About this episode

In this episode, host Cindy St. Hilaire discusses recent articles from Circulation Research and interviews Drs. Swapnil Sonkusare and Mani Kuppusamy about their research on blood pressure elevation in obesity.

This month on Episode 76 of Discover CircRes , host Cindy St. Hilaire highlights articles featured in the August 29th and September 12th issues of Circulation Research . This Episode also features a discussion with Drs Swapnil Sonkusare and Mani Kuppusamy about their manuscript, Paracrine Smooth Muscle-to-Endothelial Signaling via TNF Elevates Blood Pressure in Obesity . Article highlights: Tombor, et al. Immunomodulatory Endothelial Cells After Heart Attack Du, et al. CAR-Ms Engineered In Vivo for Attenuating MIRI Pauza, et al. MC4R Activates Carotid Body in Hypertension Cai, et al. Lkb1 KO in PVAT Drives Aortic Aneurysm Formation

Topics covered

• Circulation Research
• blood pressure
• obesity
• endothelial cells
• heart attack

Keywords

• paracrine signaling
• smooth muscle
• endothelial signaling
• immunomodulatory cells
• MIRI

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