Cardiovascular Research

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Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: I-IV; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00588-6 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 877; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00586-2 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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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 55: iii; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00582-5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight Issue on Infection and Inflammation in the Cardiovascular System
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Editorial

Brenda R Kwak, Dipen C Shah, and François Mach

A starting point for structure function relationships in the canine pulmonary veins
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 703-705; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00532-1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Steve Anderson

Response to: Effect of inhibition of Na⁺/Ca⁺ exchanger at the time of myocardial reperfusion on hypercontracture and cell death
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 706-707; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00531-X [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andreas Link and Michael Böhm

Potential role of dendritic cells in atherogenesis
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 708-709; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00507-2 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract K Kjeldsen, A Nørgaard, and M Gheorghiade

Myocardial Na,K-ATPase: the molecular basis for the hemodynamic effect of digoxin therapy in congestive heart failure
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 710-713; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00466-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kwang Kon Koh

Effects of estrogen on the vascular wall: vasomotor function and inflammation
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 714-726; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00487-X [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Article

Get checked abstract Sander Verheule, Emily E Wilson, Rishi Arora, Steven K Engle, Luis R Scott, and Jeffrey E Olgin

Tissue structure and connexin expression of canine pulmonary veins
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 727-738; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00490-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Javier Inserte, David Garcia-Dorado, Marisol Ruiz-Meana, Ferran Padilla, José A Barrabés, Pilar Pina, Luis Agulló, Hans Michael Piper, and Jordi Soler-Soler

Effect of inhibition of Na⁺/Ca²⁺ exchanger at the time of myocardial reperfusion on hypercontracture and cell death
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 739-748; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00461-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tharumenthiran Ramanathan, Kazuaki Shirota, Shin Morita, Takashi Nishimura, Yifei Huang, Xing Zheng, and Stephen Hunyor

Left ventricular oxygen utilization efficiency is impaired in chronic streptozotocin-diabetic sheep
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 749-756; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00497-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Naohiko Kobayashi, Shigeo Horinaka, Shin-ichiro Mita, Shigefumi Nakano, Takeaki Honda, Kohtaro Yoshida, Tsutomu Kobayashi, and Hiroaki Matsuoka

Critical role of Rho-kinase pathway for cardiac performance and remodeling in failing rat hearts
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 757-767; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00457-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Alexandra Buehler, Alessandra Martire, Claudia Strohm, Swen Wolfram, Borja Fernandez, Meindert Palmen, Xander H.T Wehrens, Pieter A Doevendans, Wolfgang M Franz, Wolfgang Schaper, and René Zimmermann

Angiogenesis-independent cardioprotection in FGF-1 transgenic mice
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 768-777; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00494-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Clemens Mittmann, Chin Hee Chung, Grit Höppner, Christina Michalek, Monika Nose, Christian Schüler, Antje Schuh, Thomas Eschenhagen, Joachim Weil, Burkert Pieske, Stephan Hirt, and Thomas Wieland

Expression of ten RGS proteins in human myocardium: functional characterization of an upregulation of RGS4 in heart failure
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 778-786; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00459-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Takuma Aoyama, Genzou Takemura, Rumi Maruyama, Ken-ichiro Kosai, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Masahiko Koda, Kenji Hayakawa, Yukinori Kawase, Shinya Minatoguchi, and Hisayoshi Fujiwara

Molecular mechanisms of non-apoptosis by Fas stimulation alone versus apoptosis with an additional actinomycin D in cultured cardiomyocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 787-798; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00493-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mackenzi Mbai, Sridharan Rajamani, and Craig T January

The anti-malarial drug halofantrine and its metabolite N-desbutylhalofantrine block HERG potassium channels
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 799-805; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00448-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Charles J.J Alderman, Peter R Bunyard, Benjamin M Chain, John C Foreman, David S Leake, and David R Katz

Effects of oxidised low density lipoprotein on dendritic cells: a possible immunoregulatory component of the atherogenic micro-environment?
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 806-819; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00447-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Wei-Jian Zhang and Balz Frei

Albumin selectively inhibits TNF-induced expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 in human aortic endothelial cells
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 820-829; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00492-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sibel Ülker, Pascal P McKeown, and Ulvi Bayraktutan

Aprotinin impairs coronary endothelial function and down-regulates endothelial NOS in rat coronary microvascular endothelial cells
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 830-837; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00489-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shijie Cai, Nicholas J Alp, Denise McDonald, Ian Smith, Jonathan Kay, Laura Canevari, Simon Heales, and Keith M Channon

GTP cyclohydrolase I gene transfer augments intracellular tetrahydrobiopterin in human endothelial cells: effects on nitric oxide synthase activity, protein levels and dimerisation
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 838-849; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00460-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract S.S.M Rensen, V.L.J.L Thijssen, C.J De Vries, P.A Doevendans, S.D Detera-Wadleigh, and G.J.J.M Van Eys

Expression of the smoothelin gene is mediated by alternative promoters
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 850-863; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00491-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marion J Sierevogel, Evelyn Velema, Freek J van der Meer, Manon Oude Nijhuis, Mirjam Smeets, Dominique P.V de Kleijn, Cornelius Borst, and Gerard Pasterkamp

Matrix metalloproteinase inhibition reduces adventitial thickening and collagen accumulation following balloon dilation
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 864-869; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00467-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yoshinari Uehara, Hidenori Urata, Munehito Ideishi, Kikuo Arakawa, and Keijiro Saku

Chymase inhibition suppresses high-cholesterol diet-induced lipid accumulation in the hamster aorta
Cardiovasc Res 2002 55: 870-876; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00458-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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