Aging and remodeling during healing of the wounded heart: current therapies and novel drug targets

BI Jugdutt - Current Drug Targets, 2008 - ingentaconnect.com
Aging has become a major health care problem and socio-economic burden worldwide.
Myocardial infarction (MI) is the major killer worldwide and coronary reperfusion is the major …

Glucocorticoid modulates angiotensin II receptor expression patterns and protects the heart from ischemia and reperfusion injury

Q Xue, AJ Patterson, D **ao, L Zhang - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Glucocorticoid regulates angiotensin II receptor (ATR) expression via activating
glucocorticoid receptors and binding to glucocorticoid response elements. The regulation of …

Angiotensin II activates NADPH oxidase in isolated rat hearts subjected to ischaemia–reperfusion

A Oudot, C Vergely, A Ecarnot-Laubriet… - European journal of …, 2003 - Elsevier
The role of angiotensin II in myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion is not clearly defined. In this
respect, the involvement of NADPH oxidase remains to be determined. The aim of this study …

Preconditioning of rat hearts by adenosine A1 or A3 receptor activation

R De Jonge, M Out, WJ Maas, JW De Jong - European journal of …, 2002 - Elsevier
Our study in rat hearts examined whether activation of adenosine A1 or A3 receptors
improved functional recovery and reduced apoptosis resulting from low-flow ischemia. Prior …

AT1 and AT2 receptor expression and blockade after acute ischemia-reperfusion in isolated working rat hearts

Y Xu, D Kumar, JRB Dyck, WR Ford… - American Journal …, 2002 - journals.physiology.org
We assessed ANG II type 1 (AT1) and type 2 (AT2) receptor (R) expression and functional
recovery after ischemia-reperfusion with or without AT1R/AT2R blockade in isolated working …

Role of p90 ribosomal S6 kinase–mediated Prorenin-converting enzyme in ischemic and diabetic myocardium

S Itoh, B Ding, T Shishido, N Lerner-Marmarosh… - Circulation, 2006 - ahajournals.org
Background—Epidemiological data strongly indicate that diabetes increases the incidence
of heart failure. Although the benefit of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACE-I) …

Postischemic apoptosis and functional recovery after angiotensin II type 1 receptor blockade in isolated working rat hearts

R Moudgil, V Menon, Y Xu, S Musat-Marcu… - Journal of …, 2001 - journals.lww.com
Objective To determine whether chronic angiotensin (AngII) type I receptor (AT 1 R)
blockade inhibits cardiomyocyte (CM) apoptosis and attenuates left ventricular (LV) …

Enhanced expression of angiotensin II type 2 receptor, inositol 1, 4, 5-trisphosphate receptor, and protein kinase Cε during cardioprotection induced by angiotensin II …

Y Xu, AS Clanachan, BI Jugdutt - Hypertension, 2000 - ahajournals.org
We hypothesized that the cardioprotective effect of angiotensin II type 2 receptor (AT2R)
blockade with PD 123,319 (PD) on the recovery of left ventricular (LV) mechanical function …

Cardioprotection induced by AT1R blockade after reperfused myocardial infarction: Association with regional increase in AT2R, IP3R and PKCε proteins and cGMP

BI Jugdutt, Y Xu, M Balghith… - Journal of …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: We hypothesized that the cardioprotective effect of angiotensin II (AngII) type 1
receptor (AT, R) blockade during in vivo ischemia-reperfusion (IR) might be associated with …

Angiotensin II reduces infarct size and has no effect on post‐ischaemic contractile dysfunction in isolated rat hearts

WR Ford, AS Clanachan… - British Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
In order to test the hypothesis that angiotensin II exacerbates myocardial ischaemia‐
reperfusion (IR) injury, we examined the effects of graded angiotension II concentrations of …