Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: heterogeneous syndrome, diverse preclinical models

J Roh, JA Hill, A Singh, M Valero-Muñoz… - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) represents one of the greatest
challenges facing cardiovascular medicine today. Despite being the most common form of …

Small animal models of heart failure

C Riehle, J Bauersachs - Cardiovascular research, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Heart disease is a major cause of death worldwide with increasing prevalence, which urges
the development of new therapeutic strategies. Over the last few decades, numerous small …

Murine models of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a “fishing expedition”

M Valero-Muñoz, W Backman, F Sam - Basic to Translational Science, 2017 - jacc.org
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is characterized by signs and
symptoms of heart failure in the presence of a normal left ventricular ejection fraction …

Animal models of aging research: implications for human aging and age-related diseases

SJ Mitchell, M Scheibye-Knudsen… - Annu. Rev. Anim …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Aging is characterized by an increasing morbidity and functional decline that eventually
results in the death of an organism. Aging is the largest risk factor for numerous human …

The processes and mechanisms of cardiac and pulmonary fibrosis

LA Murtha, MJ Schuliga, NS Mabotuwana… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Fibrosis is the formation of fibrous connective tissue in response to injury. It is characterized
by the accumulation of extracellular matrix components, particularly collagen, at the site of …

The influence of dietary salt beyond blood pressure

AT Robinson, DG Edwards, WB Farquhar - Current hypertension reports, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Excess sodium from dietary salt (NaCl) is linked to elevations in
blood pressure (BP). However, salt sensitivity of BP varies widely between individuals and …

ESC working group on cardiac cellular electrophysiology position paper: relevance, opportunities, and limitations of experimental models for cardiac electrophysiology …

KE Odening, AM Gomez, D Dobrev, L Fabritz… - EP …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Cardiac arrhythmias are a major cause of death and disability. A large number of
experimental cell and animal models have been developed to study arrhythmogenic …

Reciprocal organ interactions during heart failure: a position paper from the ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function

M Ciccarelli, D Dawson, I Falcao-Pires… - Cardiovascular …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Heart failure—either with reduced or preserved ejection fraction (HFrEF/HFpEF)—is a
clinical syndrome of multifactorial and gender-dependent aetiology, indicating the …

Loss of endothelial endoglin promotes high-output heart failure through peripheral arteriovenous shunting driven by VEGF signaling

S Tual-Chalot, M Garcia-Collado… - Circulation …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: ENG (endoglin) is a coreceptor for BMP (bone morphogenetic protein) 9/10 and
is strongly expressed in endothelial cells. Mutations in ENG lead to the inherited vascular …

Metabolomic and transcriptomic signatures of chemogenetic heart failure

F Spyropoulos, A Sorrentino… - American Journal …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
The failing heart is characterized by elevated levels of reactive oxygen species. We have
developed an animal model of heart failure induced by chemogenetic production of …