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  1. Physiological Changes During Ischemia–Reperfusion Indicating Myocardial Damage Induced by Chronic and Excessive Consumption of Hibiscus sabdariffa L.

    Article • Toxics, July 2026, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  2. Physiological Changes During Ischemia-Reperfusion Indicating Myocardial Damage Induced by Chronic and Excessive Consumption of <em>Hibiscus sabdariffa</em> L.

    Article • July 2026, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  3. Cardioprotective and Antihypertensive Effects of Topical Capsaicin in a Rat Model

    Article • Antioxidants, August 2025, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  4. Oxidative Stress in Aortic Valves Associated with Infective Endocarditis: Series of Three Cases

    Article • July 2024, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  5. Preliminary Study on the Restoration of the Phospholipid Profile in Serum from Patients with COVID-19 by Treatment with Vitamin E

    Article • Current Issues in Molecular Biology, July 2024, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  6. Homeostasis and evolution in relation to regeneration and repair

    Article • The Journal of Physiology, May 2024, Wiley

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  7. Redox Homeostasis Alteration Is Restored through Melatonin Treatment in COVID-19 Patients: A Preliminary Study

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2024, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  8. Impact of Treatment with Antioxidants as an Adjuvant to Standard Therapy in Patients with Septic Shock: Analysis of the Correlation between Cytokine Storm and Oxidative Stress and Therapeutic Effects

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, November 2023, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans, MD, MSc, PhD candidate Huitzilihuitl Saucedo-Orozco

  9. Effect of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. on the Metabolism of Arachidonic Acid in the Isolated Kidney of a Rat Model of Metabolic Syndrome

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, September 2023, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  10. Randomized Clinical Trial of Antioxidant Therapy Patients with Septic Shock and Organ Dysfunction in the ICU: SOFA Score Reduction by Improvement of the Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant System

    Article • Cells, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  11. N-Acetyl Cysteine Restores the Diminished Activity of the Antioxidant Enzymatic System Caused by SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Preliminary Findings

    Article • Pharmaceuticals, April 2023, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  12. Frailty and the Interactions between Skeletal Muscle, Bone, and Adipose Tissue-Impact on Cardiovascular Disease and Possible Therapeutic Measures

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2023, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  13. Evolutionary cardiology and experimental research

    Article • Archivos de cardiolog�a de M�xico (English ed Internet), December 2022, Publicidad Permanyer, SLU

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  14. Cardiología evolutiva e investigación experimental

    Article • Archivos de Cardiología de México, November 2022, Publicidad Permanyer, SLU

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  15. Tomography and Prognostic Indices in the State of the Art of Evaluation in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Pneumonia

    Article • Pathogens, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans, MD, MSc, PhD candidate Huitzilihuitl Saucedo-Orozco

  16. Excessive Consumption Hibiscus sabdariffa L. Increases Inflammation and Blood Pressure in Male Wistar Rats via High Antioxidant Capacity: The Preliminary Findings

    Article • Cells, September 2022, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  17. Bioprosthesis in aortic valve replacement: long-term inflammatory response and functionality

    Article • Open Heart, August 2022, BMJ

    MD, MSc, PhD candidate Huitzilihuitl Saucedo-Orozco, Verónica Guarner-Lans

  18. High Sucrose Ingestion during a Critical Period of Vessel Development Promotes the Synthetic Phenotype of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Modifies Vascular Contractility Leading to Hypertension in Adult Rats

    Article • International Journal of Hypertension, June 2022, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  19. The Possible Role of Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase in the SARS-CoV-2 Infection

    Article • Cells, June 2022, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  20. Interconnection between Cardiac Cachexia and Heart Failure—Protective Role of Cardiac Obesity

    Article • Cells, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  21. TRPV1 Contributes to Modulate the Nitric Oxide Pathway and Oxidative Stress in the Isolated and Perfused Rat Heart during Ischemia and Reperfusion

    Article • Molecules, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  22. Oxidative Stress in Plasma from Patients with Marfan Syndrome Is Modulated by Deodorized Garlic Preliminary Findings

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, January 2022, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  23. Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 Contributes to Modulate the Nitric Oxide Pathway and Oxidative Stress in the Isolated and Perfused Rat Heart during Ischemia and Reperfusion

    Article • December 2021, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  24. Assessment of inflammatory activity in Takayasu's arteritis: performance of clinical scores and common biomarkers versus 18F-FDG PET/CT

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, August 2021, Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  25. Role of the Transient Receptor Potential Vanilloid Type 1 (TRPV1) in the Regulation of Nitric Oxide Release in Wistar Rat Aorta

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, August 2021, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  26. Modulation of Renal Function in a Metabolic Syndrome Rat Model by Antioxidants in Hibiscus sabdariffa L.

    Article • Molecules, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  27. Usefulness of Antioxidants as Adjuvant Therapy for Septic Shock: A Randomized Clinical Trial

    Article • Medicina, November 2020, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  28. Oxidative, Reductive, and Nitrosative Stress Effects on Epigenetics and on Posttranslational Modification of Enzymes in Cardiometabolic Diseases

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, October 2020, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  29. Alteration of the Fatty Acid Metabolism in the Rat Kidney Caused by the Injection of Serum from Patients with Collapsing Glomerulopathy

    Article • Biomedicines, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  30. Reseña histórica del Departamento de Fisiología en el 75 aniversario del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología “Ignacio Chávez”

    Article • Archivos de Cardiología de México, September 2020, Publicidad Permanyer, SLU

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  31. Is Antioxidant Therapy a Useful Complementary Measure for Covid-19 Treatment? An Algorithm for Its Application

    Article • Medicina, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  32. Nitrosative Stress and Its Association with Cardiometabolic Disorders

    Article • Molecules, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  33. Oxidant/Antioxidant Profile in the Thoracic Aneurysm of Patients with the Loeys-Dietz Syndrome

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, March 2020, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  34. Effect of a Resveratrol/Quercetin Mixture on the Reversion of Hypertension Induced by a Short-Term Exposure to High Sucrose Levels Near Weaning and a Long-Term Exposure That Leads to Metabolic Syndrome in Rats

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  35. Early Programming of Adult Systemic Essential Hypertension

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2020, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  36. The Role of the Activation of the TRPV1 Receptor and of Nitric Oxide in Changes in Endothelial and Cardiac Function and Biomarker Levels in Hypertensive Rats

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  37. Intra-Abdominal Fat Adipocyte Hypertrophy through a Progressive Alteration of Lipolysis and Lipogenesis in Metabolic Syndrome Rats

    Article • Nutrients, July 2019, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  38. Comparison of the amount and patterns of late enhancement in Chagas disease according to the presence and type of ventricular tachycardia

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, June 2019, Wiley

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  39. Resveratrol and Quercetin Administration Improves Antioxidant DEFENSES and reduces Fatty Liver in Metabolic Syndrome Rats

    Article • Molecules, April 2019, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  40. Myocardial Protection from Ischemia-Reperfusion Damage by the Antioxidant Effect of Hibiscus sabdariffa Linnaeus on Metabolic Syndrome Rats

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, March 2019, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    PhD Israel Pérez-Torres, Verónica Guarner-Lans, Mario Perezpeña-Diazconti

  41. Mechanisms Underlying Metabolic Syndrome-Related Sarcopenia and Possible Therapeutic Measures

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  42. Effect of Sucrose Ingestion at the End of a Critical Window that Increases Hypertension Susceptibility on Peripheral Mechanisms Regulating Blood Pressure in Rats. Role of Sirtuins 1 and 3

    Article • Nutrients, February 2019, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  43. Early Programming during Attachment Development and its Relevance for Risk/Resilience of Neuropsychiatric and Cardiometabolic Diseases during Adulthood

    Article • Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Disorders, January 2019, Fortune Journals

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  44. Polymorphisms C677T and A1298C of MTHFR Gene: Homocysteine Levels and Prothrombotic Biomarkers in Coronary and Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease

    Article • Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, June 2018, SAGE Publications

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  45. Short-Term Exposure to High Sucrose Levels near Weaning Has a Similar Long-Lasting Effect on Hypertension as a Long-Term Exposure in Rats

    Article • Nutrients, June 2018, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  46. Vascular Hyperactivity in the Rat Renal Aorta Participates in the Association between Immune Complex-Mediated Glomerulonephritis and Systemic Hypertension

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2018, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  47. Epigenetics of Subcellular Structure Functioning in the Origin of Risk or Resilience to Comorbidity of Neuropsychiatric and Cardiometabolic Disorders

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, May 2018, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  48. Epigenetic Programming of Synthesis, Release, and/or Receptor Expression of Common Mediators Participating in the Risk/Resilience for Comorbid Stress-Related Disorders and Coronary Artery Disease

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, April 2018, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  49. Atrial septal defect closure with the new Cardia Ultrasept II™ device with interposed Goretex patch: Mexican experience – has the perforation of Ivalon’s membrane been solved?

    Article • Cardiology in the Young, February 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  50. Participation of Arachidonic Acid Metabolism in the Aortic Aneurysm Formation in Patients with Marfan Syndrome

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, February 2018, Frontiers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  51. Age-, Gender-, and in Vivo Different Doses of Isoproterenol Modify in Vitro Aortic Vasoreactivity and Circulating VCAM-1

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2018, Frontiers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  52. Reductive Stress in Inflammation-Associated Diseases and the Pro-Oxidant Effect of Antioxidant Agents

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, October 2017, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  53. Glutathione system participation in thoracic aneurysms from patients with Marfan syndrome

    Article • VASA, May 2017, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  54. Pre- and post-surgical evaluation of the inflammatory response in patients with aortic stenosis treated with different types of prosthesis

    Article • BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, April 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  55. Fenofibrate Therapy Restores Antioxidant Protection and Improves Myocardial Insulin Resistance in a Rat Model of Metabolic Syndrome and Myocardial Ischemia: The Role of Angiotensin II

    Article • Molecules, December 2016, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  56. Beneficial Effects of the Amino Acid Glycine

    Article • Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, November 2016, Bentham Science Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  57. Effect of the Aged Garlic Extract on Cardiovascular Function in Metabolic Syndrome Rats

    Article • Molecules, October 2016, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  58. Importance of Metabolic Memory in the Development of Vascular Complications in Diabetic Patients

    Article • Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia, October 2016, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  59. The Effect of Resveratrol and Quercetin Treatment on PPAR Mediated Uncoupling Protein (UCP-) 1, 2, and 3 Expression in Visceral White Adipose Tissue from Metabolic Syndrome Rats

    Article • International Journal of Molecular Sciences, July 2016, MDPI AG

    Verónica Guarner-Lans, Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón

  60. GCSF Partially Repairs Heart Damage Induced by Repetitive β-adrenergic Stimulation in Mice: Potential Role of the Mobilized Bone Marrow-derived Cells

    Article • International Journal of Pharmacology, July 2016, Science Alert

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  61. Participation of oleic acid in the formation of the aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome patients

    Article • Prostaglandins & Other Lipid Mediators, March 2016, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  62. Changes in Angiotensin Receptor Distribution and in Aortic Morphology Are Associated with Blood Pressure Control in Aged Metabolic Syndrome Rats

    Article • International Journal of Hypertension, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  63. Effect of Cross-Sex Hormonal Replacement on Antioxidant Enzymes in Rat Retroperitoneal Fat Adipocytes

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  64. Infusion ofHibiscus sabdariffa L.Modulates Oxidative Stress in Patients with Marfan Syndrome

    Article • Mediators of Inflammation, January 2016, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  65. 17βEstradiol Modulates Perfusion Pressure and Expression of 5-LOX and CYP450 4A in the Isolated Kidney of Metabolic Syndrome Female Rats

    Article • International Journal of Endocrinology, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  66. The Combination of Resveratrol and Quercetin Attenuates Metabolic Syndrome in Rats by Modifying the Serum Fatty Acid Composition and by Upregulating SIRT 1 and SIRT 2 Expression in White Adipose Tissue

    Article • Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, January 2015, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  67. Survival and Clinical Behavior of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in a Latin American Cohort in Contrast to Cohorts from the Developed World

    Article • Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, January 2015, Korean Society of Echocardiography (KAMJE)

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  68. Aging in blood vessels. Medicinal agents FOR systemic arterial hypertension in the elderly

    Article • Ageing Research Reviews, November 2014, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  69. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs attenuate the vascular responses in aging metabolic syndrome rats

    Article • Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  70. Angiotensin II and 1-7 during aging in Metabolic Syndrome rats. Expression of AT1, AT2 and Mas receptors in abdominal white adipose tissue

    Article • Peptides, July 2014, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  71. Analysis of Oxidative Stress Enzymes and Structural and Functional Proteins on Human Aortic Tissue from Different Aortopathies

    Article • Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  72. Low-Grade Systemic Inflammation Connects Aging, Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease

    Article • January 2014, Karger Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  73. Modulation of the Activities of Catalase, Cu-Zn, Mn Superoxide Dismutase, and Glutathione Peroxidase in Adipocyte from Ovariectomised Female Rats with Metabolic Syndrome

    Article • International Journal of Endocrinology, January 2014, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  74. Modulation of Oxidative Stress in Fatty Liver of Rat with Metabolic Syndrome by Hibiscus Sabdariffa

    Article • Immunology Endocrine & Metabolic Agents - Medicinal Chemistry, December 2013, Bentham Science Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  75. Medicinal Agents and Metabolic Syndrome

    Article • Current Medicinal Chemistry, May 2013, Bentham Science Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  76. Metabolic Syndrome: Early Development and Aging

    Article • Journal of Diabetes & Metabolism, January 2012, OMICS Publishing Group

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  77. Sex Steroid Hormones, Cardiovascular Diseases and The Metabolic Syndrome

    Article • Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry, July 2011, Bentham Science Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  78. Sex Hormones, Metabolic Syndrome and Kidney

    Article • Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, July 2011, Bentham Science Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  79. Relation of aging and sex hormones to metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease

    Article • Experimental Gerontology, July 2011, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  80. Insulin effect on glucose transport in thymocytes and splenocytes from rats with metabolic syndrome

    Article • Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  81. Aortic vasoreactivity during a postnatal critical window of the pancreas in rats

    Article • Heart and Vessels, May 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  82. Glycation does not modify bovine serum albumin (BSA)-induced reduction of rat aortic relaxation: The response to glycated and nonglycated BSA is lost in metabolic syndrome

    Article • Glycobiology, April 2008, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  83. Participation of glucose transporters on atrial natriuretic peptide-induced glucose uptake by adult and neonatal cardiomyocytes under oxygenation and hypoxia

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, July 2007, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  84. Temperature effect on contractile activity of the Ambystoma dumerilii heart previously treated with isoproterenol

    Article • Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A Molecular & Integrative Physiology, July 2007, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  85. Glucose transporters on atrial natriuretic peptide-induced glucose uptake by adult and neonatal hypoxic cardiomyocytes

    Article • Developmental Biology, June 2007, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  86. Effect of age on insulin-induced endothelin release and vasoreactivity in hypertriglyceridemic and hypertensive rats

    Article • Experimental Gerontology, March 2006, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  87. Endothelin-1 and functional tissue factor: a possible relationship with severity in primary pulmonary hypertension

    Article • Heart and Vessels, February 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  88. Effects of polarizing solution on glucose uptake of rat oxygenated or hypoxic ventricular myocytes

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology, January 2003, Wiley

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  89. Coronary and femoral arterial contraction with high glucose, insulin, and glucose-insulin-potassium solution: effects of hypoxia

    Article • Heart and Vessels, January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  90. Effect of Glucose and Fatty Acid Availability on Neonatal and Adult Heart Contractility

    Article • Neonatology, January 2002, Karger Publishers

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  91. Effects of alpha adrenergic stimulation on time independent potassium current of isolated ventricular myocytes

    Article • Life Sciences, March 1995, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  92. Different mechanism for insulin induced and contraction induced increases in skeletal muscle glucose uptake

    Article • Life Sciences, January 1994, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  93. Trifluoperazine inhibition of insulin-induced increase in skeletal muscle glucose uptake

    Article • European Journal of Pharmacology, June 1993, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  94. Effects of Maternal Protein-Calorie Malnutrition on the Phospholipid Composition of Surfactant Isolated from Fetal and Neonatal Rat Lungs. Compensation by Inositol and Lipid Supplementation

    Article • Pediatric Research, June 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  95. Changes in brain glucose retention produced by the stimulation of an insulin-sensitive reflexogenic zone in rats

    Article • Journal of the Autonomic Nervous System, June 1991, Elsevier

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  96. Compensation by Fetal Erythrocytes of Plasma Glucose Changes in Rats

    Article • Diabetes, October 1990, American Diabetes Association

    Verónica Guarner-Lans

  97. Erythrocytes and Glucose Homeostasis in Rats

    Article • Diabetes, April 1989, American Diabetes Association

    Verónica Guarner-Lans