Involvement of reactive oxygen species in angiotensin II-induced endothelin-1 gene expression in rat cardiac fibroblasts

TH Cheng, PY Cheng, NL Shih, IB Chen… - Journal of the American …, 2003 - jacc.org
Objectives : The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of angiotensin II (Ang II) on
fibroblast proliferation and endothelin-1 (ET-1) gene induction, focusing especially on reactive …

Reactive oxygen species mediate cyclic strain-induced endothelin-1 gene expression via Ras/Raf/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in endothelial cells

TH Cheng, NL Shih, SY Chen, SH Loh… - Journal of molecular and …, 2001 - Elsevier
Endothelin-1 (Et-1) is a peptide synthesized by endothelial cells (ECs) both in culture and in
vivo. Cyclic strain induces gene expression of Et-1, however, the molecular mechanisms …

Reactive oxygen species generation is involved in epidermal growth factor receptor transactivation through the transient oxidization of Src homology 2-containing …

CH Chen, TH Cheng, H Lin, NL Shih, YL Chen… - Molecular …, 2006 - ASPET
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is implicated in fibroblast proliferation, which results in cardiac fibrosis.
Both reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR…

Reactive oxygen species modulate angiotensin II-induced β-myosin heavy chain gene expression via ras/raf/extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in neonatal …

NL Shih, TH Cheng, SH Loh, PY Cheng… - Biochemical and …, 2001 - Elsevier
Angiotensin II (Ang II) causes cardiomyocytes hypertrophy. Cardiac β-myosin heavy chain (β-MyHC)
gene expression can be altered by Ang II. The molecular mechanisms are not …

Role of mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway in reactive oxygen species-mediated endothelin-1-induced β-myosin heavy chain gene expression and …

TH Cheng, NL Shih, CH Chen, H Lin, JC Liu… - Journal of biomedical …, 2005 - Springer
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) has been found to increase cardiac β-myosin heavy chain (β-MyHC)
gene expression and induce hypertrophy in cardiomyocytes. ET-1 has been demonstrated to …

Crucial role of extracellular signal-regulated kinase pathway in reactive oxygen species-mediated endothelin-1 gene expression induced by endothelin-1 in rat …

CM Cheng, HJ Hong, JC Liu, NL Shih, SH Juan… - Molecular …, 2003 - ASPET
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) has been implicated in fibroblast proliferation. However, the mechanism
involving ET-1 is not clear. The present study was performed to examine the role of …

Inhibitory effect of resveratrol on angiotensin II-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy

TH Cheng, JC Liu, H Lin, NL Shih, YL Chen… - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's …, 2004 - Springer
Resveratrol is proposed to account in part for the protective effect of red wine on the cardiovascular
system. Angiotensin II (Ang II) is a potent hypertrophic stimulus in cardiomyocytes. In …

Nitric oxide inhibits endothelin-1-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy through cGMP-mediated suppression of extracellular-signal regulated kinase phosphorylation

TH Cheng, NL Shih, SY Chen, JW Lin, YL Chen… - Molecular …, 2005 - ASPET
Cardiac hypertrophy is a compensatory mechanism in response to a variety of
cardiovascular diseases. Recently, reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide (NO) have been …

Heme oxygenase-1 contributes to the cytoprotection of alpha-lipoic acid via activation of p44/42 mitogen-activated protein kinase in vascular smooth muscle cells

PY Cheng, YM Lee, NL Shih, YC Chen… - Free Radical Biology and …, 2006 - Elsevier
Alpha-lipoic acid (ALA) is a natural antioxidant that scavenges reactive oxygen species (ROS)
and regenerates or recycles endogenous antioxidants. ALA has recently been reported to …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibitory effects of momordicine I on high-glucose-induced cell proliferation and collagen synthesis in rat cardiac fibroblasts

PY Chen, NL Shih, WR Hao, CC Chen… - … medicine and cellular …, 2018 - hindawi.com
Diabetes-associated cardiac fibrosis is a severe cardiovascular complication. Momordicine I,
a bioactive triterpenoid isolated from bitter melon, has been demonstrated to have …