November 2020 Discover CircRes

<p>This month on Episode 18 of the Discover CircRes podcast, host Cindy St. Hilaire highlights four featured articles from the October 23 and November 6 issues of Circulation Research. This episode features an in-depth conversation with Drs Eric Boilard from the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, and Fadila Guessous from Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences in Casablanca, Morocco regarding their study titled Platelets Can Associate with SARS-Cov-2 RNA and Are Hyperactivated in COVID-19.</p> <p> </p> <p>Article highlights:<br />  </p> <p>Feng , et al. No Contribution of EMPs to Endothelium</p> <p> </p> <p>Lin, et al. Step Count and Predicted CVD Risk</p> <p> </p> <p>González-Hernández, et al; Sox17 in Developmental Coronary Arteriogenesis</p> <p> </p> <p>Khawaja, et al; HIV Antiretrovirals Alter Endothelial Activation</p> <p> <br />  </p> <p>Dr Cindy St. Hilaire:        Hi, welcome to Discover CircRes, the podcast of the American Heart Association's Journal, Circulation Research. I'm your host, Dr Cindy St. Hilaire from the Vascular Medicine Institute at the University of Pittsburgh and today, I'll be highlighting four articles selected from the late October and early November issues of Circ Res. Dr Milka Koupenova, who is a platelet expert at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will join me to interview Drs. Eric Boilard from the Université Laval in Quebec, Canada, and Fadila Guessous from Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences in Casablanca, Morocco. They're here to discuss their study, Platelets Can Associate with SARS-CoV-2 RNA and are Hyperactivated in COVID-19.</p> <p>Dr Cindy St. Hilaire:        The first article I want to share is titled No Evidence for Erythro-Myeloid Progenitor-Derived Vascular Endothelial Cells in Multiple Organs. The first authors are Teng Feng and Zibei Gao, and the corresponding author is Hui Zhang from ShanghaiTech University in Shanghai, China.</p> <p>Dr Cindy St. Hilaire:        In the early stages of mammalian embryogenesis, a population of cells called mesod