Sarfaraz Ahmad, PhD

About Me

Education: BS, Aligarh Muslim University J.N. Medical College - India, 1989; MS, Aligarh Muslim University J.N. Medical College - India, 1991; PhD, Aligarh Muslim University J.N. Medical College - India, 1996
Fellowship: Mercer University - Southern School, 2005; Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2008; Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2011; Wake Forest University School of Medicine, 2011
Memberships: Oxygen Society; Society of Toxicology; Toxicology Letters; American Physiological Society; American Physiology; AHA - High Blood Pressure Research Council
Positions: Assistant Professor, General Surgery
Departments and Affiliations: General Surgery

Critical role of the chymase/angiotensin-(1-12) axis in modulating cardiomyocyte contractility. Li T, Zhang X, Cheng HJ, Zhang Z, Ahmad S, Varagic J, Li W, Cheng CP, Ferrario CM. Int. J. Cardiol. 2018 08; 264:137-144.
Blunting of estrogen modulation of cardiac cellular chymase/RAS activity and function in SHR. Ahmad S, Sun X, Lin M, Varagic J, Zapata-Sudo G, Ferrario CM, Groban L, Wang H. J. Cell. Physiol. 2018 04; 233(4):3330-3342.
Blunting of cardioprotective actions of estrogen in female rodent heart linked to altered expression of cardiac tissue chymase and ACE2. da Silva JS, Gabriel-Costa D, Wang H, Ahmad S, Sun X, Varagic J, Sudo RT, Ferrario CM, Dell Italia LJ, Sudo GZ, Groban L. J Renin Angiotensin Aldosterone Syst. ; 18(3):1470320317722270.
Novel Cardiac Intracrine Mechanisms Based on Ang-(1-12)/Chymase Axis Require a Revision of Therapeutic Approaches in Human Heart Disease. Reyes S, Varagic J, Ahmad S, VonCannon J, Kon ND, Wang H, Groban L, Cheng CP, Dell'Italia LJ, Ferrario CM. Curr. Hypertens. Rep. 2017 Feb; 19(2):16.
Role of Tissue Renin-angiotensin System and the Chymase/angiotensin-( 1-12) Axis in the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Retinopathy. Ola MS, Alhomida AS, Ferrario CM, Ahmad S. Curr. Med. Chem. 2017; 24(28):3104-3114.

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