Zhichao Zhou is an Associate Professor from Division of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet. He obtained his PhD in 2013 at the Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam. He worked as a post-doctorate research fellow at the West Virginia University (from 2014-2015) and Karolinska Institutet (from 2015-2018). His research team has interests in Cardiovascular (Patho)physiology and Vascular Biology with particular focus on the role of erythrocyte and purinergic signaling in regulation of cardiovascular function in a variety of cardiometabolic disorders, including diabetes, ischaemic heart disease and hypertension.
Red blood cells from patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus induce vascular endothelial dysfunction via a mechanism involving vascular arginase I and reactive oxygen species
Event:
ESC Congress 2017
Topic:
Endothelial function
Session:
Endothelial function and the microcirculation