Background: Accumulated clinical trials and animal studies showed that Qiliqiangxin (QLQX), a traditional Chinese medicine formula containing extracts of 11 herbs, exerts beneficial effects on chronic heart failure (HF). Citri Reticulatae Pericarpium …

BACKGROUND: The therapeutic armamentarium of bladder cancer has been recently enriched with the introduction of new therapies including immune checkpoint inhibitors, receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors and antibody drug conjugates, however treatment …

Background: Heart failure is a major health problem and progress in this field relies on better understanding of the mechanisms and development of novel therapeutics using animal models. The rat may be preferable to the mouse as a cardiovascular disease …

Cardiac hypertrophy is characterized by a shift in metabolic substrate utilization. Therefore, the regulation of ketone body uptake and metabolism may have beneficial effects on heart injuries that induce cardiac remodelling. In this study, we …

Brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) is an important biological marker and regulator of cardiac function. BNP resistance is characterized by high concentrations of less functionally effective BNP and common in heart failure (HF) patients. However, the roles …

Background: This study aimed to compare serum cystatin C (CysC) levels between hypertensive and non- hypertensive patients, and to explore the correlation between serum CysC and left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH). We also investigated the effects of …

The contribution of altered mitochondrial Ca2+ handling to metabolic and functional defects in type 2 diabetic (T2D) mouse hearts is not well understood. Here, we show that the T2D heart is metabolically inflexible and almost exclusively dependent on …

Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a fatal vascular disease with insidious symptoms. However, the mechanism behind its development remains unclear. The transient receptor potential vanilloid (TRPV) family has crucial protective effects against …

Aims Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a widespread disease with high global socio-economic impact. However, detailed pathomechanisms are still unclear, partly because current animal models of OSA do not simulate spontaneous airway obstruction. We tested …

Aims: Microvascular alterations occurring after myocardial infarction (MI) may represent a risk factor for multi-organ failure. Here we used in vivo photoacoustic (PA) imaging to track and define the changes in vascular oxygen saturation (sO 2 ) occurring …