Search Results - "Bassani, Rosana A."
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Macrophage-dependent IL-1β production induces cardiac arrhythmias in diabetic mice
Published in Nature communications (24-11-2016)“…Diabetes mellitus (DM) encompasses a multitude of secondary disorders, including heart disease. One of the most frequent and potentially life threatening…”
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Chasing cardiac physiology and pathology down the CaMKII cascade
Published in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (15-05-2015)“…Calcium dynamics is central in cardiac physiology, as the key event leading to the excitation-contraction coupling (ECC) and relaxation processes. The primary…”
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Toll-like receptor 4 activation promotes cardiac arrhythmias by decreasing the transient outward potassium current (Ito ) through an IRF3-dependent and MyD88-independent pathway
Published in Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology (01-11-2014)“…Abstract Cardiac arrhythmias are one of the main causes of death worldwide. Several studies have shown that inflammation plays a key role in different cardiac…”
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Author Correction: Macrophage-dependent IL-1β production induces cardiac arrhythmias in diabetic mice
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Rapidly switching multidirectional defibrillation: Reversal of ventricular fibrillation with lower energy shocks
Published in The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery (01-12-2014)“…Objectives Cardiac arrest after open surgery has an incidence of approximately 3%, of which more than 50% of the cases are due to ventricular fibrillation…”
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Blood Calcium Levels in Immature Rats: Influence of Extracellular Calcium Concentration on Myocardial Calcium Handling
Published in Experimental Animals (2012)“…Calcium ions play an important role in several cell functions, from fertilization to cell death. The cytosolic Ca2+ concentration is much lower than the…”
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Action potential duration determines sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ reloading in mammalian ventricular myocytes
Published in The Journal of physiology (01-09-2004)“…After sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) Ca 2+ depletion in intact ventricular myocytes, electrical activity promotes SR Ca 2+ reloading and recovery of twitch…”
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Developmental differences in myocardial transmembrane Na+ transport: implications for excitability and Na+ handling
Published in The Journal of physiology (01-06-2022)“…Little is currently known about possible developmental changes in myocardial Na+ handling, which may have impact on cell excitability and Ca2+ content. Resting…”
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Enhanced calcium mobilization in rat ventricular myocytes during the onset of pressure overload-induced hypertrophy
Published in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (01-10-2006)“…Early cardiovascular changes evoked by pressure overload (PO) may reveal adaptive strategies that allow immediate survival to the increased hemodynamic load…”
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Membrane polarization at the excitation threshold induced by external electric fields in cardiomyocytes of rats at different developmental stages
Published in Medical & biological engineering & computing (01-10-2023)“…External electric fields ( E ), used for cardiac pacing and defibrillation/cardioversion, induce a spatially variable change in cardiomyocyte transmembrane…”
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High Thyrotropin Is Critical for Cardiac Electrical Remodeling and Arrhythmia Vulnerability in Hypothyroidism
Published in Thyroid (New York, N.Y.) (01-07-2019)“…Hypothyroidism, the most common endocrine disease, induces cardiac electrical remodeling that creates a substrate for ventricular arrhythmias. Recent studies…”
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Accuracy of electromagnetic models to estimate cardiomyocyte membrane polarization
Published in Medical & biological engineering & computing (01-12-2019)“…External electric fields ( E ) induce a spatially heterogeneous variation in the membrane potential (Δ V m ) of cardiomyocytes that, if sufficiently large,…”
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Sources of Ca2+ for contraction of the heart tube of Tenebrio molitor (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)
Published in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology (01-11-2018)“…Insect and vertebrate hearts share the ability to generate spontaneously their rhythmic electrical activity, which triggers the fluid-propelling mechanical…”
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Ca flux, contractility, and excitation-contraction coupling in hypertrophic rat ventricular myocytes
Published in The American journal of physiology (01-04-1998)“…Left ventricular hypertrophy (approximately 40%) was induced in rats by banding of the abdominal aorta. After 16 wk, ventricular homogenates were prepared for…”
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Atrial chronotropic reactivity to catecholamines in neonatal rats: Contribution of β-adrenoceptor subtypes
Published in European journal of pharmacology (05-10-2015)“…Although increase in heart rate is a crucial determinant for enhancement of cardiac output in the neonate, information on the chronotropic reactivity to…”
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Working out the heart: Functional remodeling by endurance exercise training
Published in Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology (01-07-2013)Get full text
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BugHeart: software for online monitoring and quantitation of contractile activity of the insect heart
Published in Research on biomedical engineering (01-12-2019)“…Purpose The insect heart (dorsal vessel, DV) is considered a valuable model for studies on cardiac genetics, development, and physiology. However, as software…”
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Greater Cardiac Cell Excitation Efficiency With Rapidly Switching Multidirectional Electrical Stimulation
Published in IEEE transactions on biomedical engineering (01-01-2013)“…Electric field (E) stimulation is widely used in experiments with myocardial preparations and in the clinical setting (e.g., defibrillation). As a rule,…”
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Muscarinic stimulation and pinacidil produce similar facilitation of tachyarrhythmia induction in rat isolated atria
Published in Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology (01-12-2013)“…Abstract Atrial tachyarrhythmias, the most common type of cardiac arrhythmias, are associated with greater stroke risk. Muscarinic cholinergic agonists have…”
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Increased spontaneous activity and reduced inotropic response to catecholamines in ventricular myocytes from footshock-stressed rats
Published in Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) (01-01-2010)“…Exposure to stressors has been shown to change atrial responsiveness to catecholamines, but it is not clear yet how it affects the ventricular myocardium,…”
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