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List of works by Christopher Torrens

Aortic Stenosis Prognostication in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes: Protocol for Testing and Validation of a Biomarker-Derived Scoring System

scientific article published on 12 August 2019

Atorvastatin restores endothelial function in offspring of protein-restricted rats in a cholesterol-independent manner

scientific journal article

Candidate plasma biomarkers for predicting ascending aortic aneurysm in bicuspid aortic valve disease.

scientific article

Defective NOTCH signaling drives increased vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis and contractile differentiation in bicuspid aortic valve aortopathy: A review of the evidence and future directions

scientific article published on 21 June 2018

Developmental conditioning of endothelium-derived hyperpolarizing factor-mediated vasorelaxation

scientific article published on 16 December 2015

Developmental exposure to bisphenol A leads to cardiometabolic dysfunction in adult mouse offspring.

scientific article published in August 2012

Dietary protein restriction in pregnancy induces hypertension and vascular defects in rat male offspring.

scientific article published on 19 March 2003

Dietary protein restriction of pregnant rats in the F0 generation induces altered methylation of hepatic gene promoters in the adult male offspring in the F1 and F2 generations

scientific article

Effects of pre-natal and early post-natal undernutrition on adult internal thoracic artery function.

scientific article published on 4 November 2005

Endogenous Reference Genes for Gene Expression Studies on Bicuspid Aortic Valve Associated Aortopathy in Humans

scientific article

Feeding a protein-restricted diet during pregnancy induces altered epigenetic regulation of peroxisomal proliferator-activated receptor-α in the heart of the offspring

scientific article

Feeding pregnant rats a protein-restricted diet persistently alters the methylation of specific cytosines in the hepatic PPAR alpha promoter of the offspring

scientific article

Folate supplementation during pregnancy improves offspring cardiovascular dysfunction induced by protein restriction

scientific article

Glycine rectifies vascular dysfunction induced by dietary protein imbalance during pregnancy

scientific article published on October 24, 2003

How to beet hypertension in pregnancy: Is there more to beetroot juice than nitrate?

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Interaction between maternal and offspring diet to impair vascular function and oxidative balance in high fat fed male mice.

scientific article

Loitering in the shadows: the cardiovascular implications of vitamin D during development

scientific article published on 01 October 2011

Low protein diet fed exclusively during mouse oocyte maturation leads to behavioural and cardiovascular abnormalities in offspring.

scientific article published on 28 February 2008

Maternal fat intake in rats alters 20:4n-6 and 22:6n-3 status and the epigenetic regulation of Fads2 in offspring liver

scientific article published on 27 October 2012

Maternal low-protein diet during mouse pre-implantation development induces vascular dysfunction and altered renin-angiotensin-system homeostasis in the offspring

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

Maternal protein restriction in the rat impairs resistance artery but not conduit artery function in pregnant offspring

scientific article

Maternal undernutrition leads to endothelial dysfunction in adult male rat offspring independent of postnatal diet.

scientific article published on 20 May 2008

Mismatched pre- and postnatal nutrition leads to cardiovascular dysfunction and altered renal function in adulthood.

scholarly article

Particulate matter inhalation impairs coronary microvascular reactivity

abstract published in 2008

Phase contrast synchrotron radiation computed tomography of muscle spindles in the mouse soleus muscle

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

Polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis is involved in phenylephrine-mediated calcium release in vascular smooth muscle cells

scientific article published on 20 August 2015

Prenatal development is linked to bronchial reactivity: epidemiological and animal model evidence

scientific article published on 17 April 2014

Resolvin E1, resolvin D1 and resolvin D2 inhibit constriction of rat thoracic aorta and human pulmonary artery induced by the thromboxane mimetic U46619.

scientific article published on 20 January 2018

Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy of erythrocytes protruding through the human placental syncytiotrophoblast.

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

The microvasculature: a target for nutritional programming and later risk of cardio-metabolic disease.

scientific article published on 25 June 2013

The sins of the fathers: why we should care about paternal diet around conception

scientific article published on 03 February 2020

Transmission of raised blood pressure and endothelial dysfunction to the F2 generation induced by maternal protein restriction in the F0, in the absence of dietary challenge in the F1 generation

scientific article

Vascular dysfunction induced in offspring by maternal dietary fat involves altered arterial polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis

scientific article