Cardiovascular Research

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Society pages
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: I-III; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00463-7 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

List of Keywords
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 702; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00428-5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Instructions to Authors
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 703; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00429-7 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Keyword Index – volumes 51–54
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 704-707; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00462-5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcement

The Board of The European Society of Cardiology has appointed Professor Hans Michael Piper and Professor Rudi Busse as the new Editors of Cardiovascular Research
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: iii; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00422-4 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight Issue on Cell Transplantation and Stem Cells in the Cardiovascular System
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: iv; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00423-6 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

Ervin G Erdös

Kinins, the long march—A personal view
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 485-491; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00284-5 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wilfried Briest

Do we have a new early marker of chronic transplant dysfunction now?
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 492-494; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00396-6 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matt M. Thompson and Iain B. Squire

Matrix metalloproteinase-9 expression after myocardial infarction: physiological or pathological?
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 495-498; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00397-8 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pieter A. Doevendans and Guillaume van Eys

Smooth muscle cells on the move: the battle for actin
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 499-502; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00395-4 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Michel de Lorgeril, Patricia Salen, François Paillard, François Laporte, François Boucher, and Joël de Leiris

Mediterranean diet and the French paradox: Two distinct biogeographic concepts for one consolidated scientific theory on the role of nutrition in coronary heart disease
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 503-515; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(01)00545-4 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José Marín-García and Michael J. Goldenthal

Fatty acid metabolism in cardiac failure: biochemical, genetic and cellular analysis
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 516-527; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(01)00552-1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Koon-Sung Cheng, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, George Hamilton, and Alexander M. Seifalian

A review of the carotid and femoral intima-media thickness as an indicator of the presence of peripheral vascular disease and cardiovascular risk factors
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 528-538; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(01)00551-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Article

Get checked abstract Sukanya V. Subramanian, Robert J. Kelm, Jr., John A. Polikandriotis, Charles G. Orosz, and Arthur R. Strauch

Reprogramming of vascular smooth muscle -actin gene expression as an early indicator of dysfunctional remodeling following heart transplant
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 539-548; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00270-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anne M. Romanic, Stephen M. Harrison, Weike Bao, Cynthia L. Burns-Kurtis, Susan Pickering, Juanli Gu, Evelyn Grau, Joyce Mao, Ganesh M. Sathe, Eliot H. Ohlstein, and Tian-Li Yue

Myocardial protection from ischemia/reperfusion injury by targeted deletion of matrix metalloproteinase-9
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 549-558; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00254-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Daniela Fraccarollo, Paolo Galuppo, Johann Bauersachs, and Georg Ertl

Collagen accumulation after myocardial infarction: effects of ET_A receptor blockade and implications for early remodeling: Presented in part at the 72nd Scientific Session of the American Heart Association, Atlanta, GA, USA, November 7–10, 1999, and published in abstract form (Circulation 1999;100(Suppl. 1):562)
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 559-567; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00256-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tomoyuki Matsusaka, Naoyuki Hasebe, Yin-Tie Jin, Junichi Kawabe, and Kenjiro Kikuchi

Magnesium reduces myocardial infarct size via enhancement of adenosine mechanism in rabbits
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 568-575; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00253-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kou-Gi Shyu, Mei-Ti Wang, Bao-Wei Wang, Chih-Chuna Chang, Jyh-Gang Leu, Peiliang Kuan, and Hang Chang

Intramyocardial injection of naked DNA encoding HIF-1/VP16 hybrid to enhance angiogenesis in an acute myocardial infarction model in the rat
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 576-583; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00259-6 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Armindo D. Tiago, Danelle Badenhorst, Daniel Skudicky, Angela J. Woodiwiss, Geoffrey P. Candy, Richard Brooksbank, Karen Sliwa, Pinhas Sareli, and Gavin R. Norton

An aldosterone synthase gene variant is associated with improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction in dilated cardiomyopathy
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 584-589; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00281-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Toshitsugu Ogura, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Sunao Imanishi, and Toshishige Shibamoto

Sarcolemmal hydraulic conductivity of guinea-pig and rat ventricular myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 590-600; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00267-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gregory R. Ferrier, Isabel Redondo, Jiequan Zhu, and Mary G. Murphy

Differential effects of docosahexaenoic acid on contractions and L-type Ca²⁺ current in adult cardiac myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 601-610; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00275-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gal Yaniv, Mark Shilkrut, Rona Lotan, Gideon Berke, Sarit Larisch, and Ofer Binah

Hypoxia predisposes neonatal rat ventricular myocytes to apoptosis induced by activation of the Fas (CD95/Apo-1) receptor: Fas activation and apoptosis in hypoxic myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 611-623; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00264-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Toshihisa Nagatomo, Craig T. January, Bin Ye, Haruhiko Abe, Yasuhide Nakashima, and Jonathan C. Makielski

Rate-dependent QT shortening mechanism for the LQT3 KPQ mutant
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 624-629; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00265-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rüdiger Blindt, Ute Zeiffer, Nicole Krott, Karsten Filzmaier, Meinolf Voss, Peter Hanrath, Jürgen vom Dahl, and Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff

Upregulation of the cytoskeletal-associated protein Moesin in the neointima of coronary arteries after balloon angioplasty: a new marker of smooth muscle cell migration?
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 630-639; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00252-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bo Liu, Michael Fisher, and Peter Groves

Down-regulation of the ERK1 and ERK2 mitogen-activated protein kinases using antisense oligonucleotides inhibits intimal hyperplasia in a porcine model of coronary balloon angioplasty
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 640-648; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00335-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yoshiyuki Hattori, Nobuo Nakanishi, and Kikuo Kasai

Statin enhances cytokine-mediated induction of nitric oxide synthesis in vascular smooth muscle cells
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 649-658; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00266-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Karin J. Purdie, Guy St.J. Whitley, Alan P. Johnstone, and Judith E. Cartwright

Hepatocyte growth factor-induced endothelial cell motility is mediated by the upregulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 659-668; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00255-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract J. Bauersachs, M. Christ, G. Ertl, U.R. Michaelis, B. Fisslthaler, R. Busse, and I. Fleming

Cytochrome P450 2C expression and EDHF-mediated relaxation in porcine coronary arteries is increased by cortisol
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 669-675; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00257-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jürgen R. Sindermann, Jessica Smith, Christiane Köbbert, Gabriele Plenz, Adriane Skaletz-Rorowski, James L. Solomon, Li Fan, and Keith L. March

Direct evidence for the importance of p130 in injury response and arterial remodeling following carotid artery ligation
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 676-683; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00272-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Domenica Altavilla, Giovanni Squadrito, Letteria Minutoli, Barbara Deodato, Antonino Bova, Aurora Sardella, Paolo Seminara, Maria Passaniti, Giuseppe Urna, Saverio F Venuti, Achille P Caputi, and Francesco Squadrito

Inhibition of nuclear factor-B activation by IRFI 042, protects against endotoxin-induced shock
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 684-693; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00276-6 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. Lodi, B. Rajagopalan, J.G. Crilley, J.Mark Cooper, P. Styles, and A.H.V. Schapira

Reply to Letter to the Editor
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 695-696; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00398-X [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Achilles Pappano, Yasushi Imai, and Bin Jiang

Reply to the Letter to the Editor
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 699-700; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00394-2 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor

K.J. Osterziel, N. Bit-Avragim, and M. Bunse

Cardiac hypertrophy in Friedreich's ataxia
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 694; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00333-4 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Neil Herring, Junaid A.B. Zaman, and David J. Paterson

Particulate guanylyl cyclase and cholinergic control of cardiac excitability is site specific
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 697-698; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00392-9 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J.Y Jeremy and D.P Mikhailidis

U-46619-induced potentiation of noradrenergic constriction in the human saphenous vein: antagonism by thromboxane receptor blockade
Cardiovasc Res 2002 54: 701; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00393-0 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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