PAC-Mediated AKI Protection Is Critically Mediated but Does Not Exclusively Depend on Cell-Derived Microvesicles by H. Dihazi, K. Schwarze, S. Patschan, G. A. Müller, O. Ritter, M. Zeisberg, D. Patschan

“…The following conditions worsened after ischemic renal function even further: MV + Ang-1, MV + BMP-5, MV + melatonin, and MV + secretome + Ang-1. …”
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Exercise-Intervened Circulating Extracellular Vesicles Alleviate Oxidative Stress in Cerebral Microvascular Endothelial Cells Under Hypertensive Plus Hypoxic Conditions by Smara Sigdel, Shuzhen Chen, Gideon Udoh, Jinju Wang

“…The functions of cEVs were assessed in an Angiotensin II (Ang II) plus hypoxia-injured cerebral microvascular endothelial cell (mBMEC) injury model. …”
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Collecting duct NCOR1 controls blood pressure by regulating mineralocorticoid receptor by Ke Sun, Yong-Li Wang, Chen-Chen Hou, Da Shang, Lin-Juan Du, Lan Bai, Xing-Yu Zhang, Chuan-Ming Hao, Sheng-Zhong Duan

“…Finally, BP was significantly decreased in Ang II-infused KO mice after treatment of MR antagonist spironolactone and the difference between LC and KO mice was abolished. …”
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The Protective Potential Role of ACE2 against COVID-19 by Fereshteh Golab, Gelareh Vahabzadeh, Leila SadeghRoudbari, Arefeh Shirazi, Robabeh Shabani, Sara Tanbakooei, Lida Kooshesh

“…Due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), researchers all over the world have tried to find an appropriate therapeutic approach for the disease. …”
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Understanding Florida Residents’ Perceptions of and Experiences with Landscape Irrigation Restrictions: Insights for Water Conservation Experts as Well as Extension Educators by Sravani Pasula, Dharmendra Kalauni, Laura Warner, John Diaz, Ange Asanzi, James Harmon, Deirdre Irwin, Robin L. Grantham

“…Written by Sravani Pasula, Dharmendra Kalauni, Laura Warner, John Diaz, Ange Asanzi, James Harmon, Deirdre Irwin, and Robin L. …”
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Mediterranean Diet Mediates the Adverse Effect of Depressive Symptomatology on Short-Term Outcome in Elderly Survivors from an Acute Coronary Event by Christina Chrysohoou, Catherine Liontou, Panagiotis Aggelopoulos, Christina-Maria Kastorini, Demosthenes Panagiotakos, Athanasios Aggelis, Elefterios Tsiamis, Manolis Vavouranakis, Christos Pitsavos, Dimitris Tousoulis, Christodoulos Stefanadis

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Sprememba sestave fitobentosa po odvzemu vode za hidroelektrarne na Kokri in Selški Sori v slovenskih Alpah by Nataša Smolar-Žvanut, Aleksandra Krivograd Klemenčič

“…Skupno smo v reki Kokri in Selški Sori določili 52 taksonov iz šestih razredov alg. Po številu določenih taksonov so prevladovale kremenaste alge. …”
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Changes in Angiotensin Receptor Distribution and in Aortic Morphology Are Associated with Blood Pressure Control in Aged Metabolic Syndrome Rats by Verónica Guarner-Lans, Elizabeth Soria-Castro, Rocío Torrico-Lavayen, Araceli Patrón-Soberano, Karla G. Carvajal-Aguilera, Vicente Castrejón-Tellez, María Esther Rubio-Ruiz

“…AT1, AT2, and Mas receptors mediate the effects of Ang II and Ang 1-7, respectively. Fluorescence from AT2 decreased with age in control and MS aortas, while fluorescence of AT1 increased in aortas from MS rats at 6 months and diminished during aging. …”
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Optimizations of Placenta Extracellular Matrix‐Loaded Silk Fibroin/Alginate 3D‐Printed Scaffolds Structurally and Functionally for Bone Tissue Engineering by Zahra Bashiri, Zahra Khosrowpour, Ali Moghaddaszadeh, Davod Jafari, Sanaz Alizadeh, Hajar Nasiri, Houman Parsaei, Zahra Keshtkaran, Meghdad Abdollahpour‐Alitappeh, Farshad Bargrizaneh, Behzad Rezaei, Sara Simorgh, Mazaher Gholipourmalekabadi

“…Then, different concentrations of ECM were composited with 8% alginate (Alg) and 12% silk fibroin (SF) for printing in order to produce a natural 3D construct that resembled bone tissue. …”
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Glycosylation Patterns in <i>Meccus (Triatoma) pallidipennis</i> Gut: Implications for the Development of Vector Control Strategies by Elia Torres-Gutiérrez, Frida Noelly Candelas-Otero, Olivia Alicia Reynoso-Ducoing, Berenice González-Rete, Mauro Omar Vences-Blanco, Margarita Cabrera-Bravo, Martha Irene Bucio-Torres, Paz María Silvia Salazar-Schettino

“…This study focused on analyzing protein expression and modifications by glycosylation in different regions of the digestive tract of fifth-instar nymphs of <i>M. pallidipennis</i>. Two gut sections were dissected and extracted: the anterior midgut (AMG) and the proctodeum or rectum (RE). …”
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Non-lethal sonodynamic therapy mitigates hypertensive renal fibrosis through the PI3K/AKT/mTORC1-autophagy pathway by DanDan Liu, Hui Wang, Jialong Li, Siqi Sheng, Shu Wang, Ye Tian

“…The mice model of hypertensive renal fibrosis was established by using osmotic minipumps (Alzet model 2004, Cupertino, CA) equipped with angiotensin-II (Ang II). The pumps were implanted in mice, ensuring constant infusion of Ang II at a dose of 1.0 µg/kg per minute for 4 weeks. …”
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NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation by Kaustubh Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Aadesh Gupta, Zhenhao Li, Saad Mahamood, Abinaya Mahadiran, Simon Mille, Ashish Shrivastava, Samson Tan, Tongshang Wu, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jinho Choi, Eduard Hovy, Ondřej Dušek, Sebastian Ruder, Sajant Anand, Nagender Aneja, Rabin Banjade, Lisa Barthe, Hanna Behnke, Ian Berlot-Attwell, Connor Boyle, Caroline Brun, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Emile Chapuis, Wanxiang Che, Mukund Choudhary, Christian Clauss, Pierre Colombo, Filip Cornell, Gautier Dagan, Mayukh Das, Tanay Dixit, Thomas Dopierre, Paul-Alexis Dray, Suchitra Dubey, Tatiana Ekeinhor, Marco Di Giovanni, Tanya Goyal, Rishabh Gupta, Louanes Hamla, Sang Han, Fabrice Harel-Canada, Antoine Honoré, Ishan Jindal, Przemysław Joniak, Denis Kleyko, Venelin Kovatchev, Kalpesh Krishna, Ashutosh Kumar, Stefan Langer, Seungjae Ryan Lee, Corey James Levinson, Hualou Liang, Kaizhao Liang, Zhexiong Liu, Andrey Lukyanenko, Vukosi Marivate, Gerard de Melo, Simon Meoni, Maxine Meyer, Afnan Mir, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Niklas Meunnighoff, Timothy Sum Hon Mun, Kenton Murray, Marcin Namysl, Maria Obedkova, Priti Oli, Nivranshu Pasricha, Jan Pfister, Richard Plant, Vinay Prabhu, Vasile Pais, Libo Qin, Shahab Raji, Pawan Kumar Rajpoot, Vikas Raunak, Roy Rinberg, Nicholas Roberts, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Claude Roux, Vasconcellos Samus, Ananya Sai, Robin Schmidt, Thomas Scialom, Tshephisho Sefara, Saqib Shamsi, Xudong Shen, Yiwen Shi, Haoyue Shi, Anna Shvets, Nick Siegel, Damien Sileo, Jamie Simon, Chandan Singh, Roman Sitelew, Priyank Soni, Taylor Sorensen, William Soto, Aman Srivastava, Aditya Srivatsa, Tony Sun, Mukund Varma, A Tabassum, Fiona Tan, Ryan Teehan, Mo Tiwari, Marie Tolkiehn, Athena Wang, Zijian Wang, Zijie Wang, Gloria Wang, Fuxuan Wei, Bryan Wilie, Genta Indra Winata, Xinyu Wu, Witold Wydmanski, Tianbao Xie, Usama Yaseen, Michael Yee, Jing Zhang, Yue Zhang

“…Kami menemukan model yang berbeda ditantang secara berbeda pada tugas yang berbeda, dengan penurunan skor kuasi-sistematis. …”
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Hydrothermal synthesis of a nickel-oxide-infused orange peel nanobiocomposite for enhanced heavy metal removal from mining wastewater by Jacques Romain Njimou, Velma Fai, Mary Tamwa Sieugaing, Djimongbaye Nguenamadje, John Godwin, Oben Bessem Genola, Guy Bertrand Noumi, Bankim Chandra Tripathy

“…Maximum adsorption capacities for Cd2⁺ and Pb2⁺ were determined to be 138.25 and 276.00 mg/g in single-component systems, and 224.00 and 317.10 mg/g in binary systems, respectively. …”
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Rapid and noninvasive assessment of adductor muscle performance through shell-closing strength of Zhikong scallop Chlamys farreri by Xiangyi Zeng, Zujing Yang, Mingyi Sui, Zhi Liu, Qiang Xing, Liping Hu, Liming Jiang, Zhenmin Bao, Xiaoting Huang

“…For AMG, the correlation coefficients were 0.586, 0.372, 0.506, and 0.334 for TF, TSC, AF, and MF, respectively (P < 0.01). …”
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Frequently Asked Questions about Stormwater Wet Ponds by Ange Asanzi, Miranda Carver Martin, Michelle Atkinson, Chamoda P. D. Dissanayake Mudiyanselage, Basil V. Iannone III, Eban Bean, Alexander J. Reisinger, Mary Lusk, Dail Laughinghouse, Paul Monaghan

“… This publication addresses some of the most frequent questions that residents ask regarding the function and maintenance of their stormwater ponds. Written by Ange Asanzi, Miranda Carver Martin, Michelle Atkinson, Chamoda P. …”
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Pitavastatin-attenuated cardiac dysfunction in mice with dilated cardiomyopathy via regulation of myocardial calcium handling proteins by Hu Wei, Jiang Wen-Bing

“…C57BL/6 mice with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) were randomly divided to receive placebo or pitavastatin at a dose of 1 or 3 mg kg-1d-1. After 8 weeks treatment, mice with dilated cardiomyopathy developed serious cardiac dysfunction characterized by significantly enhanced left ventricular end-diastolic diameter (LVIDd), decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) as well as left ventricular short axis fractional shortening (LVFS), accompanied with enlarged cardiomyocytes, and increased plasma levels of N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and plasma angiotensin II (AngII) concentration. …”
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Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Repair Necrotic Pancreatic Tissue and Promote Angiogenesis by Secreting Cellular Growth Factors Involved in the SDF-1α/CXCR4 Axis in Rats... by Daohai Qian, Jian Gong, Zhigang He, Jie Hua, Shengping Lin, Chenglei Xu, Hongbo Meng, Zhenshun Song

“…Moreover, transplanted BMSCs could significantly alleviate SAP, reduce the systematic inflammation (TNF-α↓, IL-1β↓, IL-6↓, IL-4↑, IL-10↑, and TGF-β↑), and promote tissue repair and angiogenesis (VEGF↑, ANG-1↑, HGF↑, TGF-β↑, and CD31↑), compared with the SAP and anti-CXCR4 groups. …”
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Effects of L-/N-Type Calcium Channel Blockers on Angiotensin II–Renin Feedback in Hypertensive Patients by Yutaka Kawabata, Takeshi Soeki, Hiroyuki Ito, Tomomi Matsuura, Kenya Kusunose, Takayuki Ise, Koji Yamaguchi, Takeshi Tobiume, Shusuke Yagi, Daiju Fukuda, Hirotsugu Yamada, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, Mitsuhiro Kitani, Kazuhiro Kawano, Yoshio Taketani, Masataka Sata

“…Cilnidipine also increased the ratio of Ang-(1–7) to angiotensin II in plasma, which might be one factor underlying its beneficial effects.…”
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The Possible Potential Therapeutic Targets for Drug Induced Gingival Overgrowth by Tamilselvan Subramani, Vidhya Rathnavelu, Noorjahan Banu Alitheen

“…Proteins such as transforming growth factor (TGF), endothelin-1 (ET-1), angiotensin II (Ang II), connective tissue growth factor (CCN2/CTGF), insulin-like growth factor (IGF), and platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) appear to act in a network that contributes to the development of gingival fibrosis. …”
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ZFP36 Regulates Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction and Maintains Blood Pressure by Xiuru Cui, Yawei Wang, Hanlin Lu, Lei Wang, Xianwei Xie, Shenghao Zhang, Pavel Kovarik, Shuijie Li, Shanshan Liu, Qunye Zhang, Jianmin Yang, Cheng Zhang, Jinwei Tian, Yan Liu, Wencheng Zhang

“…Mechanistically, ZFP36 regulates G protein‐coupled receptors (GPCRs)‐mediated increases in intracellular calcium levels through impairing the mRNA stability of regulator of G protein signaling 2 (RGS2). …”
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