Luteolin ameliorates hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension via regulating HIF-2α-Arg-NO axis and PI3K-AKT-eNOS-NO signaling pathway

L Ji, S Su, M Xin, Z Zhang, X Nan, Z Li, D Lu - Phytomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a devastating disease with poor prognosis and
high mortality. Hypoxia induced pulmonary hypertension (HPH) is a persistent threat to …

Exposure to low dose of Bisphenol A (BPA) intensifies kidney oxidative stress, inflammatory factors expression and modulates Angiotensin II signaling under …

M Nagarajan, GB Maadurshni… - Journal of Biochemical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Humans are constantly exposed to low concentrations of ubiquitous environmental pollutant,
Bisphenol A (BPA). Due to the prevalence of hypertension (one of the major risk factors of …

Ivabradine and blood pressure reduction: underlying pleiotropic mechanisms and clinical implications

F Simko, T Baka - Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Elevated heart rate (HR) is a well-recognized but somewhat neglected risk factor among the
healthy population and various cardiovascular pathologies (1). High HR is fraught with a …

Lactacystin-induced kidney fibrosis: Protection by melatonin and captopril

K Repova, P Stanko, T Baka, K Krajcirovicova… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lactacystin is a specific proteasome inhibitor that blocks the hydrolysis of intracellular
proteins by ubiquitin/proteasome system inhibition. The administration of lactacystin to rats …

Curcumin Prevents Renal Damage of l‐NAME Induced Hypertension in by Reducing MMP‐2 and MMP‐9

BP Pereira, AO Silva, WMC Awata… - Cell Biochemistry …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the present study, we investigated whether curcumin administration would interfere with
the main renal features of l‐NAME‐induced hypertension model. For this purpose, we …

Ivabradine treatment lowers blood pressure and promotes cardiac and renal protection in spontaneously hypertensive rats

FAR Gomes, SISR Noronha, SCA Silva… - Life Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypertension is linked to hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) function,
expressed in excitable and non-excitable cells. Considering that the reduction in heart rate …

Automated computer-assisted image analysis for the fast quantification of kidney fibrosis

EA Sánchez-Jaramillo, LE Gasca-Lozano… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Chronic kidney disease is a health problem in which the kidneys cannot
function normally. Thus, they cannot filter blood effectively and cause waste accumulation in …

Tsantan Sumtang, a traditional Tibetan medicine, protects pulmonary vascular endothelial function of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension rats through AKT …

N Li, S Su, X Xie, Z Yang, Z Li, D Lu - Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Ethnopharmacological relevance Tsantan Sumtang (TS), originated from the Four
Tantras, is an empirical Tibetan medicine prescription, which has been widely used for …

Periplaneta americana extract attenuates hepatic fibrosis progression by inhibiting collagen synthesis and regulating the TGF-β1/Smad signaling pathway

Y Chen, Y Zhao, L Yuan, Y He… - Folia Histochemica et …, 2023 - journals.viamedica.pl
Introduction. Liver fibrosis is the damage repair response following chronic liver diseases.
Activated hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) are the main extracellular matrix (ECM)-producing …

Sacubitril/Valsartan Alleviates Cardiac Remodeling and Dysfunction in L-NAME-Induced Hypertension and Hypertensive Heart Disease

P Stanko, K Repova, T Baka, K Krajcirovicova… - Biomedicines, 2024 - mdpi.com
There is ample evidence on the benefit of angiotensin receptor-neprilysin inhibitors (ARNIs)
in heart failure, yet data regarding the potential protective action of ARNIs in hypertensive …