Carnitines Increase Plasma Levels of Adenosine and ATP in Humans

Preconditioning with ischemia: a delay of lethal cell injury in ischemic myocardium.

1986 • 7,740 citations

Carnitine--metabolism and functions

1983 • 1,620 citations

Cardiac nucleotides in hypoxia: possible role in regulation of coronary blood flow

1963 • 1,015 citations

CARNITINE

1988 • 610 citations

Adaptation to ischemia during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Clinical, hemodynamic, and metabolic features.

1990 • 605 citations

Two distinct adenosine-sensitive sites on adenylate cyclase.

1977 • 574 citations

Essential role of adenosine, adenosine A1 receptors, and ATP-sensitive K+ channels in cerebral ischemic preconditioning.

1995 • 558 citations

Carnitine Deficiency of Human Skeletal Muscle with Associated Lipid Storage Myopathy: A New Syndrome

1973 • 506 citations

Intravenous pretreatment with A1-selective adenosine analogues protects the heart against infarction.

1992 • 457 citations

Prodromal Angina Limits Infarct Size

1995 • 413 citations

Cloned adenosine A3 receptors: Pharmacological properties, species differences and receptor functions

1994 • 395 citations

Metabolism of adenine nucleotides by ectoenzymes of vascular endothelial and smooth-muscle cells in culture

1980 • 334 citations

The release of nucleotides, 5‐hydroxytryptamine and enzymes from human blood platelets during aggregation

1968 • 312 citations

Evidence that the adenosine A3 receptor may mediate the protection afforded by preconditioning in the isolated rabbit heart

1994 • 272 citations

Cardiovascular effects of adenosine in man; possible clinical implications

1986 • 227 citations

Increased adenosine concentration in blood from ischemic myocardium by AICA riboside. Effects on flow, granulocytes, and injury.

1989 • 203 citations

Reduction of myocardial reperfusion injury by intravenous adenosine administered during the early reperfusion period.

1991 • 183 citations

Adenine nucleotide release from isolated perfused guinea pig hearts and extracellular formation of adenosine.

1991 • 164 citations

Protection of the ischaemic myocardium by L-propionylcarnitine: effects on the recovery of cardiac output after ischaemia and reperfusion, carnitine transport, and fatty acid oxidation

1986 • 148 citations

Coronary responses to dilating substances and competitive inhibition by theophylline in the isolated perfused guinea pig heart

1975 • 137 citations

Differentiated properties of rabbit tracheal epithelial cells in primary culture

1988 • 115 citations

The control of adenosine concentration in polymorphonuclear leucocytes, cultured heart cells and isolated perfused heart from the rat

1983 • 113 citations

Carnitine deficiency of skeletal muscle

1976 • 107 citations

The endothelium: an introduction to current research

1991 • 103 citations

Superiority of L-propionylcarnitine vs L-carnitine in improving walking capacity in patients with peripheral vascular disease: an acute, intravenous, double-blind, cross-over study

1992 • 99 citations

Defective myocardial carnitine metabolism in congestive heart failure secondary to dilated cardiomyopathy and to coronary, hypertensive and valvular heart diseases

1990 • 95 citations

Carnitine acetyltransferase: A review of its biology, enzymology, and bioorganic chemistry

1988 • 73 citations

Muscle carnitine deficiency in patients with severe peripheral vascular disease.

1991 • 71 citations

The pigeon heart 5′-nucleotidase responsible for ischaemia-induced adenosine formation

1988 • 70 citations

L-Propionyl-carnitine protection of mitochondria in ischemic rat hearts

1989 • 68 citations

Propionyl-L-carnitine: Biochemical significance and possible role in cardiac metabolism

1991 • 67 citations

Tissue specific depletion of L-carnitine in rat heart and skeletal muscle by D-carnitine

1981 • 64 citations

Biosynthesis of carnitine in vivo

1961 • 55 citations

Acetyl‐<scp>l</scp>‐Carnitine and Alzheimer's Disease: Pharmacological Considerations beyond the Cholinergic Sphere^a

1993 • 54 citations

Adenosine metabolism in dog whole blood: Effects of dipyridamole

1981 • 44 citations

Protective effect of propionyl-L-carnitine against ischaemia and reperfusion-damage

1989 • 42 citations

Endurance training of older men: responses to submaximal exercise

1992 • 41 citations

Evidence for an anti-aggregatory effect of adenosine at physiological concentrations and for its role in the action of dipyridamole

1987 • 39 citations

Experimental Model of Short-Time Exercise-Induced Preconditioning in POAD Patients

1997 • 31 citations

Exogenous adenine nucleotides replete endothelial cell adenosine triphosphate after oxidant injury by adenosine uptake.

1990 • 25 citations

Pharmacokinetics of exogenous adenosine in man after infusion

1993 • 24 citations

Reduced human lymphocyte blastogenesis and enhancement of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) by L-carnitine

1994 • 11 citations

Effect of Carnitine Analogs on Carnitine Acetyltransferase

1980 • 8 citations

In Vivo and in Vitro Evidence of an Adenosine-Mediated Mechanism of Calcium Entry Blocker Activities

1989 • 7 citations

The influence of calcium antagonists on the adenine nucleotide metabolism in the guinea-pig working heart during ischaemia and reperfusion

1991 • 7 citations