Ashikaga H, Covell JW, Omens JH: Diastolic dysfunction in volume-overload hypertrophy is associated with abnormal shearing of myolaminar sheets. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2005 288:2603-2610 Download pdf
Weis SM, Zimmerman SD, Shah M, Covell JW, Omens JH, Ross J Jr, Dalton N, Jones Y, Reed CC, Iozzo RV, McCulloch AD: A role for decorin in the remodeling of myocardial infarction. Matrix Biol 2005 24:313-324 Download pdf
Garcia RA, Brown KL, Pavelec RS, Go KV, Covell JW, Villarreal FV: Abnormal cardiac wall motion and early matrix metalloproteinase activity. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2005 288:H1080-H1087 Download pdf
Lorenzen-Schmidt I, McCulloch AD, Omens JH: Deficiency of actinin-associated LIM protein alters regional right ventricular function and hypertrophic remodeling. Ann Biomed Eng 2005 33:890-898 Download pdf
Lorenzen-Schmidt I, Stuyvers BD, ter Keurs HEDJ, Date M, Hoshijima M, Chien K, McCulloch AD, Omens JH: Young MLP deficient mice show diastolic dysfunction before the onset of dilated cardiomyopathy. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2005 39:241-250 Download pdf
Villarreal FJ, Asbun J: Peroxisome proliferator–activated receptors ligands, oxidative stress, and cardiac fibroblast extracellular matrix turnover. Hypertension 2004;44:621-622 Download pdf
Asbun J, Manso AM, Villarreal FJ: Profibrotic influence of high glucose concentration on cardiac fibroblast functions: effects of losartan and vitamin E. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2005 288:H227–H234 Download pdf
Garcia RA, Pantazatos DP, Gessner CR, Go KV, Woods VL, Jr., Villarreal FJ: Molecular interactions between matrilysin and the matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor doxycycline investigated by deuterium exchange mass spectrometry. Mol Pharmacol 2005 67:1128–1136 Download pdf
Griffin MO, Jinno M, Miles LA, Villarreal FJ: Reduction of myocardial infarct size by doxycycline: A role for plasmin inhibition. Mol Cell Biochem 2005 270:1–11 Download pdf
Zhou D, Lee HS, Villarreal FJ, Teng A, Lu E, Reynolds S, Qin C, Smith J, Sung KLP: Differential MMP-2 activity of ligament cells under mechanical stretch injury: An in vitro study on human ACL and MCL fibroblasts. J Orthopaedic Res 2005 23:949–957 Download pdf
Puerta DT, Griffin MO, Lewis JA, Romero-Perez D, Garcia R, Villarreal FJ, Cohen SM: Heterocyclic zinc-binding groups for use in next-generation matrixmetalloproteinase inhibitors: potency, toxicity, and reactivity. J Biol Inorg Chem 2006 11:131-8 Download pdf
Asbun J, Villarreal FJ: The pathogenesis of myocardial fibrosis in the setting of diabetic cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006 47:693-700 Download pdf