Contractile dysfunction plays a key role in injury sustained by ischemic myocardium at reperfusion, whereas interventions that impede hypercontracture enhance recovery. In permeabilized adult rat cardiomyocytes, the negative inotrope 2,3-butanedione monoxime (BDM; 10-50 mM) inhibited rigor at low MgATP concentration but stimulated net ATP hydrolysis. Hydrolysis was attenuated by H-7, kaempferol...

Characteristics of the temporal elevation of diastolic tension, produced by ischemia-reperfusion in isolated and paced Langendorff's hearts of guinea pigs, were studied. The elevation of diastolic tension corresponded with an elevation of left ventricular end diastolic pressure after a short ischemic period in the isovolumic heart. These phenomena were thought to be a result of incomplete relax...

A neck scar contracture can severely and negatively affect the function of mastication, phonic, or breathing and result in neck pain and issues with esthetics. The best way is of course to avoid such contracture by means of non-surgical treatment such as use of a growth factor. The basic fibroblastic growth factor is clinically well proven in decreasing scar formation and improving healing. The...

Aging is associated with increased susceptibility of the heart to ischemia. Many potential reasons for this exist, including increased oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and possibly changes in myocardial substrate utilization.1,2 Given the fact that ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death in the aging population, strategies that increase the ability of the heart to recov...

ATP-sensitive potassium channel (K(ATP)) openers as a class protect ischemic myocardium. The protective effects are independent of vasodilator activity and effects on action potential shortening, actions typically associated with sarcolemmal K(ATP) activation. BMS-191095 is a novel mitochondrial K(ATP) opener which protects ischemic myocardium while having no electrophysiologic or vasodilator e...

The etiology of Volkmann’s contracture has been much debated. Incorrect bandaging (Volkmann 1881), venous occlusion (Murphy 1914, Brooks 1922, Jepson 1926), subfascial haematoma (Moulonguet and Sen#{232}que 1928, Jos#{233} Jorge 1925), arterial spasm (Griffiths 1940) are some of the causes that have been suggested. Leriche (1928) likened the changes in the muscles to those seen in cardiac and p...

BACKGROUND Acute insulin-like growth factor-1 administration has been shown to have beneficial effects in cardiac pathological conditions. The aim of the present study was to assess the structural and ex vivo functional impacts of long-term cardiomyocyte-specific insulin-like growth factor-1 overexpression in hearts of transgenic αMHC-IGF-1 Ea mice. METHODS Performance of isolated transgenic ...

We investigated the roles of sodium-calcium exchange, sarcoplasmic reticulum, and mitochondria in Cai homeostasis in cultured chick ventricular cells. Specifically, the influence of low sodium medium on contractile state, calcium fluxes, and cytosolic free [Ca] [( Ca]i) was examined. [Ca]i was measured using fura-2. Mean [Ca]i in control medium was 126 +/- 14 nM. Exposure of cells to sodium-fre...