Editorial: Methods and applications in vascular physiology: 2021

Abstract

This Research Topic is a part of the Methods and Applications in Physiology series and aims at highlighting the latest experimental and computational methods in vascular physiology and their pharmacological, clinical and healthcare applications. The Research Topic includes methodological articles, describing either novel technical approaches or new applications of the conventional methods for measurement of vascular functions and parameters in health and pathological conditions. Since the vascular system is the main diagnostic and therapeutic target in much pathology, the most selected works directly relate to the clinical research and translation of the research methods to clinical practice. We hope that detailed discussion of methods and their applications in the separate Research Topic will be fruitful in relation to meeting one of the key challenges in experimental physiology, i.e., the development of reliable and rigorous methods, which ensure reproducibility of scientific results as well as unbiased and robust data analysis. Below, we briefly reviewed articles included in this Research Topic and presented main findings of the contributors.