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Basic Research in Cardiology

Issue 1/2009

Content (12 Articles)

EDITORIAL

On the occasion of Wolfgang Schaper’s 75th birthday

Kerstin Boengler, Ivo Buschmann, Elisabeth Deindl, Martin Gottwik, Hans Martin Hoffmeister, Wulf Ito, Hermann Klein, Manfred Mauser, Christoph Nienaber, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Stefan Sack

Open Access INVITED EDITORIAL

Collateral circulation

Wolfgang Schaper

REVIEW

Innate immunity and myocardial adaptation to ischemia

Hanne Støre Valeur, Guro Valen

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Contribution of I Kr and I K1 to ventricular repolarization in canine and human myocytes: is there any influence of action potential duration?

Norbert Jost, Károly Acsai, Balázs Horváth, Tamás Bányász, István Baczkó, Miklós Bitay, Gábor Bogáts, Péter P. Nánási

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Advanced glycation end products depress function of endothelial progenitor cells via p38 and ERK 1/2 mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways

Chengbo Sun, Chun Liang, Yusheng Ren, Yi Zhen, Zhiqing He, Hua Wang, Hongbing Tan, Xiaoming Pan, Zonggui Wu

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Activation of sphingosine kinase by muscarinic receptors enhances NO-mediated and attenuates EDHF-mediated vasorelaxation

Arthur C. M. Mulders, Marie-Jeanne Mathy, Dagmar Meyer zu Heringdorf, Michael ter Braak, Najat Hajji, Dominique C. Olthof, Martin C. Michel, Astrid E. Alewijnse, Stephan L. M. Peters

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Propylthiouracil, independent of its antithyroid effect, decreases VSMC collagen expression

Wei-Jan Chen, Jong-Hwei S. Pang, Kwang-Huei Lin, Su-Hui Yang

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Thyroid hormone improves postischaemic recovery of function while limiting apoptosis: a new therapeutic approach to support hemodynamics in the setting of ischaemia-reperfusion?

Constantinos Pantos, Iordanis Mourouzis, Theodosios Saranteas, Guillaume Clavé, Heidi Ligeret, Pauline Noack-Fraissignes, Pierre-Yves Renard, Marc Massonneau, Philipos Perimenis, Danai Spanou, Georgia Kostopanagiotou, Dennis V. Cokkinos

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

TNF-α induced shedding of the endothelial glycocalyx is prevented by hydrocortisone and antithrombin

Daniel Chappell, Klaus Hofmann-Kiefer, Matthias Jacob, Markus Rehm, Josef Briegel, Ulrich Welsch, Peter Conzen, Bernhard F. Becker

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Identification of mutational hot spots in LMNA encoding lamin A/C in patients with familial dilated cardiomyopathy

Andreas Perrot, Shwan Hussein, Volker Ruppert, Hartmut H. J. Schmidt, Manfred S. Wehnert, Nguyen Thuy Duong, Maximilian G. Posch, Anna Panek, Rainer Dietz, Ingrid Kindermann, Michael Böhm, Aleksandra Michalewska-Wludarczyk, Anette Richter, Bernhard Maisch, Sabine Pankuweit, Cemil Özcelik

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTION

Green and black tea are equally potent stimuli of NO production and vasodilation: new insights into tea ingredients involved

Mario Lorenz, Janka Urban, Ulrich Engelhardt, Gert Baumann, Karl Stangl, Verena Stangl