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Basic Research in Cardiology

Issue 5/2009

Content (14 Articles)

Editorial

Diastolic heart failure: a misNOmer

Gerd Heusch

Review

Ischemic postconditioning: experimental models and protocol algorithms

Andreas Skyschally, Patrick van Caster, Efstathios K. Iliodromitis, Rainer Schulz, Dimitrios T. Kremastinos, Gerd Heusch

Open Access Review

Coronary microvascular resistance: methods for its quantification in humans

Paul Knaapen, Paolo G. Camici, Koen M. Marques, Robin Nijveldt, Jeroen J. Bax, Nico Westerhof, Marco J. W. Götte, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Heinrich R. Schelbert, Adriaan A. Lammertsma, Albert C. van Rossum

Original Contribution

Enhancement of the endothelial NO synthase attenuates experimental diastolic heart failure

Dirk Westermann, Alexander Riad, Utz Richter, Sebastian Jäger, Konstantinos Savvatis, Mirjam Schuchardt, Nora Bergmann, Markus Tölle, Dirk Nagorsen, Michael Gotthardt, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Carsten Tschöpe

Open Access Original Contribution

The cardiac sodium channel displays differential distribution in the conduction system and transmural heterogeneity in the murine ventricular myocardium

C. A. Remme, A. O. Verkerk, W. M. H. Hoogaars, W. T. J. Aanhaanen, B. P. Scicluna, C. Annink, M. J. B. van den Hoff, A. A. M. Wilde, T. A. B. van Veen, M. W. Veldkamp, J. M. T. de Bakker, V. M. Christoffels, C. R. Bezzina

Original Contribution

Regional, age-dependent, and genotype-dependent differences in ventricular action potential duration and activation time in 410 Langendorff-perfused mouse hearts

Christoph Waldeyer, Larissa Fabritz, Lisa Fortmueller, Joachim Gerss, Dierk Damke, Andreas Blana, Sandra Laakmann, Nina Kreienkamp, Daniela Volkery, Günter Breithardt, Paulus Kirchhof

Original Contribution

Time course and mechanisms of left ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension

Jorge Correia-Pinto, Tiago Henriques-Coelho, Roberto Roncon-Albuquerque Jr, André P. Lourenço, Gustavo Melo-Rocha, Francisco Vasques-Nóvoa, Thierry C. Gillebert, Adelino F. Leite-Moreira

Original Contribution

The metabolic modulators, Etomoxir and NVP-LAB121, fail to reverse pressure overload induced heart failure in vivo

Michael Schwarzer, Gloria Faerber, Tilmann Rueckauer, Daniel Blum, Gracjan Pytel, Friedrich W. Mohr, Torsten Doenst

Original Contribution

Ischemia-reperfusion injury activates early extracellular matrix processing and expression of endostatin in the heart with differential effects of temperature

Alexander Lauten, Ewa Majos, Andre Mühlich, Thorsten Wahlers, Sebastian Weider, Jürgen H. Fischer, Hans R. Figulla, Wilhelm Bloch

Original Contribution

Effect of insulin and glucose infusion on myocardial infarction size in uraemic rats

Ralf Dikow, Caroline Wasserhess, Katrin Zimmerer, Lars Philipp Kihm, Matthias Schaier, Vedat Schwenger, Stefan Hardt, Christiane Tiefenbacher, Hugo Katus, Martin Zeier, Lisa Marie Gross

Original Contribution

The effects of autoantibodies against the second extracellular loop of α1-adrenoceptor on vasoconstriction

Li Yan, Yanwu Xu, Hong Yao, Wenxin Xue, Jue Tian, Haiqiang Ren, Ye Wu, Guangzhao Yang, Xin L. Ma, Huirong Liu

Original Contribution

Myocardial inflammation and non-ischaemic heart failure: is there a role for C-reactive protein?

Oliver Zimmermann, Magdalena Bienek-Ziolkowski, Bettina Wolf, Martin Vetter, Regine Baur, Volker Mailänder, Vinzenz Hombach, Jan Torzewski

Original Contribution

Role of extracellular signal-regulated kinase for endothelial progenitor cell dysfunction in coronary artery disease

Erik B. Friedrich, Christian Werner, Katrin Walenta, Michael Böhm, Bruno Scheller