation of the sinoatrial node have not been define...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Mommersteeg MT,Hoogaars WM,Prall OW,de Gier-de Vries C,Wiese C,Clout DE,Papaioannou VE,Brown NA,Harvey RP,Moorman AF,Christoffels VM

更新日期：2007-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) decreases cellular oxygen (O(2)) consumption by competitively inhibiting cytochrome c oxidase. Here, we show that endogenously released endothelial NO, either basal or stimulated, can modulate O(2) consumption both throughout the thickness of conductance vessels and in the microcirculation. Furthermo...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Victor VM,Nuñez C,D'Ocón P,Taylor CT,Esplugues JV,Moncada S

更新日期：2009-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:We quantitated phasic epimyocardial microcirculatory coronary blood flow velocity patterns in the beating left ventricle. Using a newly developed floating objective and high-speed cinematography, red cell velocities in small arterioles, capillaries, and small venules and microvascular diameters in the superficial laye...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ashikawa K,Kanatsuka H,Suzuki T,Takishima T

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) causes endothelial cell injury both in vitro and in vivo. It is widely believed that this injury in vivo enhances the transport of macromolecules from plasma into the interstitial space of the underlying artery wall. A new technique was used in rats to obtain high resolution transmural profile...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Penn MS,Chisolm GM

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blocking brain mineralocorticoid receptors (MRs) reduces the high circulating levels of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha in heart failure (HF) rats. TNF-alpha and other proinflammatory cytokines activate neurons in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of hypothalamus, including corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) neur...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kang YM,Zhang ZH,Johnson RF,Yu Y,Beltz T,Johnson AK,Weiss RM,Felder RB

更新日期：2006-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC) gene encodes a major contractile protein whose expression exclusively marks the smooth muscle cell (SMC) lineage. To better understand smooth muscle differentiation at the transcriptional level, we have initiated studies to identify those DNA sequences critical for express...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Madsen CS,Regan CP,Hungerford JE,White SL,Manabe I,Owens GK

更新日期：1998-05-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in renal function produced by endogenous synthesis of prostaglandins by the kidney were evaluated by infusing sodium arachidonate, the prescursor of the prostaglandins, into one renal artery of the dog. These changes were compared with those produced by similar infusions on performed prostaglandin (PG) E2 ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tannenbaum J,Splawinski JA,Oates JA,Nies AS

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00