Contractility of the tail artery in rats treated with bezafibrate and fed atherogenic diet.

abstract：:Angiotensin II AT1-receptor blockers (AT1-s) prolong survival in experimental postischemic (coronary artery ligation) heart failure (CHF) in rats. The goal of this study was to investigate whether potential beneficial effects of short- and/or long-term treatment with AT1-s on coronary dynamics, function, and structure...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Gervais M,Fornes P,Richer C,Nisato D,Giudicelli JF

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a receptor for transforming growth factor-β, nodal and activin, activin receptor-like kinase 7 (ALK7) previously acts as a suppressor of tumorigenesis and metastasis, which has emerged to play a key role in cardiovascular diseases. However, the potential effect and molecular mechanism of ALK7 on vascular smooth mus...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Gong FH,Cheng WL,Zhang Q,Chen XL,Cao JL,Yang T,Song WH,Zhao F

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diabetes is a devastating disease with multiple adverse effects on the vasculature. Moreover, hypertension is a prerequisite for patients with diabetes to progress to end-stage renal disease and to develop cardiovascular complications. Adequate control of blood glucose and blood pressure are the two most important fac...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Makrilakis K,Bakris G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to acetylcholine, endothelial cells were shown to release a nonprostanoid factor, called endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), which caused relaxation of vascular smooth muscle. Since this discovery in 1980, many additional agents have been shown to stimulate release of EDRF from endothelium. Biologi...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Furchgott RF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary heart disease secondary to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death for men in the United States. Using a new, nontransgenic, non-fat-fed mouse model of hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis developed in our laboratory, we investigated the effect of sex on lipid profiles and subsequent aortic atheroscleroti...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Johnston TP,Coker JW,Paigen BJ,Tawfik O

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the impact of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection, an important asthma precipitant, on endothelin receptor function and release in sheep bronchial explants. RSV infection was confirmed using polymerase chain reaction and immunohistochemistry. Since sheep airway smooth muscle contains only endot...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Fernandes LB,D'Aprile AC,Self GJ,Harnett GB,Goldie RG

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The beta-blocking activity of flestolol was established during increasing isoprenaline infusions and during graded physical exercise in conscious, chronically instrumented dogs. After a control cycle, flestolol was infused at three doses (1, 2.67, and 10 micrograms/kg/min). Flestolol has an extremely short half-life, ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Grohs JG,Fischer G,Raberger G

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells are the major cells that constitute blood vessels, and endothelial cells line the lumen of blood vessels. These 2 types of cells also play an integral role in the regional specialization of vascular structure. On the basis of these observations, we designed our study to invest...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Bertrand-Thiebault C,Masson C,Siest G,Batt AM,Visvikis-Siest S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular medicine is based on high-technology management of end-stage disease. Preventive medicine is preferable but, before magnetic resonance (MR), there was no noninvasive, safe, repeatable method of detecting occlusive vascular disease, which accounts for more deaths than any other disease at a presymptomati...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Longmore D,Forbat S

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have suggested that racial differences may exist in beta-adrenoceptor-mediated responsiveness. However, no clear conclusions can be drawn based on these studies because of the confounding effect of the parasympathetic nervous system on responses to isoproterenol bolus doses. In this study, we blocked ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Johnson JA,Burlew BS,Stiles RN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In congestive heart failure, the chronic sympathetic hyperactivity contributes to a poor prognosis. In this respect, clonidine, a centrally acting sympathoinhibitory drug, has previously been tested in clinical trials. The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effects of clonidine on morbidity and mortality in ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Thomas L,Gasser B,Bousquet P,Monassier L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis, like several other vascular diseases, exhibits structural and functional abnormalities resulting partially from an exaggerated proliferation of vascular smooth-muscle cells (VSMCs). Ca2+ channel blockers, such as amlodipine, have been suggested to retard or even prevent the progression of atherosclero...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Stepien O,Gogusev J,Zhu DL,Iouzalen L,Herembert T,Drueke TB,Marche P

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether the activation of the renin-angiotensin system after intramuscular isoprenaline injection contributes to the simultaneous increase in vasopressin release. Plasma concentrations of vasopressin and angiotensin II were measured in conscious rats using specific radioimmunoassays. Intravenous infusions ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Knepel W,Meyer DK

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by clustered proliferation of endothelial cells (ECs) in the lumina of small size pulmonary arteries resulting in concentric obliteration of the lumina and formation of complex vascular structures known as plexiform lesions. This debilitating disease occurs...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tofovic SP

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of potent coronary vasodilator, 2- phenylaminoadenosine (CV-1808), on coronary circulatory failure and thromboxane (TX) A2 release were studied during coronary occlusion (for 60 min) and subsequent reperfusion (for 60 min) in anesthetized dogs. During coronary reperfusion, reactive hyperemic response was a...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tanabe M,Terashita Z,Nishikawa K,Hirata M

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four-hour urinary sodium excretion and plasma renin activity were monitored in 36 patients receiving bendrofluazide as sole antihypertensive therapy. There was no increase in urinary sodium output compared with pretreatment values during a 2-year period, and there is therefore no evidence that an increase in sa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Swales JD,Bing RF,Swart S,Thurston H

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to determine if sodium pentobarbital had persistent effects on isolated working rat heart function that altered the response of the heart to subsequently administered dobutamine. The effects of in vitro sodium pentobarbital treatment were studied using isolated working hearts from rats that w...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Segel LD,Rendig SV

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Milrinone, a newly developed analogue of amrinone, possesses potent positive inotropic effects. Electrophysiologic actions of the drug have thus far been reported in only one study conducted on canine Purkinje fibers. The present study used microelectrode techniques to evaluate the electrophysiologic effects of milrin...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Davidenko J,Antzelevitch C

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoradiographical images of whole body sections from control mice (29 +/- 3 days old) revealed high ETA densities within the cardiovascular system, with ETB receptors predominating in the kidney. A similar distribution of ETA receptors was found in ETB-deficient mice (25 +/- 2 days old) but the density was reduced in...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Davenport AP,Kuc RE

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epicardial coronary arteries dilate after release of a transient coronary occlusion in awake chronically instrumented dogs but not in anesthetized dogs studied acutely after surgery. To determine whether anesthesia or surgical trauma is responsible for this lack of reactive dilation, we evaluated the effect of anesthe...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Schwartz JS,Bache RJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effects of the new beta-adrenoceptor antagonist, bopindolol, on stimulated renin secretion and on renal function in conscious rats. Intravenous doses of 10, 31.6, and 100 micrograms/kg of bopindolol antagonized the rise in plasma renin activity (PRA) induced by the administration of isoproterenol (...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Proakis AG,Barrett RJ,Anderson LA,Wright KF,Taylor DR

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, there is no information on endothelin-1 (ET-1)-mediated vascular effects in the human spleen. The objectives of this study were to investigate the in vitro vascular responses to ET-1 using pharmacologic probes (selective ET receptor agonists/antagonists) and to characterize the ET receptor population in th...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Faro R,Grassi-Kassise DM,Boin I,Withrington PG,Opgenorth TJ,Ferraz JG,Antunes E,de Nucci G

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transgenic mice are often used to study the physiologic role of a known gene. The design of experiments with transgenic mice usually does not take into account strain and sex differences, at least in isolated vessels. Therefore, we have compared the contractile response of isolated aortae and isolated pulmonary arteri...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Knapp J,Aleth S,Balzer F,Gergs U,Schmitz W,Neumann J

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Histamine receptors are present in adrenergic terminals, and histamine is reported to inhibit release of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine (NE) at certain neuroeffector junctions. However, a physiological role for histamine in modifying adrenergic neurotransmission has not been established. To examine the interactio...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Muldoon SM,Freas W,Mahla ME,Donlon MA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of calcium antagonists as cardioprotective agents is based on the assumption that uncontrolled Ca2+ gain is a key factor in causing cell death and tissue necrosis. This uncontrolled gain in Ca2+ is the ultimate expression of a series of metabolic events triggered by inadequate perfusion. One of the early event...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nayler WG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentoxifylline possesses vasodilator properties, but little information is available on the mechanism of action explaining this vasodilator effect. The present experiments were designed to determine the effects of the compound on vascular smooth muscle, endothelium, and adrenergic nerves in rings of isolated canine bl...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Hoeffner U,Aarhus LL,Katusic ZS,Vanhoutte PM

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the short-term effects of oral administration of nisoldipine (10 mg) and propranolol (80 mg) alone and in combination in 14 patients with chronic exertional angina pectoris in a double-blind, randomized, cross-over study. The 14 patients (13 men and 1 woman, mean age 56 +/- 7 years) performed symptoms-limit...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： De Caprio L,Papa M,Acanfora D,Abete P,Gallucci F,Covelluzzi F,Cicatiello AM,Rengo F

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the new vasodilatory and antianginal compound, bepridil (CERM-1978), was examined on the electrical activity of the vascular smooth muscle of isolated dog coronary arteries. Tetraethylammonium (10 mM) was used to induce excitability in the muscle in the form of Ca2+-dependent overshooting action potentia...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Harder DR,Sperelakis N

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nebivolol, a chemically novel beta 1-adrenoceptor antagonist, acutely lowers blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats, anaesthetised normotensive dogs, and hypertensive patients. We have investigated the actions of dl-nebivolol in five conscious normotensive rabbits (sham, mean blood pressure (BP) of 82.2 +/-...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ward JE,Coles P,Cox H,Eisenhofer G,Angus JA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We established a real-time quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) system for the analysis of rat endothelin-1 (ET-1) and vasoactive intestinal contractor (VIC)/ET-2 gene expression. We used this technique to examine the expression levels in rat in 16 different organs. ET-1 gene expressio...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Uchide T,Adur J,Fukamachi T,Saida K

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00