SPECIAL MEDICAL EDITORIALS:

Michel E. Safar and Pierre Laurent

Pulse pressure and arterial stiffness in rats: comparison with humans
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1363-H1369, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00513.2003 [Full Text]  

TRANSLATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY:

Lei Lü, Tai Yao, Yi-Zhun Zhu, Guo-Ying Huang, Yin-Xiang Cao, and Yi-Chun Zhu

Chronic all-trans retinoic acid treatment prevents medial thickening of intramyocardial and intrarenal arteries in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1370-H1377, 2003. First published May 29, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00260.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

ARTICLES:

Wen Dun, Parag Chandra, Peter Danilo, Jr., Michael R. Rosen, and Penelope A. Boyden

Chronic atrial fibrillation does not further decrease outward currents. It increases them.
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1378-H1384, 2003. First published July 3, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00137.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Warren H. Lee, John S. Gounarides, Eric S. Roos, and Michael S. Wolin

Influence of peroxynitrite on energy metabolism and cardiac function in a rat ischemia-reperfusion model
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1385-H1395, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00808.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Wei Guo, Takeshi Adachi, Reiko Matsui, Shanqin Xu, Bingbing Jiang, Ming-Hui Zou, Michael Kirber, Wilfred Lieberthal, and Richard A. Cohen

Quantitative assessment of tyrosine nitration of manganese superoxide dismutase in angiotensin II-infused rat kidney
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1396-H1403, 2003. First published June 5, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00096.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Zsolt Bagi, Akos Koller, and Gabor Kaley

Superoxide-NO interaction decreases flow- and agonist-induced dilations of coronary arterioles in Type 2 diabetes mellitus
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1404-H1410, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00235.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Amy G. Tsai, Kim D. Vandegriff, Marcos Intaglietta, and Robert M. Winslow

Targeted O₂ delivery by low-P₅₀ hemoglobin: a new basis for O₂ therapeutics
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1411-H1419, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00307.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jianyi Zhang, Arthur H. L. From, Kamil Ugurbil, and Robert J. Bache

Myocardial oxygenation and high-energy phosphate levels during K_ATP channel blockade
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1420-H1427, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00167.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Teruo Noguchi, Zengyi Chen, Stephen P. Bell, Lori Nyland, and Martin M. LeWinter

Endothelin receptor blockade has an oxygen-saving effect in Dahl salt-sensitive rats with heart failure
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1428-H1434, 2003. First published May 29, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00731.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Patrick D. Addison, Peter C. Neligan, Homa Ashrafpour, Asim Khan, Anguo Zhong, Michael Moses, Christopher R. Forrest, and Cho Y. Pang

Noninvasive remote ischemic preconditioning for global protection of skeletal muscle against infarction
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1435-H1443, 2003. First published June 5, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00106.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Nihal Kaplan-Albuquerque, Chrystelle Garat, Vicki Van Putten, and Raphael A. Nemenoff

Regulation of SM22 expression by arginine vasopressin and PDGF-BB in vascular smooth muscle cells
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1444-H1452, 2003. First published June 26, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00306.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ge-Xin Wang, William J. Hatton, Grace L. Wang, Juming Zhong, Ilia Yamboliev, Dayue Duan, and Joseph R. Hume

Functional effects of novel anti-ClC-3 antibodies on native volume-sensitive osmolyte and anion channels in cardiac and smooth muscle cells
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1453-H1463, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00244.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Anilkumar K. Reddy, Yi-Heng Li, Thuy T. Pham, Lyssa N. Ochoa, Maria T. Treviño, Craig J. Hartley, Lloyd H. Michael, Mark L. Entman, and George E. Taffet

Measurement of aortic input impedance in mice: effects of age on aortic stiffness
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1464-H1470, 2003. First published May 29, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00004.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

James G. Dobson, Jr., Lynne G. Shea, and Richard A. Fenton

-Adrenergic and antiadrenergic modulation of cardiac adenylyl cyclase is influenced by phosphorylation
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1471-H1478, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00950.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Grant Bledsoe, Lee Chao, and Julie Chao

Kallikrein gene delivery attenuates cardiac remodeling and promotes neovascularization in spontaneously hypertensive rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1479-H1488, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.01129.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ashley S. Izzard, Delyth Graham, Matthew P. Burnham, Egidius H. Heerkens, Anna F. Dominiczak, and Anthony M. Heagerty

Myogenic and structural properties of cerebral arteries from the stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rat
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1489-H1494, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00352.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Gregory R. Ferrier, Robin H. Smith, and Susan E. Howlett

Calcium sparks in mouse ventricular myocytes at physiological temperature
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1495-H1505, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00802.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Kazuo Kato, Hang Yin, Jun Agata, Hideaki Yoshida, Lee Chao, and Julie Chao

Adrenomedullin gene delivery attenuates myocardial infarction and apoptosis after ischemia and reperfusion
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1506-H1514, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00270.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jaya Pamidimukkala and Meredith Hay

17-Estradiol inhibits angiotensin II activation of area postrema neurons
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1515-H1520, 2003. First published June 26, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00174.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

B. Husse, A. Sopart, and G. Isenberg

Cyclical mechanical stretch-induced apoptosis in myocytes from young rats but necrosis in myocytes from old rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1521-H1527, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00890.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Dale D. Tang and Jian Tan

Downregulation of profilin with antisense oligodeoxynucleotides inhibits force development during stimulation of smooth muscle
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1528-H1536, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00188.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Amy G. Tsai, Pedro Cabrales, Robert M. Winslow, and Marcos Intaglietta

Microvascular oxygen distribution in awake hamster window chamber model during hyperoxia
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1537-H1545, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00176.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Takao Tanaka, Tatsuji Kono, Fumio Terasaki, Taigo Kintaka, Koichi Sohmiya, Takayuki Mishima, and Yasushi Kitaura

Gene-environment interactions in wet beriberi: effects of thiamine depletion in CD36-defect rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1546-H1553, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00182.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

David J. Nusz, David C. White, Qunsheng Dai, Anne M. Pippen, Michael A. Thompson, G. Brant Walton, Cyrus J. Parsa, Walter J. Koch, and Brian H. Annex

Vascular rarefaction in peripheral skeletal muscle after experimental heart failure
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1554-H1562, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.01045.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yu-Qing Zhou, F. Stuart Foster, Robert Parkes, and S. Lee Adamson

Developmental changes in left and right ventricular diastolic filling patterns in mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1563-H1575, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00384.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Fraser D. Russell, Deborah Meyers, Andrew J. Galbraith, Nick Bett, Istvan Toth, Philip Kearns, and Peter Molenaar

Elevated plasma levels of human urotensin-II immunoreactivity in congestive heart failure
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1576-H1581, 2003. First published June 5, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00217.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Weidong Gu, Dorothee Weihrauch, Katsuya Tanaka, John P. Tessmer, Paul S. Pagel, Judy R. Kersten, William M. Chilian, and David C. Warltier

Reactive oxygen species are critical mediators of coronary collateral development in a canine model
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1582-H1589, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00318.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Sean P. Marrelli, Maxim S. Eckmann, and Michael S. Hunte

Role of endothelial intermediate conductance K_Ca channels in cerebral EDHF-mediated dilations
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1590-H1599, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00376.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Annette Rebel, John A. Ulatowski, Herman Kwansa, Enrico Bucci, and Raymond C. Koehler

Cerebrovascular response to decreased hematocrit: effect of cell-free hemoglobin, plasma viscosity, and CO₂
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1600-H1608, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00077.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Haydar A. Demirel, Karyn L. Hamilton, R. Andrew Shanely, Nihal Tümer, Mary Jo Koroly, and Scott K. Powers

Age and attenuation of exercise-induced myocardial HSP72 accumulation
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1609-H1615, 2003. First published June 5, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00982.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jean White, Deborah L. Carlson, Marita Thompson, David L. Maass, Billy Sanders, Brett Giroir, and Jureta W. Horton

Molecular and pharmacological approaches to inhibiting nitric oxide after burn trauma
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1616-H1625, 2003. First published May 8, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00061.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

William C. Stanley, Steven R. Meadows, Krista M. Kivilo, Bridgette A. Roth, and Gary D. Lopaschuk

-Hydroxybutyrate inhibits myocardial fatty acid oxidation in vivo independent of changes in malonyl-CoA content
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1626-H1631, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00332.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Mark E. Dunlap, Steve Bibevski, Terrone L. Rosenberry, and Paul Ernsberger

Mechanisms of altered vagal control in heart failure: influence of muscarinic receptors and acetylcholinesterase activity
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1632-H1640, 2003. First published June 26, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.01051.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Stephen Zicha, Isaac Moss, Bruce Allen, Andras Varro, Julius Papp, Robert Dumaine, Charles Antzelevich, and Stanley Nattel

Molecular basis of species-specific expression of repolarizing K⁺ currents in the heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1641-H1649, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00346.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Tsung-Ming Lee and Tsai-Fwu Chou

Troglitazone administration limits infarct size by reduced phosphorylation of canine myocardial connexin43 proteins
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1650-H1659, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00407.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yu Wang, Kaushik P. Patel, Kurtis G. Cornish, Keith M. Channon, and Irving H. Zucker

nNOS gene transfer to RVLM improves baroreflex function in rats with chronic heart failure
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1660-H1667, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00239.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Tomasz A. Timek, David T. Lai, Paul Dagum, Frederick Tibayan, George T. Daughters, David Liang, Gerald J. Berry, D. Craig Miller, and Neil B. Ingels, Jr.

Ablation of mitral annular and leaflet muscle: effects on annular and leaflet dynamics
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1668-H1674, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00179.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yung-Fu Chang, Jiao Wei, Xiaoli Liu, Yen-Hsu Chen, Matthew D. Layne, and Shaw-Fang Yet

Identification of a CArG-independent region of the cysteine-rich protein 2 promoter that directs expression in the developing vasculature
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1675-H1683, 2003. First published June 5, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00165.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Maria C. Heidkamp, Allison L. Bayer, Brian T. Scully, Diane M. Eble, and Allen M. Samarel

Activation of focal adhesion kinase by protein kinase C in neonatal rat ventricular myocytes
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1684-H1696, 2003. First published June 26, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00016.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

L. R. Davrath, Y. Goren, I. Pinhas, E. Toledo, and S. Akselrod

Early autonomic malfunction in normotensive individuals with a genetic predisposition to essential hypertension
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1697-H1704, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00208.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Alan Kadish, David Johnson, Willie Choe, Jeffrey Goldberger, and George Horvath

Characterization of fibrillatory rhythms by ensemble vector directional analysis
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1705-H1719, 2003. First published June 5, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.01108.2001 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Victor Rizzo, Christine Morton, Natacha DePaola, Jan E. Schnitzer, and Peter F. Davies

Recruitment of endothelial caveolae into mechanotransduction pathways by flow conditioning in vitro
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1720-H1729, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00344.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Eva Mildenberger, Beatrix Biesel, Günter Siegel, and Hans T. Versmold

Nitric oxide and endothelin in oxygen-dependent regulation of vascular tone of human umbilical vein
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1730-H1737, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00938.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yi-Fan Li, William G. Mayhan, and Kaushik P. Patel

Role of the paraventricular nucleus in renal excretory responses to acute volume expansion: role of nitric oxide
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1738-H1746, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00727.2002 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Arto J. Hautala, Timo H. Mäkikallio, Antti Kiviniemi, Raija T. Laukkanen, Seppo Nissilä, Heikki V. Huikuri, and Mikko P. Tulppo

Cardiovascular autonomic function correlates with the response to aerobic training in healthy sedentary subjects
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1747-H1752, 2003. First published June 19, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00202.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Jun Zhang, Peipei Ping, Thomas M. Vondriska, Xian-Liang Tang, Guang-Wu Wang, Ernest M. Cardwell, and Roberto Bolli

Cardioprotection involves activation of NF-B via PKC-dependent tyrosine and serine phosphorylation of IB-
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1753-H1758, 2003. First published June 26, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00416.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

N. Hiscock, C. P. Fischer, H. Pilegaard, and B. K. Pedersen

Vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA expression and arteriovenous balance in response to prolonged, submaximal exercise in humans
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1759-H1763, 2003. First published May 22, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00150.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Brian E. Spurrell, Timothy V. Murphy, and Michael A. Hill

Intraluminal pressure stimulates MAPK phosphorylation in arterioles: temporal dissociation from myogenic contractile response
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1764-H1773, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00468.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Mark H. D. Danton, Gerald F. Greil, John G. Byrne, Michael Hsin, Lawrence Cohn, and Stephan E. Maier

Right ventricular volume measurement by conductance catheter
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1774-H1785, 2003. First published May 22, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00048.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

REPORTS:

Hazel Lum, Jing Qiao, Robert J. Walter, Fei Huang, Papasani V. Subbaiah, Kwang S. Kim, and Oksana Holian

Inflammatory stress increases receptor for lysophosphatidylcholine in human microvascular endothelial cells
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 285: H1786-H1789, 2003. First published June 12, 2003; 10.1152/ajpheart.00359.2003 [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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