Cardiac endothelium–myocyte interaction: clinical opportunities for new heart failure therapies regardless of ejection fraction

SL Lim, CSP Lam, VFM Segers… - European heart …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Heart failure (HF) is an important global health problem with great socioeconomic burden.
Outcomes remain sub-optimal. Endothelium–cardiomyocyte interactions play essential roles …

International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology. XCV. Recent advances in the understanding of the pharmacology and biological roles of relaxin family …

ML Halls, RAD Bathgate, SW Sutton… - Pharmacological …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Relaxin, insulin-like peptide 3 (INSL3), relaxin-3, and INSL5 are the cognate
ligands for the relaxin family peptide (RXFP) receptors 1–4, respectively. RXFP1 activates …

Statement on pregnancy in pulmonary hypertension from the Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute

AR Hemnes, DG Kiely, BA Cockrill… - Pulmonary …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Pregnancy outcomes in patients with pulmonary hypertension remain poor despite
advanced therapies. Although consensus guidelines recommend against pregnancy in …

Sex-specific effects of a high fat diet on aortic inflammation and dysfunction

V Tran, H Brettle, H Diep, QN Dinh, M O'Keeffe… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity and vascular dysfunction are independent and sexually dimorphic risk factors for
cardiovascular disease. A high fat diet (HFD) is often used to model obesity in mice, but the …

Reperfusion therapy with recombinant human relaxin-2 (Serelaxin) attenuates myocardial infarct size and NLRP3 inflammasome following ischemia/reperfusion injury …

J Valle Raleigh, AG Mauro… - Cardiovascular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Aims The preconditioning-like infarct-sparing and anti-inflammatory effects of the peptide
hormone relaxin following ischemic injury have been studied in the heart. Whether …

Vascular actions of relaxin: nitric oxide and beyond

CH Leo, M Jelinic, HH Ng, SA Marshall… - British journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The peptide hormone relaxin regulates the essential maternal haemodynamic adaptations
in early pregnancy through direct actions on the renal and systemic vasculature. These …

The actions of relaxin on the human cardiovascular system

M Sarwar, XJ Du, TB Dschietzig… - British Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The insulin‐like peptide relaxin, originally identified as a hormone of pregnancy, is now
known to exert a range of pleiotropic effects including vasodilatory, anti‐fibrotic, angiogenic …

Green extraction of orange peel waste reduces TNFα-induced vascular inflammation and endothelial dysfunction

CH Leo, SY Foo, JCW Tan, UX Tan, CK Chua, ES Ong - Antioxidants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Orange peel waste (OPW) is known to contain an abundant amount of polyphenols
compounds such as flavonoids, well-reported for their antioxidant and anti-inflammatory …

[HTML][HTML] Relaxin elicits renoprotective actions accompanied by increasing bile acid levels in streptozotocin-induced diabetic mice

CH Leo, JLM Ou, ES Ong, CX Qin, RH Ritchie… - Biomedicine & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background The peptide hormone relaxin has potent anti-fibrotic and anti-inflammatory
properties in various organs, including the kidneys. However, the protective effects of relaxin …

Serelaxin‐mediated signal transduction in human vascular cells: bell‐shaped concentration–response curves reflect differential coupling to G proteins

M Sarwar, CS Samuel, RA Bathgate… - British journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Purpose In a recently conducted phase III clinical trial, RELAX‐AHF,
serelaxin infusion over 48 h improved short‐and long‐term clinical outcomes in patients with …