Angiotensin converting enzyme and kininase-II-like activities in cultured valvular interstitial cells of the rat heart.

abstract：:Oxygen-derived free radicals are thought to contribute to the initiation and progression of cardiovascular disease via several different mechanisms, such as consumption of nitric oxide, oxidation of proteins and lipids, and activation of redox-sensitive signalling cascades. Vascular NADPH oxidases are important source...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Brandes RP,Kreuzer J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma low density lipoproteins (LDL) play a key role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis. LDL modify gene expression in vascular cells leading to disturbances in the functional state of the vessel wall. METHODS:Expression levels of C-4 sterol methyl oxidase gene (ERG25), sterol regulatory element bindin...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Rodriguez C,Raposo B,Martínez-González J,Llorente-Cortés V,Vilahur G,Badimon L

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Preexposure of macrophages to oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) attenuates formation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon stimulation with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) or acute exposure to oxLDL. We examined whether attenuation of the oxidative burst is attributed to down-regulation of protei...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Köhl R,Preiss S,von Knethen A,Brüne B

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to estimate the relative contributions of the various intracellular and sarcolemmal systems to the relaxation of the systolic calcium transient. METHODS:The experiments were performed on isolated rat ventricular myocytes. The cells were loaded with the fluorescent indicator indo-1 in order to mea...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Negretti N,O'Neill SC,Eisner DA

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Anthracycline-induced cardiotoxicity (AIC) is a serious adverse effect among cancer patients. A central mechanism of AIC is irreversible mitochondrial damage. Despite major efforts, there are currently no effective therapies able to prevent AIC. METHODS AND RESULTS:Forty Large-White pigs were included. In Study 1...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Galán-Arriola C,Villena-Gutiérrez R,Higuero-Verdejo MI,Díaz-Rengifo IA,Pizarro G,López GJ,de Molina-Iracheta A,Pérez-Martínez C,García RD,González-Calle D,Lobo M,Sánchez PL,Oliver E,Córdoba R,Fuster V,Sánchez-González J,I

更新日期：2020-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Vascular endothelial growth factors (VEGFs) are key regulators of permeability. The principal evidence behind how they increase vascular permeability in vivo and in vitro and the consequences of that increase are addressed here. Detailed analysis of the published literature has shown that in vivo and in vitro VEGF-med...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bates DO

更新日期：2010-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanical, haemodynamic, and energetic functions of isolated perfused working hearts from chronic alcoholic and control rats were studied. Male Long-Evans rats were fed a nutritionally-complete liquid diet containing 38% of daily calories as ethanol (isocaloric replacement with dextrin-maltose for controls) for 3...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Segel LD,Rendig SV,Mason DT

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Adenosine inhibits neutrophil adhesion and injury to isolated cardiac myocytes. In the present study, the contribution of selectin and CD18 interactions to neutrophil-myocyte adhesion and their sensitivity to adenosine were assessed. METHODS:Activated human neutrophils and canine myocytes were incubated with...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bullough DA,Magill MJ,Mullane KM,Firestein GS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The afterload dependency of relaxation rate was reappraised in isolated canine hearts both in isovolumic and isobaric contractions by using the reliable exponential method in which the asymptote LV pressure (P chi) is variable. This method provided a closer correlation (r = 0.999 +/- 0.001) between the measured LV pre...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Hori M,Inoue M,Fukunami M,Kitakaze M,Ishida Y,Tsujioka K,Nakajima S,Kitabatake A,Abe H

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Junctin is a major transmembrane protein in cardiac junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum, which forms a quaternary complex with the ryanodine receptor (Ca(2+) release channel), triadin, and calsequestrin. METHODS:To better understand the role of junctin in excitation-contraction coupling in the heart, we genera...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Kirchhefer U,Neumann J,Bers DM,Buchwalow IB,Fabritz L,Hanske G,Justus I,Riemann B,Schmitz W,Jones LR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Ischaemic preconditioning (IPC) protects the heart against prolonged lethal ischaemia through a signalling cascade involving Akt, glycogen synthase kinase-3β (GSK-3β), and mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channels (mitoK(ATP)). We previously demonstrated the involvement of the Wnt pathway in IPC in vivo via G...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Vigneron F,Dos Santos P,Lemoine S,Bonnet M,Tariosse L,Couffinhal T,Duplaà C,Jaspard-Vinassa B

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Changes in left ventricular internal diameter resulting from increasing intrapericardial pressure induced by increasing the pericardial fluid volume were studied in closed chest, anaesthetized dogs. Left ventricular internal diameters were measured by placing an ultrasonic dimension catheter in the left ventricle at t...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Pegram BL,Kardon MB,Bishop VS

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of axial rotation on flow through and pressure gradient across saphenous vein segments was studied using 15 cadaver long saphenous veins. A significant reduction in flow occurred at a mean rotation of 25 degrees/cm and a significant increase in head loss across the segments occurred at a mean rotation of 23...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Gordon A,Williams J,Buxton B

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:A robust inflammatory response to tissue injury is a necessary part of the repair process but the deposition of scar tissue is a direct downstream consequence of this response in many tissues including the heart. Adult zebrafish not only possess the capacity to regenerate lost cardiomyocytes but also to remodel an...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bevan L,Lim ZW,Venkatesh B,Riley PR,Martin P,Richardson RJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We analysed the possible protective role of human endothelial (EPCs) and smooth muscle (SPCs) progenitor cells on atherosclerosis development in apoE(-/-)RAG2(-/-) mice. We determined plasma levels of SPCs in coronary patients. METHODS AND RESULTS:ApoE(-/-)RAG2(-/-) mice received four intravenous injections of sa...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Zoll J,Fontaine V,Gourdy P,Barateau V,Vilar J,Leroyer A,Lopes-Kam I,Mallat Z,Arnal JF,Henry P,Tobelem G,Tedgui A

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim was to investigate the effects of slowing the recovery of ischaemia induced intracellular acidosis with hypercapnic acidosis or dimethyl amiloride (DMA) on the extent of reperfusion induced cell death. METHODS:Isolated arterially perfused rabbit papillary muscles and septa were suspended in a control...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Kaplan SH,Yang H,Gilliam DE,Shen J,Lemasters JJ,Cascio WE

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inherited arrhythmias are disorders caused by one or more genetic mutations that increase the risk of arrhythmia, which result in life-long risk of sudden death. These mutations either primarily perturb electrophysiological homeostasis (e.g. long QT syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia), ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Bezzerides VJ,Prondzynski M,Carrier L,Pu WT

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemic preconditioning is a well-established phenomenon first described in experimental preparations in which brief episodes of ischemia/reperfusion applied prior to a longer coronary artery occlusion reduce myocardial infarct size. There are ample correlates of ischemic preconditioning in the clinical realm. Precon...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Kloner RA,Rezkalla SH

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:GATA4 is a transcription factor that is up-regulated during cardiac hypertrophy and plays a fundamental role in myocyte growth and survival. In this study, we investigate the transcriptional vs. post-transcriptional mechanisms that are involved in regulating GATA4 in the heart during neonatal and pressure overload...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Han M,Yang Z,Sayed D,He M,Gao S,Lin L,Yoon S,Abdellatif M

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The 'master regulatory factors' that position at the top of the genetic hierarchy of lineage determination have been a focus of intense interest, and have been investigated in various systems. Etv2/Etsrp71/ER71 is such a factor that is both necessary and sufficient for the development of haematopoietic and endothelial...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Koyano-Nakagawa N,Garry DJ

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Responses to EDHF are usually characterised in the presence of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitors. The contribution of NO to endothelium-dependent relaxation in the presence of NOS inhibitors was assessed using NO scavengers with the objective of testing (i) whether any residual ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Chauhan S,Rahman A,Nilsson H,Clapp L,MacAllister R,Ahluwalia A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversy exists as to whether the diabetic heart is more or less sensitive to ischemic injury. Although a considerable number of experimental studies have directly determined the effects of ischemia on the diabetic heart, there is still no general agreement as to whether metabolic changes within the myocardium cont...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Feuvray D,Lopaschuk GD

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We determine if action potential duration (APD) shortening and cardioprotection are separable phenomena in ATP-sensitive potassium channel (KATP) openers which protect ischemic myocardium via a glyburide-reversible mechanism. METHODS:We determined the effect of the weakly vasodilating KATP opener, BMS-180448...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Grover GJ,D'Alonzo AJ,Hess T,Sleph PG,Darbenzio RB

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It has been shown that cGMP content is reduced in post-ischemic myocardium, and that stimulation of cGMP synthesis prevents cardiomyocyte hypercontracture and cell death in vitro. This study was aimed at determining whether administration of the natriuretic peptide urodilatin (URO) at the time of reperfusion ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Padilla F,Garcia-Dorado D,Agulló L,Barrabés JA,Inserte J,Escalona N,Meyer M,Mirabet M,Pina P,Soler-Soler J

更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve assessment of ventricular function during cardiac catheterisation there should be available a continuous registration of stroke volume and cardiac output in addition to ventricular pressure. To obtain the desired volumetric quantities a catheter has been developed which measures changes in intraventricular ...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Baan J,Jong TT,Kerkhof PL,Moene RJ,van Dijk AD,van der Velde ET,Koops J

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contractile response to beta-adrenoceptor stimulation has been found to be reduced in single myocytes from failing human ventricle. A portion of that reduction was statistically related to the age of the patient. We have developed a method for obtaining viable contracting myocytes from small biopsies of human vent...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Davies CH,Ferrara N,Harding SE

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Inflammatory cells invade the fibrotic myocardium of spontaneously hypertensive rats at the same sites as where fibroblasts are produced. The role of these inflammatory cells in myocardial fibrogenesis was studied in the present work. METHODS:The production and distribution of proteins that may be implicated...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Nicoletti A,Mandet C,Challah M,Bariéty J,Michel JB

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：Aims:Circulating proteins larger than 3 nm can be transported across continuous endothelial barrier of blood vessels via transcytosis. However, excessive accumulation of serum proteins within the vessel walls is uncommon even for those abundant in the circulation. The aim of this study was to investigate how transcytos...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Li HY,Liu XL,Liu YT,Jia ZK,Filep JG,Potempa LA,Ji SR,Wu Y

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) have been used to 'bridge' patients with end-stage heart failure to transplantation. Although several reports have suggested that the native ventricular function recovers after long-term LVAD support, a process called 'reverse remodeling', the underlying biological mecha...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Grabellus F,Levkau B,Sokoll A,Welp H,Schmid C,Deng MC,Takeda A,Breithardt G,Baba HA

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Apolipoprotein E (apoE) may act as a vasculoprotective factor by promoting plasma lipid clearance and cholesterol efflux. Moreover, apoE accumulates at sites of vascular injury and modulates the effect of growth factors on smooth muscle cells (SMCs). Experimental data suggested that hypothalamic apoE expression is...

journal_title：Cardiovascular research

authors： Schroeter MR,Leifheit-Nestler M,Hubert A,Schumann B,Glückermann R,Eschholz N,Krüger N,Lutz S,Hasenfuss G,Konstantinides S,Schäfer K

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00