Cyclosporine- and FK506-induced sympathetic activation correlates with calcineurin-mediated inhibition of T-cell signaling.

abstract：RATIONALE:Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE)2 opposes the actions of angiotensin (Ang) II by degrading it to Ang 1-7. OBJECTIVE:Given the important role of Ang II/Ang 1-7 in atherogenesis, we investigated the impact of ACE2 deficiency on the development of atherosclerosis. METHODS AND RESULTS:C57Bl6, Ace2 knockout (...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Thomas MC,Pickering RJ,Tsorotes D,Koitka A,Sheehy K,Bernardi S,Toffoli B,Nguyen-Huu TP,Head GA,Fu Y,Chin-Dusting J,Cooper ME,Tikellis C

更新日期：2010-10-01 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：:Mammalian cardiomyocytes irreversibly lose their capacity to proliferate soon after birth, yet the underlying mechanisms have been unclear. Cyclin D1 and its partner, cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4), are important for promoting the G1-to-S phase progression via phosphorylation of the retinoblastoma (Rb) protein. Mito...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tamamori-Adachi M,Ito H,Sumrejkanchanakij P,Adachi S,Hiroe M,Shimizu M,Kawauchi J,Sunamori M,Marumo F,Kitajima S,Ikeda MA

更新日期：2003-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Glibenclamide, one of the antidiabetic sulfonylureas, is known to block ATP-dependent K+ channels. We used this drug to determine to what extent K+ loss from acutely ischemic myocardium is mediated via these channels. We also investigated whether glibenclamide would influence ischemic arrhythmias. Isolated rat hearts ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kantor PF,Coetzee WA,Carmeliet EE,Dennis SC,Opie LH

更新日期：1990-02-01 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

abstract：:Of 145 patients with borderline hypertension, 30% had increased resting cardiac index (QI), whereas the remainder had normal values. The specific aim of this study was to investigate cardiac regulation in patients who had normal resting QI. Eighty-five control subjects were used for comparison. At rest, patients with ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Julius S,Randall OS,Esler MD,Kashima T,Ellis C,Bennett J

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Remote ischemic preconditioning (rIPC) with short episodes of ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) of an organ remote from the heart is a powerful approach to protect against myocardial I/R injury. The signal transduction pathways for the cross talk between the remote site and the heart remain unclear in detail. OBJEC...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rassaf T,Totzeck M,Hendgen-Cotta UB,Shiva S,Heusch G,Kelm M

更新日期：2014-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite improvements in the therapy of underlying heart disease, sudden cardiac death is a major cause of death worldwide. Disturbed Na and Ca handling is known to be a major predisposing factor for life-threatening tachyarrhythmias. In cardiomyocytes, many ion channels and transporters, including voltage-gated Na and...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wagner S,Maier LS,Bers DM

更新日期：2015-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular restenosis involves contraction, proliferation, and remodeling of the arterial wall in response to overstretch injury. Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) are implicated in both contraction and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle (VSM), and studies of porcine carotid arterial muscle strips have show...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Pyles JM,March KL,Franklin M,Mehdi K,Wilensky RL,Adam LP

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Astrocyte signals can modulate arteriolar tone, contributing to regulation of cerebral blood flow, but specific intercellular communication mechanisms are unclear. Here we used isolated cerebral arteriole myocytes, astrocytes, and brain slices to investigate whether carbon monoxide (CO) generated by the enzyme heme ox...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Li A,Xi Q,Umstot ES,Bellner L,Schwartzman ML,Jaggar JH,Leffler CW

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study assesses effects of acutely infarcted myocardium on apparent microsphere loss as a function of time, determines effects of apparent microsphere loss on blood flow measurements to ischemic regions, and determines to what extent apparent microsphere loss alters interpretation of serial measurements of ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Murdock RH Jr,Cobb FR

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II exerts positive inotropic and chronotropic effects on the mammalian heart by binding to specific membrane receptors. Recently, two subtypes of angiotensin II receptors (AT1 and AT2) have been distinguished by using the nonpeptide antagonists losartan (previously known as DuP 753) and PD123177. To evalua...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sechi LA,Griffin CA,Grady EF,Kalinyak JE,Schambelan M

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Chronic rejection, accelerated coronary atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and ischemic heart failure determine the unfavorable evolution of the transplanted heart in humans. OBJECTIVE:Here we tested whether the pathological manifestations of the transplanted heart can be corrected partly by a strategy ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： D'Alessandro DA,Kajstura J,Hosoda T,Gatti A,Bello R,Mosna F,Bardelli S,Zheng H,D'Amario D,Padin-Iruegas ME,Carvalho AB,Rota M,Zembala MO,Stern D,Rimoldi O,Urbanek K,Michler RE,Leri A,Anversa P

更新日期：2009-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a critical regulator of angiogenesis that stimulates proliferation, migration, and proteolytic activity of endothelial cells. Although the mitogenic activity of VEGF is endothelial cell specific, recent reports indicate VEGF is able to stimulate chemotaxis and tissue factor...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wang H,Keiser JA

更新日期：1998-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that a cryoactivatable inactive form of renin, which we have tentatively termed prorenin, occurs in human plasma. Plasma prorenin is measured by subtracting the endogenous plasma renin activity (PRA) from the total renin activity measured after cryoactivation. Cryoactivation is accomplished by...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sealey JE,Moon C,Laragh JH,Atlas SA

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out a systematic study on the effects of elevating [K]o on the properties of a transient outward potassium channel encoded by a cardiac cDNA (RHK1) and compared them with those on two Shaker potassium channels (H-4 and H-37). The amino acid sequences of all three channels are known, and their structure-func...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tseng GN,Tseng-Crank J

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although Ca(2+) waves in cardiac myocytes are regarded as arrhythmogenic substrates, their properties in the heart in situ are poorly understood. On the hypothesis that Ca(2+) waves in the heart behave diversely and some of them influence the cardiac function, we analyzed their incidence, propagation velocity, and int...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kaneko T,Tanaka H,Oyamada M,Kawata S,Takamatsu T

更新日期：2000-05-26 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously have shown that alpha-adrenergic stimulation of canine Purkinje fibers and rat ventricle decreases automaticity. Experiments on rat ventricular myocytes in tissue culture have suggested that the decrease in automaticity induced by alpha-adrenergic stimulation depends on the development of sympathetic inn...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Rosen MR,Steinberg SF,Chow YK,Bilezikian JP,Danilo P Jr

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2 (BMPR2) mutations have been linked to familial pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but the molecular pathways leading to this severe pathology remain poorly characterized. We report that hypoxia, a paramount stimulus for the development of pulmonary hypertension, suppresses the...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wu X,Chang MS,Mitsialis SA,Kourembanas S

更新日期：2006-08-04 00:00:00

abstract：:High sodium intake (HNa) increases brain ouabainlike activity (OLA) in rats. In spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), HNa exaggerates development of hypertension and pressor and sympathoexcitatory responses to stress. To investigate whether dietary sodium-induced changes in brain OLA play a functional role, responses...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Huang BS,Leenen FH

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Mammalian cardiomyocytes withdraw from the cell cycle during early postnatal development, which significantly limits the capacity of the adult mammalian heart to regenerate after injury. The regulatory mechanisms that govern cardiomyocyte cell cycle withdrawal and binucleation are poorly understood. OBJECTIV...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Porrello ER,Johnson BA,Aurora AB,Simpson E,Nam YJ,Matkovich SJ,Dorn GW 2nd,van Rooij E,Olson EN

更新日期：2011-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR)γ agonists attenuate atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs). PPARγ, a nuclear receptor, is expressed on many cell types including smooth muscle cells (SMCs). OBJECTIVE:To determine whether a PPARγ agonist reduces angiotensin II (Ang II)-induced ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Subramanian V,Golledge J,Ijaz T,Bruemmer D,Daugherty A

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is a complex mixture of lipoproteins that is associated with many minor proteins and lipids that influence the function of HDL. Although HDL is a promising marker and potential therapeutic target based on its epidemiological data and the effects of healthy HDL in vitro in endothelial cel...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lüscher TF,Landmesser U,von Eckardstein A,Fogelman AM

更新日期：2014-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Three models of altered autonomic innervation of the chick heart have been developed in the last few years. These include sympathetically aneural heart, parasympathetically aneural heart, and heart with cholinergic innervation reconstituted from the nodose placodes. The neural status of these hearts has been assessed ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kirby ML,Creazzo TL,Christiansen JL

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) continues to be a major cause of late graft failure after cardiac transplantation. We have demonstrated that Rho-kinase, an effector of the small GTPase Rho, plays an important role in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis. In this study, we examined whether the Rho-kinase-mediated ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Hattori T,Shimokawa H,Higashi M,Hiroki J,Mukai Y,Kaibuchi K,Takeshita A

更新日期：2004-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle ring finger (MuRF) proteins have been implicated in transmitting mechanical forces to cell signaling pathways through their interactions with the giant protein titin. Recent evidence has linked mechanically-induced stimuli with the control of serum response factor activity and localization through MuRF2. This o...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Willis MS,Ike C,Li L,Wang DZ,Glass DJ,Patterson C

更新日期：2007-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Ca(2+)-dependent potassium channels in mediating vascular responses to activation of adenylate cyclase in vivo is not known. The goal of this study was to examine the hypothesis that dilatation of cerebral arterioles in response to activation of adenylate cyclase is mediated by activation of Ca(2+)-depende...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Taguchi H,Heistad DD,Kitazono T,Faraci FM

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extracellular epicardial potential fields produced by simple depolarization waves in the in situ canine left ventricular myocardium were analyzed. A mathematical model that included tissue anisotrophy was developed to explain the observed fields. Values of intracellular (i), extracellular (o), longitudinal (l), an...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Roberts DE,Scher AM

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to determine if opioids were detectable in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and if these concentrations were altered by hemorrhagic hypotension. This study was further designed to determine the effects of topically administered opioids on pial arteriolar diameter during normotension and hypotension. C...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Armstead WM,Mirro R,Busija DW,Desiderio DM,Leffler CW

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stem cells can differentiate into a variety of cells to replace dead cells or to repair damaged tissues. Recent evidence indicates that stem cells are involved in the pathogenesis of transplant arteriosclerosis, an alloimmune initiated vascular stenosis that often results in transplant organ failure. Although the path...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Xu Q

更新日期：2008-05-09 00:00:00