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Functional and morphological skeletal muscle abnormalities correlate with reduced electromyographic activity in chronic heart failureP Christian Schulze
University of Leipzig, Heart Center, Department of Cardiology, Strumpellstrasse 39, 04289 Leipzig, Germany
Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil 11:155-61. 2004..The aim of this study was to investigate morphological, functional and electromyographical parameters of the skeletal muscle in CHF...
Leptin as a new diagnostic tool in chronic heart failureP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139, USA
Clin Chim Acta 362:1-11. 2005..We here review the current knowledge on cardiovascular effects of leptin and discuss its potential as a new therapeutic tool in chronic heart failure...
Elevated serum levels of leptin and soluble leptin receptor in patients with advanced chronic heart failureP Christian Schulze
Department of Cardiology, University of Leipzig, Heart Center, Strumpellstrasse 39, 04289 Leipzig, Germany
Eur J Heart Fail 5:33-40. 2003..This finding indicates that leptin may participate in the catabolic state leading to the development of cardiac cachexia in the course of CHF...
Insulin-like growth factor-1 and muscle wasting in chronic heart failureP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02139, USA
Int J Biochem Cell Biol 37:2023-35. 2005....
Muscular levels of proinflammatory cytokines correlate with a reduced expression of insulinlike growth factor-I in chronic heart failureP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Research, Partners Research Facility, 65 Landsdowne Street, Room 289, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Basic Res Cardiol 98:267-74. 2003....
Markers of extracellular matrix turnover and the development of right ventricular failure after ventricular assist device implantation in patients with advanced heart failureTomoko S Kato
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
J Heart Lung Transplant 31:37-45. 2012..The association between ECM turnover and right ventricular failure (RVF) development after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation in patients with advanced heart failure (HF) was investigated...
Increased levels of retinol binding protein 4 in patients with advanced heart failure correct after hemodynamic improvement through ventricular assist device placementNelson Chavarria
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Circ J 76:2148-52. 2012..Retinol binding protein 4 (RBP4) is an adipose tissue-derived protein with pro-diabetogenic effects. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship of RBP4 in patients with heart failure...
Value of peak exercise oxygen consumption combined with B-type natriuretic peptide levels for optimal timing of cardiac transplantationTomoko S Kato
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Circ Heart Fail 6:6-14. 2013..B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a useful prognostic marker in patients with heart failure...
Cardiac transplantation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathyTomoko S Kato
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Am J Cardiol 110:568-74. 2012..In conclusion, the post-transplant survival of those with HC did not differ from those of the subjects who underwent transplant for other non-HC indications...
Hyperglycemia promotes oxidative stress through inhibition of thioredoxin function by thioredoxin-interacting proteinP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02139, USA
J Biol Chem 279:30369-74. 2004..These studies implicate reduced thioredoxin activity through interaction with Txnip as an important mechanism for vascular oxidative stress in diabetes mellitus...
Hepatic dysfunction and survival after orthotopic heart transplantation: application of the MELD scoring system for outcome predictionAalap Chokshi
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Heart Lung Transplant 31:591-600. 2012..Advanced HF is associated with congestive hepatopathy and progressive functional and ultrastructural changes of the liver. We hypothesized that hepatic dysfunction is associated with impaired clinical outcome after heart transplantation...
Transgenic overexpression of locally acting insulin-like growth factor-1 inhibits ubiquitin-mediated muscle atrophy in chronic left-ventricular dysfunctionP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Circ Res 97:418-26. 2005....
Nitric oxide-dependent suppression of thioredoxin-interacting protein expression enhances thioredoxin activityP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 26:2666-72. 2006..We show the NO-dependent transcriptional regulation of the antioxidative thioredoxin system...
Asymmetric pattern of cerebrovascular lesions in patients after left ventricular assist device implantationTomoko S Kato
Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, 622 West 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
Stroke 43:872-4. 2012..Stroke is a major adverse event after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery. The purpose of this study was to describe differences in hemispheric distribution of stroke in LVAD patients...
Outcome of patients with cardiac sarcoidosis undergoing cardiac transplantation--single-center retrospective analysisHirokazu Akashi
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
J Cardiol 60:407-10. 2012..Recent data from the United Network for Organ Sharing dataset suggest that the clinical outcome of cardiac sarcoidosis patients is equivalent or even better than that of the general HTx population...
Ventricular assist device implantation corrects myocardial lipotoxicity, reverses insulin resistance, and normalizes cardiac metabolism in patients with advanced heart failureAalap Chokshi
Columbia University Medical Center, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, 622 W 168th St, PH 10, Room 203, New York, NY 10032, USA
Circulation 125:2844-53. 2012..We hypothesized that cardiac accumulation of toxic lipid intermediates inhibits insulin signaling in advanced heart failure and that mechanical unloading of the failing myocardium corrects impaired cardiac metabolism...
Effects of continuous-flow versus pulsatile-flow left ventricular assist devices on myocardial unloading and remodelingTomoko S Kato
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Circ Heart Fail 4:546-53. 2011..We analyzed the effects of ventricular decompression by continuous-flow versus pulsatile-flow LVADs on myocardial structure and function in this population...
Targeted deletion of thioredoxin-interacting protein regulates cardiac dysfunction in response to pressure overloadJun Yoshioka
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Circ Res 101:1328-38. 2007..These results support the emerging concept that the function of Txnip is not as a simple thioredoxin inhibitor but as a metabolic control protein...
Oxidative stress and thioredoxin-interacting protein promote intravasation of melanoma cellsGeorge C Cheng
Joint Center for Radiation Therapy, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Exp Cell Res 300:297-307. 2004....
Proinflammatory cytokines and skeletal muscleUlrike Späte
The Forsyth Institute, Department of Cytokine Biology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 7:265-9. 2004..In addition, the underlying molecular signaling pathways, their transcriptional regulation, and the cellular systems contributing to enhanced muscular protein breakdown are discussed...
Expression of the irisin precursor FNDC5 in skeletal muscle correlates with aerobic exercise performance in patients with heart failureStewart H Lecker
Division of Nephrology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA
Circ Heart Fail 5:812-8. 2012....
Supplementation of glutamine and omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as a novel therapeutic intervention targeting metabolic dysfunction and exercise intolerance in patients with heart failureKhurram Shahzad
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University MedicalCenter, USA
Curr Clin Pharmacol 6:288-94. 2011..These two compounds are of particular interest due to their synergistic role on oxidative metabolism, lipolysis and inflammation...
Episodes of acute heart failure syndrome are associated with increased levels of troponin and extracellular matrix markersAndreia Biolo
Department of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Circ Heart Fail 3:44-50. 2010..We tested the hypothesis that episodes of acute HF syndrome (AHFS) are associated with transient increases in markers of myocyte injury and ECM turnover beyond those observed in chronic stable HF...
Biomechanically induced gene iex-1 inhibits vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and neointima formationP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02139, USA
Circ Res 93:1210-7. 2003..These findings suggest that the induction of iex-1 represents a novel negative biomechanical feedback mechanism limiting the vascular response to injury...
PET imaging may provide a novel biomarker and understanding of right ventricular dysfunction in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertensionSabahat Bokhari
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Imaging 4:641-7. 2011..The objective is to develop PET metabolic imaging of the RV as a noninvasive tool in patients with PAH...
Dynamics of bone turnover markers in patients with heart failure and following haemodynamic improvement through ventricular assist device implantationChristina Wu
Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Eur J Heart Fail 14:1356-65. 2012..We hypothesized that mechanical unloading through implantation of a ventricular assist device (VAD) with subsequent haemodynamic improvement would correct abnormal bone metabolism in patients with advanced HF...
Pre-operative and post-operative risk factors associated with neurologic complications in patients with advanced heart failure supported by a left ventricular assist deviceTomoko S Kato
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
J Heart Lung Transplant 31:1-8. 2012..Neurologic complications (NCs) are the major adverse events after left ventricular assist device (LVAD) surgery. Pre-operative and post-operative factors associated with NCs in patients with LVADs were investigated...
Lamin A/C deficiency causes defective nuclear mechanics and mechanotransductionJan Lammerding
Biological Engineering Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
J Clin Invest 113:370-8. 2004..These findings suggest that the tissue-specific effects of lamin A/C mutations observed in the laminopathies may arise from varying degrees of impaired nuclear mechanics and transcriptional activation...
Metabolism of the right ventricle and the response to hypertrophy and failureS Elissa Altin
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York 10032, USA
Prog Cardiovasc Dis 55:229-33. 2012....
Myocardial infarction triggers chronic cardiac autoimmunity in type 1 diabetesRaju V S R K Gottumukkala
Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Sci Transl Med 4:138ra80. 2012..Our findings suggest that PIA may contribute to worsened post-MI outcomes in T1D and highlight a role for antigen-specific immunointervention to selectively block this pathway...
Lipid metabolism and toxicity in the heartIra J Goldberg
Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Cell Metab 15:805-12. 2012..Finally, the known relationships between heart lipid metabolism and dysfunction in humans will be summarized...
Epicardial fat volume in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunctionTuba Khawaja
Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA
Am J Cardiol 108:397-401. 2011..In conclusion, our data demonstrate a stepwise decrease in EFV in patients with impaired cardiac function...
Abnormal nuclear shape and impaired mechanotransduction in emerin-deficient cellsJan Lammerding
Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Cell Biol 170:781-91. 2005....
Oxidative stress and atherosclerosisP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Research, Partners Research Facility, 65 Landsdowne Street, Room 279, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Curr Atheroscler Rep 7:242-8. 2005..Further, it contributes to mechanisms of disease progression such as lipid oxidation and vascular remodeling. This article reviews the role of reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress in atherosclerosis...
Thioredoxin-interacting protein controls cardiac hypertrophy through regulation of thioredoxin activityJun Yoshioka
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Circulation 109:2581-6. 2004..Because thioredoxin is a major intracellular antioxidant and can also regulate redox-dependent transcription, we explored the role of thioredoxin activity in mechanically overloaded cardiomyocytes in vitro and in vivo...
Proatherogenic pathways leading to vascular calcificationMichael J Mazzini
Department of Cardiology, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118-2526, USA
Eur J Radiol 57:384-9. 2006..We here review the current knowledge on molecular pathways of vascular calcification and their relevance for the progression of cardiovascular disease...
Ascorbic acid enhances differentiation of embryonic stem cells into cardiac myocytesTomosaburo Takahashi
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Circulation 107:1912-6. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Ascorbic acid induces cardiac differentiation in ES cells. This study demonstrates the potential for chemically modifying the cardiac differentiation program of ES cells...
Vitamin D3-upregulated protein-1 (VDUP-1) regulates redox-dependent vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation through interaction with thioredoxinP Christian Schulze
Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA
Circ Res 91:689-95. 2002..These data also demonstrate that activation of the reductase TRX plays a pivotal role in the redox-dependent proliferation of SMCs...
Macrophage-mediated cardiac fibrosisP Christian Schulze
Circ Res 95:552-3. 2004
Implications of chronic heart failure on peripheral vasculature and skeletal muscle before and after exercise trainingBrian D Duscha
Duke University Medical Center, Box 3022, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Heart Fail Rev 13:21-37. 2008..We also identify gaps in the literature that may constitute priorities for further investigation...
TXNIP regulates peripheral glucose metabolism in humansHemang Parikh
Department of Clinical Sciences, Diabetes and Endocrinology, Lund University, University Hospital Malmo, Malmo, Sweden
PLoS Med 4:e158. 2007..Impaired glucose uptake in skeletal muscle is believed to be one of the earliest features in the natural history of T2DM, although underlying mechanisms remain obscure...
Periprocedural kinetics in serum levels of cytokines and adhesion molecules in elective PTCA and stent implantation: impact on restenosisP Christian Schulze
Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol 22:2105-7. 2002
