The biological basis for cardiac repair after myocardial infarction: from inflammation to fibrosis

SD Prabhu, NG Frangogiannis - Circulation research, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
In adult mammals, massive sudden loss of cardiomyocytes after infarction overwhelms the
limited regenerative capacity of the myocardium, resulting in the formation of a collagen …

Cardioimmunology: the immune system in cardiac homeostasis and disease

FK Swirski, M Nahrendorf - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
The past few decades have generated growing recognition that the immune system makes
an important contribution to cardiac development, composition and function. Immune cells …

Self-renewing resident cardiac macrophages limit adverse remodeling following myocardial infarction

SA Dick, JA Macklin, S Nejat, A Momen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Macrophages promote both injury and repair after myocardial infarction, but discriminating
functions within mixed populations remains challenging. Here we used fate map** …

Leukocyte behavior in atherosclerosis, myocardial infarction, and heart failure

FK Swirski, M Nahrendorf - Science, 2013 - science.org
Cardiovascular diseases claim more lives worldwide than any other. Etiologically, the
dominant trajectory involves atherosclerosis, a chronic inflammatory process of lipid-rich …

Chronic heart failure and inflammation: what do we really know?

SA Dick, S Epelman - Circulation research, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
As a greater proportion of patients survive their initial cardiac insult, medical systems
worldwide are being faced with an ever-growing need to understand the mechanisms …