Cellular and molecular pathobiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

S Mishra, DA Kass - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects half of all patients with heart
failure worldwide, is increasing in prevalence, confers substantial morbidity and mortality …

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 …

Cardioprotection and lifespan extension by the natural polyamine spermidine

T Eisenberg, M Abdellatif, S Schroeder, U Primessnig… - Nature medicine, 2016 - nature.com
Aging is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease and death. Here we
show that oral supplementation of the natural polyamine spermidine extends the lifespan of …

Animal models of hypertension: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

LO Lerman, TW Kurtz, RM Touyz, DH Ellison… - …, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertension is the most common chronic disease in the world, yet the precise cause of
elevated blood pressure often cannot be determined. Animal models have been useful for …

Empagliflozin blunts worsening cardiac dysfunction associated with reduced NLRP3 (nucleotide-binding domain-like receptor protein 3) inflammasome activation in …

NJ Byrne, N Matsumura, ZH Maayah… - Circulation: Heart …, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Although empagliflozin was shown to profoundly reduce cardiovascular events
in diabetic patients and blunt the decline in cardiac function in nondiabetic mice with …

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 and animal-free innovations for cardiovascular research: current status and routes to be explored. Consensus document of the ESC Working Group on …

J van der Velden, FW Asselbergs… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cardiovascular diseases represent a major cause of morbidity and mortality, necessitating
research to improve diagnostics, and to discover and test novel preventive and curative …

Activated vitamin D attenuates left ventricular abnormalities induced by dietary sodium in Dahl salt-sensitive animals

N Bodyak, JC Ayus, S Achinger… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
Observations in hemodialysis patients suggest a survival advantage associated with
activated vitamin D therapy. Left ventricular (LV) structural and functional abnormalities are …

Uncoupled cardiac nitric oxide synthase mediates diastolic dysfunction

GA Silberman, THM Fan, H Liu, Z Jiao, HD Xiao… - Circulation, 2010 - Am Heart Assoc
Background—Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is 1 consequence of
hypertension and is caused by impaired cardiac diastolic relaxation. Nitric oxide (NO) is a …

Animal models of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

G Conceição, I Heinonen, AP Lourenço… - Netherlands Heart …, 2016 - Springer
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) constitutes a clinical syndrome in
which the diagnostic criteria of heart failure are not accompanied by gross disturbances of …