Mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle contraction and the basis for pharmacologic treatment of smooth muscle disorders

FV Brozovich, CJ Nicholson, CV Degen, YZ Gao… - Pharmacological …, 2016 - ASPET
The smooth muscle cell directly drives the contraction of the vascular wall and hence
regulates the size of the blood vessel lumen. We review here the current understanding of …

Vascular smooth muscle remodeling in conductive and resistance arteries in hypertension

IAM Brown, L Diederich, ME Good… - … , and vascular biology, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death worldwide and accounts for> 17.3
million deaths per year, with an estimated increase in incidence to 23.6 million by 2030 …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular genetics of human obesity: A comprehensive review

RK Singh, P Kumar, K Mahalingam - Comptes rendus biologies, 2017 - Elsevier
Obesity and its related health complications is a major problem worldwide. Hypothalamus
and their signalling molecules play a critical role in the intervening and coordination with …

GLP-1 receptor activation and Epac2 link atrial natriuretic peptide secretion to control of blood pressure

M Kim, MJ Platt, T Shibasaki, SE Quaggin, PH Backx… - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Abstract Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor (GLP-1R) agonists exert antihypertensive actions
through incompletely understood mechanisms. Here we demonstrate that cardiac Glp1r …

Meta-analysis identifies common and rare variants influencing blood pressure and overlapping with metabolic trait loci

C Liu, AT Kraja, JA Smith, JA Brody, N Franceschini… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Meta-analyses of association results for blood pressure using exome-centric single-variant
and gene-based tests identified 31 new loci in a discovery stage among 146,562 …

Genetic and molecular aspects of hypertension

S Padmanabhan, M Caulfield… - Circulation research, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Until recently, significant advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of blood
pressure regulation arose from studies of monogenic forms of hypertension and …

Common noncoding UMOD gene variants induce salt-sensitive hypertension and kidney damage by increasing uromodulin expression

M Trudu, S Janas, C Lanzani, H Debaix, C Schaeffer… - Nature medicine, 2013 - nature.com
Hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD) are complex traits representing major
global health problems 1, 2. Multiple genome-wide association studies have identified …

Removal of drug losartan in environmental aquatic matrices by heat-activated persulfate: Kinetics, transformation products and synergistic effects

A Ioannidi, OS Arvaniti, MC Nika, R Aalizadeh… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the oxidative degradation of losartan (LOS), a widely administered medicine for
high blood pressure by heat-activated persulfate was investigated. Increased temperature …

Pressure natriuresis and the renal control of arterial blood pressure

JR Ivy, MA Bailey - The Journal of physiology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The regulation of extracellular fluid volume by renal sodium excretion lies at the centre of
blood pressure homeostasis. Renal perfusion pressure can directly regulate sodium …

Risk of hypertension into adulthood in persons born prematurely: a national cohort study

C Crump, J Sundquist, K Sundquist - European Heart Journal, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Aims Preterm birth has been associated with elevated blood pressure early in life; however,
hypertension risks from childhood into adulthood remain unclear. We conducted a large …