A new therapy for severe ischemic heart disease has been developed; therapeutic
angiogenesis induced by the local implantation of autologous bone marrow cells (BMC). After …

Measurements of perturbations in the atmospheric potential gradient around volcanic plumes
at multiple (from two to five) sites, and measurements of the charge–mass ratio of ash …

Protein kinase C (PKC) plays an important role in mediating ischemic preconditioning (PC).
However, the relationship between PKC isoforms and PC is still uncertain. We analyzed …

Aims: We describe three-dimensional optical coherence tomography (3D-OCT) guided
bifurcation stenting and the clinical utility of 3D-OCT. Methods and results: Twenty-two …

Objective: Caspase family proteases are recognized as key mediators of apoptosis. However,
the role of caspases in the ischemia–reperfused heart remains uncertain. We evaluated …

This article briefly reviews recent experimental studies which show that β-adrenergic
receptor stimulation produces an important enhancement of the force-frequency relation on …

In anesthetized swine, the left anterior descending coronary artery was cannulated and
perfused at constant blood flow levels during two grades of ischemia. In one group (n = 10), …

The influence of timing and magnitude of arterial wave reflection (WR) on afterload-dependent
relaxation was evaluated in patients with a variety of heart diseases (group 1, age < 30 yr; …

Orphan receptors that couple to G protein without known ligands are considered to relate
directly to drug discovery. Here, we examine the expression of various orphan receptors in …

Left atrial function in patients with hypertensive heart disease was compared with that in
control subjects. In patients with hypertensive heart disease, the time constant of left ventricular …