Publications - 2007

Batten P, Rosenthal NA, & Yacoub MH (2007). Immune response to stem cells and strategies to induce tolerance. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci362, 1343-1356.

Chester AH, Azam R, Felkin LE, George R, & Brand N (2007). Correlation between vascular responsivensss and expression of novel transcripts of the ETA-receptor in human vascular tissue. Vascul Pharmacol46, 181-187.

Chester AH & Taylor PM (2007). Molecular and functional characteristics of heart-valve interstitial cells. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci362, 1437-1443.

Clark AL, Knosalla C, Birks E, Loebe M, Davos CH, Tsang S, Negassa A, Yacoub M, Hetzer R, Coats AJ, & Anker SD (2007). Heart transplantation in heart failure: the prognostic importance of body mass index at time of surgery and subsequent weight changes. Eur J Heart Fail9, 839-844.

Cullen ME & Barton PJ (2007). Mapping transcriptional start sites and in silico DNA footprinting. Methods Mol Biol366, 203-216.

Farkasfalvi K, Stagg MA, Coppen SR, Siedlecka U, Lee J, Soppa GK, Marczin N, Szokodi I, Yacoub MH, & Terracciano CM (2007). Direct effects of apelin on cardiomyocyte contractility and electrophysiology. Biochem Biophys Res Commun357, 889-895.

Fukushima S, Varela-Carver A, Coppen SR, Yamahara K, Felkin LE, Lee J, Barton PJ, Terracciano CM, Yacoub MH, & Suzuki K (2007). Direct Intramyocardial But Not Intracoronary Injection of Bone Marrow Cells Induces Ventricular Arrhythmias in a Rat Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure Model. Circulation. 115, 2254-2261.

George RS, Birks EJ, Radley-Smith RC, Khaghani A, & Yacoub M (2007). Bridge to transplantation with a left ventricular assist device for systemic ventricular failure after Mustard procedure. Ann Thorac Surg83, 306-308.

George RS, Yacoub MH, Tasca G, Webb C, Bowles CT, Tansley P, Hardy JP, Dreyfus G, Khaghani A, & Birks EJ (2007). Hemodynamic and echocardiographic responses to acute interruption of left ventricular assist device support: relevance to assessment of myocardial recovery. J Heart Lung Transplant26, 967-973.

Haj-Yahia S, Mittal T, Birks E, Carby M, Petrou M, Pepper J, Dreyfus G, & Amrani M (2007). Lung fibrosis as a potential complication of the hemostatic tissue sealant, biologic glue (Bioglue). J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg133, 1387-1388.

Haj-Yahia S, Birks EJ, Rogers P, Bowles C, Hipkins M, George R, Amrani M, Petrou M, Pepper J, Dreyfus G, & Khaghani A (2007). Midterm experience with the Jarvik 2000 axial flow left ventricular assist device. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg134, 199-203.

Hall JL, Birks EJ, Grindle S, Cullen ME, Barton PJ, Rider JE, Lee S, Harwalker S, Mariash A, Adhikari N, Charles NJ, Felkin LE, Polster S, George RS, Miller LW, & Yacoub MH (2007). Molecular signature of recovery following combination left ventricular assist device (LVAD) support and pharmacologic therapy. Eur Heart J28, 613-627.

Hamour IM, Lyster HS, Burke MM, Rose ML, & Banner NR (2007). Mycophenolate mofetil may allow cyclosporine and steroid sparing in de novo heart transplant patients. Transplantation83, 570-576.

Khalpey Z, Yuen AH, Lavitrano M, McGregor CG, Kalsi KK, Yacoub MH, & Smolenski RT (2007). Mammalian mismatches in nucleotide metabolism: implications for xenotransplantation. Mol Cell Biochem304, 109-117.

Kodde IF, van der SJ, Smolenski RT, & de Jong JW (2007). Metabolic and genetic regulation of cardiac energy substrate preference. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol146, 26-39.

Lara-Pezzi E, Winn N, Paul A, McCullagh K, Slominsky E, Santini MP, Mourkioti F, Sarathchandra P, Fukushima S, Suzuki K, & Rosenthal N (2007). A naturally occurring calcineurin variant inhibits FoxO activity and enhances skeletal muscle regeneration. J Cell Biol179, 1205-1218.

Latif N, Yacoub MH, George R, Barton PJ, & Birks EJ (2007). Changes in sarcomeric and non-sarcomeric cytoskeletal proteins and focal adhesion molecules during clinical myocardial recovery after left ventricular assist device support. J Heart Lung Transplant26, 230-235.

Latif N, Sarathchandra P, Thomas PS, Antoniw J, Batten P, Chester AH, Taylor PM, & Yacoub MH (2007). Characterization of structural and signaling molecules by human valve interstitial cells and comparison to human mesenchymal stem cells. J Heart Valve Dis16, 56-66.

Laurence A, Edbury SM, Marinaki AM, Smolenski RT, Goldsmith DJ, Simmonds HA, & Carrey EA (2007). 4-pyridone-3-carboxamide ribonucleoside triphosphate accumulating in erythrocytes in end stage renal failure originates from tryptophan metabolism. Clin Exp Med7, 135-141.

Mahesh B, Leong HS, McCormack A, Sarathchandra P, Holder A, & Rose ML (2007). Autoantibodies to vimentin cause accelerated rejection of cardiac allografts. Am J Pathol170, 1415-1427.

Mensah GA, Catravas JD, Engelgau MM, Hooper WC, Madeddu P, Ryan US, She JX, Reed E, Vinicor F, & Yacoub MH (2007). Vascular endothelium summary statement VI: Research directions for the 21st century. Vascul Pharmacol46, 330-332.

Mirabeau O, Perlas E, Severini C, Audero E, Gascuel O, Possenti R, Birney E, Rosenthal N, & Gross C (2007). Identification of novel peptide hormones in the human proteome by hidden Markov model screening. Genome Res17, 320-327.

Mocumbi AO, Sidi D, Vouhe P, & Yacoub M (2007). An innovative technique for the relief of right ventricular trabecular cavity obliteration in endomyocardial fibrosis. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg134, 1070-1072.

Musaro A, Dobrowolny G, & Rosenthal N (2007). The neuroprotective effects of a locally acting IGF-1 isoform. Exp Gerontol42, 76-80.

Osman L, Chester AH, Sarathchandra P, Latif N, Meng W, Taylor PM, & Yacoub MH (2007). A novel role of the sympatho-adrenergic system in regulating valve calcification. Circulation116 , I282-I287.

Pelosi L, Giacinti C, Nardis C, Borsellino G, Rizzuto E, Nicoletti C, Wannenes F, Battistini L, Rosenthal N, Molinaro M, & Musaro A (2007). Local expression of IGF-1 accelerates muscle regeneration by rapidly modulating inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. FASEB J21, 1393-1402.

Pelosi M, Marampon F, Zani BM, Prudente S, Perlas E, Caputo V, Cianetti L, Berno V, Narumiya S, Kang SW, Musaro A, & Rosenthal N (2007). ROCK2 and its alternatively spliced isoform ROCK2m positively control the maturation of the myogenic program. Mol Cell Biol27 , 6163-6176.

Reuveni E, Carola V, Banchaabouchi MA, Rosenthal N, Hancock JM, & Gross C (2007). Phenostat: visualization and statistical tool for analysis of phenotyping data. Mamm Genome18, 677-681.

Rose ML (2007). Interferon-gamma and intimal hyperplasia. Circ Res101, 542-544.

Rose ML & Dunn MJ (2007). Letter by Rose and Dunn regarding article, "Expression of heat shock protein 27 in human atherosclerotic plaques and increased plasma level of heat shock protein 27 in patients with acute coronary syndrome". Circulation115, e434.

Rosenthal N & Brown S (2007). The mouse ascending: perspectives for human-disease models. Nat Cell Biol9, 993-999.

Rutkowski P, Slominska EM, Szolkiewicz M, Aleksandrowicz E, Smolenski RT, Wolyniec W, Renke M, Wisterowicz K, Swierczynski J, & Rutkowski B (2007). Relationship between uremic toxins and oxidative stress in patients with chronic renal failure. Scand J Urol Nephrol41, 243-248.

Santini MP, Tsao L, Monassier L, Theodoropoulos C, Carter J, Lara-Pezzi E, Slonimsky E, Salimova E, Delafontaine P, Song YH, Bergmann M, Freund C, Suzuki K, & Rosenthal N (2007). Enhancing repair of the mammalian heart. Circ Res100, 1732-1740.

Sharples LD, Cafferty F, Demitis N, Freeman C, Dyer M, Banner N, Birks EJ, Khaghani A, Large SR, Tsui S, Caine N, & Buxton M (2007). Evaluation of the clinical effectiveness of the Ventricular Assist Device Program in the United Kingdom (EVAD UK). J Heart Lung Transplant26, 9-15.

Smith JD, Hamour IM, Banner NR, & Rose ML (2007). C4d fixing, luminex binding antibodies - a new tool for prediction of graft failure after heart transplantation. Am J Transplant7, 2809-2815.

Smith S, Taylor PM, Chester AH, Allen SP, Dreger SA, Eastwood M, & Yacoub MH (2007). Force generation of different human cardiac valve interstitial cells: relevance to individual valve function and tissue engineering. J Heart Valve Dis16, 440-446.

Smolenski RT, Forni M, Maccherini M, Bacci ML, Slominska EM, Wang H, Fornasari P, Giovannoni R, Simeone F, Zannoni A, Frati G, Suzuki K, Yacoub MH, & Lavitrano M (2007). Reduction of hyperacute rejection and protection of metabolism and function in hearts of human decay accelerating factor (hDAF)-expressing pigs. Cardiovasc Res73, 143-152.

Taylor PM (2007). Biological matrices and bionanotechnology. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci362 , 1313-1320.

Terracciano CM, Koban MU, Soppa GK, Siedlecka U, Lee J, Stagg MA, & Yacoub MH (2007). The Role of the Cardiac Na+/Ca2+ Exchanger in Reverse Remodeling: Relevance for LVAD-Recovery. Ann N Y Acad Sci1099, 349-360.

Tsang VT, Kilner PJ, Hsia TY, Hughes S, & Yacoub M (2007). Interruption of the aorta with multilobulated arch aneurysms: a new clinicopathologic entity. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg133, 1092-1093.

Wright IG, Walker IA, & Yacoub MH (2007). Specialist surgery in the developing world: luxury or necessity? Anaesthesia62 Suppl 1, 84-89.

Yacoub M & Nerem R (2007). Introduction. Bioengineering the heart. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci362, 1253-1255.

Yacoub M (2007). Viewpoint: Heart valve engineering. Interview by James Butcher. Circulation116, f44-f46.

Yacoub MH, Olivotto I, & Cecchi F (2007). 'End-stage' hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: from mystery to model. Nat Clin Pract Cardiovasc Med4, 232-233.

Yacoub MH (2007). Establishing pediatric cardiovascular services in the developing world: a wake-up call. Circulation116, 1876-1878.