Obesity, adipose tissue and vascular dysfunction

M Koenen, MA Hill, P Cohen, JR Sowers - Circulation research, 2021‏ - ahajournals.org
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide. Overweight and obesity
are strongly associated with comorbidities such as hypertension and insulin resistance …

Mechanistic links between obesity, diabetes, and blood pressure: role of perivascular adipose tissue

SN Saxton, BJ Clark, SB Withers… - Physiological …, 2019‏ - journals.physiology.org
Obesity is increasingly prevalent and is associated with substantial cardiovascular risk.
Adipose tissue distribution and morphology play a key role in determining the degree of …

Genome-wide discovery of genetic loci that uncouple excess adiposity from its comorbidities

LO Huang, A Rauch, E Mazzaferro, M Preuss… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Obesity is a major risk factor for cardiometabolic diseases. Nevertheless, a substantial
proportion of individuals with obesity do not suffer cardiometabolic comorbidities. The …

The role of obesity-induced perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) dysfunction in vascular homeostasis

A Stanek, K Brożyna-Tkaczyk, W Myśliński - Nutrients, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is an additional special type of adipose tissue
surrounding blood vessels. Under physiological conditions, PVAT plays a significant role in …

Perivascular adipose tissue regulates vascular function by targeting vascular smooth muscle cells

L Chang, MT Garcia-Barrio, YE Chen - … , thrombosis, and vascular …, 2020‏ - ahajournals.org
Adipose tissues are present at multiple locations in the body. Most blood vessels are
surrounded with adipose tissue which is referred to as perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) …

Perivascular adipose tissue and vascular smooth muscle tone: friends or foes?

A Ahmed, A Bibi, M Valoti, F Fusi - Cells, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is a specialized type of adipose tissue that surrounds
most mammalian blood vessels. PVAT is a metabolically active, endocrine organ capable of …

Coronary microvascular dysfunction

S Godo, A Suda, J Takahashi, S Yasuda… - … , and vascular biology, 2021‏ - ahajournals.org
Over the past couple of decades, accumulating evidence has shown that structural and
functional abnormalities of coronary microvasculature are highly prevalent, associated with …

The pathobiology of perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), the fourth layer of the blood vessel wall

C Hillock-Watling, AI Gotlieb - Cardiovascular Pathology, 2022‏ - Elsevier
The perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) is an adipose tissue depot which surrounds most
human blood vessels. It is metabolically active and has both a protective and a pathogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Role of perivascular adipose tissue-derived adiponectin in vascular homeostasis

A Sowka, P Dobrzyn - Cells, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Studies of adipose tissue biology have demonstrated that adipose tissue should be
considered as both passive, energy-storing tissue and an endocrine organ because of the …

Roles of perivascular adipose tissue in hypertension and atherosclerosis

H Hu, M Garcia-Barrio, Z Jiang, YE Chen… - Antioxidants & Redox …, 2021‏ - liebertpub.com
Significance: Perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT), which is present surrounding most blood
vessels, from the aorta to the microvasculature of the dermis, is mainly composed of fat cells …