Professor Gary Baxter

2025

• Hambalkó, S. et al., 2025. MAO-B inhibition by selegiline blunts cardiac functions improved by high-fat diet: Role of inflammation, apoptosis, and calcium-handling.. Current research in pharmacology and drug discovery 9 100237. (10.1016/j.crphar.2025.100237)

2023

• Sayour, N. V. et al., 2023. Cardioprotective efficacy of limb remote ischaemic preconditioning in rats: discrepancy between a meta-analysis and a three-centre in vivo study. Cardiovascular Research cvad024. (10.1093/cvr/cvad024)
• Ferdinandy, P. et al., 2023. Interaction of cardiovascular nonmodifiable risk factors, comorbidities and comedications with ischemia/reperfusion injury and cardioprotection by pharmacological treatments and ischemic conditioning. Pharmacological Reviews 75 (1), pp.159-216. (10.1124/pharmrev.121.000348)

2021

• Andreadou, I. et al., 2021. Influence of cardiometabolic comorbidities on myocardial function, infarction, and cardioprotection: role of cardiac redox signaling. Free Radical Biology and Medicine 166 , pp.33-52. (10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2021.02.012)

2018

• Karwi, Q. G. , Bice, J. S. and Baxter, G. F. 2018. Pre- and postconditioning the heart with hydrogen sulfide (H2S) against ischemia/reperfusion injury in vivo: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Basic Research in Cardiology 113 (1) 6. (10.1007/s00395-017-0664-8)

2017

• Jonas, K. C. et al., 2017. Natriuretic peptide activation of extracellular regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) pathway by particulate guanylyl cyclases in GH3 somatolactotropes. Cell and Tissue Research 369 (3), pp.567-578. (10.1007/s00441-017-2624-x)
• Karwi, Q. G. et al. 2017. Ap39, a mitochondria-targeting hydrogen sulfide (H2 s) donor, protects against myocardial reperfusion injury independently of salvage kinase signalling. British Journal of Pharmacology 174 (4), pp.287-301. (10.1111/bph.13688)

2016

• Karwi, Q. G. et al. 2016. Pharmacological postconditioning against myocardial infarction with a slow-releasing hydrogen sulfide donor, GYY4137. Pharmacological Research 111 , pp.442-451. (10.1016/j.phrs.2016.06.028)
• Bice, J. S. et al. 2016. Nitric oxide treatments as adjuncts to reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review of experimental and clinical studies. Basic Research in Cardiology 111 (2) 23. (10.1007/s00395-016-0540-y)

2015

• Bice, J. S. and Baxter, G. F. 2015. Postconditioning signalling in the heart: mechanisms and translatability. British Journal of Pharmacology 172 (8), pp.1933-1946. (10.1111/bph.12976)

2014

• Bice, J. S. , Burley, D. and Baxter, G. F. 2014. Novel approaches and opportunities for cardioprotective signaling through 3',5'-cyclic muanosine monophosphate manipulation. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 19 (3), pp.269-282. (10.1177/1074248413518971)
• Bice, J. S. et al. 2014. NO-independent stimulation or activation of soluble guanylyl cyclase during early reperfusion limits infarct size. Cardiovascular Research 101 (2), pp.220-228. (10.1093/cvr/cvt257)
• Burley, D. et al. 2014. Natriuretic peptides modulate ATP-sensitive K+ channels in rat ventricular cardiomyocytes. Basic Research in Cardiology 109 402. (10.1007/s00395-014-0402-4)
• Ferdinandy, P. et al., 2014. Interaction of risk factors, comorbidities, and comedications with ischemia/reperfusion injury and cardioprotection by preconditioning, postconditioning, and remote conditioning. Pharmacological Reviews 66 (4), pp.1142-1174. (10.1124/pr.113.008300)
• Thompson, I. R. et al., 2014. Homologous and heterologous desensitization of guanylyl cyclase-B signaling in GH3 somatolactotropes. Cell and Tissue Research 355 (2), pp.425-436. (10.1007/s00441-013-1763-y)

2012

• Burley, D. S. et al., 2012. P541: Natriuretic peptide inhibition of sarcolemmal atp-sensitive potassium channel in rat cardiomyocytes [Abstract]. Cardiovascular Research 93 (S1), pp.S105-S106. (10.1093/cvr/cvr336)

2010

• Elsey, D. , Fowkes, R. C. and Baxter, G. F. 2010. Regulation of cardiovascular cell function by hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Cell Biochemistry and Function 28 (2), pp.95-106. (10.1002/cbf.1618)
• Elsey, D. , Fowkes, R. C. and Baxter, G. F. 2010. L-cysteine stimulates hydrogen sulfide synthesis in myocardium associated with attenuation of ischemia-reperfusion injury. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics 15 (1), pp.53-59. (10.1177/1074248409357743)
• Gorbe, A. et al., 2010. Role of cGMP-PKG signaling in the protection of neonatal rat cardiac myocytes subjected to simulated ischemia/reoxygenation. Basic Research in Cardiology 105 (5), pp.643-650. (10.1007/s00395-010-0097-0)
• Hamid, S. A. et al., 2010. Nitric oxide/cGMP signalling mediates the cardioprotective action of adrenomedullin in reperfused myocardium. Basic Research in Cardiology 105 (2), pp.257-266. (10.1007/s00395-009-0058-7)
• Hausenloy, D. J. et al., 2010. Translating novel strategies for cardioprotection: the Hatter Workshop Recommendations. Basic Research in Cardiology 105 (6), pp.677-686. (10.1007/s00395-010-0121-4)
• Ovize, M. et al., 2010. Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand? Position Paper from the Working Group of Cellular Biology of the Heart of the European Society of Cardiology. Cardiovascular Research 87 (3), pp.406-423. (10.1093/cvr/cvq129)
• Rautureau, Y. et al., 2010. C-type natriuretic peptide regulation of guanosine-3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate production in human endothelial cells. Autonomic and Autacoid Pharmacology 30 (3), pp.185-192. (10.1111/j.1474-8673.2009.00449.x)

2009

• Burley, D. S. and Baxter, G. F. 2009. Pharmacological targets revealed by myocardial postconditioning. Current Opinion in Pharmacology 9 (2), pp.177-188. (10.1016/j.coph.2008.11.009)
• Giricz, Z. et al., 2009. Hyperlipidaemia induced by a high-cholesterol diet leads to the deterioration of guanosine-3',5'-cyclic monophosphate/protein kinase G-dependent cardioprotection in rats. British Journal of Pharmacology 158 (6), pp.1495-1502. (10.1111/j.1476-5381.2009.00424.x)

2008

• Kleinz, M. J. and Baxter, G. F. 2008. Apelin reduces myocardial reperfusion injury independently of PI3K/Akt and P70S6 kinase. Regulatory Peptides 146 (1-3), pp.271-277. (10.1016/j.regpep.2007.10.002)
• Baxter, G. F. and Burley, D. S. 2008. Reperfusion and calculated RISKs: pharmacological postconditioning of human myocardium. British Journal of Pharmacology 153 (1), pp.1-3. (10.1038/sj.bjp.0707498)
• Burley, D. et al. 2008. Evidence for serca and BKCa activation in BNP protection of reperfused myocardium [Abstract]. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 44 (4), pp.717. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.02.015)
• Gorbe, A. et al., 2008. Role of NO-cGMP-PKG signalling in the protection of cardiac myocytes subjected to hypoxia/reoxygenation [Abstract]. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 44 (4), pp.808. 231. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2008.02.232)
• Hamid, S. A. et al., 2008. Rho-kinase mediates reoxygenation-induced cardiomyocyte death and promotes mitochondrial transition pore opening. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 44 (4), pp.791-792.

2007

• Baxter, G. F. , Bower, H. and Hamid, S. 2007. Rho-kinase activation plays a major role as a mediator of irreversible injury in reperfused myocardium. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 292 (6), pp.H2598-H2606. (10.1152/ajpheart.01393.2006)
• Burley, D. S. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Activation of particulate guanylate cyclase during early reperfusion limits infarct size in the rat isolated heart. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 42 (6(S)), pp.S209. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.03.633)
• Burley, D. S. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. B-type natriuretic peptide at early reperfusion limits infarct size in the rat isolated heart. Basic Research in Cardiology 102 (6), pp.529-541. (10.1007/s00395-007-0672-1)
• Burley, D. S. , Ferdinandy, P. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Cyclic GMP and protein kinase-G in myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion: opportunities and obstacles for survival signaling. British Journal of Pharmacology 152 (6), pp.855-869. (10.1038/sj.bjp.0707409)
• Burley, D. S. , Hamid, S. A. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Cardioprotective actions of peptide hormones in myocardial ischemia. Hear Failure Reviews 12 (3-4), pp.279-291. (10.1007/s10741-007-9029-y)
• Ebrahim, Z. , Yellon, D. M. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Attenuated cardioprotective response to bradykinin, but not classical ischaemic preconditioning, in DOCA-salt hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy. Pharmacological Research 55 (1), pp.42-48. (10.1016/j.phrs.2006.10.004)
• Ebrahim, Z. , Yellon, D. M. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Ischemic preconditioning is lost in aging hypertensive rat heart: Independent effects of aging and longstanding hypertension. Experimental Gerontology 42 (8), pp.807-814. (10.1016/j.exger.2007.04.005)
• Elsey, D. , Fowkes, R. C. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. H2S production in myocardial ischaemia and reperfusion. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 42 (6), pp.S197-S198. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.03.600)
• Ferdinandy, P. , Schulz, R. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Interaction of cardiovascular risk factors with myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury, preconditioning, and postconditioning. Pharmacological Reviews 59 (4), pp.418-458. (10.1124/pr.107.06002)
• Giricz, Z. et al., 2007. Activation of cyclic GMP/PKG pathway fails to limit infarct size in hearts from hyperlipidaemic rats. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 42 (6), pp.S214-S214. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.03.647)
• Gorbe, A. et al., 2007. NO-cGMP-PKG signalling pathway involved in the protection of cardiac myocytes during hypoxia/reoxygenation. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 42 (6(S1)), pp.48-S49. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.03.137)
• Hamid, S. A. , Bower, H. S. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Rho kinase activation plays a major role as a mediator of irreversible injury in reperfused myocardium. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 292 (6), pp.H2598-H2606. (10.1152/ajpheart.01393.2006)
• Hamid, S. A. et al., 2007. NO/cGMP pathway in adrenomedullin mediated cardioprotection in mouse. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 42 (6), pp.S195. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.03.592)
• Kleinz, M. J. and Baxter, G. F. 2007. Apelin reduces myocardial reperfusion injury independent of PI3K/Akt and P70S6K [Abstract]. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 42 (6, S1), pp.S203. (10.1016/j.yjmcc.2007.03.616)

2003

• Baxter, G. F. , Kis, A. and Yellon, D. 2003. Second window of protection following myocardial preconditioning: an essential role of PI3 kinase and p70S6 kinase. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology 35 (9), pp.1063-1071. (10.1016/S0022-2828(03)00208-6)
• D'Souza, S. P. et al., 2003. B-type natriuretic peptide limits infarct size in rat isolated heart via KATP channel opening. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology 284 (5), pp.H1592-H1600. (10.1152/ajpheart.00902.2002)
• Baxter, G. F. , Kis, A. and Yellon, D. 2003. Role of nuclear factor-kB activation in acute ischaemia-reperfusion injury in myocardium. British Journal of Pharmacology 138 (5), pp.894-900. (10.1038/sj.bjp.0705108)