Few studies have investigated factors responsible for the O2 demand/supply balance in the right ventricle. Resting right coronary blood flow is lower than left coronary blood flow, which is… (More)
Hypoxia is one of the most frequently encountered stresses in health and disease. The duration, frequency, and severity of hypoxic episodes are critical factors determining whether hypoxia is… (More)
This investigation examined cardiac protective effects of normobaric intermittent hypoxia training. Six dogs underwent intermittent hypoxic training for 20 consecutive days in a normobaric chamber… (More)
This is the first investigation of right ventricular (RV) myocardial oxygen supply/demand balance in a conscious animal. A novel technique developed in our laboratory was used to collect right… (More)
We assessed transmurally the coronary autoregulatory response to elevated perfusion pressure in 85 anesthetized, open-chest dogs. Steady state and transient flow distributions were measured with 9 ±… (More)
Right coronary autoregulation was assessed in 14 open-chest, anesthetized dogs. In Group 1 (n = 5), the left common and right coronary arteries were cannulated and perfused independently. As coronary… (More)
This study tested whether diabetes mellitus impairs coronary blood flow control sufficiently to alter the balance between myocardial oxygen delivery and metabolism. Dogs (n = 7) were instrumented… (More)
To test the role of inorganic phosphate (Pi) in downregulation of myocardial contractile force at the onset of ischemia, Pi of rat hearts was determined with 31P nuclear magnetic resonance… (More)
Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a hypoxia-inducible factor expressed into several molecular forms in mammalian tissues of which VEGF120, VEGF164, and VEGF188 are the major isoforms.… (More)
Physiological adaptations to intermittent hypoxia (IH) conditioning are based on the cumulative effect of repeated IH exposures. The present study sought to test the hypothesis that acute IH… (More)