Cardiovascular Research

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Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: I-IV; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00534-6 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial Board
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: ii; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00530-9 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight Issue on The Molecular Genetics of Arrhythmias
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: v; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00537-1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spotlight Issue on Matrix Metalloproteinases in the Cardiovascular System
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: vi; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00538-3 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Guest Editors in 2004
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: vii; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00539-5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

List of Reviewers
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: viii-ix; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00540-1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Instructions to Authors
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 292; doi:10.1016/S0008-6363(04)00533-4 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorial

David Garcia-Dorado, Klaus-Dieter Schlüter, Elizabeth A. Martinson, and Hans Michael Piper

Which papers are most interesting to the readers of Cardiovascular Research? Information from download monitoring
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 1-5; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.11.014 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ioakim Spyridopoulos

Understanding the molecular and cellular basis of therapeutic stem and progenitor cell transplantation for tissue revascularization
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 6-7; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.11.002 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gianni A. Losano

On the cardiovascular activity of apelin
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 8-9; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.10.027 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mark A. Stagg and Cesare M.N. Terracciano

Less Na⁺/H⁺-exchanger to treat heart failure: a simple solution for a complex problem?
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 10-12; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.10.028 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Fransen

Phospholemman, a chaperone of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase?
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 13-15; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.10.015 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract Ralf P. Brandes and Jörg Kreuzer

Vascular NADPH oxidases: molecular mechanisms of activation
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 16-27; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.007 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Marcel A.G. van der Heyden, Tessa J.M. Wijnhoven, and Tobias Opthof

Molecular aspects of adrenergic modulation of cardiac L-type Ca²⁺ channels
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 28-39; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.028 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Article

Get checked abstract Patrizia Camelliti, Thomas K. Borg, and Peter Kohl

Structural and functional characterisation of cardiac fibroblasts
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 40-51; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.020 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tao-Sheng Li, Hiroshi Ito, Masanori Hayashi, Akira Furutani, Masunori Matsuzaki, and Kimikazu Hamano

Cellular expression of integrin-β₁ is of critical importance for inducing therapeutic angiogenesis by cell implantation
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 64-72; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.019 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Euan A. Ashley, Jennifer Powers, Mary Chen, Ramendra Kundu, Tom Finsterbach, Anthony Caffarelli, Alicia Deng, Jens Eichhorn, Raina Mahajan, Rani Agrawal, Joan Greve, Robert Robbins, Andrew J. Patterson, Daniel Bernstein, and Thomas Quertermous

The endogenous peptide apelin potently improves cardiac contractility and reduces cardiac loading in vivo
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 73-82; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.018 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonius Baartscheer, Cees A. Schumacher, Marcel M.G.J. van Borren, Charly N.W. Belterman, Ruben Coronel, Tobias Opthof, and Jan W.T. Fiolet

Chronic inhibition of Na⁺/H⁺-exchanger attenuates cardiac hypertrophy and prevents cellular remodeling in heart failure
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 83-92; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.024 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Benjamin d.Z. Silverman, William Fuller, Philip Eaton, Juelin Deng, J. Randall Moorman, Joseph Y. Cheung, Andrew F. James, and Michael J. Shattock

Serine 68 phosphorylation of phospholemman: acute isoform-specific activation of cardiac Na/K ATPase
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 93-103; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.005 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Peter Melnyk, Joachim R. Ehrlich, Marc Pourrier, Louis Villeneuve, Tae-Joon Cha, and Stanley Nattel

Comparison of ion channel distribution and expression in cardiomyocytes of canine pulmonary veins versus left atrium
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 104-116; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.014 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract V. Haufe, J.M. Cordeiro, T. Zimmer, Y.S. Wu, S. Schiccitano, K. Benndorf, and R. Dumaine

Contribution of neuronal sodium channels to the cardiac fast sodium current I_Na is greater in dog heart Purkinje fibers than in ventricles
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 117-127; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.017 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anne Royer, Sophie Demolombe, Aziza El Harchi, Khaï Le Quang, Julien Piron, Gilles Toumaniantz, David Mazurais, Chloé Bellocq, Gilles Lande, Cécile Terrenoire, Howard K. Motoike, Jean-Christophe Chevallier, Gildas Loussouarn, Colleen E. Clancy, Denis Escande, and Flavien Charpentier

Expression of human ERG K⁺ channels in the mouse heart exerts anti-arrhythmic activity
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 128-137; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.030 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yasushi Oginosawa, Toshihisa Nagatomo, Haruhiko Abe, Naomasa Makita, Jonathan C. Makielski, and Yasuhide Nakashima

Intrinsic mechanism of the enhanced rate-dependent QT shortening in the R1623Q mutant of the LQT3 syndrome
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 138-147; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.025 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Judith Brouillette, Katy Rivard, Eric Lizotte, and Céline Fiset

Sex and strain differences in adult mouse cardiac repolarization: importance of androgens
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 148-157; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.012 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Javier Moreno, Alexey V. Zaitsev, Mark Warren, Omer Berenfeld, Jerôme Kalifa, Elena Lucca, Sergey Mironov, Prabal Guha, and José Jalife

Effect of remodelling, stretch and ischaemia on ventricular fibrillation frequency and dynamics in a heart failure model
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 158-166; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.006 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Zhaokang Yang, Simon M. Harrison, and Derek S. Steele

ATP-dependent effects of halothane on SR Ca²⁺ regulation in permeabilized atrial myocytes
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 167-176; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.008 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gopal J. Babu, Zhaolun Zheng, Poornima Natarajan, Debra Wheeler, Paul M. Janssen, and Muthu Periasamy

Overexpression of sarcolipin decreases myocyte contractility and calcium transient
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 177-186; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.012 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Chunlei Wang, Stevan Dostanic, Nicolas Servant, and Lorraine E. Chalifour

Egr-1 negatively regulates expression of the sodium–calcium exchanger-1 in cardiomyocytes in vitro and in vivo
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 187-194; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.026 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Masao Miyagawa, Moritz Beyer, Bettina Wagner, Martina Anton, Christine Spitzweg, Bernd Gansbacher, Markus Schwaiger, and Frank M. Bengel

Cardiac reporter gene imaging using the human sodium/iodide symporter gene
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 195-202; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.10.001 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Chen F. Lam, Anthony J. Croatt, Darcy M. Richardson, Karl A. Nath, and Zvonimir S. Katusic

Heart failure increases protein expression and enzymatic activity of heme oxygenase-1 in the lung
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 203-210; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.001 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michael Grimm, Pascal Haas, Birthe Willipinski-Stapelfeldt, Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Thomas Rau, Klaus Pantel, Michael Weyand, and Thomas Eschenhagen

Key role of myosin light chain (MLC) kinase-mediated MLC2a phosphorylation in the ₁-adrenergic positive inotropic effect in human atrium
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 211-220; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.019 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract N.A. Narolska, R.B. van Loon, N.M. Boontje, R. Zaremba, S. Eiras Penas, J. Russell, S.R. Spiegelenberg, M.A.J.M. Huybregts, F.C. Visser, J.W. de Jong, J. van der Velden, and G.J.M. Stienen

Myocardial contraction is 5-fold more economical in ventricular than in atrial human tissue
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 221-229; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.029 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Guo-Xing Zhang, Shoji Kimura, Akira Nishiyama, Takatomi Shokoji, Matlubur Rahman, Li Yao, Yukiko Nagai, Yoshihide Fujisawa, Akira Miyatake, and Youichi Abe

Cardiac oxidative stress in acute and chronic isoproterenol-infused rats
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 230-238; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.08.013 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sandrine Lecour, Luc Rochette, and Lionel Opie

Free radicals trigger TNF-induced cardioprotection
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 239-243; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.10.003 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anthony Y.H. Woo, Christopher H.K. Cheng, and Mary M.Y. Waye

Baicalein protects rat cardiomyocytes from hypoxia/reoxygenation damage via a prooxidant mechanism
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 244-253; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.027 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nadine Lauer, Tatsiana Suvorava, Ulrich Rüther, Ralf Jacob, Wilfried Meyer, David G. Harrison, and Georg Kojda

Critical involvement of hydrogen peroxide in exercise-induced up-regulation of endothelial NO synthase
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 254-262; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.010 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Abdullah Md Sheikh, Hiroshi Ochi, Atsushi Manabe, and Junichi Masuda

Lysophosphatidylcholine posttranscriptionally inhibits interferon--induced IP-10, Mig and I-Tac expression in endothelial cells
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 263-271; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.017 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Yao-Zhong Kong, Xiao-Ru Huang, Xiaosen Ouyang, Jei-Ju Tan, Gunter Fingerle-Rowson, Michael Bacher, Wei Mu, Larry A. Scher, Lin Leng, Richard Bucala, and Hui Y. Lan

Evidence for vascular macrophage migration inhibitory factor in destabilization of human atherosclerotic plaques
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 272-282; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.020 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anton I. Skaro, Robert S. Liwski, Juan Zhou, Ellen L. Vessie, Timothy D.G. Lee, and Gregory M. Hirsch

CD8⁺ T cells mediate aortic allograft vasculopathy by direct killing and an interferon--dependent indirect pathway
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 283-291; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.09.023 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Get checked abstract Alexander Deten, Hans Christian Volz, Sören Clamors, Sabine Leiblein, Wilfried Briest, Grit Marx, and Heinz-Gerd Zimmer

Hematopoietic stem cells do not repair the infarcted mouse heart
Cardiovasc Res 2005 65: 52-63; doi:10.1016/j.cardiores.2004.11.009 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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