Árpád Kovács, Saltanat Zhazykbayeva, Melissa Herwig, Gábor Á Fülöp, Tamás Csípő, Nikolett Oláh, Roua Hassoun, Heidi Budde, Hersh Osman, Mustafa Kaçmaz, Kornelia Jaquet, Dániel Priksz, Béla Juhász, Ibrahim Akin, Zoltán Papp, Wolfgang E Schmidt, Andreas Mügge, Ibrahim El-Battrawy, Attila Tóth, Nazha Hamdani
INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is continuously rising and predominantly affects older women often hypertensive and/or obese or diabetic. Indeed, there is evidence on sex differences in the development of HF. Hence, we studied cardiovascular performance dependent on sex and age as well as pathomechanisms on a cellular and molecular level. METHODS: We studied 15-week- and 1-year-old female and male hypertensive transgenic rats carrying the mouse Ren-2 renin gene (TG) and compared them to wild-type (WT) controls at the same age...
April 24, 2024: GeroScience