Heart Failure and Cardioregenerative Medicine Journal Club Schedule - (2007-2008)

Second Thursdays, 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Room 116, SMI
Timothy J. Kamp, MD, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine, Chair
Contact info@cvrc.wisc.edu or 263-2266 for further information

Fall 2007

Sep. 13, 2007
Timothy J. Kamp, MD, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Medicine

Cardiomyocytes derived from human embryonic stem cells in pro-survival factors enhance function of infracted rat hearts . Michael A Laflamme, Kent Y Chen, Anna V Naumova, Veronica Muskheli, James A Fugate, Sarah K Dupras, Hans Reinecke, Chunhui Xu, Mohammad Hassanipour, Shailaja Police, Chris O?Sullivan, Lila Collins, Yinhong Chen, Elina Minami, Edward A Gill, Shuichi Ueno, Chun Yuan, Joseph Gold & Charles E Murry  Nature Biotechnology Received 8 May; accepted 13 July; published online 26 August 2007, 1-16

Oct. 11, 2007
Ravi Balijepalli, Ph.D., Assistant Scientist, Cellular and Molecular Arrhythmia Research Program

Ca2+- and mitochondrial-dependent cardiomyocyte necrosis as a primary mediator of heart failure,  Hiroyuki Nakayama, Xiongwen Chen, Christopher P. Baines, Raisa Klevitsky, Xiaoying Zhang, Hongyu Zhang, Naser Jaleel, Balvin H.L. Chua, Timothy E. Hewett, Jeffrey Robbins, Steven R. Houser, and Jeffery D. Molkentin J. Clin. Invest. 117:2431–2444 (2007).

Nov. 8, 2007
Holly Norman, Ph.D. Postdoc Trainee, Physiology and Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Apex-to-Base Dispersion in Regional Timing of Left Ventricular Shortening and Lengthening, Partho P. Sengupta, MBBS, MD, DM, Bijoy K. Khandheria, MD, FACC, Josef Korinek, MD, Jianwen Wang, MD, PHD, Arshad Jahangir, MD, James B. Seward, MD, FACC, Marek Belohlavek, MD, PHD, FACC JACC Vol. 47, No. 1, 2006:163–72

Left Ventricular Form and Function Revisited: Applied Translational Science to Cardiovascular Ultrasound Imaging,  Partho P. Sengupta, MBBS, MD, DM, Vijay K. Krishnamoorthy, MBBS, MD, Josef Korinek, MD, Jagat Narula, MBBS, MD, DM, PhD, FACC, FAHA, Mani A. Vannan, MBBS, FACC, Steven J. Lester, MD, FACC, FRCPC, Jamil A. Tajik, MBBS, MD, FACC, James B. Seward, MD, FACC, Bijoy K. Khandheria, MBBS, FACC, FASE, FESC, and Marek Belohlavek, MD, PhD, FACC, FESC.  J Am Soc Echocardiogr 2007;20:539-551

Dec. 13, 2007
Christopher M. Walsh, Ph.D. Postdoc Trainee, Cardiovascular Medicine and Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Engraftment of connexin 43-expressing cells prevents post-infarct arrhythmia, Wilhelm Roell, Thorsten Lewalter, Philipp Sasse, Yvonne N. Tallini, Bum-Rak Choi, Martin Breitbach, Robert Doran, Ulrich M. Becher, Seong-Min Hwang, Toktam Bostani, Julia von Maltzahn, Andreas Hofmann, Shaun Reining, Britta Eiberger, Bethann Gabris, Alexander Pfeifer, Armin Welz, Klaus Willecke, Guy Salama, Jan W. Schrickel, Michael I. Kotlikoff & Bernd K. Fleischmann. Nature Vol 450:6 December 2007 pp 819-825

Spring 2008

Jan. 10, 2008
Peiman Hematti, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology)

Potential risks of bone marrow cell transplantation into infarcted hearts, Martin Breitbach, Toktam Bostani, Wilhelm Roell, Ying Xia, Oliver Dewald, Jens M. Nygren, Jochen W. U. Fries, Klaus Tiemann, Heribert Bohlen, Juergen Hescheler, Armin Welz, Wilhelm Bloch, Sten Eirik W. Jacobsen and Bernd K. Fleischmann. Blood Journal 2007 110: 1362-1369 Prepublished online May 4, 2007

Feb. 14, 2008
Jeffery W. Walker, Ph.D., Professor, Physiology.

Crystal structure of the b₂ adrenergic receptor.  What did we learn?

Crystal structure of the human b₂ adrenergic G-protein-coupled receptor, Søren G. F. Rasmussen, Hee-Jung Choi, Daniel M. Rosenbaum, Tong Sun Kobilka, Foon Sun Thian, Patricia C. Edwards, Manfred Burghammer, Venkata R. P. Ratnala, Ruslan Sanishvili, Robert F. Fischetti, Gebhard F. X. Schertler, William I. Weis & Brian K. Kobilka (2007) Nature 450:383-388.

New G-protein-coupled receptor crystal structures: insights and limitations, Brian Kobilka and Gebhard F.X. Schertler  (2008) Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, Jan 12, article in press.

Mar. 13, 2008
Mauricio Velez, MD, Postdoc Trainee, Cardiovascular Medicine and Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

The Real Estate of Myoblast Cardiac Transplantation: Negative Remodeling is Associated with Location McCue JD, Swingen C, Feldberg T, Caron G, Kolb A, Denucci C, Somnath P, Motilall R, Breviu B, Taylor DA J Heart Lung Transplant 2008;27:116-123

The Myoblast Autologous Grafting in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy (MAGIC) Trial: First Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study of Myoblast Transplantation Menasche P, Alfieri O, Janssens S, McKenna W, Reichenspurner H, Trinquart L, Vilquin J, Marolleau J, Seymour B, Larghero J, Lake S, Chatellier G, Solomon S, Desnos M, Hagege AA Circulation 2008;117:1189-1200

Apr. 10, 2008
Nathan Evans, Graduate Student, Physiology; Trainee, Training Program in Translational Cardiovascular Science

Local InsP3-dependent perinuclear Ca2+ signaling in cardiac myocyte excitation-transcription coupling, Xu Wu, Tong Zhang, Julie Bossuyt, Xiaodong Li, Timothy A. McKinsey, John R. Dedman, Eric N. Olson, Ju Chen, Joan Heller Brown, and Donald M. Bers   J Clin Invest. 2006 Mar;116(3):675-82

May 8, 2008
Richard L. Moss, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Physiology; Director, UW Cardiovascular Research Center

Principal strain changes precede ventricular wall thinning during transition to heart failure in a mouse model of dilated cardiomyopathy, H. Hankiewicz, Paul H. Goldspink, Peter M. Buttrick, and E. Douglas Lewandowski  Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 294: H330–H336, 2008

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