Stimulation at two ventricular sites during basic rhythm as a means of preventing the induction of ventricular arrhythmias in the postinfarction heart was investigated. Isochronal maps of ventricular epicardial activation from dogs were analyzed 4 days after ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery. Activation patterns were obtained by use of a computerized data acquisition syst...

Neural stem cells (NSCs, B1 cells) are retained in the walls of the adult lateral ventricles but, unlike embryonic NSCs, are displaced from the ventricular zone (VZ) into the subventricular zone (SVZ) by ependymal cells. Apical and basal compartments, which in embryonic NSCs play essential roles in self-renewal and differentiation, are not evident in adult NSCs. Here we show that SVZ B1 cells i...

AIMS Invaginations of the cellular membrane called t-tubules are essential for maintaining efficient excitation-contraction coupling in ventricular cardiomyocytes. Disruption of t-tubule structure during heart failure has been linked to dyssynchronous, slowed Ca(2+) release and reduced power of the heartbeat. The underlying mechanism is, however, unknown. We presently investigated whether eleva...

Neurogenesis involves cell proliferation, cell cycle arrest, differentiation, migration and the natural developmental death of the neural precursors. These processes are highly co-ordinated and governed by cell-cycle genes and neural transcription factors. Zn plays a crucial role as a functional and structural component of enzymes and transcription factors and components of the intracellular si...

There is evidence that oligodendrocytes in the spinal cord are derived from a restricted part of the ventricular zone near the floor plate. An alternative view is that oligodendrocytes are generated from all parts of the ventricular zone. We reinvestigated glial origins by constructing chick-quail chimeras in which dorsal or ventral segments of the embryonic chick neural tube were replaced with...

pectedly both are glial cell types: ependymal cells (Jo-hansson et al., 1999) and SVZ astrocytes (Doetsch et al., 1999 [this issue of Cell]). Ependymal cells are highly differentiated glial cells that line the lumenal surface of the adult ventricular zone. They have multiple beating The Adult Brain Contains Multipotential Neural Stem Cells cilia whose function was thought to push around spinal ...

objective: stroke is most important cause of death and disability in adults. the hippocampal ca1 and sub-ventricular zone neurons are vulnerable to ischemia that can impair memory and learning functions. although neurogenesis normally occurs in the dentate gyrus (dg) of the hippocampus and sub-ventricular zone (svz) following brain damage, this response is unable to compensate for severely dama...

In the film classic Casablanca, Claude Raines (playing the wry, slightly corrupt Chief Inspector of Police) exclaimed, " I am shocked " upon hearing of illicit behavior by agents within his jurisdiction. After years of evaluating the effects of many known mitogens, anti-mitogens, and other bona fide signaling molecules on neural precursor proliferation (reviewed by McConnell, 1991; Kilpatrick e...

An isotropic, initially spherical, membrane model of the infarcted ventricle satisfactorily predicts ventricular function in the infarcted heart when compared to clinical information and available ventricular models of higher complexity. Computations based on finite element solutions of this membrane model yield end-diastolic and end-systolic pressure-volume curves, from which ventricular funct...