Principal Investigator

 
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Claire Kissell, PhD

Dr. Kissell’s research is broadly focused on human neural cardiovascular control in health and disease and employs the use of intraneural sympathetic recordings (i.e., microneurography) to assess autonomic regulation of the cardiovascular system.            Dr. Kissell has a history and interest in studying unique clinical populations (patients with multiple sclerosis, chronic kidney disease, heart failure etc.), as well as non-pharmacological interventions that may ameliorate the negative effects of chronic disease.

Her research also encompasses projects aimed at characterizing cardiovascular control in historically understudied minority racial and ethnic groups that are at a greater risk for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

Selected Publications

  • Kissell CE, Skow RJ, Wakeham DJ, et al. Impaired exercise hemodynamic responses in patients with HFpEF without a sympathetic vasoconstrictor reserve. Auton Neurosci 2025;260:103309. DOI: 10.1016/j.autneu.2025.103309. 
  • Kissell CE, Young BE, Kaur J, et al. Sympathetic transduction to blood pressure in patients with chronic kidney disease. Clin Auton Res 2025;35(2):223–230. DOI: 10.1007/s10286-024-01084-7. 
  • Taherzadeh Z, Kissell CE, Young BE, et al. Cardiac autonomic function in young, healthy adults: Influence of race and sex. Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2025 Apr 5;328(5):R611-R618. DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00288.2024. 
  • Young BE, Kissell CE, Vranish JR, Stephens BY, Holwerda SW, Fadel PJ. Sex differences in sympathetic transduction in black and white adults: implications for racial disparities in hypertension and cardiovascular disease risk. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2024;327(3):H672–H680. DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.00337.2024. 
  • Kissell CE, Young BE, Jarrard CP, et al. Reduced resting beat-to-beat blood pressure variability in females with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler Relat Disord 2024;83:105416. DOI: 10.1016/j.msard.2023.105416.

Find all of Dr. Kissell's publications on PubMed.