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Basic Research in Cardiology

Issue 5/2012

Content (18 Articles)

Open Access Original Contribution

Chronic creatine kinase deficiency eventually leads to congestive heart failure, but severity is dependent on genetic background, gender and age

Craig A. Lygate, Debra J. Medway, Philip J. Ostrowski, Dunja Aksentijevic, Liam Sebag-Montefiore, Imre Hunyor, Sevasti Zervou, Jurgen E. Schneider, Stefan Neubauer

Original Contribution

Role of miR-21 in the pathogenesis of atrial fibrosis

Oliver Adam, Björn Löhfelm, Thomas Thum, Shashi K. Gupta, Sarah-Lena Puhl, Hans-Joachim Schäfers, Michael Böhm, Ulrich Laufs

Original Contribution

Constitutive phosphorylation of inhibitor-1 at Ser67 and Thr75 depresses calcium cycling in cardiomyocytes and leads to remodeling upon aging

Stela Florea, Ahmad Anjak, Wen-Feng Cai, Jiang Qian, Elizabeth Vafiadaki, Sarah Figueria, Kobra Haghighi, Jack Rubinstein, John Lorenz, Evangelia G. Kranias

Original Contribution

Aquaporin-4 in the heart: expression, regulation and functional role in ischemia

Arkady Rutkovskiy, Kåre-Olav Stensløkken, Lars Henrik Mariero, Biljana Skrbic, Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, Vigdis Hillestad, Guro Valen, Marie-Claude Perreault, Ole Petter Ottersen, Lars Gullestad, Christen P. Dahl, Jarle Vaage

Original Contribution

The mechanism of beta-adrenergic preconditioning: roles for adenosine and ROS during triggering and mediation

Ruduwaan Salie, Johannes A Moolman, Amanda Lochner

Open Access Original Contribution

Evidence for functional expression of TRPM7 channels in human atrial myocytes

Yan-Hui Zhang, Hai-Ying Sun, Kui-Hao Chen, Xin-Ling Du, Bo Liu, Lik-Cheung Cheng, Xin Li, Man-Wen Jin, Gui-Rong Li

Original Contribution

Transcriptional regulation of Nox4 by histone deacetylases in human endothelial cells

Daniel Siuda, Ulrich Zechner, Nady El Hajj, Dirk Prawitt, David Langer, Ning Xia, Sven Horke, Andrea Pautz, Hartmut Kleinert, Ulrich Förstermann, Huige Li

Original Contribution

Release of a humoral circulating cardioprotective factor by remote ischemic preconditioning is dependent on preserved neural pathways in diabetic patients

Rebekka Vibjerg Jensen, Nicolaj Brejnholt Støttrup, Steen Buus Kristiansen, Hans Erik Bøtker

Original Contribution

The prostacyclin agonist iloprost aggravates fibrosis and enhances viral replication in enteroviral myocarditis by modulation of ERK signaling and increase of iNOS expression

Stefan Gruhle, Martina Sauter, Gudrun Szalay, Nicole Ettischer, Reinhard Kandolf, Karin Klingel

Original Contribution

Microembolization and myonecrosis during elective percutaneous coronary interventions in diabetic patients: an intracoronary Doppler ultrasound study with 2-year clinical follow-up

Sylvia Otto, Maria Seeber, Buntaro Fujita, Daniel Kretzschmar, Markus Ferrari, Bjoern Goebel, Hans R. Figulla, Tudor C. Poerner

Open Access Original Contribution

Secretome of apoptotic peripheral blood cells (APOSEC) attenuates microvascular obstruction in a porcine closed chest reperfused acute myocardial infarction model: role of platelet aggregation and vasodilation

K. Hoetzenecker, A. Assinger, M. Lichtenauer, M. Mildner, T. Schweiger, P. Starlinger, A. Jakab, E. Berényi, N. Pavo, M. Zimmermann, C. Gabriel, C. Plass, M. Gyöngyösi, I. Volf, H. J. Ankersmit

Original Contribution

Adipocytes modulate the electrophysiology of atrial myocytes: implications in obesity-induced atrial fibrillation

Yung-Kuo Lin, Yao-Chang Chen, Jenn-Han Chen, Shih-Ann Chen, Yi-Jen Chen

Original Contribution

Prostaglandin E1 facilitates inotropic effects of 5-HT4 serotonin receptors and β-adrenoceptors in failing human heart

Jon Riise, Øivind Ørstavik, Eirik Qvigstad, Christen P. Dahl, Jan-Bjørn Osnes, Tor Skomedal, Finn Olav Levy, Kurt A. Krobert

Original Contribution

Inhibition of miR-92a increases endothelial proliferation and migration in vitro as well as reduces neointimal proliferation in vivo after vascular injury

Claudio Iaconetti, Alberto Polimeni, Sabato Sorrentino, Jolanda Sabatino, Gianluigi Pironti, Giovanni Esposito, Antonio Curcio, Ciro Indolfi