Search Results - "NERI SERNERI, Gian Gastone"
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Cardiac Angiotensin II Formation in the Clinical Course of Heart Failure and Its Relationship With Left Ventricular Function
Published in Circulation research (11-05-2001)“…ABSTRACT—In 76 patients with heart failure (HF) (New York Heart Association [NYHA] classes I through IV) and in 15 control subjects, cardiac angiotensin II…”
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Cardiac Angiotensin II Participates in Coronary Microvessel Inflammation of Unstable Angina and Strengthens the Immunomediated Component
Published in Circulation research (25-06-2004)“…Angiotensin (Ang) II is now recognized to be a mediator of a wide variety of inflammatory processes. This study investigated renin-angiotensin system (RAS)…”
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Selective Upregulation of Cardiac Endothelin System in Patients With Ischemic but Not Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy: Endothelin-1 System in the Human Failing Heart
Published in Circulation research (03-03-2000)“…ABSTRACTOnly scarce information is available on the activity and modifications of the cardiac endothelin (ET)–1 system in heart failure due to ischemic (ICM)…”
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Human Vascular Renin-Angiotensin System and Its Functional Changes in Relation to Different Sodium Intakes
Published in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. 1979) (01-03-1998)“…A growing body of evidence supports the existence of a tissue-based renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in the vasculature, but the functional capacity of vascular…”
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Exaggerated myocardial oxLDL amount and LOX-1 receptor over-expression associated with coronary microvessel inflammation in unstable angina
Published in Atherosclerosis (01-02-2013)“…Abstract The pathophysiological relationship between coronary atherosclerosis and coronary microvessels remains undefined and the specific causative role of…”
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Evidence for the existence of a functional cardiac renin-angiotensin system in humans
Published in Circulation (New York, N.Y.) (15-10-1996)“…The presence of mRNA for the essential components of the renin-angiotensin system (RAS) has been found in animal and human hearts. The present study was…”
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Increased Cardiac Sympathetic Activity and Insulin-Like Growth Factor-I Formation Are Associated With Physiological Hypertrophy in Athletes
Published in Circulation research (23-11-2001)“…Physiological hypertrophy represents the adaptive changes of the heart required for supporting the increased hemodynamic load in regularly trained healthy…”
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Abnormal Pressure Passive Dilatation of Cerebral Arterioles in the Elderly With Isolated Systolic Hypertension
Published in Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. 1979) (01-12-2006)“…The aim of this study was to investigate the cerebrovascular adaptability to 2 sequential pressor stimuli in elderly patients with isolated systolic…”
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Impaired angiotensin II-extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling in failing human ventricular myocytes
Published in Journal of hypertension (01-10-2008)“…Angiotensin II was reported to induce insulin-like growth factor-I and endothelin-1 gene expression and peptide release by ventricular cardiomyocytes. However,…”
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Immunomediated and Ischemia-Independent Inflammation of Coronary Microvessels in Unstable Angina
Published in Circulation research (27-06-2003)“…ABSTRACT—This study investigated whether the myocardium is involved in the acute inflammatory reaction associated with bursts of unstable angina (UA). We…”
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Cardiac Growth Factors in Human Hypertrophy: Relations With Myocardial Contractility and Wall Stress
Published in Circulation research (09-07-1999)“…The aim of the present study was to investigate whether and which cardiac growth factors are involved in human hypertrophy, whether growth factor synthesis is…”
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Comparison of different methods of functional evaluation in patients with chronic heart failure
Published in European journal of heart failure (01-09-2000)“…Background: Stratification of the severity of heart failure has major prognostic and therapeutic implications. Aims: To prospectively compare different methods…”
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Elevated tissue factor and tissue factor pathway inhibitor circulating levels in ischaemic heart disease patients
Published in Thrombosis and haemostasis (01-03-1998)“…Several studies have shown that thrombosis and inflammation play an important role in the pathogenesis of Ischaemic Heart Disease (IHD). In particular, Tissue…”
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Early sequence of cardiac adaptations and growth factor formation in pressure- and volume-overload hypertrophy
Published in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology (01-09-2000)“…To investigate the time sequence of cardiac growth factor formation, echocardiographic and hemodynamic measurements were performed at scheduled times, and…”
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Release of Preformed Ang II from Myocytes Mediates Angiotensinogen and ET-1 Gene Overexpression In Vivo via AT1 Receptor
Published in Journal of molecular and cellular cardiology (01-11-2002)“…P. A. Modesti, S. Zecchi-Orlandini, S. Vanni, G. P olidori, I. Bertolozzi, A. M. Perna, L. Formigli, I. Cecioni, M. Coppo, M. Boddi and G. G. Neri Serneri…”
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Activation of cardiac renin-angiotensin system in unstable angina
Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology (01-07-2001)“…OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the activity of the cardiac renin-angiotensin system (RAS) in unstable angina (UA). BACKGROUND Angiotensin…”
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Renal endothelin in heart failure and its relation to sodium excretion
Published in The American heart journal (01-10-2000)“…Background Recent studies have shown that endothelin-1 (ET-1) antagonists increase sodium excretion and improve renal blood flow in experimental heart failure…”
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Characterization of Endothelin-1 Receptor Subtypes in Isolated Human Cardiomyocytes
Published in Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology (01-09-1999)“…On cardiac membranes and isolated cardiomyocytes from the human heart, cell-type distribution and functional activities of endothelin-1 (ET-1) receptor…”
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Picotamide, a combined inhibitor of thromboxane A2 synthase and receptor, reduces 2-year mortality in diabetics with peripheral arterial disease: the DAVID study
Published in European heart journal (01-10-2004)“…Aims Patients with diabetes are at excessive risk of mortality and cardiovascular morbidity. Previous studies suggest that aspirin may be less effective in…”
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n-3 PUFA supplementation, monocyte PCA expression and interleukin-6 production
Published in Prostaglandins, leukotrienes and essential fatty acids (01-06-1996)“…n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) can affect several monocyte functions and the biochemistry of blood cells, thus possibly influencing the initiation of…”
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