Arterial iron regulates vasodilation during anemia via endothelial holo-alpha globin Iron deficiency is a highly prevalent nutrient deficiency and the most common cause of anemia. Although iron deficiency exacerbates cardiovascular disease, the direct impact of iron deficiency on the ...

I’m excited to share our work investigating the impact of iron deficiency on arterial endothelial function! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Why travel to Denmark to collect samples from a giraffe's heart? @brantisakson.bsky.social lab members Skylar Loeb and @lukedunaway.bsky.social made the trip to learn more about diastolic heart failure. Red more: www.cvrc.virginia.edu/cvrc-trainee...

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Equally excellent work by Skylar Loeb! You can catch her encore presentation tomorrow at 2:45PM. #APS2025

Excellent talk by Wyatt Schug this morning! If you missed it, you can catch it again Sunday at 9:10AM.

Headed to #APS2025! Two great talks tomorrow from the Isakson Lab in the MCS session. Wyatt Shug (8:30AM) will present on basophil-endothelial crosstalk, and Skylar Loeb (10:50AM) will present the novel identification and impact of hemoglobin-alpha in cardiac lymphatics. @brantisakson.bsky.social

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Big thanks to our @uvacvrc.bsky.social coauthors Trè Mills, Ukpong Eyo, and @brantisakson.bsky.social

Check out our latest paper reviewing the regulation of vascular tone! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

@lukedunaway.bsky.social, PhD, recently received an @americanheart.bsky.social Career Development Award to study iron's role in chronic kidney disease. Luke is a postdoc in @brantisakson.bsky.social's Lab and member of our Cardiovascular Training Program. Congratulations!

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Upcoming meetings on #NitricOxide – The application deadline for the GRC meeting: Nitric Oxide and Sulfide in Redox Signaling and Medicine is January 12th!

The meeting will take place on February 9-14 in Ventura, CA (United States).

And if you are a trainee, be sure to register for the GRS! We have a great line up of speakers and mentors. #NOGRC 🔵🔴

From our lab to yours, happy holidays!