Acute arrhythmogenesis after myocardial infarction in normotensive rats: influence of high salt intakeMarcelo Perim Baldo
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, 29042 755 Vitória, ES, Brazil
Food Chem Toxicol 50:473-7. 2012
..9%; MI-Salt-A: 42.1%). High salt intake was associated with increased post-infarct arrhythmias; however, this effect was unrelated to ventricular hypertrophy...
Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor for ischemic heart failure: should we use it?Marcelo Perim Baldo
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Av Marechal Campos, 1468, Vitoria, ES, 29042 755, Brazil
Heart Fail Rev 15:613-23. 2010
..Thus, we sought to review the effects of G-CSF after an ischemic insult and on the progression of heart failure in animals and humans...
Long-term use of low-dose spironolactone in spontaneously hypertensive rats: effects on left ventricular hypertrophy and stiffnessMarcelo P Baldo
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Av Marechal Campos, 1468, Maruipe 29042 755 Vitoria, ES, Brazil
Pharmacol Rep 63:975-82. 2011
..058; SHR-Spiro: 0.650 ± 0.023 mmHg/ml; p < 0.05). Our results show that long-term spironolactone treatment initiated at the early stage of hypertension development reduces left ventricular hypertrophy and wall stiffness in SHRs...
Effects of spironolactone in spontaneously hypertensive adult rats subjected to high salt intakeMarcelo Perim Baldo
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, ES, Brazil
Clinics (Sao Paulo) 66:477-82. 2011
..To evaluate the effect of spironolactone on ventricular stiffness in spontaneously hypertensive adult rats subjected to high salt intake...
The antiapoptotic effect of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor reduces infarct size and prevents heart failure development in ratsMarcelo Perim Baldo
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil
Cell Physiol Biochem 28:33-40. 2011
..Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) reduces myocardial injury and improves cardiac function after myocardial infarction (MI). We investigated the early alterations provided by G-CSF and the chronic repercussions in infarcted rats...
Association of waist-stature ratio with hypertension and metabolic syndrome: population-based studySérgio Lamêgo Rodrigues
Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Vitoria, ES, Brasil
Arq Bras Cardiol 95:186-91. 2010
..In a previous study, waist-to-stature ratio (WSR) was identified as the best obesity index associated with left ventricular hypertrophy...
Spectral analysis of heart rate variability with the autoregressive method: what model order to choose?Eduardo Miranda Dantas
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Av Marechal Campos, Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Comput Biol Med 42:164-70. 2012
..05. The results showed that the AR method using orders from 9 to 25 produces normalized spectral parameters statistically similar and, hence, the algorithms commonly employed to estimate optimum order are not mandatory in this case...
Salt excretion in normotensive individuals with metabolic syndrome: a population-based studySérgio Lamêgo Rodrigues
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil
Hypertens Res 32:906-10. 2009
..No differences were found in urinary sodium excretion in normotensive individuals, regardless of the presence of MS. Therefore, it seems that high sodium intake is not an MS predictor per se as suggested earlier...
Kinetics of the electrocardiographic changes after permanent coronary occlusion in rats: Relationship with infarct sizeEnildo Broetto Pimentel
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, ES, Brazil
Pathophysiology 19:277-81. 2012
..In conclusion, ECG can be used as a reliable tool to identify MI and can be used to predict the infarct size as earlier as 1 day after LCA ligation in rats...
Body weight loss after myocardial infarction in rats as a marker of early heart failure developmentThaís de Oliveira Faria
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Brazil
Arch Med Res 42:274-80. 2011
..We evaluated the use of body weight (BW) loss soon after acute myocardial infarction (MI) in rats as a marker of acute heart failure (HF)...
Acute effects of granulocyte colony-stimulating factor on early ventricular arrhythmias after coronary occlusion in ratsMarcelo Perim Baldo
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Vitoria, ES, Brazil
J Pharmacol Pharmacother 3:39-42. 2012
..To evaluate the acute effects of colony-stimulating factor (G-CSF) on ventricular arrhythmias after coronary occlusion in rats...
Short-term in vivo inhibition of nitric oxide synthase with L-NAME influences the contractile function of single left ventricular myocytes in ratsWellington Lunz
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espírito Santo UFES, Av Marechal Campos, Vitoria, ES, Brazil
Can J Physiol Pharmacol 89:305-10. 2011
..In conclusion, short-term NOS inhibition determines an increased expression of Ca(2+) regulatory proteins, which contributes to improving cardiomyocyte contractile function, preserving left ventricular function...
Correlation between the creatinine clearance in the urine collected during 24 hours and 12 hoursAmilcar Bernardo Tomé da Silva
Department of Physiological Sciences Center of Health Sciences CCS Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitoria, ES, Brazil
J Bras Nefrol 32:165-72. 2010
..Creatinine concentration in plasma has been used to evaluate renal function. However, the endogenous creatinine clearance (CrCl) is more sensitive to this goal...
Anthropometric measures of increased central and overall adiposity in association with echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophySérgio Lamêgo Rodrigues
Department of Physiological Sciences, Federal University of Espirito Santo, Maruípe, 29042 751 Vitória, Espirito Santo, Brazil
Hypertens Res 33:83-7. 2010
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