abstract background and objective: it has been shown that oxidative stress increases in diabetes and it has an important role in its development and subsequent complications. thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of acute resistance exercise on oxidative stress in skeletal muscle and cardiac tissues of streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. materials and methods: twenty male ...

The heterogeneous tissues of the cardiac pacemaking and conduction system are responsible for setting, maintaining and coordinating the rhythmic pumping of the heart (reviewed Thompson et al., 1995; Moorman et al., 1998; Gourdie et al., 1999). Anomalous development of this specialized network has been implicated in pediatric arrhythmia and other congenital abnormalities of cardiac activation (S...

Magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM) is a fast and non-destructive imaging technique that can analyze the three-dimensional structure of the embryonic heart both qualitatively and quantitatively. Intravascular contrast agents have been developed to accentuate the anatomy of cardiac chambers, the cardiac outflow tract, and major arteries and veins throughout the embryonic body. MRM generates non-...

The cardiac conduction system (CCS) is a specialized tissue network that initiates and maintains a rhythmic heartbeat. The CCS consists of several functional subcomponents responsible for producing a pacemaking impulse and distributing action potentials across the heart in a coordinated manner. The formation of the distinct subcomponents of the CCS occurs within a precise temporal and spatial f...

The adult human heart is an ideal target for regenerative intervention since it does not functionally restore itself after injury yet has a modest regenerative capacity that could be enhanced by innovative therapies. Adult cardiac cells with regenerative potential share gene expression signatures with early fetal progenitors that give rise to multiple cardiac cell types, suggesting that the evo...

Commitment of mesodermal cells to the cardiac lineage is a very early event that occurs during gastrulation, and differentiation of cardiac muscle cells begins in the presomite stage prior to formation of the beating heart tube. However, the molecular events, including gene products that are required for differentiation of cardiac muscle cells, remain essentially unknown. GATA-4 is a recently c...

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Production and transfer of metabolites like ATP and phosphocreatine within cardiomyocytes is crucial for the robust availability of mechanical work. In mammalian cardiomyocytes,mitochondria, themain suppliers of usable chemical energy in the form of ATP, are situated adjacent to both the ATPases near the mechanical apparatus, and the sarco(endo)plasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA) calcium pump...

Calreticulin is a ubiquitous Ca2+ binding protein, located in the endoplasmic reticulum lumen, which has been implicated in many diverse functions including: regulation of intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis, chaperone activity, steroid-mediated gene regulation, and cell adhesion. To understand the physiological function of calreticulin we used gene targeting to create a knockout mouse for calreticu...

The transcriptional regulation of cardiovascular development requires precise spatiotemporal control of gene expression, and heterozygous mutations of transcription factors have frequently been implicated in human cardiovascular malformations. A novel mechanism involving post-transcriptional regulation by small, noncoding microRNAs (miRNAs) has emerged as a central regulator of many cardiogenic...