Discover CircRes February 2026

About this episode

In this episode, Cindy St. Hilaire discusses recent articles from Circulation Research and interviews researchers about their study on vascular smooth muscle cells.

This month on Episode 81 of Discover CircRes , host Cindy St. Hilaire highlights articles featured in the January 30th and February 13th issue of Circulation Research . This Episode also features a discussion with Dr Claudia Goettsch and Nicolas Hense, about their study, 1-Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate 5-Kinase Inhibition by Apilimod Promotes an Adipocyte-like Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype and Prevents Arterial Calcification. Article highlights: Hu, et al. CircZBTB44 Inhibits Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Schemelei, et al. Olfr2 Aggravates AAA Formation Zhang, et al. Neratinib Protects Against Atherosclerosis Sun, et al. CD34+ Cells in Transplants

People in this episode

Host: Cindy St. Hilaire

Guests: Nicolas Hense, Dr Claudia Goettsch

Topics covered

• Circulation Research
• vascular smooth muscle cells
• arterial calcification
• adipocyte-like phenotype

Keywords

• 1-Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate 5-Kinase
• Apilimod
• adipocyte-like phenotype

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