Emotional memories are vivid and lasting but not necessarily accurate. Under some conditions, emotion even increases people’s susceptibility to false memories. This review addresses when and why emotion leaves people vulnerable to misremembering events. Recent research suggests that pregoal emotions—those experienced before goal attainment or failure (e.g., hope, fear)—narrow the scope of peopl...

To determine whether cardiac transplant rejection can be detected noninvasively with indium-111 (111In)-labeled lymphocytes, we studied 11 dogs with thoracic heterotopic cardiac transplants without immunosuppression and five dogs with transplants treated with cyclosporine (10 mg/kg/day) and prednisone (1 mg/kg/day). All were evaluated sequentially with gamma scintigraphy after administration of...

BACKGROUND DNA methylation is a major epigenetic mechanism altering gene expression in development and disease. However, its role in the regulation of gene expression during heart development is incompletely understood. The aim of this study is to reveal DNA methylation in mouse embryonic hearts and its role in regulating gene expression during heart development. METHODS AND RESULTS We perfor...

Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion, including cardioplegic arrest (CA), has been associated with cardiac apoptosis induction. However, the time course of apoptosis activation and the trigger mechanisms are still unclear. Because apoptosis inhibition may represent a novel therapeutic strategy for long-term myocardial preservation, we sought to investigate the time course of apoptosis signal-pathway...

The responses of isolated cat papillary muscles and left atrial strips to a variety of procedures were classified systematically according to the induced changes in peak tension (T), mean rate of tension development (AT/At), and time to peak tension (TTP). Increasing temperature from 25° to 37°C augmented AT/At but reduced TTP reciprocally so that T remained constant. Increased frequency of con...

Exercise induces expression of the protective heat shock protein, HSP70, in striated muscle. To characterize the relationship between induction of this protein and exercise intensity in muscles exhibiting different recruitment patterns, male Sprague-Dawley rats were assigned to a sedentary control or one of seven exercise groups for which treadmill running speed varied between 15 and 33 m/min (...

Since its inception by Langendorff(1), the isolated perfused heart remains a prominent tool for studying cardiac physiology(2). However, it is not well-suited for studies of cardiac metabolism, which require the heart to perform work within the context of physiologic preload and afterload pressures. Neely introduced modifications to the Langendorff technique to establish appropriate left ventri...

Myoglobin, an intracellular iron containing protein that binds oxygen reversibly, has been shown in model systems to facilitate the diffusion of oxygen and thereby maintain the mechanical function of exercising canine skeletal muscle and of hypoxic benthic fish hearts. Since no such role has yet been established for mammalian cardiac muscle small diameter (less than or equal to 0.70 mm) isolate...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to detect the acetylcarnitine resonance line at 2.13 ppm in the human vastus lateralis and soleus muscles, assess T1 and T2 relaxation times, and investigate the diurnal and exercise-related changes in absolute concentration noninvasively, using proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy at 7 T. MATERIALS AND METHODS All measurements were performed on a 7 T ...