Guidelines for Evaluating Endothelial Function in Vascular Tissue

OK, so back to you, Camilla, since you're the corresponding author, you get a lot of.

Yeah, I apologize.

But the guideline papers are no small feat.

And this one in particular has 27 authors or kids, if you want to call them.

Right.

PDF is, I just looked, 176 pages.

You have 25 figures, 16 tables.

So can you take me back to the origin of it? You know, basically, when did Mary Lindsay ask you to do this?

Oh, wow.

I even didn't know that we had 176 pages.

Oh, man.

Well, I think we were all in the same boat, right? I think this collaboration really started from a shared feeling in the field that endothelial function had become incredibly, incredibly powerful.

But at the same time, incredible variable, right? We all realize that if you wanted the science to move forward in the way we can reproduce it, we need some more clear guidance or some level of standardization.

Well, and honestly, a huge part of this happened because of Marilyn.

Marilyn is a visionary, right? She first approached me.

About this work, when we finalized our previous guideline paper that was on vascular function, which I think was received well by the community.

If I'm not wrong, had more than 30,000, 40,000 downloads and people are still writing.

They are still writing emails to me.

question things about different things or things that you should do better.

So after that, Mary basically said, hey, Camila, can you have this next one? And I said, really? How can I say no to Mary? I know it will be a huge work, a lot of things, a huge effort, but I couldn't say no to Mary.

I know her and she does a wonderful job.

And what was amazing is that this entire collaboration here was mostly virtual.

I actually don't collaborate with the authors here, but it's never felt distance, right? Our fields are super small.

We see each other all the time through conference.

I see Tom, Brent, Errol, Pune, Amanda, you, all these guys all the time.