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Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: i-v; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00304-3 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 239; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00303-1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: CO2; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00298-0 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Spotlight Issue on Mechanisms of Reperfusion Injury
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: v; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00309-2 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hypothesis paper

Get checked abstract Junichiro Hayano and Fumihiko Yasuma

Hypothesis: respiratory sinus arrhythmia is an intrinsic resting function of cardiopulmonary system
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 1-9; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00851-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract Russel J. Reiter and Dun-Xian Tan

Melatonin: a novel protective agent against oxidative injury of the ischemic/reperfused heart
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 10-19; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00827-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sander van den Driesche, Christine L. Mummery, and Cornelius J.J. Westermann

Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia: an update on transforming growth factor β signaling in vasculogenesis and angiogenesis
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 20-31; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00852-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract W.S. Redfern, L. Carlsson, A.S. Davis, W.G. Lynch, I. MacKenzie, S. Palethorpe, P.K.S. Siegl, I. Strang, A.T. Sullivan, R. Wallis, A.J. Camm, and T.G. Hammond

Relationships between preclinical cardiac electrophysiology, clinical QT interval prolongation and torsade de pointes for a broad range of drugs: evidence for a provisional safety margin in drug development
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 32-45; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00846-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Original Article

Get checked abstract Péter Hajdú, Chris Ulens, György Panyi, and Jan Tytgat

Drug- and mutagenesis-induced changes in the selectivity filter of a cardiac two-pore background K⁺ channel
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 46-54; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00831-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ciria Carolina Quintero Hernández, Luciane Claudia Barcellos, Luis Eduardo Díaz Giménez, Rafael Armando Bonfante Cabarcas, Simone Garcia, Roberto Coury Pedrosa, Jose Hamilton Matheus Nascimento, Eleonora Kurtenbach, Masako Oya Masuda, and Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho

Human chagasic IgGs bind to cardiac muscarinic receptors and impair L-type Ca²⁺ currents
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 55-65; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00811-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tamás Bányász, László Fülöp, János Magyar, Norbert Szentandrássy, András Varró, and Péter P. Nánási

Endocardial versus epicardial differences in L-type calcium current in canine ventricular myocytes studied by action potential voltage clamp
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 66-75; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00853-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tilmann Volk, Alexander Peter Schwoerer, Susanne Thiessen, Jobst-Hendrik Schultz, and Heimo Ehmke

A polycystin-2-like large conductance cation channel in rat left ventricular myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 76-88; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00858-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gui-Rong Li, Xin-Ling Du, Yaw L. Siow, Karmin O, Hung-Fat Tse, and Chu-Pak Lau

Calcium-activated transient outward chloride current and phase 1 repolarization of swine ventricular action potential
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 89-98; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00859-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonius Baartscheer, Cees A. Schumacher, Charly N.W. Belterman, Ruben Coronel, and Jan W.T. Fiolet

SR calcium handling and calcium after-transients in a rabbit model of heart failure
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 99-108; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00854-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonio Rodríguez-Sinovas, David García-Dorado, Ferran Padilla, Javier Inserte, José Antonio Barrabés, Marisol Ruiz-Meana, Luis Agulló, and Jordi Soler-Soler

Pre-treatment with the Na⁺/H⁺ exchange inhibitor cariporide delays cell-to-cell electrical uncoupling during myocardial ischemia
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 109-117; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00840-4 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Claire Arnaud, Diane Godin-Ribuot, Serge Bottari, André Peinnequin, Marie Joyeux, Pierre Demenge, and Christophe Ribuot

iNOS is a mediator of the heat stress-induced preconditioning against myocardial infarction in vivo in the rat
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 118-125; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00812-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christophe Depre, Li Wang, James E. Tomlinson, Vinciane Gaussin, Maha Abdellatif, James N. Topper, and Stephen F. Vatner

Characterization of pDJA1, a cardiac-specific chaperone found by genomic profiling of the post-ischemic swine heart
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 126-135; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00845-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anthony J. Minisi, Trisha B. Nashed, and M.Susan Quinn

Regional left ventricular deafferentation increases baroreflex sensitivity following myocardial infarction
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 136-141; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00860-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nawwar Al Attar, Claire Carrion, Said Ghostine, Isabelle Garcin, Jean-Thomas Vilquin, Albert A. Hagège, and Philippe Menasché

Long-term (1 year) functional and histological results of autologous skeletal muscle cells transplantation in rat
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 142-148; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00790-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract C. Schäfer, S. Walther, M. Schäfer, L. Dieterich, S. Kasseckert, Y. Abdallah, and H.M. Piper

Inhibition of contractile activation reduces reoxygenation-induced endothelial gap formation
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 149-155; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00842-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Giuseppina Basta, Lucia Venneri, Guido Lazzerini, Emilio Pasanisi, Mascia Pianelli, Nicoletta Vesentini, Serena Del Turco, Claudia Kusmic, and Eugenio Picano

In vitro modulation of intracellular oxidative stress of endothelial cells by diagnostic cardiac ultrasound
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 156-161; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00665-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nick Anim-Nyame, John Gamble, Suren R. Sooranna, Mark R. Johnson, and Philip J. Steer

Microvascular permeability is related to circulating levels of tumour necrosis factor- in pre-eclampsia
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 162-169; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00844-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tsukasa Ohmori, Yutaka Yatomi, Makoto Osada, Fuminori Kazama, Toshiro Takafuta, Hitoshi Ikeda, and Yukio Ozaki

Sphingosine 1-phosphate induces contraction of coronary artery smooth muscle cells via S1P₂
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 170-177; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00260-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract C. Rodriguez, B. Raposo, J. Martínez-González, V. Llorente-Cortés, G. Vilahur, and L. Badimon

Modulation of ERG25 expression by LDL in vascular cells
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 178-185; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00856-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yoshiyuki Hattori, Michiko Matsumura, and Kikuo Kasai

Vascular smooth muscle cell activation by C-reactive protein
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 186-195; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00855-6 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Thomas Krieg, Martin Landsberger, Mikhail F. Alexeyev, Stephan B. Felix, Michael V. Cohen, and James M. Downey

Activation of Akt is essential for acetylcholine to trigger generation of oxygen free radicals
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 196-202; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00861-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Toshihiro Shimizu, Hiroshi Okamoto, Satoru Chiba, Yutaka Matsui, Takeshi Sugawara, Masatoshi Akino, Jia Nan, Hideki Kumamoto, Hisao Onozuka, Taisei Mikami, and Akira Kitabatake

VEGF-mediated angiogenesis is impaired by angiotensin type 1 receptor blockade in cardiomyopathic hamster hearts
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 203-212; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00843-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Martin Rodriguez-Porcel, Amir Lerman, Joerg Herrmann, Robert S. Schwartz, Tatsuya Sawamura, Mario Condorelli, Claudio Napoli, and Lilach O. Lerman

Hypertension exacerbates the effect of hypercholesterolemia on the myocardial microvasculature
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 213-221; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00250-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Barbara E. Rolfe, Steve Stamatiou, Cameron J. World, Lindsay Brown, Anita C. Thomas, John A. Bingley, Nathalie F. Worth, and Julie H. Campbell

Leukaemia inhibitory factor retards the progression of atherosclerosis
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 222-230; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00832-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Hiroto Takeuchi, Koji Ohmori, Isao Kondo, Akira Oshita, Kaori Shinomiya, Yang Yu, Yuichiro Takagi, Katsufumi Mizushige, Kenji Kangawa, and Masakazu Kohno

Potentiation of C-type natriuretic peptide with ultrasound and microbubbles to prevent neointimal formation after vascular injury in rats
Cardiovasc Res 2003 58: 231-238; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00833-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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