Douglas B. Cowan

Levels of soluble adhesion molecules are elevated in the cerebrospinal fluid of children with moyamoya syndrome.

Selective opening of mitochondrial ATP-sensitive potassium channels during surgically induced myocardial ischemia decreases necrosis and apoptosis.

The characterization and purification of a human transcription factor modulating the glutathione peroxidase gene in response to oxygen tension.

Protective effects of protein kinase C during myocardial ischemia require activation of phosphatidyl-inositol specific phospholipase C.

Differential effects of amrinone and milrinone upon myocardial inflammatory signaling.

Dopamine treatment of postischemic contractile dysfunction rapidly induces calcium-dependent pro-apoptotic signaling.

Diazoxide amelioration of myocardial injury and mitochondrial damage during cardiac surgery.

Postnatal increase in insulin-sensitive glucose transporter expression is associated with improved recovery of postischemic myocardial function.

Hypoxia and stretch regulate intercellular communication in vascular smooth muscle cells through reactive oxygen species formation.

Endotoxemia and cardiac function.

Promoting angiogenesis protects severely hypertrophied hearts from ischemic injury.

Cyclosporin A but not FK-506 protects against dopamine-induced apoptosis in the stunned heart.

Chemical modulation of receptor signaling inhibits regenerative angiogenesis in adult zebrafish.

Cardiac conduction through engineered tissue.

A paradigm shift in cardiac pacing therapy?

Reduction and redistribution of gap and adherens junction proteins after ischemia and reperfusion.

Dopamine induces postischemic cardiomyocyte apoptosis in vivo: an effect ameliorated by propofol.

C6ORF32 is upregulated during muscle cell differentiation and induces the formation of cellular filopodia.

Cardiogenesis and the regulation of cardiac-specific gene expression.

Injection of isolated mitochondria during early reperfusion for cardioprotection.

Myocardial hypertrophy overrides the angiogenic response to hypoxia.

Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis of global ischemia and cardioprotection in the rabbit heart.

Myocyte apoptosis occurs early during the development of pressure-overload hypertrophy in infant myocardium.

Calcium sensitisation impairs diastolic relaxation in post-ischaemic myocardium: implications for the use of Ca(2+) sensitising inotropes after cardiac surgery.

Differential expression of collagen type V and XI alpha-1 in human ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms.

Development of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction with preservation of ejection fraction during progression of infant right ventricular hypertrophy.

Atrial remodeling after the Fontan operation.

Development of an ovine model of pediatric complete heart block.

Ultrarapid purification of collagen type I for tissue engineering applications.