Cardiovascular Research

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Spotlight Issue on Gap Junctions and Cell-Cell Communication in the Cardiovascular System
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: iii; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00559-5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight Issue on Signaling Networks in Cardiac Hypertrophy
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: iv; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00560-1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

Stéphane Baudet

Another activity for the cardiac biologist: CARP fishing
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 529-531; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00503-0 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arthur R Strauch

Building better blood vessels: new insight on the molecular control of arteriogenesis
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 532-533; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00504-2 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joachim Neumann

A renaissance of positive inotropic interventions to treat heart failure?
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 534-535; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00557-1 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edward Carmeliet

Does the Na⁺,K⁺ pump current undergo remodeling in atrial fibrillation?
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 536-537; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00501-7 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract Kyle J Smith, Anthony J Bleyer, William C Little, and David C Sane

The cardiovascular effects of erythropoietin
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 538-548; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00468-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Arantxa González, María A Fortuño, Ramón Querejeta, Susana Ravassa, Begoña López, Natalia López, and Javier Díez

Cardiomyocyte apoptosis in hypertensive cardiomyopathy
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 549-562; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00498-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Original Article

Get checked abstract Oliver Zolk, Michael Marx, Elmar Jäckel, Ali El-Armouche, and Thomas Eschenhagen

β-Adrenergic stimulation induces cardiac ankyrin repeat protein expression: involvement of protein kinase A and calmodulin-dependent kinase
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 563-572; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00476-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kerstin Boengler, Frederic Pipp, Borja Fernandez, Tibor Ziegelhoeffer, Wolfgang Schaper, and Elisabeth Deindl

Arteriogenesis is associated with an induction of the cardiac ankyrin repeat protein (carp)
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 573-581; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00511-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Harald Kögler, Heather Fraser, Sylvia McCune, Ruth Altschuld, and Eduardo Marbán

Disproportionate enhancement of myocardial contractility by the xanthine oxidase inhibitor oxypurinol in failing rat myocardium
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 582-592; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00512-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antony J Workman, Kathleen A Kane, and Andrew C Rankin

Characterisation of the Na, K pump current in atrial cells from patients with and without chronic atrial fibrillation
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 593-602; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00466-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kristian J Paavonen, Hugh Chapman, Päivi J Laitinen, Heidi Fodstad, Kirsi Piippo, Heikki Swan, Lauri Toivonen, Matti Viitasalo, Kimmo Kontula, and Michael Pasternack

Functional characterization of the common amino acid 897 polymorphism of the cardiac potassium channel KCNH2 (HERG)
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 603-611; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00458-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lijuan Ma, Chunxia Lin, Siyong Teng, Yongping Chai, Robert Bähring, Vitya Vardanyan, Liang Li, Olaf Pongs, and Rutai Hui

Characterization of a novel Long QT syndrome mutation G52R-KCNE1 in a Chinese family
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 612-619; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00510-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Delilah J. Huelsing, Kenneth W. Spitzer, and Andrew E. Pollard

Spontaneous activity induced in rabbit Purkinje myocytes during coupling to a depolarized model cell
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 620-627; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00507-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Thomas W Weiss, Walter S Speidl, Christoph Kaun, Gersina Rega, Christopher Springer, Karin Macfelda, Udo M Losert, Susan L Grant, Martin L Marro, Andrew D Rhodes, Alexander Fuernkranz, Jan Bialy, Robert Ullrich, Philipp Holzmann, Richard Pacher, Gerald Maurer, Kurt Huber, and Johann Wojta

Glycoprotein 130 ligand oncostatin-M induces expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in human adult cardiac myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 628-638; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00463-2 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tomàs Santalucía, Markus Christmann, Magdi H Yacoub, and Nigel J Brand

Hypertrophic agonists induce the binding of c-Fos to an AP-1 site in cardiac myocytes: implications for the expression of GLUT1
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 639-648; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00472-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joan Li, Atsuko Yatani, Song-Jung Kim, Gen Takagi, Keiichi Irie, Qizhi Zhang, Vijaya Karoor, Chull Hong, Guiping Yang, Junichi Sadoshima, Christophe Depre, Dorothy E Vatner, Malcolm J West, and Stephen F Vatner

Neurally-mediated increase in calcineurin activity regulates cardiac contractile function in absence of hypertrophy
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 649-657; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00471-1 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Martin U Braun, Palma Szalai, Ruth H Strasser, and Mathias M Borst

Right ventricular hypertrophy and apoptosis after pulmonary artery banding: regulation of PKC isozymes
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 658-667; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00470-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sabine Huke, Lynne H Liu, Danuta Biniakiewicz, William T Abraham, and Muthu Periasamy

Altered force–frequency response in non-failing hearts with decreased SERCA pump-level
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 668-677; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00436-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kameljit K Kalsi, Ada H.Y Yuen, Iwona M Rybakowska, Philip H Johnson, Ewa Slominska, Emma J Birks, Krystian Kaletha, Magdi H Yacoub, and Ryszard T Smolenski

Decreased cardiac activity of AMP deaminase in subjects with the AMPD1 mutation—A potential mechanism of protection in heart failure
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 678-684; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00497-8 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Zuyi Yuan, Yan Liu, Yu Liu, Jijun Zhang, Chiharu Kishimoto, Yanni Wang, Aiqun Ma, and Zhiquan Liu

Peroxisome proliferation-activated receptor- ligands ameliorate experimental autoimmune myocarditis
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 685-694; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00457-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Christof Stamm, Ingeborg Friehs, Yeong-Hoon Choi, David Zurakowski, Francis X McGowan, and Pedro J del Nido

Cytosolic calcium in the ischemic rabbit heart: assessment by pH- and temperature-adjusted rhod-2 spectrofluorometry
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 695-704; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00467-X [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joris R de Groot, Cees A Schumacher, Arie O Verkerk, Antonius Baartscheer, Jan W.T Fiolet, and Ruben Coronel

Intrinsic heterogeneity in repolarization is increased in isolated failing rabbit cardiomyocytes during simulated ischemia
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 705-714; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00460-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sharon L Hale, Michael W Dae, and Robert A Kloner

Hypothermia during reperfusion limits ‘no-reflow’ injury in a rabbit model of acute myocardial infarction
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 715-722; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00456-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sanjay S Vasudevan, Neuza H.M Lopes, Puvi N Seshiah, Tao Wang, Clay B Marsh, Dean J Kereiakes, Chunming Dong, and Pascal J Goldschmidt-Clermont

Mac-1 and Fas activities are concurrently required for execution of smooth muscle cell death by M-CSF-stimulated macrophages
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 723-733; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00514-5 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tokumitsu Watanabe, Masahiro Akishita, Takashi Nakaoka, Koichi Kozaki, Yukiko Miyahara, Hong He, Yumiko Ohike, Teruhiko Ogita, Satoshi Inoue, Masami Muramatsu, Naohide Yamashita, and Yasuyoshi Ouchi

Estrogen receptor β mediates the inhibitory effect of estradiol on vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 734-744; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00496-6 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Daphne Merkus, Birgit Houweling, Amran Mirza, Frans Boomsma, Anton H van den Meiracker, and Dirk J Duncker

Contribution of endothelin and its receptors to the regulation of vascular tone during exercise is different in the systemic, coronary and pulmonary circulation
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 745-754; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00479-6 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Flore Mulhaupt, Christian M Matter, Brenda R Kwak, Graziano Pelli, Niels R Veillard, Fabienne Burger, Pierre Graber, Thomas F Lüscher, and François Mach

Statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) reduce CD40 expression in human vascular cells
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 755-766; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00515-7 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Maria do Carmo P Franco, Eliana Hiromi Akamine, Giovana Seno Di Marco, Dulce Elena Casarini, Zuleica B Fortes, Rita C.A Tostes, Maria Helena C Carvalho, and Dorothy Nigro

NADPH oxidase and enhanced superoxide generation in intrauterine undernourished rats: involvement of the renin–angiotensin system
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 767-775; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00461-9 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shih-Ping Yang, Ling-Jun Ho, Yi-Ling Lin, Shu-Meng Cheng, Tien-Ping Tsao, Deh-Ming Chang, Yu-Lin Hsu, Chin-Yi Shih, Ting-Yi Juan, and Jenn-Haung Lai

Carvedilol, a new antioxidative β-blocker, blocks in vitro human peripheral blood T cell activation by downregulating NF-B activity
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 776-787; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00459-0 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Thomas Pulinilkunnil, Dake Qi, Sanjoy Ghosh, Claudia Cheung, Patsy Yip, Jospy Varghese, Ashraf Abrahani, Roger Brownsey, and Brian Rodrigues

Circulating triglyceride lipolysis facilitates lipoprotein lipase translocation from cardiomyocyte to myocardial endothelial lining
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 788-797; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00469-3 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum

Hanumanth K Reddy, Santhosh K.G Koshy, and Himanshu Shukla

Erratum to: "Triggers and promoters of ischaemic preconditioning": [Cardiovascular Research 56 (2002) 1–3]
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 798; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00765-4 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Corrigendum

Hanno L Tan, Connie R Bezzina, Jeroen P.P Smits, Arie O Verkerk, and Arthur A.M Wilde

Corrigendum to: "Genetic control of sodium channel function": [Cardiovascular Research 57 (2003) 961–973]
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 799-802; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00398-5 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Front-matter/Back-matter

Instructions to Authors
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: 803; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00551-0 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Board
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: CO2; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00548-0 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Society Pages
Cardiovasc Res 2003 59: EX1-EX3; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(03)00552-2 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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