| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Interferon-β Treatment Eliminates Cardiotropic Viruses and Improves Left Ventricular Function in Patients With Myocardial Persistence of Viral Genomes and Left Ventricular Dysfunction | Circulation | 2003 | 472 |
| 2 | Differential regulation of in vivo angiogenesis by angiotensin II receptors | FASEB Journal | 2003 | 110 |
| 3 | Ischemic injury in experimental stroke depends on angiotensin II | FASEB Journal | 2002 | 99 |
| 4 | Induction of Coxsackievirus-Adenovirus–Receptor Expression During Myocardial Tissue Formation and Remodeling | Circulation | 2003 | 91 |
| 5 | Trans-complementation of vector replication versus Coxsackie-adenovirus-receptor overexpression to improve transgene expression in poorly permissive cancer cells | Gene Therapy | 2000 | 81 |
| 6 | Upregulation of bradykinin B1-receptor expression after myocardial infarction | British Journal of Pharmacology | 2000 | 57 |
| 7 | C-type natriuretic peptide in reproduction, pregnancy and fetal development | Journal of Endocrinology | 2004 | 48 |
| 8 | Myocardial bradykinin B2-receptor expression at different time points after induction of myocardial infarction | Journal of Hypertension | 2000 | 47 |
| 9 | Antihypertensive and cardioprotective effects after angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition: Role of kinins | Journal of Cardiac Failure | 1997 | 41 |
| 10 | Regulation of cardiac bradykinin B1- and B2-receptor mRNA in experimental ischemic, diabetic, and pressure-overload-induced cardiomyopathy | International Immunopharmacology | 2002 | 40 |
| 11 | Molecular characterisation of the defective α1-antitrypsin alleles PI Mwürzburg (Pro369Ser), Mheerlen (Pro369Leu), and Q0lisbon (Thr68lle) | European Journal of Human Genetics | 1999 | 37 |
| 12 | Regulation of the kinin receptors after induction of myocardial infarction: a mini-review | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research | 2000 | 37 |
| 13 | Dual natriuretic peptide response to volume load in the fetal circulation | Cardiovascular Research | 2001 | 37 |
| 14 | Myocardial expression of rat bradykinin receptors and two tissue kallikrein genes in experimental diabetes | Immunopharmacology | 1999 | 35 |
| 15 | Highly variable expression of virus receptors in the human cardiovascular system | Clinical Research in Cardiology | 2002 | 33 |
| 16 | Natriuretic peptide system in fetal heart and circulation | Journal of Hypertension | 2002 | 31 |
| 17 | Kinins are involved in the antiproteinuric effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition in experimental diabetic nephropathy | International Immunopharmacology | 2003 | 28 |
| 18 | Functional, biochemical, and molecular investigations of renal kallikrein-kinin system in diabetic rats | American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 1999 | 26 |
| 19 | Fibrosis rather than blood pressure determines cardiac BNP expression in mice | Regulatory Peptides | 2003 | 26 |
| 20 | Up‐regulation of PPARγ in myocardial infarction | European Journal of Heart Failure | 2008 | 25 |
| 21 | ‘Autoreplication’ of the vector genome in recombinant adenoviral vectors with different E1 region deletions and transgenes | Gene Therapy | 1999 | 24 |
| 22 | AT1 receptor blockade increases cardiac bradykinin via neutral endopeptidase after induction of myocardial infarction in rats | FASEB Journal | 2002 | 23 |
| 23 | CAR-diology—a virus receptor in the healthy and diseased heart | Journal of Molecular Medicine | 2009 | 23 |
| 24 | Cardiac kinin level in experimental diabetes mellitus: role of kininases | American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology | 2003 | 19 |
| 25 | Adenovirus-mediated overexpression and stimulation of the human angiotensin II type 2 receptor in porcine cardiac fibroblasts does not modulate proliferation, collagen I mRNA expression and ERK1/ERK2 activity, but inhibits protein tyrosine phosphatases | Journal of Molecular Medicine | 2001 | 18 |
| 26 | Upregulation of the cardiac bradykinin B2 receptors after myocardial infarction | Immunopharmacology | 1999 | 15 |
| 27 | Fetal, neonatal cord, and maternal plasma concentrations of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) | Prenatal Diagnosis | 2002 | 14 |
| 28 | Left ventricular function in mice lacking the AT2 receptor | Journal of Hypertension | 2001 | 12 |
| 29 | Expression of C-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Human Placenta and Myometrium in Normal Pregnancies and Pregnancies Complicated by Intrauterine Growth Retardation | Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy | 2002 | 12 |
| 30 | Analysis of expression kinetics and activity of a new B-domain truncated and full-length FVIII protein in three different cell lines | Annals of Hematology | 1999 | 11 |
| 31 | Renal expression of two rat kallikrein genes under diabetic conditions | Journal of Hypertension | 1997 | 8 |
| 32 | Impaired angiotensin II regulation of renal C-type natriuretic peptide mRNA expression in experimental diabetes mellitus | Cardiovascular Research | 2001 | 7 |
| 33 | The molecular basis of cardiotropic viral infections | European Heart Journal Supplements | 2002 | 6 |
| 34 | Magnetocardiographic turbulence analysis in patients with the long QT syndrome | Journal of Electrocardiology | 1998 | 4 |
| 35 | Nucleic acid-based modulation of cardiac gene expression for the treatment of cardiac diseases | Clinical Research in Cardiology | 2004 | 4 |
| 36 | A Nucleotide Deletion Causing a Translational Stop in the Protease Reading Frame of Bovine Leukaemia Virus (BLV) Results in Modified Protein Expression and Loss of Infectivity | Zoonoses and Public Health | 2000 | 2 |
