Clinical Science

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α-Adrenergic blockade prevented environmental temperature reduction-induced transient portal pressure surge in cirrhotic and portal hypertensive rats	279
Expression of Concern: Angiopoietin-1 gene transfer improves impaired wound healing in genetically diabetic mice without increasing VEGF expression	214
Novel preventive effect of isorhamnetin on electrical and structural remodeling in atrial fibrillation	210
Paradoxical effects of osteoprotegerin on vascular function: inhibiting inflammation while promoting oxidative stress?	195
Diminished Rbfox1 increases vascular constriction by dynamically regulating alternative splicing of CaV1.2 calcium channel in hypertension	159
Maintaining energy provision in the heart: the creatine kinase system in ischaemia–reperfusion injury and chronic heart failure	133
The fatty acid imbalance of cystic fibrosis exists at birth independent of feeding in pig and ferret models	109
Severe psychiatric disorders and general medical comorbidities: inflammation-related mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities	80
Metal regulation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis SufB intein splicing at the host–pathogen crossroad	70
Effect of metformin in a novel experimental model of peripheral artery disease	58
Measuring muscle protein synthesis in humans and the influence of nutritional state	55
Cardiovascular research at the Heart of Clinical Science	54
Transcriptome-based exploration of potential molecular targets and mechanisms of selenomethionine in alleviating renal ischemia–reperfusion injury	52
Osteoprotegerin regulates vascular function through syndecan-1 and NADPH oxidase-derived reactive oxygen species	49
CEACAM5 inhibits the lymphatic metastasis of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by regulating epithelial–mesenchymal transition via inhibiting MDM2	48
Alkali therapy protects renal function, suppresses inflammation, and improves cellular metabolism in kidney disease	47
Correction: Enhanced expression of pro-inflammatory mediators and liver X-receptor-regulated lipogenic genes in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and hepatitis C	46
Antiviral activities of hemp cannabinoids	45
Renal hypertrophy and hyperfiltration is enhanced in early acquired compared with a congenital solitary function kidney model in sheep	45
Oxytocin: much more than childbirth and milk letdown	44
Tetramethylpyrazine attenuates renal tubular epithelial cell ferroptosis in contrast-induced nephropathy by inhibiting transferrin receptor and intracellular reactive oxygen species	44
Hypertension induces gonadal macrophage imbalance, inflammation, lymphangiogenesis, and dysfunction	44
Higher circulating ACE2 and DPP3 but reduced ACE and angiotensinogen in hyperreninemic sepsis patients	43
Beneficial effects of simultaneously targeting calorie intake and calorie efficiency in diet-induced obese mice	43
Targeting TLR4/3 using chlorogenic acid ameliorates LPS+POLY I:C-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome via alleviating oxidative stress-mediated NLRP3/NF-κB axis	43

Vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia: the emerging role of 20-HETE	39
Maternal high-fat diet regulates offspring hepatic ABCG5 expression and cholesterol metabolism via the gut microbiota and its derived butyrate	36
Correction: Silencing GOLGA8B inhibits cell invasion and metastasis by suppressing STAT3 signaling pathway in lung squamous cell carcinoma	36
NPFFR2-deficient mice fed a high-fat diet develop strong intolerance to glucose	34
The membrane-associated protein 17 (MAP17) is up-regulated in response to empagliflozin on top of RAS blockade in experimental diabetic nephropathy	34
Sex, sepsis and the brain: defining the role of sexual dimorphism on neurocognitive outcomes after infection	33
Circulating cell-free micro-RNA as biomarkers: from myocardial infarction to hypertension	30
Annexin A1 treatment prevents the evolution to fibrosis of experimental nonalcoholic steatohepatitis	30
Differential changes in end organ immune cells and inflammation in salt-sensitive hypertension: effects of increasing M2 macrophages	29
Differential changes in end organ immune cells and inflammation in salt-sensitive hypertension: effects of lowering blood pressure	28
IFN-γ induces acute graft-versus-host disease by promoting HMGB1-mediated nuclear-to-cytoplasm translocation and autophagic degradation of p53	28
Adverse effects of ovarian cryopreservation and auto-transplantation on ovarian grafts and quality of produced oocytes in a mouse model	26
Utility of preclinical models of altered maternal nutrition to support the developmental origins of health and disease hypothesis	26
Serum proteomics links the cardiorespiratory biomarkers CTRC, OSM, and MMP-10 to exacerbation severity and number in patients with COPD	26
Set7 methyltransferase roles in myocardial protection from chronic stressors	26
New insights into the pathophysiology and therapeutic targets of asthma and comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyposis	25
Skeletal muscle immobilisation-induced atrophy: mechanistic insights from human studies	25
By what molecular mechanisms do social determinants impact cardiometabolic risk?	25
Hemodynamic phenotyping of transgenic rats with ubiquitous expression of an angiotensin-(1-7)-producing fusion protein	23
Expression of Concern: Short-term early exposure to thirdhand cigarette smoke increases lung cancer incidence in mice	22
MicroRNAs as messengers of liver diseases: has the message finally been decrypted?	22
Piezo channels in JG cells do not regulate renin expression or renin release to the circulation	22
Paternal long-term PM2.5 exposure causes hypertension via increased renal AT1R expression and function in male offspring	21
Endothelin and the tumor microenvironment: a finger in every pie	21
Correction: The vascular Na,K-ATPase: clinical implications in stroke, migraine, and hypertension	21
Human placental lipid content and lipid metabolic enzyme abundance in obesity and across gestation	21
Molecular and cellular regulation of psoriatic inflammation	20
Placental trophoblast-specific overexpression of chemerin induces preeclampsia-like symptoms	20
Enhanced STAT3/PIK3R1/mTOR signaling triggers tubular cell inflammation and apoptosis in septic-induced acute kidney injury: implications for therapeutic intervention	20
Neuregulin modulates hormone receptor levels in breast cancer through concerted action on multiple signaling pathways	20
The O-GlcNAc dichotomy: when does adaptation become pathological?	19
Correction: Novel insights in endocrine and metabolic pathways in sepsis and gaps for future research	19
Cellular senescence and kidney aging	19
Promoting mitochondrial fusion in doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity: a novel therapeutic target for cardioprotection	18
Alveolar epithelial cells of lung fibrosis patients are susceptible to severe virus-induced injury	18
Klotho and calciprotein particles as therapeutic targets against accelerated ageing	18
High sodium promotes the secretion and synthesis of PTH through PiT-1-IKKβ pathway in parathyroid gland in vitro	18
Inflammatory liver diseases and susceptibility to sepsis	18
SARS-CoV-2 spike protein causes cardiovascular disease independent of viral infection	17
Vascular dysfunction in COVID-19 patients: update on SARS-CoV-2 infection of endothelial cells and the role of long non-coding RNAs	17
Intermittent short-duration reoxygenation relieves high-altitude pulmonary hypertension via NOX4/H2O2/PPAR-γ axis	17
SDMA as a marker and mediator in cerebrovascular disease	17
Molecular regulators of defective placental and cardiovascular development in fetal growth restriction	17
Translating atherosclerosis research from bench to bedside: navigating the barriers for effective preclinical drug discovery	17
The emerging role of LRRK2 in tauopathies	17
Protective effect of mesenchymal stromal cells in diabetic nephropathy: the In vitro and In vivo role of the M-Sec-tunneling nanotubes	17
Alpha7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mediates chronic nicotine inhalation-induced cardiopulmonary dysfunction	17
Participation of the spleen in the neuroinflammation after pilocarpine-induced status epilepticus: implications for epileptogenesis and epilepsy	16
Early detection and progression of insulin resistance revealed by impaired organismal anti-inflammatory heat shock response during ex vivo whole-blood heat challenge	16
Brief early life angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition attenuates the diuretic response to saline loading in sheep with solitary functioning kidney	16

The novel AT2 receptor ligand, β-Pro7 Ang III, induces equivalent anti-fibrotic effects to Compound 21 but broader anti-fibrotic effects than pirfenidone in mice with bleomycin-induced pulmonary fibro	16
G-protein-coupled receptor MAS deletion produces a preeclampsia-like phenotype in FVB/N mice	16
Inhibition of Notch activity suppresses hyperglycemia-augmented polarization of macrophages to the M1 phenotype and alleviates acute pancreatitis	16
NaHCO3 loading causes increased arterial pressure and kidney damage in rats with chronic kidney disease	16
Retraction: Overexpression of TrpC5 promotes tumor metastasis via the HIF-1α/Twist signaling pathway in colon cancer	15
ANGPTL8 deletion attenuates abdominal aortic aneurysm formation in ApoE−/− mice	15
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) contributes to senescence and phenotypic changes in brain pericytes in diabetes-mimicking conditions	15
Osteoclast-derived exosomal miR-30a-3p promotes lead exposure-induced osteoporosis by triggering osteoblastic pyroptosis	15
Umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells from gestational diabetes show impaired ability to up-regulate paracellular permeability from sub-endothelial niche	15
Leptin antagonism attenuates hypertension and renal injury in an experimental model of autoimmune disease	15
A new mechanism of arterial calcification in diabetes: interaction between H3K18 lactylation and CHI3L1	15
The complex genetic basis of fibromuscular dysplasia, a systemic arteriopathy associated with multiple forms of cardiovascular disease	15
The role of microRNAs in pregnancies complicated by maternal diabetes	15
Urine-derived renal epithelial cells for deep phenotyping and transcriptomic response to therapy in Fabry disease	14
Endothelin-1 down-regulates nuclear factor erythroid 2-related factor-2 and contributes to perivascular adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity	14
Serpina3c Deficiency Promotes Obesity-related Hypertriglyceridemia and Inflammation through Activation of the Hif1α-glycolysis Axis in Adipose Tissue	14
Expression of Concern: Mitochondrial dynamic modulation exerts cardiometabolic protection in obese insulin-resistant rats	14
Harnessing 2D and 3D human endometrial cell culture models to investigate SARS-CoV-2 infection in early pregnancy	14
The importance of placental lipid metabolism across gestation in obese and non-obese pregnancies	14
Microbiota transplants from feces or gut content attenuated portal hypertension and portosystemic collaterals in cirrhotic rats	13
Augmented CCL5/CCR5 signaling in brown adipose tissue inhibits adaptive thermogenesis and worsens insulin resistance in obesity	13
Blockade of neddylation through targeted inhibition of DCN1 alleviates renal fibrosis	13
Regulation of Na+-K+-ATPase leads to disturbances of isoproterenol-induced cardiac dysfunction via interference of Ca2+-dependent cardiac metabolism	13
Structural functionality of skeletal muscle mitochondria and its correlation with metabolic diseases	13
SMAD5 as a novel gene for familial pulmonary arterial hypertension	13
PE (0:0/14:0), an endogenous metabolite of the gut microbiota, exerts protective effects against sepsis-induced intestinal injury by modulating the AHR/CYP1A1 pathway	13
Novel mediators of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	13
Correction: Cigarette smoke induces mitochondrial DNA damage and activates cGAS-STING pathway -Application to a biomarker for atherosclerosis	12
Chronic activation of AMP-activated protein kinase leads to early-onset polycystic kidney phenotype	12
When the liver is in poor condition, so is the heart – cardiac remodelling in MASH mouse models	12
Molecular mechanisms of tumour budding and its association with microenvironment in colorectal cancer	12
Biological tuners to reshape the bile acid pool for therapeutic purposes in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease	12
Skeletal muscle dysfunction with advancing age	12
Hypertension: a lymphatic disease?	12
Correction: New insights into the pathophysiology and therapeutic targets of asthma and comorbid chronic rhinosinusitis with or without nasal polyposis	12
CGRP alleviates lipopolysaccharide-induced ARDS inflammation via the HIF-1α signaling pathway	12
Angiotensin II type-2-receptor stimulation ameliorates focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis in mice	12
Differences in endothelial function between patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes: effects of red blood cells and arginase	12
RNA-binding protein HuR regulates the transition of septic AKI to CKD by modulating CD147	12
Elevated phenylacetylglutamine caused by gut dysbiosis associated with type 2 diabetes increases neutrophil extracellular traps formation and exacerbates brain infarction	11
Epigenomic alterations in cancer: mechanisms and therapeutic potential	11
Iron and mitochondria in the susceptibility, pathogenesis and progression of COPD	11
Brahma-related gene-1 promotes tubular senescence and renal fibrosis through Wnt/β-catenin/autophagy axis	11
Mechanistic insights into the development of severe fetal growth restriction	11
Vascular remodelling in cardiovascular diseases: hypertension, oxidation, and inflammation	11
Depot-specific adipose tissue modulation by SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP1 agonists mediates their cardioprotective effects in metabolic disease	11
The presence of xanthine dehydrogenase is crucial for the maturation of the rat kidneys	11
Cardiomyocyte BRAF is a key signalling intermediate in cardiac hypertrophy in mice	11
Cancer and sepsis	11
Sex differences in hypertension: lessons from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR)	11
Emergent players in renovascular disease	11
Silencing GOLGA8B inhibits cell invasion and metastasis by suppressing STAT3 signaling pathway in lung squamous cell carcinoma	11
Circulating biomarkers associated with placental dysfunction and their utility for predicting fetal growth restriction	11
Maternal glucagon-like peptide-1 is positively associated with fetal growth in pregnancies complicated with obesity	10
The immunology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction	10
Inhibition of HDAC3 protects against kidney cold storage/transplantation injury and allograft dysfunction	10
Spectrum of DNA mismatch repair failures viewed through the lens of cancer genomics and implications for therapy	10
Intervention treatment reducing cellular senescence inhibits tubulointerstitial fibrosis in diabetic mice following acute kidney injury	10
The long noncoding RNA Meg3 mediates TLR4-induced inflammation in experimental obstructive nephropathy	10
Placental syndromes and maternal cardiovascular health	9
Novel insights in endocrine and metabolic pathways in sepsis and gaps for future research	9
Urocortins as biomarkers in cardiovascular disease	9
DY131 activates ERRγ/TFAM axis to protect against metabolic disorders and acute kidney injury	9
Adverse renal effects of NLRP3 inflammasome inhibition by MCC950 in an interventional model of diabetic kidney disease	9
Destabilisation of T cell-dependent humoral immunity in sepsis	9
Inhalation of dimethyl fumarate-encapsulated solid lipid nanoparticles attenuate clinical signs of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis and pulmonary inflammatory dysfunction in mice	9
Mechanism of protective actions of sparsentan in the kidney: lessons from studies in models of chronic kidney disease	9
Increased β1-adrenergic receptor antibody confers a vulnerable substrate for atrial fibrillation via mediating Ca2+ mishandling and atrial fibrosis in active immunization rabbit models	9
CircRBM23 regulates the switch between osteogenesis and adipogenesis of mesenchymal stem cells via sponging miR-338-3p	9
Cardioprotective and anti-inflammatory effects of Caveolin 1 in experimental diabetic cardiomyopathy	9
Sex differences in white adipose tissue expansion: emerging molecular mechanisms	9
Autophagy in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	9
Endothelin-1 receptor blockade impairs invasion patterns in engineered 3D high-grade serous ovarian cancer tumouroids	9
Increased absorptive transcytosis and tight junction weakness in heart failure are equally corrected by exercise training and losartan	8
Sexual dimorphism in acute myocardial infarction-induced acute kidney injury: cardiorenal deteriorating effects of ovariectomy in premenopausal female mice	8
Excess ischemic tachyarrhythmias trigger protection against myocardial infarction in hypertensive rats	8
Persistent vascular congestion in male spontaneously hypertensive rats contributes to delayed recovery of renal function following renal ischemia perfusion compared with females	8
Hallmarks of ageing in human skeletal muscle and implications for understanding the pathophysiology of sarcopenia in women and men	8
TNF/iNOS/NO pathway mediates host susceptibility to endothelial-dependent circulatory failure and death induced by betacoronavirus infection	8
High-volume endurance exercise training stimulates hematopoiesis by increasing ACE NH2-terminal activity	8

Prodrug of ICRF-193 provides promising protective effects against chronic anthracycline cardiotoxicity in a rabbit modelin vivo	8
Aging and sinus node dysfunction: mechanisms and future directions	8
Nicotine promotes AngII-induced abdominal aortic aortopathies in female and male mice: role of sex hormones	8
Maternal ketone supplementation throughout gestation improves neonatal cardiac dysfunction caused by perinatal iron deficiency	8
pH-sensor GPR68 plays a role in how dietary fibre lowers blood pressure in a preclinical model of hypertension	8
Blood–brain barrier lesion – a novel determinant of autonomic imbalance in heart failure and the effects of exercise training	8
Myeloid cell-specific deletion of epidermal growth factor receptor aggravates acute cardiac injury	8
Chronic GPER activation prompted the proliferation of ileal stem cell in ovariectomized mice depending on Paneth cell–derived Wnt3	8
Circadian regulation of pulmonary disease: the importance of timing	8
Down-regulation of ALDOB during metabolic reprogramming mediates malignant behavior in hepatocellular carcinoma and insensitivity to postoperative adjuvant transarterial chemoembolization	8
Ebselen abolishes vascular dysfunction in influenza A virus-induced exacerbations of cigarette smoke-induced lung inflammation in mice	8
Pathogenesis of pneumonia and acute lung injury	8
Insight into the roles of lactylation in macrophages: functions and clinical implications	8
Mechanisms of podocyte injury and implications for diabetic nephropathy	8
Dynamics of GRK2 in the kidney: a putative mechanism for sepsis-associated kidney injury	7
Exercise ameliorates skeletal muscle insulin resistance by modulating GRK4-mediated D1R expression	7
Correction: Mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonist eplerenone and MR modulator balcinrenone prevent renal extracellular matrix remodeling and inflammation via the MR/proteoglycan/TLR4 pathway	7
Importance of the gut microbiota in mice with a ‘humanized’ bile acid pool	7
Maternal intermittent fasting during pregnancy: a translational research challenge for an important clinical scenario	7
Loss of FoxO1 activates an alternate mechanism of mitochondrial quality control for healthy adipose browning	7
Dihydromyricetin ameliorates vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease by targeting AKT signaling	7
PARK7 is induced to protect against endotoxic acute kidney injury by suppressing NF-κB	7
Dysregulated haemostasis in thrombo-inflammatory disease	7
CXCL5 inhibition ameliorates acute kidney injury and prevents the progression from acute kidney injury to chronic kidney disease	7
New discoveries in bile acids, gut microbiota and host interactions in health and diseases	7
The HDAC2/SP1/miR-205 feedback loop contributes to tubular epithelial cell extracellular matrix production in diabetic kidney disease	7
Bile salt signaling and bile salt-based therapies in cardiometabolic disease	7
Smoking-induced microbial dysbiosis in health and disease	7
Gut microbiota depletion aggravates bile acid-induced liver pathology in mice with a human-like bile acid composition	7
Sex differences in angiotensin II-induced hypertension and kidney injury: role of AT1a receptors in the proximal tubule of the kidney	7
Physiological response to fetal intravenous lipid emulsion	7
Restoring lung renin-angiotensin system balance through blood pressure control	7
Astrocytes at the intersection of ageing, obesity, and neurodegeneration	7
Blocking of interleukin-1 suppresses angiotensin II-induced renal injury	7
TLR2 and 4 signaling pathways are altered in macrophages from V30M TTR mice with down-regulated expression of chemokines	6
Casting a wide NET: an update on uncontrolled NETosis in response to COVID-19 infection	6
Non-mitogenic FGF19 mRNA-based therapy for the treatment of experimental metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)	6
Differential effects of cyclo-oxygenase 1 and 2 inhibition on angiogenesis inhibitor-induced hypertension and kidney damage	6
Salt loading decreases urinary excretion and increases intracellular accumulation of uromodulin in stroke-prone spontaneously hypertensive rats	6
The nonindustrialised microbiome in a modern world	6
CircUSP36 attenuates ischemic stroke injury through the miR-139-3p/SMAD3/Bcl2 signal axis	6
Reductions in angiotensin II type 2 receptor-mediated vasodilation contribute to increased angiotensin II vasoconstrictor sensitivity in women with preeclampsia history	6
ANGPTL1 attenuates cancer migration, invasion, and stemness through regulating FOXO3a-mediated SOX2 expression in colorectal cancer	6
Repetitive schistosoma exposure causes perivascular lung fibrosis and persistent pulmonary hypertension	6
Immune landscape of the kidney allograft in response to rejection	6
Splenectomy increases blood pressure and abolishes sex differences in renal T-regulatory cells in spontaneously hypertensive rats	6
Oncogenic plasmid DNA and liver injury agent dictates liver cancer development in a mouse model	6
DsbA-L alleviates tubular injury in diabetic nephropathy by activating mitophagy through maintenance of MAM integrity	6
Mitochondrial protein MPV17 promotes β-cell apoptosis in diabetogenesis	6
Correction: Perinatal iron restriction is associated with changes in neonatal cardiac function and structure in a sex-dependent manner	5
The role of hormones in sepsis: an integrated overview with a focus on mitochondrial and immune cell dysfunction	5
Ferredoxin 1 regulates granulosa cell apoptosis and autophagy in polycystic ovary syndrome	5
Updates in deep learning research in ophthalmology	5
Retraction: Prader–Willi region non-protein coding RNA 1 suppressed gastric cancer growth as a competing endogenous RNA of miR-425-5p	5
Mechanisms underlying immune-related adverse events during checkpoint immunotherapy	5
Hormonal regulation of metabolism—recent lessons learned from insulin and estrogen	5
Angiotensin II inhibition: a potential treatment to slow the progression of sarcopenia	5
Interactions between the intrarenal dopaminergic and the renin–angiotensin systems in the control of systemic arterial pressure	5
Retraction: Differential temporal inhibition of mitochondrial fission by Mdivi-1 exerts effective cardioprotection in cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury	5
How dendritic cells sense and respond to viral infections	5
Evaluating skeletal muscle wasting and weakness in models of critical illness	5
Deciphering complexity of GPCR signaling and modulation: implications and perspectives for drug discovery	5
Magnetic resonance imaging reveals microemboli-mediated pathological changes in brain microstructure in diabetic rats: relevance to vascular cognitive impairment/dementia	5
β-Arrestin pathway activation by selective ATR1 agonism promotes calcium influx in podocytes, leading to glomerular damage	5
The immune niche of the liver	5
Small extracellular vesicles derived from patients with persistent atrial fibrillation exacerbate arrhythmogenesis via miR-30a-5p	5
Untangling the role of tau in sex hormone responsive cancers: lessons learnt from Alzheimer's disease	5
Akt2 deficiency alleviates oxidative stress in the heart and liver via up-regulating SIRT6 during high-fat diet-induced obesity	5
Heme oxygenase, biliverdin reductase, and bilirubin pathways regulate oxidative stress and insulin resistance: a focus on diabetes and therapeutics	5
Angiotensin II-induced cardiac fibrosis and dysfunction are exacerbated by deletion of cGKI in periostin+ myofibroblasts	5
Role of mitochondria in endogenous renal repair	5
Hypoxic preconditioning in renal ischaemia–reperfusion injury: a review in pre-clinical models	5
Distinct functional and molecular profiles between physiological and pathological atrial enlargement offer potential new therapeutic opportunities for atrial fibrillation	5
Replacing bar graphs of continuous data with more informative graphics: are we making progress?	5
Non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD): how analysis of cell-free DNA in maternal plasma has changed prenatal diagnosis for monogenic disorders	5