Calmodulin/CaMKII inhibition improves intercellular communication and impulse propagation in the heart and is antiarrhythmic under conditions when fibrosis is absent AimIn healthy hearts, ...
Cardiovascular Research, Takanari, Hiroki, Bourgonje, Vincent J.A., Fontes, Magda S.C., Raaijmakers, Antonia J.A., Driessen, Helen, Jansen, John A., van der Nagel, Roel, Kok, Bart, van Stuijvenberg, ...
Abstract AimIn healthy hearts, ventricular gap junctions are mainly composed by connexin43 (Cx43) and localize in the intercalated disc, enabling appropriate electrical coupling. Reduced expression ...
Cardiovascular Research, Takanari, Hiroki, Bourgonje, Vincent J.A., Fontes, Magda S.C., Raaijmakers, Antonia J.A., Driessen, Helen, Jansen, John A., van der Nagel, Roel, Kok, Bart, van Stuijvenberg, ...
Abstract AimIn healthy hearts, ventricular gap junctions are mainly composed by connexin43 (Cx43) and localize in the intercalated disc, enabling appropriate electrical coupling. Reduced expression ...
Cardiovascular Research, Takanari, Hiroki, Bourgonje, Vincent J.A., Fontes, Magda S.C., Raaijmakers, Antonia J.A., Driessen, Helen, Jansen, John A., van der Nagel, Roel, Kok, Bart, van Stuijvenberg, ...
Abstract Aims The aim of this study was to investigate the role of gap junctions in atrial fibrillation (AF) by analysing the effects of a gap junction enhancer and blocker on AF vulnerability and ...
Cardiovascular Research, Ueda, Norihiro, Yamamoto, Mitsuru, Honjo, Haruo, Kodama, Itsuo, Kamiya, Kaichiro
Abstract Aims The aim of this study was to investigate the role of gap junctions in atrial fibrillation (AF) by analysing the effects of a gap junction enhancer and blocker on AF vulnerability and ...
Cardiovascular Research, Ueda, Norihiro, Yamamoto, Mitsuru, Honjo, Haruo, Kodama, Itsuo, Kamiya, Kaichiro
Abstract Aims Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is an inheritable and life-threatening disease; however, it is often difficult to determine disease characteristics in sporadic cases with novel mutations, and ...
Cardiovascular Research, Egashira, Toru, Yuasa, Shinsuke, Suzuki, Tomoyuki, Aizawa, Yoshiyasu, Yamakawa, Hiroyuki, Matsuhashi, Tomohiro, Ohno, Yohei, Tohyama, Shugo, Okata, Shinichiro, Seki, ...
Numerical simulations using 3D atrial geometries (Courtemanche-Ramirez-Nattel human atrial model) predicted that, similar to experiments, filaments of meandering ASWs stabilized at locations with ...
Cardiovascular Research, Yamazaki, Masatoshi, Mironov, Sergey, Taravant, Clément, Brec, Julien, Vaquero, Luis M., Bandaru, Krishna, Avula, Uma Mahesh R, Honjo, Haruo, Kodama, Itsuo, Berenfeld, ...
Numerical simulations using 3D atrial geometries (Courtemanche-Ramirez-Nattel human atrial model) predicted that, similar to experiments, filaments of meandering ASWs stabilized at locations with ...
Cardiovascular Research, Yamazaki, Masatoshi, Mironov, Sergey, Taravant, Clément, Brec, Julien, Vaquero, Luis M., Bandaru, Krishna, Avula, Uma Mahesh R, Honjo, Haruo, Kodama, Itsuo, Berenfeld, ...
In UM-X7.1 hamsters, olmesartan improved abnormal ID ultrastructural changes, attenuated the decrease of total cellular and nuclear β-catenin expression, decreased VT/VF induction, and improved ...
Cardiovascular Research, Yoshida, Masaaki, Ohkusa, Tomoko, Nakashima, Tadamitsu, Takanari, Hiroki, Yano, Masafumi, Takemura, Genzou, Honjo, Haruo, Kodama, Itsuo, Mizukami, Yoichi, Matsuzaki, Masunori
Here we investigated the effects of overexpression of MK by adenoviral gene transfer on cardiac function and remodelling in an experimental rat MI model. Heart weight (HW) and relative HW of AdMK ...
Cardiovascular Research, Sumida, Arihiro, Horiba, Mitsuru, Ishiguro, Hisaaki, Takenaka, Hiroharu, Ueda, Norihiro, Ooboshi, Hiroaki, Opthof, Tobias, Kadomatsu, Kenji, Kodama, Itsuo