“…The apelin/apj system plays important and various roles in the physiology and pathophysiology of many organs, including the regulation of blood pressure (Chen et al, 2003), cardiac contractility (Gerbier et al, 2017;Gunter et al, 2017;Ni, Liu, Ge, Zhu, & Zhang, 2017), angiogenesis (Masri, Morin, Cornu, Knibiehler, & Audigier, 2004), metabolic balance (Gourdy et al, 2018;Tekin et al, 2017) and cell proliferation (Kleinz & Davenport, 2005), apoptosis or inflammation (Han, Englander, Gomez, & Greeley, 2017;Hoffmann, Fiedor, & Ptak, 2017).…”