Kazumasa Unno

Clinical protocol for angiogenesis by intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells in patients with severe coronary artery disease: TACT-NAGOYA-HEART.

Increase in electrocardiographic R-waves after revascularization in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Changes with age in left ventricular function and volumes at rest and postexercise in postmenopausal women.

Restored cardiac conditions and left ventricular function after parathyroidectomy in a hemodialysis patient. Parathyroidectomy improves cardiac fatty acid metabolism assessed by 123I-BMIPP.

Dobutamine stress testing as a diagnostic tool for evaluation of myocardial contractile reserve in asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic patients with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Relation of functional and morphological changes in mitochondria to myocardial contractile and relaxation reserves in asymptomatic to mildly symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Mechanism of diastolic stiffening of the failing myocardium and its prevention by angiotensin receptor and calcium channel blockers.

Adiponectin acts as a positive indicator of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Evidence for the importance of adiponectin in the cardioprotective effects of pioglitazone.

Impact of a single intracoronary administration of adiponectin on myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury in a pig model.

Dobutamine-induced mechanical alternans is a marker of poor prognosis in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy.

Relation of 99mTc-sestamibi washout with myocardial properties in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Cardiac side population cells: moving toward the center stage in cardiac regeneration.

Abcg2 Regulates Cell Cycle Progression and Asymmetric Division in Mouse Cardiac Side Population Progenitor Cells.

Dissecting the molecular relationship among various cardiogenic progenitor cells.

Increased (99m)Tc-sestamibi washout reflects impaired myocardial contractile and relaxation reserve during dobutamine stress due to mitochondrial dysfunction in dilated cardiomyopathy patients.

Regional cardiac dysfunction and dyssynchrony in a murine model of afterload stress.

Methods to study the proliferation and differentiation of cardiac side population (CSP) cells.