Chronic Administration of Ghrelin Improves Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Attenuates Development of Cardiac Cachexia in Rats With Heart Failure

Ghrelin is a growth-hormone-releasing acylated peptide from stomach

1999 • 8,261 citations

Ghrelin induces adiposity in rodents

2000 • 3,915 citations

A role for ghrelin in the central regulation of feeding

2001 • 3,415 citations

Elevated Circulating Levels of Tumor Necrosis Factor in Severe Chronic Heart Failure

1990 • 2,566 citations

Wasting as independent risk factor for mortality in chronic heart failure

1997 • 1,373 citations

Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

1994 • 976 citations

Hormonal Changes and Catabolic/Anabolic Imbalance in Chronic Heart Failure and Their Importance for Cardiac Cachexia

1997 • 801 citations

Hemodynamic and hormonal effects of human ghrelin in healthy volunteers

2001 • 595 citations

A Preliminary Study of Growth Hormone in the Treatment of Dilated Cardiomyopathy

1996 • 509 citations

Body composition, bone metabolism, and heart structure and function in growth hormone (GH)-deficient adults before and after GH replacement therapy at low doses.

1993 • 432 citations

Cardiac Cachexia

1999 • 378 citations

Randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of human recombinant growth hormone in patients with chronic heart failure due to dilated cardiomyopathy

1998 • 368 citations

Differential Cardiac Effects of Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factor1 in the Rat

1996 • 275 citations

Nitric oxide may mediate the hemodynamic effects of recombinant growth hormone in patients with acquired growth hormone deficiency. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study.

1996 • 274 citations

Growth Hormone Improves Cardiac Performance in Experimental Heart Failure

1995 • 231 citations

Deficient insulin-like growth factor I in chronic heart failure predicts altered body composition, anabolic deficiency, cytokine and neurohormonal activation

1998 • 200 citations

Ten-Year Institutional Experience With Palliative Surgery for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome

1995 • 198 citations

A placebo-controlled study of growth hormone in patients with congestive heart failure

1998 • 195 citations

The Pathogenesis of Cardiac Cachexia

1964 • 194 citations

Growth Hormone Attenuates Early Left Ventricular Remodeling and Improves Cardiac Function in Rats With Large Myocardial Infarction

1997 • 166 citations

Action potential propagation in inhomogeneous cardiac tissue: safety factor considerations and ionic mechanism

2000 • 149 citations

Growth Hormone-Independent Cardioprotective Effects of Hexarelin in the Rat1

1999 • 143 citations

Stimulation of cardiac protein synthesis by insulin-like growth factors

1992 • 137 citations

Treatment With Growth Hormone Enhances Contractile Reserve and Intracellular Calcium Transients in Myocytes From Rats With Postinfarction Heart Failure

1999 • 118 citations

Comparison of echocardiography methods for assessment of left ventricular shortening and wall stress

1987 • 110 citations

Molecular Mechanism of Growth Hormone (GH) Deficiency in the Spontaneous Dwarf Rat: Detection of Abnormal Splicing of GH Messenger Ribonucleic Acid by the Polymerase Chain Reaction*

1990 • 104 citations

Hypertrophy, fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction in early canine experimental hypertension

1991 • 77 citations

Formation of Planar and Spiral Ca2+ Waves in Isolated Cardiac Myocytes

1999 • 53 citations