AJP - Heart and Circulatory Physiology -- Table of Contents (October 1 2009, 297 [4])

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George E. Billman: Cardiac autonomic neural remodeling and susceptibility to sudden cardiac death: effect of endurance exercise training
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1171-H1193, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00534.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

EDITORIAL FOCUS:

Junxi Wu and Cuihua Zhang: Neointimal hyperplasia, vein graft remodeling, and long-term patency
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1194-H1195, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00703.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]

Victor Rizzo: Enhanced interstitial flow as a contributing factor in neointima formation: (shear) stressing vascular wall cell types other than the endothelium
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1196-H1197, 2009. First published June 12, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00499.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]

Penelope A. Boyden: The failing ventricle: what initiates the complex ventricular arrhythmias?
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1198-H1199, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00725.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]

TRANSLATIONAL PHYSIOLOGY:

Zhihua Jiang, Ming Tao, Kerri A. Omalley, Danlu Wang, C. Keith Ozaki, and Scott A. Berceli: Established neointimal hyperplasia in vein grafts expands via TGF-β-mediated progressive fibrosis
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1200-H1207, 2009. First published July 17, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00268.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jiyeon Yang, Yoonjung Park, Hanrui Zhang, Xue Gao, Emily Wilson, Warren Zimmer, Louise Abbott, and Cuihua Zhang: Role of MCP-1 in tumor necrosis factor- ${alpha}$ -induced endothelial dysfunction in type 2 diabetic mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1208-H1216, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00396.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jiangqin Liu, Jude Morton, Margaret Miedzyblocki, Tze Fun Lee, David L. Bigam, Tai Fai Fok, Chao Chen, Shoo K. Lee, Sandra T. Davidge, and Po-Yin Cheung: Sodium tanshinone IIA sulfonate increased intestinal hemodynamics without systemic circulatory changes in healthy newborn piglets
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1217-H1224, 2009. First published July 17, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00477.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ARTICLES:

Zhong-Dong Shi, Xin-Ying Ji, Henry Qazi, and John M. Tarbell: Interstitial flow promotes vascular fibroblast, myofibroblast, and smooth muscle cell motility in 3-D collagen I via upregulation of MMP-1
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1225-H1234, 2009. First published May 22, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00369.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum] [Supplemental Data]

Gregory S. Hoeker, Rodolphe P. Katra, Lance D. Wilson, Bradley N. Plummer, and Kenneth R. Laurita: Spontaneous calcium release in tissue from the failing canine heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1235-H1242, 2009. First published July 31, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01320.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Joan D. Beckman, John D. Belcher, Julie V. Vineyard, Chunsheng Chen, Julia Nguyen, M. Osita Nwaneri, M. Gerard O'Sullivan, Evin Gulbahce, Robert P. Hebbel, and Gregory M. Vercellotti: Inhaled carbon monoxide reduces leukocytosis in a murine model of sickle cell disease
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1243-H1253, 2009. First published July 17, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00327.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Tables]

Yejia Song, John C. Shryock, and Luiz Belardinelli: A slowly inactivating sodium current contributes to spontaneous diastolic depolarization of atrial myocytes
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1254-H1262, 2009. First published August 21, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00444.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Paul J. Schaeffer, Jaime DeSantiago, John Yang, Thomas P. Flagg, Attila Kovacs, Carla J. Weinheimer, Michael Courtois, Teresa C. Leone, Colin G. Nichols, Donald M. Bers, and Daniel P. Kelly: Impaired contractile function and calcium handling in hearts of cardiac-specific calcineurin b1-deficient mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1263-H1273, 2009. First published August 21, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00152.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Tables]

Toshihiro Tsuruda, Kinta Hatakeyama, Hiroyuki Masuyama, Yoko Sekita, Takuroh Imamura, Yujiro Asada, and Kazuo Kitamura: Pharmacological stimulation of soluble guanylate cyclase modulates hypoxia-inducible factor-1 ${alpha}$ in rat heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1274-H1280, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00503.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Marisol Ruiz-Meana, Arancha Abellán, Elisabet Miró-Casas, Esperanza Agulló, and David Garcia-Dorado: Role of sarcoplasmic reticulum in mitochondrial permeability transition and cardiomyocyte death during reperfusion
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1281-H1289, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00435.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Smbat Amirbekian, Robert C. Long, Jr., Michelle A. Consolini, Jin Suo, Nick J. Willett, Sam W. Fielden, Don P. Giddens, W. Robert Taylor, and John N. Oshinski: In vivo assessment of blood flow patterns in abdominal aorta of mice with MRI: implications for AAA localization
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1290-H1295, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00889.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Scott T. McEwen, Sarah F. Balus, Matthew J. Durand, and Julian H. Lombard: Angiotensin II maintains cerebral vascular relaxation via EGF receptor transactivation and ERK1/2
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1296-H1303, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01325.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Florentina Pluteanu and Leanne L. Cribbs: T-type calcium channels are regulated by hypoxia/reoxygenation in ventricular myocytes
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1304-H1313, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00528.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Kenta Yamamoto, Hiroshi Kawano, Yuko Gando, Motoyuki Iemitsu, Haruka Murakami, Kiyoshi Sanada, Michiya Tanimoto, Yumi Ohmori, Mitsuru Higuchi, Izumi Tabata, and Motohiko Miyachi: Poor trunk flexibility is associated with arterial stiffening
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1314-H1318, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00061.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

H. Glenn Bohlen, Wei Wang, Anatoliy Gashev, Olga Gasheva, and Dave Zawieja: Phasic contractions of rat mesenteric lymphatics increase basal and phasic nitric oxide generation in vivo
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1319-H1328, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00039.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Yasutaka Yamamoto, Takashi Matsuura, Genta Narazaki, Miyoko Sugitani, Kohei Tanaka, Akihiro Maeda, Goshi Shiota, Kenzo Sato, Akio Yoshida, and Ichiro Hisatome: Synergistic effects of autologous cell and hepatocyte growth factor gene therapy for neovascularization in a murine model of hindlimb ischemia
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1329-H1336, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00321.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

H. G. Bohlen, X. Zhou, J. L. Unthank, S. J. Miller, and R. Bills: Transfer of nitric oxide by blood from upstream to downstream resistance vessels causes microvascular dilation
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1337-H1346, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00171.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Tim J. M. Roberts, Abbie C. Chapman, and Marilyn J. Cipolla: PPAR- ${gamma}$ agonist rosiglitazone reverses increased cerebral venous hydraulic conductivity during hypertension
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1347-H1353, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00630.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Ricardo A. Peña-Silva, Jordan D. Miller, Yi Chu, and Donald D. Heistad: Serotonin produces monoamine oxidase-dependent oxidative stress in human heart valves
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1354-H1360, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00570.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures]

Stephen C. Kolwicz, Scott M. MacDonnell, Brian F. Renna, Patricia O. Reger, Rachid Seqqat, Khadija Rafiq, Zebulon V. Kendrick, Steven R. Houser, Abdelkarim Sabri, and Joseph R. Libonati: Left ventricular remodeling with exercise in hypertension
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1361-H1368, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01253.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jordan R. Van Orman, Dorothee Weihrauch, David C. Warltier, and John Lough: Myocardial interstitial fluid inhibits proliferation and cardiomyocyte differentiation in pluripotent embryonic stem cells
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1369-H1376, 2009. First published July 24, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00172.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

ByungSu Yoo, Anthony Lemaire, Supachoke Mangmool, Matthew J. Wolf, Antonio Curcio, Lan Mao, and Howard A. Rockman: β₁-Adrenergic receptors stimulate cardiac contractility and CaMKII activation in vivo and enhance cardiac dysfunction following myocardial infarction
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1377-H1386, 2009. First published July 24, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00504.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Karen L. Vikstrom, Ravi Vaidyanathan, Susan Levinsohn, Ryan P. O'Connell, Yueming Qian, Mark Crye, Jeffrey H. Mills, and Justus M. B. Anumonwo: SAP97 regulates Kir2.3 channels by multiple mechanisms
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1387-H1397, 2009. First published July 24, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00638.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures]

Mary M. Maleckar, Joseph L. Greenstein, Wayne R. Giles, and Natalia A. Trayanova: K⁺ current changes account for the rate dependence of the action potential in the human atrial myocyte
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1398-H1410, 2009. First published July 24, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00411.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Dong-Feng Yeih, Hung-I Yeh, Ho-Tsung Hsin, Lian-Yu Lin, Fu-Tien Chiang, Chuen-Den Tseng, Shu-Hsun Chu, and Yung-Zu Tseng: Dimethylthiourea normalizes velocity-dependent, but not force-dependent, index of ventricular performance in diabetic rats: role of myosin heavy chain isozyme
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1411-H1420, 2009. First published July 24, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01269.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jason Ng, Sri Sundaram, Alan H. Kadish, and Jeffrey J. Goldberger: Autonomic effects on the spectral analysis of heart rate variability after exercise
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1421-H1428, 2009. First published July 31, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00217.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Donald A. Vessey, Luyi Li, Norman Honbo, and Joel S. Karliner: Sphingosine 1-phosphate is an important endogenous cardioprotectant released by ischemic pre- and postconditioning
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1429-H1435, 2009. First published July 31, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00358.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Lucía Romero, Esther Pueyo, Martin Fink, and Blanca Rodríguez: Impact of ionic current variability on human ventricular cellular electrophysiology
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1436-H1445, 2009. First published July 31, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00263.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Carmen R. Valdivia, Kazuo Ueda, Michael J. Ackerman, and Jonathan C. Makielski: GPD1L links redox state to cardiac excitability by PKC-dependent phosphorylation of the sodium channel SCN5A
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1446-H1452, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00513.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Mansoor Ahmad, Xiangmin Zhao, Melissa R. Kelly, Sharath Kandhi, Oscar Perez, Nader G. Abraham, and Michael S. Wolin: Heme oxygenase-1 induction modulates hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction through upregulation of ecSOD
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1453-H1461, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00315.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Lynetta J. Jobe, Giselle C. Meléndez, Scott P. Levick, Yan Du, Gregory L. Brower, and Joseph S. Janicki: TNF- ${alpha}$ inhibition attenuates adverse myocardial remodeling in a rat model of volume overload
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1462-H1468, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00442.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Daniel W. Nuno, Jeremy S. Harrod, and Kathryn G. Lamping: Sex-dependent differences in Rho activation contribute to contractile dysfunction in type 2 diabetic mice
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1469-H1477, 2009. First published August 7, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00407.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Zhi-Ling Guo, Stephanie C. Tjen-A-Looi, Liang-Wu Fu, and John C. Longhurst: Nitric oxide in rostral ventrolateral medulla regulates cardiac-sympathetic reflexes: role of synthase isoforms
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1478-H1486, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00209.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Giuseppe Petrosillo, Giuseppe Colantuono, Nicola Moro, Francesca M. Ruggiero, Edy Tiravanti, Nicola Di Venosa, Tommaso Fiore, and Giuseppe Paradies: Melatonin protects against heart ischemia-reperfusion injury by inhibiting mitochondrial permeability transition pore opening
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1487-H1493, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00163.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Zeling Cao, Jeffrey B. Bell, Joy G. Mohanty, Enika Nagababu, and Joseph M. Rifkind: Nitrite enhances RBC hypoxic ATP synthesis and the release of ATP into the vasculature: a new mechanism for nitrite-induced vasodilation
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1494-H1503, 2009. First published August 21, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01233.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Longhu Li, Hideshi Okada, Genzou Takemura, Ken-ichiro Kosai, Hiromitsu Kanamori, Masayasu Esaki, Tomoyuki Takahashi, Kazuko Goto, Akiko Tsujimoto, Rumi Maruyama, Itta Kawamura, Tomonori Kawaguchi, Toshiaki Takeyama, Takako Fujiwara, Hisayoshi Fujiwara, and Shinya Minatoguchi: Postinfarction gene therapy with adenoviral vector expressing decorin mitigates cardiac remodeling and dysfunction
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1504-H1513, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00194.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Peidang Liu, Xiuying Bai, Heming Wang, Andrew Karaplis, David Goltzman, and Dengshun Miao: Hypophosphatemia-mediated hypotension in transgenic mice overexpressing human FGF-23
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1514-H1520, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00581.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Anders Nygren, Fernando Otaviano Campos, Hans Koch, and Wayne R. Giles: Experimental and theoretical ventricular electrograms and their relation to electrophysiological gradients in the adult rat heart
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1521-H1534, 2009. First published August 21, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01066.2008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

INNOVATIVE METHODOLOGY:

Douglas Nam, Chih-Wen Ni, Amir Rezvan, Jin Suo, Klaudia Budzyn, Alexander Llanos, David Harrison, Don Giddens, and Hanjoong Jo: Partial carotid ligation is a model of acutely induced disturbed flow, leading to rapid endothelial dysfunction and atherosclerosis
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1535-H1543, 2009. First published August 14, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00510.2009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Figures and Tables]

CORRIGENDA:

: Corrigendum
Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H1544-H1544, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.zh4-9060-corr.2009 [Full Text] [PDF]

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Cover: Mitochondria (stained with MitoTracker Red) in cultured human coronary arterial endothelial cells (green calcein fluorescence: cell body; blue: nuclei). See Csiszar A, Labinskyy N, Pinto JT, Ballabh P, Zhang H, Losonczy G, Pearson K, de Cabo R, Pacher P, Zhang C, Ungvari Z. Resveratrol induces mitochondrial biogenesis in endothelial cells. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 297: H13–H20, 2009.