Biochemical Regulation of Myocardium

Front Matter....Pages i-2
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Excitation-contraction coupling of the developing rat heart....Pages 5-11
Developmental changes of calcium transients and contractility during the cultivation of rat neonatal cardiomyocytes....Pages 13-21
Calcium channels and cation transport ATPases in cardiac hypertrophy induced by aortic constriction in newborn rats....Pages 23-29
G proteins, adenylyl cyclase and related phosphoproteins in the developing rat heart....Pages 31-38
Localization of α1,2,3-subunit isoforms of Na,K-ATPase in cultured neonatal and adult rat myocardium: The immunofluorescence and immunocytochemical study....Pages 39-45
Immediate postnatal rat heart development modified by abdominal aortic banding: Analysis of gene expression....Pages 47-56
Early postnatal changes in sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium transport function in spontaneously hypertensive rats....Pages 57-66
Cardiac phosphocreatine deficiency induced by GPA during postnatal development in rat....Pages 67-76
Role of bradykinin in the antihypertrophic effects of enalapril in the newborn pig heart....Pages 77-83
Regulation of the slow Ca ++ channels of myocardial cells....Pages 85-98
 In-vivo phosphorylation of the cardiac L-type calcium channel beta-subunit in response to catecholamines....Pages 99-106
Antibodies from Trypanosoma cruzi infected mice recognize the second extracellular loop of the βl-adrenergic and M2-muscarinic receptors and regulate calcium channels in isolated cardiomyocytes....Pages 107-112
β 2 -Adrenoceptor activation by zinterol causes protein phosphorylation, contractile effects and relaxant effects through a cAMP pathway in human atrium....Pages 113-123
Early after-depolarisations induced by noradrenaline may be initiated by calcium released from sarcoplasmic reticulum....Pages 125-130
Cardiac pump function of the isolated rat heart at two modes of energy deprivation and effect of adrenergic stimulation....Pages 131-136
Regulation of β-adrenoceptor properties and the lipid milieu in heart muscle membranes during stress....Pages 137-143
Heart glycogen content and isoprenaline-induced myocardial lesions....Pages 145-149
Role of vascular adrenergic mechanisms in the haemodynamic and PGI 2 stimulating effects of angiotensin in diabetic dogs....Pages 151-157
Localization of α 1 -adrenoceptors in rat and human hearts by immunocytochemistry....Pages 159-165
Inositol-1,4,5-trisphosphate mass content in isolated perfused rat heart during alpha-1 -adrenoceptor stimulation....Pages 167-172
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Interstitial noradrenaline concentration of rat hearts as influenced by cellular catecholamine uptake mechanisms....Pages 173-180
Characterization of catecholamine uptake 2 in isolated cardiac myocytes....Pages 181-183
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....Pages 185-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Molecular aspects of mechanical stress-induced cardiac hypertrophy....Pages 197-201
Catecholamines and cardiac growth....Pages 203-210
Hypertrophic responsiveness to β 2 -adrenoceptor stimulation on adult ventricular cardiomyocytes....Pages 211-216
Reduction of cardiac hypertrophy in TGR(mREN2)27 by angiotensin II receptor blockade....Pages 217-221
The effect of insulin-like growth factor-1 on adult rat cardiac contractility....Pages 223-229
Effect of angiotensin II on myocardial collagen gene expression....Pages 231-237
Chronic low-dose treatment with enalapril induced cardiac regression of left ventricular hypertrophy....Pages 239-245
Heterotopic heart transplantation alters high-energy phosphate metabolism irrespective of cardiac allograft rejection....Pages 247-252
Myocardial fibrosis and right ventricular function of heterotopically transplanted hearts in rats treated with cyclosporin....Pages 253-260
Apoptosis in the heart: when and why?....Pages 261-275
Human myocardial Na, K-ATPase concentration in heart failure....Pages 277-283
Decreased expression of cardiac sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ -pump ATPase in congestive heart failure due to myocardial infarction....Pages 285-290
Elucidating molecular mechanisms of septic cardiomyopathy — the cardiomyocyte model....Pages 291-303
Alterations in inotropy, nitric oxide and cyclic GMP synthesis, protein phosphorylation and ADP-ribosylation in the endotoxin-treated rat myocardium and cardiomyocytes....Pages 305-318
Significance of the adenine nucleotide translocator in the pathogenesis of viral heart disease....Pages 319-327
Differences in response to activation of adenylyl cyclase by various stimulants in human myocardium....Pages 329-333
Circulating antibodies against neonatal cardiac muscarinic acetylcholine receptor in patients with Sjögren’s syndrome....Pages 335-341
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Characterization of anti-heart M2 muscarinic receptor antibodies — a combined clinical and experimental study....Pages 343-347
Back Matter....Pages 349-353