Cardiovascular Research

Editorial

Get checked abstract Ruben Coronel and Tobias Opthof

The role of the reviewer in editorial decision-making
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 261-264; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00177-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tobias Opthof

Submissions, publications and reviewers from Europe: focus on Spain
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 265-267; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00188-1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen M. Krause

Heterogeneous transmural gene expression of calcium-handling proteins and natriuretic peptides in the failing human heart
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 279-281; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00176-5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carlo Ventura, Gianfranco Pintus, and Margherita Maioli

Sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺ ATPase gene expression to the rescue of myocardial contractility in hypothyroid associated heart failure
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 282-284; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00165-0 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David F. Stowe

Understanding the temporal relationship of ATP loss, calcium loading, and rigor contracture during anoxia, and hypercontracture after anoxia in cardiac myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 285-287; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00164-9 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M.J.B. van den Hoff and A.F.M. Moorman

Measure is treasure
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 288-290; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00121-2 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular Conundra Series

Karl T Weber

A vicious backhand
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 268-273; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00133-9 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Francesco Cosentino and Thomas F Lüscher

Tetrahydrobiopterin and endothelial nitric oxide synthase activity
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 274-278; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00134-0 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J.L Mehta and D.Y Li

Inflammation in ischemic heart disease: Response to tissue injury or a pathogenetic villain?
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 291-299; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00132-7 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anthony M Dart and Jaye P.F Chin-Dusting

Lipids and the endothelium
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 308-322; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00150-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Article

Get checked abstract Gian Paolo Rossi, Alfredo Sacchetto, Maurizio Cesari, and Achille C Pessina

Interactions between endothelin-1 and the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 300-307; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00110-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jürgen Prestle, Sabine Dieterich, Michael Preuss, Ursula Bieligk, and Gerd Hasenfuss

Heterogeneous transmural gene expression of calcium-handling proteins and natriuretic peptides in the failing human heart
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 323-331; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00119-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Peter Schaffer, Brigitte Pelzmann, Eva Bernhart, Petra Lang, Heinrich Mächler, Bruno Rigler, and Bernd Koidl

Repolarizing currents in ventricular myocytes from young patients with tetralogy of Fallot
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 332-343; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00118-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Adelino F. Leite-Moreira, Jorge Correia-Pinto, and Thierry C. Gillebert

Afterload induced changes in myocardial relaxation: A mechanism for diastolic dysfunction
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 344-353; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00099-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sumanth D. Prabhu

Load sensitivity of left ventricular relaxation in normal and failing hearts: evidence of a nonlinear biphasic response
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 354-363; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00102-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Evgeny P. Anyukhovsky and Leonid V. Rosenshtraukh

Electrophysiological responses of canine atrial endocardium and epicardium to acetylcholine and 4-aminopyridine
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 364-370; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00131-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jun Nawata, Isao Ohno, Shogen Isoyama, Jun Suzuki, Shoko Miura, Jun Ikeda, and Kunio Shirato

Differential expression of 1, 3 and 5 integrin subunits in acute and chronic stages of myocardial infarction in rats
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 371-381; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00117-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wolfgang F. Bluhm, Markus Meyer, M.Richard Sayen, Eric A. Swanson, and Wolfgang H. Dillmann

Overexpression of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca²⁺–ATPase improves cardiac contractile function in hypothyroid mice
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 382-388; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00109-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shigeru Ishiyama, Michiaki Hiroe, Toshio Nishikawa, Takashi Shimojo, Tetsumi Hosokawa, Ikuo Ikeda, Tetsuya Toyozaki, Takeshi Kasajima, and Fumiaki Marumo

Inhibitory effects of vesnarinone in the progression of myocardial damage in experimental autoimmune myocarditis in rats
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 389-397; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00105-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Eric Delpy, Stéphane N Hatem, Nathalie Andrieu, Cyrille de Vaumas, Morgana Henaff, Catherine Rücker-Martin, Jean-Pierre Jaffrézou, Guy Laurent, Thierry Levade, and Jean-Jacques Mercadier

Doxorubicin induces slow ceramide accumulation and late apoptosis in cultured adult rat ventricular myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 398-407; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00142-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yury V. Ladilov, Claudia Balser-Schäfer, Steffen Haffner, Hagen Maxeiner, and H.Michael Piper

Pretreatment with PKC activator protects cardiomyocytes against reoxygenation-induced hypercontracture independently of Ca²⁺ overload
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 408-416; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00100-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Suzanne Bosteels, Peter Matejovic, Willem Flameng, and Kanigula Mubagwa

Sodium influx via a non-selective pathway activated by the removal of extracellular divalent cations: possible role in the calcium paradox
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 417-425; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00098-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antoine Ribadeau-Dumas, Marc Brady, Samuel Y Boateng, Ketty Schwartz, and Kenneth R Boheler

Sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca²⁺-ATPase (SERCA2) gene products are regulated post-transcriptionally during rat cardiac development
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 426-436; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00120-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Luis G. Melo, Anthony T. Veress, Uwe Ackermann, Mark E. Steinhelper, Stephen C. Pang, Yat Tse, and Harald Sonnenberg

Chronic regulation of arterial blood pressure in ANP transgenic and knockout mice: Role of cardiovascular sympathetic tone
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 437-444; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00104-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael R Dashwood, Peter Noertersheuser, Michael Kirchengast, and Klaus Münter

Altered endothelin-1 binding following balloon angioplasty of pig coronary arteries: effect of the ET_A receptor antagonist, LU 135252
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 445-456; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00097-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Louis P Perrault, Jean-Pierre Bidouard, Philip Janiak, Nicole Villeneuve, Patrick Bruneval, Jean-Paul Vilaine, and Paul M Vanhoutte

Impairment of G-protein-mediated signal transduction in the porcine coronary endothelium during rejection after heart transplantation
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 457-470; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00101-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Maarten Groenink, Susan E. Langerak, Ed Vanbavel, Ernst E. van der Wall, Barbara J.M. Mulder, Allard C. van der Wal, and Jos A.E. Spaan

The influence of aging and aortic stiffness on permanent dilation and breaking stress of the thoracic descending aorta
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 471-480; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00095-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mitsunori Harada, Yukio Toki, Yasushi Numaguchi, Hiroyuki Osanai, Takayuki Ito, Kenji Okumura, and Tetsuo Hayakawa

Prostacyclin synthase gene transfer inhibits neointimal formation in rat balloon-injured arteries without bleeding complications
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 481-491; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00107-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mohammad Reza Mehrabi, Cem Ekmekcioglu, Franz Tatzber, Anthony Oguogho, Robert Ullrich, Abdelmonem Morgan, Forouzan Tamaddon, Michael Grimm, Helmut D Glogar, and Helmut Sinzinger

The isoprostane, 8-epi-PGF₂, is accumulated in coronary arteries isolated from patients with coronary heart disease
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 492-499; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00108-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor

R Willenheimer

Comment on "Effects of long-term angiotensin II AT-1 receptor blockade on survival, hemodynamics and cardiac remodeling in chronic heart failure in rats"
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 500; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00167-4 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reply

C Richer, P Fornes, C Cazaubon, V Domergue, D Nisato, and J.F Giudicelli

Reply to the comment on "Effects of long term angiotensin II AT-1 receptor blockade on survival, hemodynamics and cardiac remodeling in chronic heart failure in rats"
Cardiovasc Res 1999 43: 501; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(99)00168-6 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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