Inhibition of isoprenoid biosynthesis and arterial smooth-muscle cell proliferation.

abstract：:From the membrane fraction of cultured human renal adenocarcinoma (ACHN) cells, two endothelin-2-converting enzymes (ECE-2A and ECE-2B) were solubilized with detergent Lubrol PX and separated by hydrophobic butyl fast-performance liquid chromatography. The pH range of the converting activity of ECE-2B for big endothel...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Shinmi O,Yorimitsu K,Moroi K,Nishiyama M,Sugita Y,Saito T,Inagaki Y,Masaki T,Kimura S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelin-1 reduces the chronotropic and inotropic effects of the beta-adrenoceptor agonist isoproterenol in rabbit isolated atria. Vascular interactions between endothelin-1 and isoproterenol have not been reported. Rings of the rabbit aorta without endothelium were mounted on myographs to measure isometric tension....

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Gilbert P,Thorin E

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in the cardiovascular protective effects of calcium channel antagonists has increased in the past decade. We investigated prevention of vascular wall remodeling by the long-acting calcium channel antagonist pranidipine in 12-week-old Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rats with high-salt-induced (4% NaCl) hypertension....

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Uehara Y,Kawabata Y,Ohshima N,Hirawa N,Takada S,Numabe A,Nagata T,Goto A,Yagi S,Omata M

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In rats with deoxycorticosterone acetate (DOCA) salt hypertension, induction of diabetes with streptozotocin did not aggravate the elevation in blood pressure, but pressor and sympathetic nerve responses to electrical stimulation of the ventromedial hypothalamus were enhanced. Along with glycosuria and hyperglycemia, ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Sasaki S,Buñag RD

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to examine the electrophysiological effects of isoprenaline, phenylephrine, and noradrenaline on sheep Purkinje fibers in vitro, superfused either with a normal or with a modified physiological salt solution (PSS) designed to mimic some of the conditions occurring during mild myocardial ische...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Boachie-Ansah G,Kane KA,Parratt JR

更新日期：1989-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In urban Australia, the risk of retiring with hypertension is greater than 40%, and the basic abnormality--a rise in blood pressure (BP) with age--is almost universal. A hypothesis linking this with salt, therefore, concerns everyone. The diet of early humans was unsalted, and the Na content of breast milk (6 mmol/kg)...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Beard TC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the adrenergic antihypertensive drugs propranolol, clonidine, alpha-methyldopa, urapidil, indoramin, and prazosin on the relative rate of sterol synthesis were studied in freshly isolated human mononuclear leukocytes. Incubation of cells for 6 h in a medium containing lipid-depleted serum led to a three...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Krone W,Müller-Wieland D,Greten H

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostaglandins (PG) E2, E2, E2 alpha, and I2 [prostacyclin (PGI2)] were tested in vitro on collateral arteries that enlarge following chronic occlusion of the femoral artery in the dog. After contraction with an ED50 dose of KCl, serial doses of a PG were added. Collateral arteries relaxed significantly to PGI2 (10(-7...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Williams PB,Joyner JH

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficacy and safety of carvedilol, a beta-blocker with vasodilatory properties, were compared with that of hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ) both at a once-daily dose of 25-50 mg in a double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, multicenter study. Following a single-blind placebo phase of 3-6 weeks, 201 eligible patients (a...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Langdon CG,Baxter GA,Young PH

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celiprolol is a selective beta(1)-adrenoceptor antagonist with antihypertensive actions, which causes renal vasodilation by increasing tissue nitric oxide (NO) levels. The authors tested whether celiprolol increases coronary blood flow (CBF) by increasing cardiac NO release in the ischemic heart in vivo. In open-chest...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Asanuma H,Node K,Minamino T,Sanada S,Takashima S,Ueda Y,Sakata Y,Asakura M,Kim J,Ogita H,Tada M,Hori M,Kitakaze M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bromocriptine, a dopamine (DA) receptor agonist, has been reported to have hypotensive effects in anesthetized and conscious normotensive rats but its mechanism of action is still not fully understood. Therefore, we studied the changes in mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and heart rate (HR) elicited by an intravenou...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lahlou S,Demenge P

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown that amiloride suppresses the induction of sustained ventricular tachycardia both in dogs late following myocardial infarction and in patients. In those studies the only electrophysiologic correlate of amiloride's antiarrhythmic activity observed was prolongation of ventricular effective refra...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Duff HJ,Brown CE,Cragoe EJ,Rahmberg M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baroreflex control of renin release following acute and prolonged blood pressure reduction by felodipine administration was investigated in conscious spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) fitted with arterial and venous catheters. Basal values of mean arterial pressure (MAP), heart rate (HR), and plasma renin activity...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Nordlander M,Horton R,Thalén P

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of endothelin-1 (ET-1) to primary cultures of bovine adrenal chromaffin cells causes a significant enhancement of norepinephrine and epinephrine efflux, with an EC50 of about 1 nM. A maximally effective concentration of endothelin (10 nM) gives a transient increase in noradrenaline release within 5 min. The a...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Boarder MR,Marriott DB

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antihypertensive medications are the most efficient drugs in achieving regression of myocardial hypertrophy in both clinical studies and animal models of hypertension. Nevertheless, there is a lack of clear and concise comparative study of their effects on the modulation of cardiomyocyte morphology and function. Here,...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Cagalinec M,Kyselovic J,Blaskova E,Bacharova L,Chorvat D Jr,Chorvatova A

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Simvastatin (SV), an inhibitor of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase activity inhibits migration and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC). To investigate whether these effects of SV are related to inhibition of cell calcium mobilization, cultured SMC obtained from rat aorta were l...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Escobales N,Castro M,Altieri PI,Sanabria P

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium is a signaling element of general importance to cells. In muscle, its key function is the activation of troponin C, which is essential for the contraction of myofibrils in skeletal and heart muscles, and of myosin light chain kinase, which is essential for the contraction of smooth muscles. Calcium modulates t...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Carafoli E

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine whether tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4), one of the cofactors of nitric oxide (NO) synthase, attenuates endothelial cell death induced by 3-morpholinosydnonimine-N-ethylcarbamide (SIN-1), which is known to produce both superoxide and NO. Endothelial cell death was assessed by the rel...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ishii M,Shimizu S,Momose K,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the ability of angiotensin II (Ang II) to facilitate the stimulation-induced release of [3H]norepinephrine [( 3H]NE) from two cardiovascular regulatory areas in normal and sodium-restricted rats. Ang II (10(-7) M) facilitated the field-stimulation-induced release of [3H]NE from the A2 area of t...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Meldrum MJ,Xue CS,Badino L,Westfall TC

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We designed an experimental animal study to study the effects of dopamine (DA) on diastolic function in hypothermia. DA was applied at five incremental infusion rates in 6 sheep during normothermia and moderate hypothermia (29 degrees C). Left ventricular end-diastolic pressure (LVEDP) was increased during hypothermia...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Schröder T,Hering JP,Heidelmeyer CF,Pahl R,Sipinková I,Hellige G

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the role of intracellular calcium and particularly Ca2+-uptake in the initiation of lymphocyte mitogenesis, the effect of mibefradil, which blocks both L- and T-type calcium channels with a more selective blockade of T-type channels, on the proliferation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) ...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lijnen P,Fagard R,Petrov V

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is known to alter the pharmacokinetics of several antiarrhythmic agents. To study the effects of AMI on the kinetics of mexiletine (MEX), a single intravenous dose of 200 mg MEX HCl was infused over 30 min in 11 patients with AMI. The study was performed within 24 h of the onset of pa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Pentikäinen PJ,Halinen MO,Helin MJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine whether a quantitative relation exists between changes in regional myocardial blood flow (RMBF) and those in electrophysiologic determinants recorded via left ventricular endocardial and epicardial bipolar electrograms after administration of disopyramide (DP) and a class III ant...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Tanabe T,Iwamoto T,Iwata O,Aikawa M,Kusuzaki S,Handa S,Shinozaki Y,Mori H

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of cibenzoline were examined in the dog with multifocal ventricular arrhythmias 24 h after ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery, and on isolated, superfused canine cardiac tissues which were studied using standard microelectrode techniques. In the intact dog, 5 mg/kg cibenzoline consist...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Dangman KH

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetaminophen is a widely prescribed analgesic/antipyretic metabolized by hepatic glucuronide and sulfate conjugation. Twelve patients, 30-66 years of age, with stable Class III or IV congestive heart failure (CHF) and 12 healthy controls matched for age, sex, and weight received single 650-mg intravenous doses of ace...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Ochs HR,Schuppan U,Greenblatt DJ,Abernethy DR

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The new bradycardic agent UL-FS 49 (1,3,4,5-tetrahydro-7,8-dimethoxy-3-[3-[[2-(3,4-dimethoxyphenyl]ethyl] methylimino]propyl]-2H-3-benzazepin-2-on-hydrochloride) was investigated in isolated guinea pig atria. In spontaneously beating preparations UL-FS 49, (0.03 and 0.1 microgram/ml) reduced the rate of contraction an...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Lillie C,Kobinger W

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphodiesterase inhibitor UK 61260 exhibits positive inotropic activity in animal studies and is under clinical investigation for treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF). We examined the lusitropic and inotropic responses to UK 61260 in electrically driven (1 Hz, 37 degrees C) human auricular trabeculae (AUT...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Schwinger RH,Böhm M,La Rosée K,Schmidt U,Erdmann E

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated Langendorff-perfused rat hearts set up to allow measurement of mechanical myocardial function (according to Bardenheuer and Schrader) were subjected to 60 min of global ischemia (gI). The hearts were perfused with a modified Krebs-Henseleit solution (KHS; control group) or KHS with desipramine (DMI group) 100...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Knopf H,Theising R,Hirche H

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the energy required for defibrillation and postshock outcomes after the administration of dronedarone, amiodarone, and placebo in a porcine model of cardiac arrest. METHODS:Forty-two pigs were randomized to amiodarone, dronedarone, or control treatments. After induction of ventricular fibrillation...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Glover BM,Hu X,Aves T,Ramadeen A,Zou L,Leong-Poi H,Fujii H,Dorian P

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The modification of tumor blood flow resulting from administration of endothelin-1 (ET-1) and sarafotoxin S6c (SX6c) was examined in female CBH rats. Blood flow in subcutaneous HSN tumors and normal tissues was measured by tissue uptake of 125I-labeled iodoantipyrine ([125I])IAP). A 75% increase in tumor blood flow wa...

journal_title：Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology

authors： Bell KM,Prise VE,Chaplin DJ,Tozer GM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00