Negative chronotropic effect of endothelin 1 mediated through ETA receptors in guinea pig atria.

abstract：:The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm involves substantial proteolysis of the arterial extracellular matrix. The lysosomal cysteine proteases can exert potent elastolytic and collagenolytic activity. Human atherosclerotic plaques have increased cysteine protease content and decreased levels...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sukhova GK,Wang B,Libby P,Pan JH,Zhang Y,Grubb A,Fang K,Chapman HA,Shi GP

更新日期：2005-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmural heterogeneity of myocardial metabolism and function are present in the left ventricle under normal and ischemic conditions. To determine if endocardial versus epicardial differences of [Ca2+]i are also present, perfused rat heart studies using indo-1 fluorescence as an index of [Ca2+]i were performed in the...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Figueredo VM,Brandes R,Weiner MW,Massie BM,Camacho SA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Life threatening ventricular arrhythmias leading to sudden cardiac death are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In the absence of structural heart disease, these arrhythmias, especially in the younger population, are often an outcome of genetic defects in specialized membrane proteins called ion channels. In th...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Garg P,Garg V,Shrestha R,Sanguinetti MC,Kamp TJ,Wu JC

更新日期：2018-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrinopeptide A (FPA) levels were measured in a group of 130 controls and patients with various types of primary hyperlipidemia to investigate whether an increased steady state level of thrombin activity is present in hyperlipidemic patients. In a subset of 56 subjects, levels of clotting factors II, VII, and X were ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nossel HL,Smith FR,Seplowitz AH,Dell RB,Sciacca RR,Merskey C,Goodman DS

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sympathetic activation appears to accelerate the development of atherosclerosis, an effect that may be inhibited by beta-receptor blockade. It is unclear, however, which mechanisms mediate this effect. In view of the significance attached to endothelial injury in the initial phases of atherogenesis, we decided to test...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Pettersson K,Bejne B,Björk H,Strawn WB,Bondjers G

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Postconditioning at the time of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction may reduce infarct size and improve myocardial salvage. However, clinical trials have shown inconsistent benefit. OBJECTIVE:We performed the first National Heart, Lung, and Blood In...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Traverse JH,Swingen CM,Henry TD,Fox J,Wang YL,Chavez IJ,Lips DL,Lesser JR,Pedersen WR,Burke NM,Pai A,Lindberg JL,Garberich RF

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Trimetazidine is a clinically effective antianginal agent that has no negative inotropic or vasodilator properties. Although it is thought to have direct cytoprotective actions on the myocardium, the mechanism(s) by which this occurs is as yet undefined. In this study, we determined what effects trimetazidine has on b...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kantor PF,Lucien A,Kozak R,Lopaschuk GD

更新日期：2000-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The daily rate of cell replication in the aortic endothelium of the normal rat falls from a maximum of 13% at birth to 0.1-0.3% at age 5-6 months. This residual rate of replication largely represents the turnover rate of the endothelium in normal animals. After renal hypertension of 2-3 weeks duration, however, the ra...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Schwartz SM,Benditt EP

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Plakophilin-2 (PKP2) is an essential component of the cardiac desmosome. Recent data show that it interacts with other molecules of the intercalated disc. Separate studies show preferential localization of the voltage-gated sodium channel (Na(V)1.5) to this region. OBJECTIVE:To establish the association of P...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Sato PY,Musa H,Coombs W,Guerrero-Serna G,Patiño GA,Taffet SM,Isom LL,Delmar M

更新日期：2009-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of delivery systems have been used to genetically modify vascular endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells (SMCs), but currently available systems suffer from either inefficient in vivo gene transfer, transient episomal vector expression, or significant immune responses and inflammation. In the present stud...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lynch CM,Hara PS,Leonard JC,Williams JK,Dean RH,Geary RL

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Volume densities of mitochondria, myofibrils, and unspecified cytoplasm were measured by ultrastructural morphometry in myocardium from dogs, rats, hamsters, mice, and in biopsied tissue from human hearts. Human myocardium was composed of 23% mitochondria, 59% myofibrils, and 18% cytoplasm. Volume densities for mitoch...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Schaper J,Meiser E,Stämmler G

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cAMP-dependent protein kinase is anchored to discrete cellular compartments by a family of proteins, the A-kinase anchor proteins (AKAPs). We have investigated in vivo and in vitro the biological effects of the expression of a prototypic member of the family, AKAP75, on smooth muscle cells. In vitro expression of AKAP...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Indolfi C,Stabile E,Coppola C,Gallo A,Perrino C,Allevato G,Cavuto L,Torella D,Di Lorenzo E,Troncone G,Feliciello A,Avvedimento E,Chiariello M

更新日期：2001-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Transmembrane potentials, extracellular potassium activity, and intracellular sodium activity were determined during acute global ischemia in Langendorff perfused guinea pig ventricles by microelectrode techniques. Resting membrane potential decreased with a sigmoidal time course from -82 mV to -49.5 +/- 2.7 mV (SD, n...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kléber AG

更新日期：1983-04-01 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：:Coronary pressure-flow relations during autoregulated and vasodilated flow states were compared between eight dogs with renovascular hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy and 12 normal dogs. Each relation was constructed from serial steady-state measurements of end-diastolic coronary pressure and flow during p...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Jeremy RW,Fletcher PJ,Thompson J

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Na(v)1.5, the cardiac isoform of the voltage-gated Na+ channel, is critical to heart excitability and conduction. However, the mechanisms regulating its expression at the cell membrane are poorly understood. The Na(v)1.5 C-terminus contains a PY-motif (xPPxY) that is known to act as binding site for Nedd4/Nedd4-like u...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： van Bemmelen MX,Rougier JS,Gavillet B,Apothéloz F,Daidié D,Tateyama M,Rivolta I,Thomas MA,Kass RS,Staub O,Abriel H

更新日期：2004-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether calcium channel agonists and antagonists bind to distinct pharmacologically active sites, the binding of dihydropyridine calcium channel agonists and antagonists was related to calcium flux and contractile state in primary monolayer cultures of spontaneously contracting chick embryo ventricular ce...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lee RT,Smith TW,Marsh JD

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ventricular/vascular coupling dynamics and regional hemodynamics of five hypertensive baboons with concentric left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy (mean arterial pressure +/- SD, 148 +/- 16 mm Hg; LV mass/body weight ratio 3.42 +/- 0.8) were compared with five normotensive controls (mean arterial pressure 89 +/- 3 mm Hg;...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Latham RD,Rubal BJ,Sipkema P,Westerhof N,Virmani R,Robinowitz M,Walsh RA

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca(2+) cycling is key to normal excitation-contraction coupling but may also contribute to pathological cardiac alternans and arrhythmia. OBJECTIVE:To measure intra-SR free [Ca(2+)] ([Ca(2+)]SR) changes in intact hearts during alternans and ventricular fibrillation (VF). METHODS ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wang L,Myles RC,De Jesus NM,Ohlendorf AK,Bers DM,Ripplinger CM

更新日期：2014-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate specific markers of both differentiated and proliferating vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), we used the technique of differential cDNA screening using RNA from cultured rat aortic VSMCs. The tissue specificity of expression of all of the cDNAs isolated was determined by Northern analysis. We isolated se...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shanahan CM,Weissberg PL,Metcalfe JC

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Cardiac muscle adapts to increase workload by altering cardiomyocyte size and function resulting in cardiac hypertrophy. G protein-coupled receptor signaling is known to govern the hypertrophic response through the regulation of ion channel activity and downstream signaling in failing cardiomyocytes. OBJECTI...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Seth M,Zhang ZS,Mao L,Graham V,Burch J,Stiber J,Tsiokas L,Winn M,Abramowitz J,Rockman HA,Birnbaumer L,Rosenberg P

更新日期：2009-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) is a specialization of cardiac and skeletal muscle membrane. This large multicomponent complex has both mechanical stabilizing and signaling roles in mediating interactions between the cytoskeleton, membrane, and extracellular matrix. Dystrophin, the protein product of the Duc...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lapidos KA,Kakkar R,McNally EM

更新日期：2004-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Myocardial infarction (MI) results in loss of cardiac myocytes in the ischemic zone of the heart, followed by fibrosis and scar formation, which diminish cardiac contractility and impede angiogenesis and repair. Myofibroblasts, a specialized cell type that switches from a fibroblast-like state to a contractil...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Small EM,Thatcher JE,Sutherland LB,Kinoshita H,Gerard RD,Richardson JA,Dimaio JM,Sadek H,Kuwahara K,Olson EN

更新日期：2010-07-23 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

abstract：:Platelet hyperactivity associated with hyperlipidemia may contribute to development of a prothrombotic state. We previously showed that oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) formed in the setting of hyperlipidemia and atherosclerosis activated platelets in a CD36-dependent manner. We now show that mitogen-activated...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Chen K,Febbraio M,Li W,Silverstein RL

更新日期：2008-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II) has profound effects in the central nervous system (CNS), including promotion of thirst, regulation of vasopressin secretion, and modulation of sympathetic outflow. Despite its importance in cardiovascular and volume homeostasis, angiotensinergic mechanisms are incompletely understood in the CN...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Zimmerman MC,Lazartigues E,Lang JA,Sinnayah P,Ahmad IM,Spitz DR,Davisson RL

更新日期：2002-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Local alterations in the hemodynamic environment regulate endothelial cell function, but the signal-transduction mechanisms involved in this process remain unclear. Because mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases have been shown to be activated by physical forces, we measured the phosphorylation and enzyme activity of...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Tseng H,Peterson TE,Berk BC

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultured quail myocytes were much more resistant to H2O2 toxicity than cultured mouse myocytes. The intracellular concentration of glutathione ([GSH]i) and the activity of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase (gamma-GCS) in quail heart cells were about five and three times higher, respectively, than in mouse heart cells,...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Nakamura TY,Yamamoto I,Kanno Y,Shiba Y,Goshima K

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the absence of a systematic development plan, β-blockers have reached the top tier of medical therapies for chronic heart failure. The successful outcome was due to the many dedicated investigators who produced, over a 30-year period, increasing evidence that β-blocking agents should or actually did improve th...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bristow MR

更新日期：2011-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We tested a number of hypotheses concerning the mechanism of K+-induced vasodilation of the coronary vascular bed. Blood flow in the circumflex artery was measured in pentobarbital-anesthetized, open-chest dogs. Intracircumflex artery bolus injections of 40 mumol of isomotic KCl produced decreases in coronary vascular...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Murray PA,Sparks HV

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00