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Kardami E.

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1.                  Kardami E and Fandrich RR.  Basic fibroblast growth factor in atria and ventricles of the vertebrate heart.  J Cell Biology 109:1865-1875, 1989

2.                  Pasumarthi SKB, Kardami E and Cattini PA.  High and low molecular weight FGF-2 increase proliferation of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes but  have differential effects on binucleation and nuclear morphology.  Circ Res 78:126-136, 1996

3.                  Doble BW, Bosc D, Litchfield D and Kardami E.  Fibroblast growth factor-2 decreases metabolic coupling and stimulates phosphorylation as well as masking of connexin43 epitopes in cardiac myocytes.  Circ Res 79:647-658, 1996

4.                  Padua RR, Merle P-L, Doble BW, Yu C-H,  Zahradka P, Pierce GN, Panagia V and Kardami E.  Fibroblast growth factor-2-induced negative inotropism and cardioprotection are inhibited by chelerythrine; involvement of sarcolemmal calcium-independent protein kinase C.  J Mol Cell Cardiol 30:2695-2709, 1998

5.                  Sheikh  F, Fandrich RR, Kardami E and Cattini PA.  Overexpression of long and short FGFR-1 isoforms results in FGF-2-mediated proliferation  in neonatal cardiac myocyte cultures.  Cardiovasc Res 42:696-705, 1999

6.                  Doble BW, Ping P and Kardami E.  The epsilon subtype of protein kinase C is required for cardiomyocyte  connexin-43 phosphorylation.  Circ Res 86:293-301, 2000

7.                  Sheikh F, Sontag DP, Kardami E and Cattini PA.  Exogenous addition and endogenous overexpression of FGF-2 increases cardiac myocyte viability after myocardial injury in isolated mouse hearts.  Am J Physiol 280:H1039-H1050, 2001

8.                  Sun G-P, Doble BW, Sun J-M, Florkiewicz F, Kirshenbaum L, Davie JR, Cattini PA and Kardami E.  CUG-initiated FGF-2 induces chromatin compaction in cultured cardiac myocytes and in vitro.  J Cell Physiol 186:457-467, 2001

9.                  Jiang Z-S, Padua RR, Ju H, Doble BW, Jin Y, Hao-J, Cattini PA, Dixon IMC and Kardami E.  Acute protection of the ischemic heart by FGF-2; involvement of FGF-2 receptors and protein kinase C.  Am J Physiol 282:H1071-H1080, 2002

10.              Dang X, Doble BW and Kardami E.  The  carboxy-tail of connexin-43 localizes to the nucleus and inhibits cell growth.  Mol Cell Biochem 242, 35-38, 2003

11.              Jeyaraman M, Tanguy S, Fandrich RR, Lukas A and Kardami E.  Ischemia-induced dephosphorylation of cardiomyocyte connexin-43 is reduced by okadaic acid and caliculin A but not fostriecin.  Mol Cell Biochem 242:129-134, 2003

12.              Doble BW, Dang X, Ping P, Fandrich RR, Nickel BE, Jin Y, Cattini PA and Kardami E.  Phosphorylation of serine 262 in the gap junction protein connexin-43 regulates DNA synthesis in cell-cell contact forming cardiomyocytes.  J Cell Sci 2004 117:507-514, 2004

13.              Jiang ZS, Srisakuldee W, Soulet F, Bouche G and Kardami E.  Non-angiogenic FGF-2 protects the ischemic heart from injury, in the presence or absence of reperfusion. Cardiovasc Res 62:154-166, 2004

14.              Jimenez SK, Sheikh F, Jin Y, Detillieux KA, Dhaliwal J, Kardami E and Cattini PA. Transcriptional regulation of FGF-2 gene expression in cardiac myocytes. Cardiovasc Res 62, 548-557, 2004

15.              Kardami E, Jiang ZS, Jimenez SK, Hirst CJ, Sheikh F, Zahradka P and Cattini PA.  The role of FGF-2  isoforms in cardiac hypertrophy.  Cardiovasc Res 63:458-466, 2004

16.              Jiang ZS, Jeyaraman M, Wen G-B, Fandrich RR, Dixon IAC, Cattini PA and Kardami E.  High- but not low-molecular weight FGF-2 causes cardiac hypertrophy in vivo: Possible involvement of cardiotrophin-1.  J Mol Cell Cardiol 42:222-233, 2007.

17.              Kardami E, Dang X, Iacobas DA, Nickel BE, Jeyaraman M, Srisakuldee W, Makazan J, Tanguy S, Spray DC. The role of connexins in controlling cell growth and gene expression Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 94, 245-264, 2007 .

18.              Ma X, Dang X, Claus P, Hirst, Fandrich RR, Jin Y, Grothe C,  Kirshenbaum L, Cattini PA and Kardami E. Chromatin compaction and cell death by high molecular weight FGF-2 depend on its nuclear localization, intracrine activation of ERK1/2 and engagement of mitochondria. Journal of Cellular Physiology 213, 690-698, 2007.

19.              Kardami E, Detillieux K, Ma X, Jiang ZS, Santiago JJ, Jimenez SK, Cattini PA. FGF-2 and cardioprotection. Heart Fail Rev. 2007 Dec;12(3-4):267-77.