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ReviewFrontiers in aging2021

ET-1 as a Sex-Specific Mechanism Impacting Age-Related Changes in Vascular Function.

Andrew V Kuczmarski, Laura M Welti, Kerrie L Moreau, Megan M Wenner

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Review in Frontiers in aging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Sexual Dimorphism in the Development of Cardiometabolic Syndrome.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2026
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  10. Endocrine enigmas: vascular health in females throughout the lifespan.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  11. WSB.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  13. Adipocyte-specific ETPhysiological reports · 2025
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  14. Endothelin-1 signaling in the kidney: recent advances and remaining gaps.American journal of physiology. Renal physiology · 2025
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  17. Endothelial dysfunction in middle-aged and older men with low testosterone is associated with elevated circulating endothelin-1.American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Andrew V KuczmarskiUniversity of Delaware, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Newark, DE, United States.
Laura M WeltiUniversity of Delaware, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Newark, DE, United States.
Kerrie L MoreauUniversity of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States.
Megan M WennerUniversity of Delaware, Kinesiology and Applied Physiology, Newark, DE, United States.
University of Delaware · USGeriatric Research Education and Clinical Center · US

Funding

Mechanisms of Vascular Dysfunction with Advancing Reproductive AgeR01HL146558 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI WENNER, MEGAN M · 2019 to 2023
$2.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146558
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aging is a primary risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD), which is the leading cause of death in developed countries. Globally, the population of adults over the age of 60 is expected to double by the year 2050. CVD prevalence and mortality rates differ between men and women as they age in part due to sex-specific mechanisms impacting the biological processes of aging. Measures of vascular function offer key insights into cardiovascular health. Changes in vascular function precede changes in CVD prevalence rates in men and women and with aging. A key mechanism underlying these changes in vascular function is the endothelin (ET) system. Studies have demonstrated sex and sex hormone effects on endothelin-1 (ET-1), and its receptors ETA and ETB. However, with aging there is a dysregulation of this system resulting in an imbalance between vasodilation and vasoconstriction. Thus, ET-1 may play a role in the sex differences observed with vascular aging. While most research has been conducted in pre-clinical animal models, we describe more recent translational data in humans showing that the ET system is an important regulator of vascular dysfunction with aging and acts through sex-specific ET receptor mechanisms. In this review, we present translational evidence (cell, tissue, animal, and human) that the ET system is a key mechanism regulating sex-specific changes in vascular function with aging, along with therapeutic interventions to reduce ET-mediated vascular dysfunction associated with aging. More knowledge on the factors responsible for the sex differences with vascular aging allow for optimized therapeutic strategies to attenuate CVD risk in the expanding aging population.

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agingcardiovascularendothelial functionendothelinsex hormone

Identifiers

PMID35822003
PMCPMC9261354
OpenAlexW3198375544

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