REVIEW:

Mazen Kurdi and George W. Booz

JAK redux: a second look at the regulation and role of JAKs in the heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1545-H1556, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00032.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irving H. Zucker, Harold D. Schultz, Kaushik P. Patel, Wei Wang, and Lie Gao

Regulation of central angiotensin type 1 receptors and sympathetic outflow in heart failure
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1557-H1566, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00073.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick Lacolley, Michel E. Safar, Veronique Regnault, and Edward D. Frohlich

Angiotensin II, mechanotransduction, and pulsatile arterial hemodynamics in hypertension
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1567-H1575, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00622.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

EDITORIAL FOCUS:

Beata M. Wolska

Calcineurin and cardiac function: is more or less better for the heart?
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1576-H1577, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00833.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Sedmera

Pathways to embryonic heart failure
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1578-H1579, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00873.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nancy J. Rusch

BK channels in cardiovascular disease: a complex story of channel dysregulation
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1580-H1582, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00852.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Licy L. Yanes and Jane F. Reckelhoff

A new piece in the hypertension puzzle: central blood pressure regulation by sex steroids
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1583-H1584, 2009. First published October 2, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00901.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]  

TRANSLATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY:

David J. Chess, Ramzi J. Khairallah, Karen M. O'Shea, Wenhong Xu, and William C. Stanley

A high-fat diet increases adiposity but maintains mitochondrial oxidative enzymes without affecting development of heart failure with pressure overload
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1585-H1593, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00599.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Norishige Morita, Ali A. Sovari, Yuanfang Xie, Michael C. Fishbein, William J. Mandel, Alan Garfinkel, Shien-Fong Lin, Peng-Sheng Chen, Lai-Hua Xie, Fuhua Chen, Zhilin Qu, James N. Weiss, and Hrayr S. Karagueuzian

Increased susceptibility of aged hearts to ventricular fibrillation during oxidative stress
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1594-H1605, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00579.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures and Tables]  

Soban Umar, Yvonne P. de Visser, Paul Steendijk, Cindy I. Schutte, El Houari Laghmani, Gerry T. M. Wagenaar, Wilhelmina H. Bax, Eleni Mantikou, Daniel A. Pijnappels, Douwe E. Atsma, Martin J. Schalij, Ernst E. van der Wall, and Arnoud van der Laarse

Allogenic stem cell therapy improves right ventricular function by improving lung pathology in rats with pulmonary hypertension
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1606-H1616, 2009. First published September 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00590.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ARTICLES:

Aya Nomura-Kitabayashi, Colin K. L. Phoon, Satoshi Kishigami, Julie Rosenthal, Yasutaka Yamauchi, Kuniya Abe, Ken-ichi Yamamura, Rajeev Samtani, Cecilia W. Lo, and Yuji Mishina

Outflow tract cushions perform a critical valve-like function in the early embryonic heart requiring BMPRIA-mediated signaling in cardiac neural crest
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1617-H1628, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00304.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Videos]  

Léna Borbouse, Gregory M. Dick, Shinichi Asano, Shawn B. Bender, U. Deniz Dincer, Gregory A. Payne, Zachary P. Neeb, Ian N. Bratz, Michael Sturek, and Johnathan D. Tune

Impaired function of coronary BK_Ca channels in metabolic syndrome
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1629-H1637, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00466.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Baojian Xue, Minati Singh, Fang Guo, Meredith Hay, and Alan Kim Johnson

Protective actions of estrogen on angiotensin II-induced hypertension: role of central nitric oxide
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1638-H1646, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00502.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer M. Kleinhenz, Dean J. Kleinhenz, Shaojin You, Jeffrey D. Ritzenthaler, Jason M. Hansen, David R. Archer, Roy L. Sutliff, and C. Michael Hart

Disruption of endothelial peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor- reduces vascular nitric oxide production
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1647-H1654, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00148.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Material] [Corrigendum]  

Dovenia S. Ponnoth, Maryam Sharifi Sanjani, Catherine Ledent, Kevin Roush, Thomas Krahn, and S. Jamal Mustafa

Absence of adenosine-mediated aortic relaxation in A_2A adenosine receptor knockout mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1655-H1660, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00192.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph M. McClure, Noreen F. Rossi, Haiping Chen, Donal S. O'Leary, and Tadeusz J. Scislo

Vasopressin is a major vasoconstrictor involved in hindlimb vascular responses to stimulation of adenosine A₁ receptors in the nucleus of the solitary tract
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1661-H1672, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00432.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ritsuko Nakano-Kurimoto, Koji Ikeda, Maki Uraoka, Yusuke Nakagawa, Kotaro Yutaka, Masahiro Koide, Tomosaburo Takahashi, Satoaki Matoba, Hiroyuki Yamada, Mitsuhiko Okigaki, and Hiroaki Matsubara

Replicative senescence of vascular smooth muscle cells enhances the calcification through initiating the osteoblastic transition
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1673-H1684, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00455.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuho Onimaru, Yoshikazu Yonemitsu, Takaaki Fujii, Mitsugu Tanii, Toshiaki Nakano, Kazunori Nakagawa, Ri-ichiro Kohno, Mamoru Hasegawa, Shin-ichi Nishikawa, and Katsuo Sueishi

VEGF-C regulates lymphangiogenesis and capillary stability by regulation of PDGF-B
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1685-H1696, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00015.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures and Tables]  

Juliano L. Sartoretto, Benjamin Y. Jin, Michael Bauer, Frank B. Gertler, Ronglih Liao, and Thomas Michel

Regulation of VASP phosphorylation in cardiac myocytes: differential regulation by cyclic nucleotides and modulation of protein expression in diabetic and hypertrophic heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1697-H1710, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00595.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gladys A. Ngoh, Tariq Hamid, Sumanth D. Prabhu, and Steven P. Jones

O-GlcNAc signaling attenuates ER stress-induced cardiomyocyte death
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1711-H1719, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00553.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Priscila Abreu Sperandio, Audrey Borghi-Silva, Adriano Barroco, Luiz Eduardo Nery, Dirceu R. Almeida, and J. Alberto Neder

Microvascular oxygen delivery-to-utilization mismatch at the onset of heavy-intensity exercise in optimally treated patients with CHF
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1720-H1728, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00596.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Krisztina Kupai, Csaba Csonka, Veronika Fekete, Louise Odendaal, Jacques van Rooyen, De Wet Marais, Tamás Csont, and Péter Ferdinandy

Cholesterol diet-induced hyperlipidemia impairs the cardioprotective effect of postconditioning: role of peroxynitrite
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1729-H1735, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00484.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chikako Nakajima-Takenaka, Guo-Xing Zhang, Koji Obata, Kiyoe Tohne, Hiroko Matsuyoshi, Yukiko Nagai, Akira Nishiyama, and Miyako Takaki

Left ventricular function of isoproterenol-induced hypertrophied rat hearts perfused with blood: mechanical work and energetics
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1736-H1743, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00672.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Santhosh K. Mani, Sundaravadivel Balasubramanian, Juozas A. Zavadzkas, Laura B. Jeffords, William T. Rivers, Michael R. Zile, Rupak Mukherjee, Francis G. Spinale, and Dhandapani Kuppuswamy

Calpain inhibition preserves myocardial structure and function following myocardial infarction
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1744-H1751, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00338.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Louis Handoko, Regis R. Lamberts, Everaldo M. Redout, Frances S. de Man, Christa Boer, Warner S. Simonides, Walter J. Paulus, Nico Westerhof, Cornelis P. Allaart, and Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf

Right ventricular pacing improves right heart function in experimental pulmonary arterial hypertension: a study in the isolated heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1752-H1759, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00555.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine F. Notarius, Beverley L. Morris, and John S. Floras

Dissociation between reflex sympathetic and forearm vascular responses to lower body negative pressure in heart failure patients with coronary artery disease
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1760-H1766, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00012.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tsuneo Kobayashi, Kumiko Taguchi, Shingo Nemoto, Takagoro Nogami, Takayuki Matsumoto, and Katsuo Kamata

Activation of the PDK-1/Akt/eNOS pathway involved in aortic endothelial function differs between hyperinsulinemic and insulin-deficient diabetic rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1767-H1775, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00536.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Che-Lin Hu, Rachna Chandra, Hui Ge, Jayashree Pain, Lin Yan, Gopal Babu, Christophe Depre, Kousaku Iwatsubo, Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Junichi Sadoshima, Stephen F. Vatner, and Dorothy E. Vatner

Adenylyl cyclase type 5 protein expression during cardiac development and stress
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1776-H1782, 2009. First published September 4, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00050.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianzhong An, Jianhai Du, Na Wei, Hao Xu, Kirkwood A. Pritchard, Jr., and Yang Shi

Role of tetrahydrobiopterin in resistance to myocardial ischemia in Brown Norway and Dahl S rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1783-H1791, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00364.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James A. Lang, John D. Jennings, Lacy A. Holowatz, and W. Larry Kenney

Reflex vasoconstriction in aged human skin increasingly relies on Rho kinase-dependent mechanisms during whole body cooling
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1792-H1797, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00509.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nathan T. Jenkins, Sarah Witkowski, Espen E. Spangenburg, and James M. Hagberg

Effects of acute and chronic endurance exercise on intracellular nitric oxide in putative endothelial progenitor cells: role of NAPDH oxidase
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1798-H1805, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00347.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne M. Deschamps and Elizabeth Murphy

Activation of a novel estrogen receptor, GPER, is cardioprotective in male and female rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1806-H1813, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00283.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ricardo J. Gelpi, Shumin Gao, Peiyong Zhai, Lin Yan, Chull Hong, Lauren M. A. Danridge, Hui Ge, Yasahiro Maejima, Martin Donato, Mitsuhiro Yokota, Jeffery D. Molkentin, Dorothy E. Vatner, Stephen F. Vatner, and Junichi Sadoshima

Genetic inhibition of calcineurin induces diastolic dysfunction in mice with chronic pressure overload
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1814-H1819, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00449.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew A. Nystoriak, Kentaro Murakami, Paul L. Penar, and George C. Wellman

Ca_v1.2 splice variant with exon 9* is critical for regulation of cerebral artery diameter
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1820-H1828, 2009. First published August 28, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00326.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yang-Ming Yang, An Huang, Gabor Kaley, and Dong Sun

eNOS uncoupling and endothelial dysfunction in aged vessels
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1829-H1836, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00230.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qi Zhang, Fanrong Yao, Stephen T. O'Rourke, Steven Y. Qian, and Chengwen Sun

Angiotensin II enhances GABA_B receptor-mediated responses and expression in nucleus tractus solitarii of rats
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1837-H1844, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00354.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jörg Peters, Torsten Schlüter, Thomas Riegel, Barbara S. Peters, Andreas Beineke, Ulrike Maschke, Norbert Hosten, John J. Mullins, and Rainer Rettig

Lack of cardiac fibrosis in a new model of high prorenin hyperaldosteronism
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1845-H1852, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01135.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc N. Busche, Vasile Pavlov, Kazue Takahashi, and Gregory L. Stahl

Myocardial ischemia and reperfusion injury is dependent on both IgM and mannose-binding lectin
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1853-H1859, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00049.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco J. Chorro, Isabel Trapero, Luis Such-Miquel, Francisca Pelechano, Luis Mainar, Joaquín Cánoves, Álvaro Tormos, Antonio Alberola, Leif Hove-Madsen, Juan Cinca, and Luis Such

Pharmacological modifications of the stretch-induced effects on ventricular fibrillation in perfused rabbit hearts
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1860-H1869, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00144.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Walter Wray, Steven K. Nishiyama, Aurélien Monnet, Claire Wary, Sandrine S. Duteil, Pierre G. Carlier, and Russell S. Richardson

Antioxidants and aging: NMR-based evidence of improved skeletal muscle perfusion and energetics
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1870-H1875, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00709.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zoltan Ungvari, Nazar Labinskyy, Partha Mukhopadhyay, John T. Pinto, Zsolt Bagi, Praveen Ballabh, Cuihua Zhang, Pal Pacher, and Anna Csiszar

Resveratrol attenuates mitochondrial oxidative stress in coronary arterial endothelial cells
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1876-H1881, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00375.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nabil Foudi, Xavier Norel, Mario Rienzo, Liliane Louedec, Charles Brink, Jean-Baptiste Michel, and Magnus Bäck

Altered reactivity to norepinephrine through COX-2 induction by vascular injury in hypercholesterolemic rabbits
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1882-H1888, 2009. First published September 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00092.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rakesh Gopinathannair, Ashok K. Chaudhary, Dezhi Xing, Debra Ely, Wei Zheng, and James B. Martins

Angiotensin II effects on ischemic focal ventricular tachycardia are predominantly mediated through myocardial AT₂ receptor
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1889-H1898, 2009. First published September 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00080.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mutsuko Yoshizawa, Seiji Maeda, Asako Miyaki, Maiko Misono, Youngju Choi, Nobutake Shimojo, Ryuichi Ajisaka, and Hirofumi Tanaka

Additive beneficial effects of lactotripeptides and aerobic exercise on arterial compliance in postmenopausal women
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1899-H1903, 2009. First published September 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00433.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David N. Charo, Michael Ho, Giovanni Fajardo, Masataka Kawana, Ramendra K. Kundu, Ahmad Y. Sheikh, Thomas P. Finsterbach, Nicholas J. Leeper, Kavita V. Ernst, Mary M. Chen, Yen Dong Ho, Hyung J. Chun, Daniel Bernstein, Euan A. Ashley, and Thomas Quertermous

Endogenous regulation of cardiovascular function by apelin-APJ
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1904-H1913, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00686.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Myoung-Gwi Ryou, Devin C. Flaherty, Besim Hoxha, Jie Sun, Hunaid Gurji, Steven Rodriguez, Glenn Bell, Albert H. Olivencia-Yurvati, and Robert T. Mallet

Pyruvate-fortified cardioplegia evokes myocardial erythropoietin signaling in swine undergoing cardiopulmonary bypass
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1914-H1922, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01213.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arvinder K. Dhalla, Wei-Qun Wang, Joan Dow, John C. Shryock, Luiz Belardinelli, Anil Bhandari, and Robert A. Kloner

Ranolazine, an antianginal agent, markedly reduces ventricular arrhythmias induced by ischemia and ischemia-reperfusion
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1923-H1929, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00173.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elaine M. Smolock, Danielle M. Trappanese, Shaohua Chang, Tanchun Wang, Paul Titchenell, and Robert S. Moreland

siRNA-mediated knockdown of h-caldesmon in vascular smooth muscle
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1930-H1939, 2009. First published September 18, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00129.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY:

Kenneth D. Varian, Ying Xu, Carlos A. A. Torres, Michelle M. Monasky, and Paul M. L. Janssen

A random cycle length approach for assessment of myocardial contraction in isolated rabbit myocardium
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1940-H1948, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01289.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Wischgoll, Jenny S. Choy, and Ghassan S. Kassab

Extraction of morphometry and branching angles of porcine coronary arterial tree from CT images
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1949-H1955, 2009. First published September 11, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00093.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gokul Swamy, Da Xu, N. Bari Olivier, and Ramakrishna Mukkamala

An adaptive transfer function for deriving the aortic pressure waveform from a peripheral artery pressure waveform
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1956-H1963, 2009. First published September 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00155.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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