Victor J. Dzau

A cone-plate apparatus for the in vitro biochemical and molecular analysis of the effect of shear stress on adherent cells (1995)

Malek, Adel M., Ahlquist, Richard, Gibbons, Gary H., Dzau, Victor J., Izumo, Seigo

Living cells are constantly exposed to a variety of complex mechanical stimuli which are though to be critical in the control of tissue structure and function. Endothelial and smooth muscle cells in...

Overexpression of angiotensin AT1 receptor transgene in the mouse myocardium produces a lethal phenotype associated with myocyte hyperplasia and heart block

Hein, Lutz, Stevens, Mary E., Barsh, Gregory S., Pratt, Richard E., Kobilka, Brian K., Dzau, Victor J.

Previous studies have suggested that angiotensin II (Ang II) modulates cardiac contractility, rhythm, metabolism, and structure. However, it is unclear whether the cardiac effects are due to direct...

Pressure-mediated oligonucleotide transfection of rat and human cardiovascular tissues

Mann, Michael J., Gibbons, Gary H., Hutchinson, Howard, Poston, Robert S., Hoyt, E. Grant, Robbins, Robert C., ...

The application of gene therapy to human disease is currently restricted by the relatively low efficiency and potential hazards of methods of oligonucleotide or gene delivery. Antisense or...

LXRα functions as a cAMP-responsive transcriptional regulator of gene expression

Tamura, Kouichi, Chen, Yuqing E., Horiuchi, Masatsugu, Chen, Qin, Daviet, Laurent, Yang, Zhiyong, ...

LXRα is a member of a nuclear receptor superfamily that regulates transcription. LXRα forms a heterodimer with RXRα, another member of this family, to regulate the expression of cholesterol...

The Angiotensin II Type I Receptor-associated Protein, ATRAP, Is a Transmembrane Protein and a Modulator of Angiotensin II Signaling

Lopez-Ilasaca, Marco, Liu, Xiushi, Tamura, Koichi, Dzau, Victor J.

Our group identified angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor-associated protein (ATRAP) in a yeast two-hybrid screen for proteins that bind to the carboxyl-terminal cytoplasmic domain of the AT1. In...

High-Throughput Genotyping with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Ranade, Koustubh, Chang, Mau-Song, Ting, Chih-Tai, Pei, Dee, Hsiao, Chin-Fu, Olivier, Michael, ...

To make large-scale association studies a reality, automated high-throughput methods for genotyping with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are needed. We describe PCR conditions that permit the...

Expression of the AT2 receptor developmentally programs extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity and influences fetal vascular growth

Akishita, Masahiro, Ito, Masaaki, Lehtonen, Jukka Y.A., Daviet, Laurent, Dzau, Victor J., Horiuchi, Masatsugu

Angiotensin II type 2 (AT2) receptor is abundantly expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) of the fetal vasculature during late gestation (embryonic day 15–20), during which the blood...

A novel role for the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 in angiotensin II–stimulated vascular smooth muscle cell hypertrophy

Braun-Dullaeus, Ruediger C., Mann, Michael J., Ziegler, Almut, Von Der Leyen, Heiko E., Dzau, Victor J.

Angiotensin II (Ang II) has been shown to stimulate either hypertrophy or hyperplasia. We postulated that the differential response of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to Ang II is mediated by...

Hypoxia-regulated therapeutic gene as a preemptive treatment strategy against ischemia/reperfusion tissue injury

Pachori, Alok S., Melo, Luis G., Hart, Melanie L., Noiseux, Nicholas, Zhang, Lunan, Morello, Fulvio, ...

Ischemia and reperfusion represent major mechanisms of tissue injury and organ failure. The timing of administration and the duration of action limit current treatment approaches using...

Liver X receptors α and β regulate renin expression in vivo

Morello, Fulvio, De Boer, Rudolf A., Steffensen, Knut R., Gnecchi, Massimiliano, Chisholm, Jeffrey W., Boomsma, Frans, ...

The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system controls blood pressure and salt-volume homeostasis. Renin, which is the first enzymatic step of the cascade, is critically regulated at the transcriptional...

Searching for transcriptional regulators of Ang II–induced vascular pathology

Dzau, Victor J., Lopez-Ilasaca, Marco

Ang II plays a key role in cardiovascular regulation and participates in vascular pathobiology, including inflammation and remodeling. Whether these tissue effects are mediated by direct Ang II...

Overexpression of angiotensin AT1 receptor transgene in the mouse myocardium produces a lethal phenotype associated with myocyte hyperplasia and heart block

Hein, Lutz, Stevens, Mary E., Barsh, Gregory S., Pratt, Richard E., Kobilka, Brian K., Dzau, Victor J.

Previous studies have suggested that angiotensin II (Ang II) modulates cardiac contractility, rhythm, metabolism, and structure. However, it is unclear whether the cardiac effects are due to direct...

Pressure-mediated oligonucleotide transfection of rat and human cardiovascular tissues

Mann, Michael J., Gibbons, Gary H., Hutchinson, Howard, Poston, Robert S., Hoyt, E. Grant, Robbins, Robert C., ...

The application of gene therapy to human disease is currently restricted by the relatively low efficiency and potential hazards of methods of oligonucleotide or gene delivery. Antisense or...

LXRα functions as a cAMP-responsive transcriptional regulator of gene expression

Tamura, Kouichi, Chen, Yuqing E., Horiuchi, Masatsugu, Chen, Qin, Daviet, Laurent, Yang, Zhiyong, ...

LXRα is a member of a nuclear receptor superfamily that regulates transcription. LXRα forms a heterodimer with RXRα, another member of this family, to regulate the expression of cholesterol...

The Angiotensin II Type I Receptor-associated Protein, ATRAP, Is a Transmembrane Protein and a Modulator of Angiotensin II Signaling

Lopez-Ilasaca, Marco, Liu, Xiushi, Tamura, Koichi, Dzau, Victor J.

Our group identified angiotensin II type 1 (AT1) receptor-associated protein (ATRAP) in a yeast two-hybrid screen for proteins that bind to the carboxyl-terminal cytoplasmic domain of the AT1. In...

High-Throughput Genotyping with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Ranade, Koustubh, Chang, Mau-Song, Ting, Chih-Tai, Pei, Dee, Hsiao, Chin-Fu, Olivier, Michael, ...

To make large-scale association studies a reality, automated high-throughput methods for genotyping with single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are needed. We describe PCR conditions that permit the...

Expression of the AT2 receptor developmentally programs extracellular signal-regulated kinase activity and influences fetal vascular growth

Akishita, Masahiro, Ito, Masaaki, Lehtonen, Jukka Y.A., Daviet, Laurent, Dzau, Victor J., Horiuchi, Masatsugu

Angiotensin II type 2 (AT2) receptor is abundantly expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) of the fetal vasculature during late gestation (embryonic day 15–20), during which the blood...

A novel role for the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor p27Kip1 in angiotensin II–stimulated vascular smooth muscle cell hypertrophy

Braun-Dullaeus, Ruediger C., Mann, Michael J., Ziegler, Almut, Von Der Leyen, Heiko E., Dzau, Victor J.

Angiotensin II (Ang II) has been shown to stimulate either hypertrophy or hyperplasia. We postulated that the differential response of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to Ang II is mediated by...

Hypoxia-regulated therapeutic gene as a preemptive treatment strategy against ischemia/reperfusion tissue injury

Pachori, Alok S., Melo, Luis G., Hart, Melanie L., Noiseux, Nicholas, Zhang, Lunan, Morello, Fulvio, ...

Ischemia and reperfusion represent major mechanisms of tissue injury and organ failure. The timing of administration and the duration of action limit current treatment approaches using...

Liver X receptors α and β regulate renin expression in vivo

Morello, Fulvio, De Boer, Rudolf A., Steffensen, Knut R., Gnecchi, Massimiliano, Chisholm, Jeffrey W., Boomsma, Frans, ...

The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system controls blood pressure and salt-volume homeostasis. Renin, which is the first enzymatic step of the cascade, is critically regulated at the transcriptional...

Searching for transcriptional regulators of Ang II–induced vascular pathology

Dzau, Victor J., Lopez-Ilasaca, Marco

Ang II plays a key role in cardiovascular regulation and participates in vascular pathobiology, including inflammation and remodeling. Whether these tissue effects are mediated by direct Ang II...

Cardiac Gene Expression Profiling Provides Evidence for Cytokinopathy as a Molecular Mechanism in Chagas’ Disease Cardiomyopathy

Cunha-Neto, Edecio, Dzau, Victor J., Allen, Paul D., Stamatiou, Dimitri, Benvenutti, Luiz, Higuchi, M. Lourdes, ...

Chronic Chagas’ disease cardiomyopathy is a leading cause of congestive heart failure in Latin America, affecting more than 3 million people. Chagas’ cardiomyopathy is more aggressive than other...

Global Gene Expression Profiling of End-Stage Dilated Cardiomyopathy Using a Human Cardiovascular-Based cDNA Microarray

Barrans, J. David, Allen, Paul D., Stamatiou, Dimitrios, Dzau, Victor J., Liew, Choong-Chin

To obtain a genomic portrait of heart failure derived from end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), we explored expression analysis using the CardioChip, a nonredundant 10,848-element human...

Mesenchymal Stem Cells Use Integrin β1 Not CXC Chemokine Receptor 4 for Myocardial Migration and Engraftment

Ip, James E., Wu, Yaojiong, Huang, Jing, Zhang, Lunan, Pratt, Richard E., Dzau, Victor J.

Recent evidence has demonstrated the importance of bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) in the repair of damaged myocardium. The molecular mechanisms of engraftment and migration of...