SynthesisHeart failure reviews2021
The transverse aortic constriction heart failure animal model: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
- Novel Quality Metrics for Assessing the Reproducibility and Translational Relevance of Mouse Transverse Aortic Constriction Experiments: A Systematic Review.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Pooled it
- The effect of acupuncture-related therapies in animal model of postmenopausal osteoporosis: a meta-analysis and data mining approach.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2025Pooled it
- Development and uptake of an online systematic review platform: the early years of the CAMARADES Systematic Review Facility (SyRF).BMJ open science · 2021Pooled it
- Sex-specific skeletal muscle fiber atrophy and reduced macrophage inflammation in a rodent transverse aortic constriction model.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2026Article
- Effects of X-ray and carbon-ion beam irradiation on pathological cardiac remodeling in mice.Journal of radiation research · 2026Article
- Chrysin alleviates pressure overload-induced myocardial remodeling through regulating the PI3K/AKT/NRF2 pathway-mediated oxidative stress response.Animal models and experimental medicine · 2026Article
- Spatial imprints of emergent cardiomyocyte states in the pressure-overloaded heart.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Interleukin 11-Induced MicroRNAs as Functional Mediators and Circulating Biomarkers of Cardiac Fibrosis.Circulation research · 2026Article
- Differential Left and Right Carotid Artery Blood Flow and Altered Hippocampal Mitochondrial Function After Transverse Aortic Constriction in Aging Rats.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Article
- Exploring the Potential of Molecular Hydrogen in Different Heart Failure Models: A Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Electrical Remodeling of Pressure Overloaded Rat Heart Is Attenuated if Imposed During Proliferative Cardiac Growth.Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
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- Left ventricular pressure-loading improves pressure-induced right ventricular remodeling by redistributing mechanical load and reducing mechanosignaling.Physiological reports · 2025Article
- Role of N6-methyladenosine methylation in transverse aortic constriction-induced cardiac fibrosis: insights from MeRIP-seq analysis.Molecular biology reports · 2025Article
- CD36 attenuates pressure overload-induced myocardial insulin resistance via HSF1-dependent HSP90α suppression and competitive disruption of the HSP90α-InsR complex.Journal of translational medicine · 2025Article
- A neonatal rat model of progressive left ventricular pressure overload induced by abdominal aortic banding microsurgery.JTCVS techniques · 2025Article
- Research Progress on the Functional Regulation Mechanisms of ZKSCAN3.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Echocardiographic Assessment of Cardiac Function in Mouse Models of Heart Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- L-GILZ is essential for cardiac function and protects against pressure overload-induced hypertrophy and dysfunction in mice.Asian heart journal · 2025Article
- Inhibition of Egr2 Protects against TAC-induced Heart Failure in Mice by Suppressing Inflammation and Apoptosis Via Targeting Acot1 in Cardiomyocytes.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2025Article
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Abstract
The transverse aortic constriction (TAC) model is frequently used to study adverse cardiac remodeling upon pressure overload. We set out to define the most important characteristics that define the degree of cardiac remodeling in this model. A systematic review and meta-analyses were performed on studies using the TAC mouse/rat model and reporting echocardiographic outcome parameters. We included all animal studies in which a constriction around the transverse aorta and at least one of the predefined echocardiography or MRI outcome parameters were assessed. A total of 502 articles and > 3000 wild-type, untreated animals undergoing TAC were included in this study and referenced to a control group. The duration of aortic constriction correlated to the degree of adverse remodeling. However, the mouse data is strongly biased by the preferential use of male C57Bl/6 mice (66% of studies). Furthermore, mostly ketamine/xylazine anesthetics, 27G needle constriction, and silk sutures are used. Nonetheless, despite the homogeneity in experimental design, the model contained a substantial degree of heterogeneity in the functional outcome measures. When looking at study quality, only 12% reported randomization, 23% mentioned any sort of blinding, 25% adequately addressed the outcomes, and an amazingly low percentage (2%) showed sample size calculation. Meta-analyses did not detect specific study characteristics that explained the heterogeneity in the reported outcome measures, however this might be related to the strong bias towards the use of specific mouse lines, sex as well as age or to poor reporting of characteristics of study quality.
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