Connective tissue growth factor and cardiac diastolic dysfunction: human data from the Taiwan Diastolic Heart Failure Registry and molecular basis by cellular and animal models

Targeting Endoglin, an Auxiliary Transforming Growth Factor β Coreceptor, to Prevent Fibrosis and Heart Failure

(2012) Ivor J. Benjamin   CIRCULATION

Clinical significance of inflammatory and fibrogenic cytokines in diabetic nephropathy

(2012) Hala O. El Mesallamy et al.   CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

FT011, a new anti-fibrotic drug, attenuates fibrosis and chronic heart failure in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy

(2012) Yuan Zhang et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Heart Failure-Inducible Gene Therapy Targeting Protein Phosphatase 1 Prevents Progressive Left Ventricular Remodeling

(2012) Yosuke Miyazaki et al.   PLoS One

Myocardial Connective Tissue Growth Factor (CCN2/CTGF) Attenuates Left Ventricular Remodeling after Myocardial Infarction

(2012) Jørgen Gravning et al.   PLoS One

Mechanical stretch induces the apoptosis regulator PUMA in vascular smooth muscle cells

(2011) Wen-Pin Cheng et al.   CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH

Plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor-α and interleukin-6 are associated with diastolic heart failure through downregulation of sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase

(2011) Cho-Kai Wu et al.   CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE

Additive value of severe diastolic dysfunction and contractile reserve in the identification of responders to cardiac resynchronization therapy

(2011) Quirino Ciampi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Differential association of proinflammatory cytokines with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in subjects with and without continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis

(2011) J.-K. Lee et al.   NUTRITION METABOLISM AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES

Mechanisms of novel cardioprotective functions of CCN2/CTGF in myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury

(2010) M. Shakil Ahmed et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-HEART AND CIRCULATORY PHYSIOLOGY

Equilibrium Contrast Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for the Measurement of Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis

(2010) Andrew S. Flett et al.   CIRCULATION

Doppler Echocardiography Yields Dubious Estimates of Left Ventricular Diastolic Pressures

(2009) Carsten Tschöpe et al.   CIRCULATION

Cardiac Dysfunction Assessed by Echocardiographic Tissue Doppler Imaging Is an Independent Predictor of Mortality in the General Population

(2009) Rasmus Mogelvang et al.   CIRCULATION

Role of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system and inflammatory processes in the development and progression of diastolic dysfunction

(2009) Sebastiano Sciarretta et al.   CLINICAL SCIENCE

Recommendations for the Evaluation of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function by Echocardiography

(2009) S. F. Nagueh et al.   European Journal of Echocardiography

Susceptibility to liver fibrosis in mice expressing a connective tissue growth factor transgene in hepatocytes

(2009) ZhenYue Tong et al.   HEPATOLOGY

Genetic polymorphisms of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor gene and diastolic heart failure

(2009) Cho-Kai Wu et al.   JOURNAL OF HYPERTENSION

Demonstrating the pharmacogenetic effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors on long-term prognosis of diastolic heart failure

(2009) C-K Wu et al.   PHARMACOGENOMICS JOURNAL

miR-133 and miR-30 Regulate Connective Tissue Growth Factor

(2008) Rudy F. Duisters et al.   CIRCULATION RESEARCH

Regulation and function of connective tissue growth factor/CCN2 in tissue repair, scarring and fibrosis

(2008) Xu Shi-Wen et al.   CYTOKINE & GROWTH FACTOR REVIEWS

Plasma connective tissue growth factor is a novel potential biomarker of cardiac dysfunction in patients with chronic heart failure

(2008) Norimichi Koitabashi et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HEART FAILURE

Membrane translocation of small GTPase Rac1 and activation of STAT1 and STAT3 in pacing-induced sustained atrial fibrillation

(2008) Chia-Ti Tsai et al.   HEART RHYTHM

Evaluation of Diffuse Myocardial Fibrosis in Heart Failure With Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Contrast-Enhanced T1 Mapping

(2008) Leah Iles et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY

Irbesartan in Patients with Heart Failure and Preserved Ejection Fraction

(2008) Barry M. Massie et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE