Approximately 100,000 primary and metastatic brain tumor patients/year in the US survive
long enough (> 6 months) to experience radiation-induced brain injury. Prior to 1970, the …

Sex differences between women and men are often overlooked and underappreciated when
studying the cardiovascular system. It has been long assumed that men and women are …

Hypertension is the major controllable risk factor associated with cardiovascular disease
(CVD) events such as myocardial infarction, stroke, heart failure, and end-stage diabetes. A …

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is a newly discovered carboxy-peptidase
responsible for the formation of vasodilatory peptides such as angiotensin-(1–7). We …

Hypoxia is one of the most common and severe challenges to the maintenance of
homeostasis. Oxygen sensing is a property of all tissues, and the response to hypoxia is …

Food proteins contain latent biofunctional peptide sequences within their primary structures
which may have the ability to exert a physiological response in vivo. A large range of …

Abstract Background SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus (CoV), is known to cause acute respiratory
distress syndrome, and a number of non-respiratory complications, particularly in older male …

Abstract Each year, approximately 200,000 patients in the United States will receive partial-
or whole-brain irradiation for the treatment of primary or metastatic brain cancer. Early and …

Pontine respiratory nuclei provide synaptic input to medullary rhythmogenic circuits to shape
and adapt the breathing pattern. An understanding of this statement depends on …

The kidney is innervated with efferent sympathetic nerve fibers that directly contact the
vasculature, the renal tubules, and the juxtaglomerular granular cells. Via specific …