Open Heart

Use of beta-blockers and in-hospital mortality in patients with Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TC) is a stress-induced catecholamine acute myocardial dysfunction in the absence of ...
Nature

Stress (Takotsubo) cardiomyopathy—a novel pathophysiological hypothesis to explain catecholamine-induced acute myocardial stunning

Stress cardiomyopathy is the result of the direct effects of high levels of epinephrine on the ventricular myocardium High levels of epinephrine are negatively inotropic; they switch β2-adrenoceptor ...
C&EN

Substrate Analogs Implicate a Free Radical Pathway in Tyrosine Hydroxylase Catalysis

Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States Department of Chemistry, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, United States ...
Frontiers

Sympathetic overactivation and catecholamine toxicity: mechanisms and therapeutic strategies for neurogenic heart injury following acute ischemic stroke

1 Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China 2 The Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, China Acute ischemic stroke (AIS) may trigger a ...