Circulation On The Run

  Carolyn: Welcome to Circulation on the Run. Your weekly podcast summary and backstage pass to the journal and it's editors. I'm Dr. Carolyn Lam, Associate Editor from The National Heart Center and Duke National University of Singapore. Have you wondered which anti-platelet agent you should use in your patients with diabetes and coronary artery disease? Well, our feature paper deals with just this topic, so stay tuned, I'll be write back with it's author and associate editor. First, here's your summary of this week's journal: The first paper unravels novel peptides involved in atrial extracellular matrix remodelling in atrial fibrillation. This is work from first author Dr. Barallobre-Barreiro, corresponding author Dr Mayr from King's College London, and colleagues. They used novel mass spectrometry methods to analyze extracellular matrix in human atrial appendages from patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.     Now, previous proteomic studies have examined the cellular proteome, but this is the