Issue 2/2010
Content (15 Articles)
Inhibition of mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening: the holy grail of cardioprotection
Gerd Heusch, Kerstin Boengler, Rainer Schulz
Postconditioning with levosimendan reduces the infarct size involving the PI3K pathway and KATP-channel activation but is independent of PDE-III inhibition
Antje Hönisch, Norman Theuring, Bernd Ebner, Claudia Wagner, Ruth H. Strasser, Christof Weinbrenner
Cardioselective nitric oxide synthase 3 gene transfer protects against myocardial reperfusion injury
Zsolt Szelid, Peter Pokreisz, Xiaoshun Liu, Pieter Vermeersch, Glenn Marsboom, Hilde Gillijns, Marijke Pellens, Erik Verbeken, Frans Van de Werf, Desire Collen, Stefan P. Janssens
Effects of a protocol of ischemic postconditioning and/or captopril in hearts of normotensive and hypertensive rats
Claudia Penna, Francesca Tullio, Francesca Moro, Anna Folino, Annalisa Merlino, Pasquale Pagliaro
Simvastatin in contrast to postconditioning reduces infarct size in hyperlipidemic rabbits: possible role of oxidative/nitrosative stress attenuation
Efstathios K. Iliodromitis, Ioanna Andreadou, Eftihios Prokovas, Anastasia Zoga, Dimitrios Farmakis, Theano Fotopoulou, Konstantinos Ioannidis, Ioannis A. Paraskevaidis, Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos
Anti-inflammatory effect of oxytocin in rat myocardial infarction
Marek Jankowski, Vickram Bissonauth, Lan Gao, Marius Gangal, Donghao Wang, Bogdan Danalache, Yang Wang, Ekatherina Stoyanova, Guy Cloutier, Gilbert Blaise, Jolanta Gutkowska
Depressed expression of MuRF1 and MAFbx in areas remote of recent myocardial infarction: a mechanism contributing to myocardial remodeling?
Viviane M. Conraads , Christiaan J. Vrints, Inez E. Rodrigus, Vicky Y. Hoymans, Emeline M. Van Craenenbroeck, Johan Bosmans, Marc J. Claeys, Paul Van Herck, Axel Linke, Gerhard Schuler, Volker Adams
Is remodeling the dominant compensatory mechanism in both chronic heart failure with preserved and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction?
David H. MacIver
Endothelin-B receptors and ventricular arrhythmogenesis in the rat model of acute myocardial infarction
Dimitrios L. Oikonomidis, Dimitrios G. Tsalikakis, Giannis G. Baltogiannis, Alexandros T. Tzallas, Xanthi Xourgia, Maria G. Agelaki, Aikaterini J. Megalou, Andreas Fotopoulos, Apostolos Papalois, Zenon S. Kyriakides, Theofilos M. Kolettis
Aldosterone improves contractile function of adult rat ventricular cardiomyocytes in a non-acute way: potential relationship to the calcium paradox of aldosteronism
Sibylle Wenzel, Ilhan Tastan, Yaser Abdallah, Rolf Schreckenberg, Klaus-Dieter Schlüter
Nitric oxide/cGMP signalling mediates the cardioprotective action of adrenomedullin in reperfused myocardium
Shabaz A. Hamid, Matthias Totzeck, Christina Drexhage, Iain Thompson, Robert C. Fowkes, Tienush Rassaf, Gary F. Baxter
Transcriptional regulation of Pim-1 kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells and its role for proliferation
Manuela Willert, Antje Augstein, David M. Poitz, Alexander Schmeisser, Ruth H. Strasser, Ruediger Christian Braun-Dullaeus
K201 improves aspects of the contractile performance of human failing myocardium via reduction in Ca2+ leak from the sarcoplasmic reticulum
Karl Toischer, Stephan E. Lehnart, Gero Tenderich, Hendrik Milting, Reiner Körfer, Jan D. Schmitto, Friedrich A. Schöndube, Noboru Kaneko, Christopher M. Loughrey, Godfrey L. Smith, Gerd Hasenfuss, Tim Seidler
Protein kinase C α and ε phosphorylation of troponin and myosin binding protein C reduce Ca2+ sensitivity in human myocardium
Viola Kooij, Nicky Boontje, Ruud Zaremba, Kornelia Jaquet, Cris dos Remedios, Ger J. M. Stienen, Jolanda van der Velden
FGF-inducible 14-kDa protein (Fn14) is regulated via the RhoA/ROCK kinase pathway in cardiomyocytes and mediates nuclear factor-kappaB activation by TWEAK
Emmanuel Chorianopoulos, Thomas Heger, Matthias Lutz, Derk Frank, Florian Bea, Hugo A. Katus, Norbert Frey