Our review on Potassium Channels in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells is out at Physiological Reviews. More than 150 pages long and citing more than 1500 articles, this herculean effort was co-authored by Tessa Garrud and Dan Collier.

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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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Excited to pre-release the latest from the lab on how arterial myocyte Panx1 controls vascular reactivity in diabetes. Massive effort from the M&M Team in collaboration with @brantisakson.bsky.social and Xiang Lab

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Our first giraffe heart acquisition has caused an epic Isakson Lab Slack blowup this morning 🦒🦒

Jammin’

🦒It’s a giraffe femoral artery!🦒

Close!

lol, I wish!

Guesses? Hint: not human/mouse/rat

Twice as nice!

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

Opinion | Science Suffers With Trump’s Funding Freeze America’s scientific enterprise demands reliable stewardship, not destabilizing political intervention.

My father-in-law, Jack Strominger, and I wrote a letter to the @wsj.com editor about the current threats to science due to Trump's funding freeze. Please repost! www.wsj.com/opinion/scie...

Nitrosation of CD36 Regulates Endothelial Function and Serum Lipids | Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology BACKGROUND: During obesity, endothelial cells (ECs) become lipid laden, leading to endothelial dysfunction. We tested posttranslational modification on CD36 that may regulate EC lipid accumulation. ...

Some of the strong work by Melissa Luse rounding her PhD. Love the story, and I think it opens up some new ideas in endothelial lipid handling and overall questions roles for NO…
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Lab outing, snuggling baby goats!🐐🐐

@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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Happy Donut Friday! C’ville’s very own Belle for the win…

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some good distraction tonight from the political crazies

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