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Brant Isakson

@brantisakson.bsky.social

How do cells in the microcirculation talk? That’s my jam. Previously known as @conn_pann_fun on ol’ Twitter. I’ve been at UVA a lonnnnng time. ♥️🦕 physiology

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CVRC Trainees Travel Abroad to Collect a Giraffe Heart – Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center

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...

#cardiology #medsky

11.07.2025 16:48 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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

10.07.2025 19:37 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Happy Donut Friday!

20.06.2025 12:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤮

18.06.2025 20:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Donut Friday—Love the Cville Donut selections! 🍩

13.06.2025 13:09 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Virginia Is Finally for Wine Lovers

🍷 Cheers C’ville!

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/d...

05.06.2025 03:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Anytime!

24.05.2025 12:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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TGIF!

23.05.2025 20:29 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Donut Friday to all that celebrate!

23.05.2025 16:01 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Huge Congrats!!!!

22.05.2025 22:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Happy Donut Friday! Sbrocco’s for the win!

16.05.2025 12:40 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🤞

08.05.2025 10:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

07.05.2025 14:04 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Jammin’

05.05.2025 01:06 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🦒It’s a giraffe femoral artery!🦒

01.05.2025 14:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Close!

01.05.2025 14:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

lol, I wish!

30.04.2025 21:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Guesses? Hint: not human/mouse/rat

30.04.2025 20:26 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0

Twice as nice!

24.04.2025 13:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

23.04.2025 23:14 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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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...

21.04.2025 18:21 — 👍 180    🔁 141    💬 2    📌 7
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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…
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

21.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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04.04.2025 15:37 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Lab outing, snuggling baby goats!🐐🐐

30.03.2025 21:49 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Luke Dunaway, PhD, Wins AHA Award for Chronic Kidney Disease Research – Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center

@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!

#CardioSky #MedSky

20.03.2025 17:15 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Donut Friday! C’ville’s very own Belle for the win…

21.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats!

10.02.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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some good distraction tonight from the political crazies

07.02.2025 22:58 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Donut Friday!

07.02.2025 15:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Happy Donut Friday!

31.01.2025 16:24 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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