Biochemical Regulation of Myocardium

I: Cardiac development and regulation.- Excitation-contraction coupling of the developing rat heart.- Developmental changes of calcium transients and contractility during the cultivation of rat neonatal cardiomyocytes.- Calcium channels and cation transport ATPases in cardiac hypertrophy induced by aortic constriction in newborn rats.- G proteins, adenylyl cyclase and related phosphoproteins in the developing rat heart.- Localization of ? 1,2,3-subunit isoforms of Na, K-ATPase in cultured neonatal and adult rat myocardium: The immunofluorescence and immunocytochemical study.- Immediate postnatal rat heart development modified by abdominal aortic banding: Analysis of gene expression.- Early postnatal changes in sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium transport function in spontaneously hypertensive rats.- Cardiac phosphocreatine deficiency induced by GPA during postnatal development in rat.- Role of bradykinin in the antihypertrophic effects of enalapril in the newborn pig heart.- Regulation of the slow Ca++ channels of myocardial cells.- In vivo phosphorylation of the cardiac L-type calcium channel beta-subunit in response to catecholamines.- Antibodies from Trypanosoma cruzi infected mice recognize the second extracellular loop of the ?1-adrenergic and M2-muscarinic receptors and regulate calcium channels in isolated cardiomyocytes.- ?2-Adrenoceptor activation by zinterol causes protein phosphorylation, contractile effects and relaxant effects through a cAMP pathway in human atrium113–123.- Early after-depolarisations induced by noradrenaline may be initiated by calcium released from sarcoplasmic reticulum.- Cardiac pump function of the isolated rat heart at two modes of energy deprivation and effect of adrenergic stimulation.- Regulation of ?-adrenoceptor properties andthe lipid milieu in heart muscle membranes during stress.- Heart glycogen content and isoprenaline-induced myocardial lesions.- Role of vascular adrenergic mechanisms in the haemodynamic and PGI2 stimulating effects of angiotensin in diabetic dogs.- Localization of ?1-adrenoceptors in rat and human hearts by immunocytochemistry.- Inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate mass content in isolated perfused rat heart during alpha-1 -adrenoceptor stimulation.- Interstitial noradrenaline concentration of rat hearts as influenced by cellular catecholamine uptake mechanisms.- Characterization of catecholamine uptake2 in isolated cardiac myocytes.- Effects of anti-peptide antibodies against the second extracellular loop of human M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptors on transmembrane potentials and currents in guinea pig ventricular myocytes.- II: Cardiac hypertrophy and failure.- Molecular aspects of mechanical stress-induced cardiac hypertrophy.- Catecholamines and cardiac growth.- Hypertrophic responsiveness to ?2-adrenoceptor stimulation on adult ventricular cardiomyocytes.- Reduction of cardiac hypertrophy in TGR (mREN2)27 by angiotensin II receptor blockade.- The effect of insulin-like growth factor-1 on adult rat cardiac contractility.- Effect of angiotensin II on myocardial collagen gene expression.- Chronic low-dose treatment with enalapril induced cardiac regression of left ventricular hypertrophy.- Heterotopic heart transplantation alters high-energy phosphate metabolism irrespective of cardiac allograft rejection.- Myocardial fibrosis and right ventricular function of heterotopically transplanted hearts in rats treated with cyclosporine.- Apoptosis in the heart: When and why?.- Human myocardial Na, K-ATPase concentration in heart failure.- Decreased expression of cardiacsarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-pump ATPase in congestive heart failure due to myocardial infarction.- Elucidating molecular mechanisms of septic cardiomyopathy — the cardiomyocyte model.- Alterations in inotropy, nitric oxide and cyclic GMP synthesis, protein phosphorylation and ADP-ribosylation in the endotoxin-treated rat myocardium and cardiomyocytes.- Significance of the adenine nucleotide of translocator in the pathogenesis of viral heart disease.- Differences in response to activation of adenylyl cyclase by various stimulants in human myocardium.- Circulating antibodies against neonatal cardiac muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome.- Characterization of anti-heart M2 muscarinic receptor antibodies — a combined clinical and experimental study.- Index to Volumes 163 and 164.