Multiple connexins colocalize in canine ventricular myocyte gap junctions.

abstract：:Smooth muscle cell migration in response to platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) is a key event in several vascular pathologies, including atherosclerosis and restenosis. PDGF increases intracellular levels of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), but the ROS sensitivity of migration ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Weber DS,Taniyama Y,Rocic P,Seshiah PN,Dechert MA,Gerthoffer WT,Griendling KK

更新日期：2004-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated expression of the 5'-spliced isoform of smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC-B) in smooth muscle cells of cardiac vessels of the left ventricle of normotensive (Wistar-Kyoto) and spontaneously hypertensive rats of the stroke-prone strain by immunofluorescence microscopy. In parallel, liver and blad...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Wetzel U,Lutsch G,Haase H,Ganten U,Morano I

更新日期：1998-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：:alpha-Adrenergic receptor stimulation regulates the activity of a number of different cardiac ion channels, including those underlying one or more distinct Cl- conductances. The whole-cell patch-clamp technique was used in the present study to investigate the effects of alpha-adrenergic stimulation on the beta-adrener...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Oleksa LM,Hool LC,Harvey RD

更新日期：1996-06-01 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：:We investigated the effect of medium conditioned by bovine aortic endothelial cells on collagen accumulation and total protein formation by human embryonic fibroblasts or bovine smooth muscle cells in cultures. The conditioned medium at a 1:10 dilution induced a twofold increase in collagen and total protein accumulat...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Villanueva AG,Farber HW,Rounds S,Goldstein RH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Angiotensin (Ang) II is present inside vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs); however, its intracellular functions, if any, are unknown. We tested the hypothesis that intracellular Ang II exerts effects on cytosolic Ca2+ ([Ca2+]i) in VSMCs. Ang II was administered via microinjection. Intracellular Ang II localization w...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Haller H,Lindschau C,Erdmann B,Quass P,Luft FC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:In the myocardium, redox/cysteine modification of proteins regulating Ca(2+) cycling can affect contraction and may have therapeutic value. Nitroxyl (HNO), the one-electron-reduced form of nitric oxide, enhances cardiac function in a manner that suggests reversible cysteine modifications of the contractile ma...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Gao WD,Murray CI,Tian Y,Zhong X,DuMond JF,Shen X,Stanley BA,Foster DB,Wink DA,King SB,Van Eyk JE,Paolocci N

更新日期：2012-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Using alpha-chloralose-anesthetized cats, we studied blood pressure and heart rate responses to static contraction and passive stretch of the triceps surae muscle before and after microdialyzing the mu-opioid agonist [D-Ala2]-methionine enkephalinamide (DAME, 200 mumol/L) into the L-7 dorsal horn of the spinal cord. I...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Meintjes AF,Nóbrega AC,Fuchs IE,Ally A,Wilson LB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To test the hypothesis that early interventional treatment with insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) alleviates subsequent development of dilated cardiomyopathy, cardiac-specific IGF-1 expression was introduced by selective cross-breeding into a transgenic mouse model of heart failure that displays phenotypic characte...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Welch S,Plank D,Witt S,Glascock B,Schaefer E,Chimenti S,Andreoli AM,Limana F,Leri A,Kajstura J,Anversa P,Sussman MA

更新日期：2002-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of centrally originating sympathetic activity to the myocardial extracellular accumulation of noradrenaline during the early phase of ischemia has been assessed in a perfused (Langendorff) rat heart preparation isolated except for its sympathetic innervation. A 10-minute electrical stimulation (4 Hz, ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Dart AM,Schömig A,Dietz R,Mayer E,Kübler W

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anisotropic impulse conduction was studied in neonatal rat heart cell monolayers produced by culturing cells on a growth-directing substrate of collagen. Monolayers consisting of parallel-oriented cells without visible intercellular clefts were selected for experiments; cell lengths and widths were 65.8 +/- 12.5 and 1...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Fast VG,Kléber AG

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim was to identify energy-consuming processes, other than contraction, downregulated during moderate hypoxia ( approximately 5 micromol/L, 0.5% O(2)) and severe hypoxia (<0.5 micromol/L, <0.05% O(2)) in isolated neonatal cardiomyocytes. The metabolic response of cardiomyocytes to moderate and severe hypoxia was a...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Casey TM,Pakay JL,Guppy M,Arthur PG

更新日期：2002-04-19 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：:Aldose reductase (AR), a member of the aldo-keto reductase superfamily, has been shown to metabolize toxic aldehydes generated by lipid peroxidation, suggesting that it may serve as an antioxidant defense. To investigate its role in the late phase of ischemic preconditioning (PC), conscious rabbits underwent 6 cycles ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shinmura K,Bolli R,Liu SQ,Tang XL,Kodani E,Xuan YT,Srivastava S,Bhatnagar A

更新日期：2002-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A distal transcriptional enhancer has been previously reported upstream of the mouse renin gene. A homologous sequence is also present upstream of the human renin gene, but the mouse and human renin enhancers differ markedly in their ability to activate transcription of a renin promoter. Although the 2 enhancers share...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Shi Q,Black TA,Gross KW,Sigmund CD

更新日期：1999-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In isolated right atria of the rabbit heart, we studied the activation pattern within the sinus node, using the microelectrode technique. After the electrophysiological experiments, the preparations were subjected to a correlative morphological investigation, using light or electron microscopy. Different criteria for ...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bleeker WK,Mackaay AJ,Masson-Pévet M,Bouman LN,Becker AE

更新日期：1980-01-01 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：:Electrical activity of enzymatically isolated, smooth muscle cells from hog carotid arteries was recorded under current clamp and voltage clamp. Under the experimental conditions, membrane potential usually was not stable, and spontaneous hyperpolarizing transients of approximately 100-msec duration were recorded. The...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Désilets M,Driska SP,Baumgarten CM

更新日期：1989-09-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to develop an isolated tissue model in which arrhythmic activity could be generated in response to conditions encountered in ischemia followed by reperfusion, and in which intracellular recordings could be used to identify and study arrhythmogenic mechanisms. Isolated canine Purkinje fibe...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Ferrier GR,Moffat MP,Lukas A

更新日期：1985-02-01 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：:We studied the influence of hypophysectomy on endothelial cell regrowth and intimal thickening following aortic endothelial removal. Modification of this influence by replacement doses of glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, thyroxin, and growth hormone also was investigated. Young adult male rats were used, and endot...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Bettmann MA,Stemerman MB,Ransil BJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To delineate more clearly the importance of altered monovalent cation transport rate in the mediation of the positive inotropic effects of cardiac glycosides, we studied changes in the contractile state and rate of uptake of K+ and Rb+ by monolayer cultures of chick embryo ventricular cells during exposure to and wash...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Barry WH,Biedert S,Miura DS,Smith TW

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is considered to be an inflammatory disease. Tissue factor (TF), a prothrombotic molecule expressed by various cell types within atherosclerotic plaques, is thought to play an essential role in thrombus formation after atherosclerotic plaque rupture. Recent studies suggest that the antiinflammatory cyt...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Kamimura M,Viedt C,Dalpke A,Rosenfeld ME,Mackman N,Cohen DM,Blessing E,Preusch M,Weber CM,Kreuzer J,Katus HA,Bea F

更新日期：2005-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of neurotransmitters modulate cardiac dihydropyridine-sensitive L-type Ca2+ channels through several homologous G protein-coupled receptors. Previous studies that have examined receptor-Ca2+ channel interactions have suffered because of the coexpression of various receptor subtypes in native cells. To study t...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Yatani A,Wakamori M,Niidome T,Yamamoto S,Tanaka I,Mori Y,Katayama K,Green S

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a highly atherogenic genetic disorder leading to premature coronary heart disease (CHD), usually before 60 years of age. We studied an extended multigenerational kindred with FH linked to chromosome 1p32 in which atherosclerotic complications were either delayed or pr...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Canizales-Quinteros S,Aguilar-Salinas CA,Reyes-Rodríguez E,Riba L,Rodríguez-Torres M,Ramírez-Jiménez S,Huertas-Vázquez A,Fragoso-Ontiveros V,Zentella-Dehesa A,Ventura-Gallegos JL,Vega-Hernández G,López-Estrada A,Aurón-Gómez M,G

更新日期：2003-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitric oxide (NO) functions principally as a diffusible paracrine effector. The exception is in cardiomyocytes where both NO synthases (NOS) and target proteins coexist, allowing NO to work in an autocrine/intracrine fashion. However, the most abundant myocyte isoform (NOS3) is far more expressed in vascular endotheli...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Champion HC,Georgakopoulos D,Takimoto E,Isoda T,Wang Y,Kass DA

更新日期：2004-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:RhoA and Rac1 regulate formation of stress fibers and intercellular junctions, thus modulating endothelial monolayer permeability. Posttranslational modifications of RhoA and Rac1 regulate enzyme activity and subcellular localization, resulting in altered cellular function. The role of RhoA and Rac1 carboxyl methylati...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Lu Q,Harrington EO,Hai CM,Newton J,Garber M,Hirase T,Rounds S

更新日期：2004-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Electrocardiogram (ECG) electrodes and carotid arterial and superior vena caval (SVC) catheters were placed in eight nonpregnant ewes and 11 fetuses (109-129 days gestation) to measure heart rate, arterial presssure, P-R interval, left ventricular pre-ejection period (PEP), and left ventricular ejection time (LVET), b...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Berman W Jr,Ravenscroft PJ,Sheiner LB,Heymann MA,Melmon KL,Rudolph AM

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitation-contraction coupling in the cardiac myocyte is mediated by a number of highly integrated mechanisms of intracellular Ca²(+) transport. The complexity and integrative nature of heart cell electrophysiology and Ca²(+) cycling has led to an evolution of computational models that have played a crucial role in s...

journal_title：Circulation research

authors： Greenstein JL,Winslow RL

更新日期：2011-01-07 00:00:00