The gut microbiota maintains a complex mutual interaction with different organs of the host.
Whereas in normal conditions this natural community of trillions of microorganisms greatly …

The fact that millions of people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's disease (AD) or
Parkinson's disease (PD), the two most prevalent neurodegenerative diseases (NDs), has …

Almost a hundred years have passed since obstruction of the renal artery has been
recognized to raise blood pressure. By now chronic renovascular disease (RVD) due to …

Background Oxidative stress and DNA damage have been implicated in the pathogenesis of
renovascular hypertension induced by renal artery stenosis in the two-kidney, one-clip …

Background Several studies have confirmed that mobilizing bone marrow-derived stem cells
(BMSCs) ameliorates renal function loss following cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury …

Background The clipping of an artery supplying one of the two kidneys (2K1C) activates the
renin-angiotensin (Ang) system (RAS), resulting in hypertension and endothelial …

The usefulness of selective inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE5) is well known, first for
the treatment of male erectile dysfunction and more recently for pulmonary hypertension …

Contrast-induced nephropathy (CIN) is an iatrogenic medical event for which there is not yet
a successful therapy. Increasing evidence in rodents has suggested that this disease is …

Objective This experimental study was designed to evaluate the effect of granulocyte colony-
stimulating factor (G-CSF) in ovarian ischemia and ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury. Study …

It has been proposed that the nonhemodynamic effects of angiotensin II are important for the
damage observed in the two‐kidney, one‐clip (2K1C) renovascular hypertension model …