Area of research
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine · Molecular Biology
Research interest
Research interests include Cardiac Fibrosis and Remodeling, Signaling Pathways in Disease, Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, and Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors.
Guidelines for in vivo mouse models of myocardial infarction
Transforming growth factor–β in tissue fibrosis
Inflammatory Cytokines and Chemokines as Therapeutic Targets in Heart Failure
The Extracellular Matrix in Ischemic and Nonischemic Heart Failure
Fibroblasts in the Infarcted, Remodeling, and Failing Heart
Immune cells as targets for cardioprotection: new players and novel therapeutic opportunities
Cardiac fibrosis: Cell biological mechanisms, molecular pathways and therapeutic opportunities
Guidelines for experimental models of myocardial ischemia and infarction
The extracellular matrix in myocardial injury, repair, and remodeling
The Biological Basis for Cardiac Repair After Myocardial Infarction
The role of α-smooth muscle actin in fibroblast-mediated matrix contraction and remodeling
Diabetes-associated cardiac fibrosis: Cellular effectors, molecular mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities
Smad3 Signaling Promotes Fibrosis While Preserving Cardiac and Aortic Geometry in Obese Diabetic Mice
The inflammatory response in myocardial injury, repair, and remodelling
Regulatory T cells are recruited in the infarcted mouse myocardium and may modulate fibroblast phenotype and function
The pathogenesis of cardiac fibrosis
Fibroblasts in myocardial infarction: A role in inflammation and repair
Thrombospondin-1 Induction in the Diabetic Myocardium Stabilizes the Cardiac Matrix in Addition to Promoting Vascular Rarefaction Through Angiopoietin-2 Upregulation
Systematic Characterization of Myocardial Inflammation, Repair, and Remodeling in a Mouse Model of Reperfused Myocardial Infarction
Regulation of the Inflammatory Response in Cardiac Repair
Matricellular Proteins in Cardiac Adaptation and Disease
Fibroblasts in post-infarction inflammation and cardiac repair