Abstract:Background
Overconsumption of a Western Diet (WD), characterized by high‐fat and high sugar, frequently results in obesity‐related hypertension. During obesity, PVAT switches from a vasculo‐protective to an inflammatory phenotype contributing to vascular dysfunction and hypertension. The transcriptional repressor B‐Cell Lymphoma 6 (BCL6) has recently emerged as a negative regulator of adiposity. However, whether obesity alters BCL6 levels in the PVAT remains unknown. We hypothesized that WD upregulates BCL6 in… Show more
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