Ethnopharmacological relevance: Shenmai injection (SMI) is a CFDA-approved and widely prescribed herbal medicine injection in China for treating cardiac dysfunction, especially myocardial ischemia and reperfusion (I/ R) injury. However, despite of its …

Heart performance relies on highly coordinated excitation–contraction (EC) coupling, and defects in this critical process may be exacerbated by additional genetic defects and/or environmental insults to cause eventual heart failure. Here we report a …

Alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM) caused by alcohol consumption manifests mainly as by maladaptive myocardial function, which eventually leads to heart failure and causes serious public health problems. The (pro)renin receptor (PRR) is an important member of …

We and others have reported that calpain-1 was increased in myocardial mitochondria from various animal models of heart disease. This study investigated whether constitutive up-regulation of calpain-1 restricted to mitochondria induced myocar- dial injury …

AIMS: Recent studies reported that cAMP-binding protein Epac1-deficient mice were protected against various forms of cardiac stress, suggesting that pharmacological inhibition of Epac1 could be beneficial for the treatment of cardiac diseases. To test …

RATIONALE Cardiac lymphangiogenesis contributes to the reparative process post-myocardial infarction, but the factors and mechanisms regulating it are not well understood. OBJECTIVE To determine if epicardial-secreted factor AM (adrenomedullin; Adm=gene) …

Neuroblastoma is the most common extra-cranial childhood tumor and current treatment requires surgical resection and multi-drug chemotherapy. Local, perioperative delivery of chemotherapeutics is a promising treatment method for solid tumors that require …

Alterations in perinatal conditions (such as preterm birth) is linked to adult health and disease, in particular, the cardiovascular system. Neddylation, a novel post-translational modification through which the ubiquitin-like protein NEDD8 is conjugated …

Aims: The progression of atherosclerosis is based on the continued recruitment of leukocytes in the vessel wall. The previously described role of CD146 in leukocyte infiltration suggests an involvement for this adhesion molecule in the inflammatory …

Cannabinoid receptor 2 (CB2R) has been reported to play an important role in the regulation of pathogenesis and progression of myocardial infarction (MI). Here we tried to investigate its potential mechanisms. The ratio of infarct size in heart issue was …