Background: NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) is a transcription factor playing cytoprotective effects in various pathological processes including oxidative stress and cardiac hypertrophy. Despite being a potential therapeutic target to treat several …

By the time cardiotoxicity-associated cardiac dysfunction is detectable by echocardiography it is often beyond meaningful intervention. 99mTc-sestamibi is used clinically to image cardiac perfusion by single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) …

Children with sickle cell anemia have elevated stroke risks as well as other arterial complications, but morphological changes to large arteries are not well defined, and the focus has been on the microcirculation where deoxygenation promotes sickling of …

Cardiac fibrosis is primarily mediated by activated fibroblasts. However, cardiomyocytes have also been implicated in facilitating the fibrotic response. We aimed to explore how cardiomyocyte-derived exosomes affect fibroblasts. We measured …

A multifunctional CO/thermo/chemotherapy nanoplatform is here reported, which is composed of mesoporous carbon nanoparticles (MCN) as near infrared (NIR)-responsive drug carrier, doxorubicin (DOX) as chemother- apeutic drug and triiron dodecacarbonyl …

Acquisition of self-reactive effector CD4 + T cells is a major component of the autoimmune response that can occur during myocarditis, an inflammatory form of cardiomyopathy. Although the processes by which self-reactive T cells gain effector function …

Cardiac fibroblasts are the major producers of extracellular matrix (ECM) to form infarct scar. We hypothesized that fibro- blasts undergo a spectrum of phenotype states over the course of myocardial infarction (MI) from early onset to scar forma- tion. …

Background: Titin is a giant elastic protein that spans the half-sarcomere from Z-disk to M-band. It acts as a molecular spring and mechanosensor and has been linked to striated muscle disease. The pathways that govern titin dependent cardiac growth and …

Introduction: Exposure to the fine particulate matter PM2.5 is strongly as- sociated with atherosclerotic diseases, creating considerable public concern. Nevertheless, the mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. We exposed atherosclerosis-prone …

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a disease prevalent in preterm babies with a need for supplemental oxygen resulting in impaired lung development and dysregulated vascularization. Epidemiological studies have shown that males are more prone to BPD and …