Acylcarnitines: nomenclature, biomarkers, therapeutic potential, drug targets, and clinical trials

M Dambrova, M Makrecka-Kuka, J Kuka… - Pharmacological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Acylcarnitines are fatty acid metabolites that play important roles in many cellular energy
metabolism pathways. They have historically been used as important diagnostic markers for …

Mitochondrial function as a therapeutic target in heart failure

DA Brown, JB Perry, ME Allen, HN Sabbah… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Heart failure is a pressing worldwide public-health problem with millions of patients having
worsening heart failure. Despite all the available therapies, the condition carries a very poor …

Glucose metabolism in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure

DH Tran, ZV Wang - Journal of the American Heart Association, 2019 - ahajournals.org
Heart failure is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and has been singled out as
an emerging epidemic. 1, 2 With a 5-year survival rate of 50%, heart failure poses a …

Loss of metabolic flexibility in the failing heart

QG Karwi, GM Uddin, KL Ho… - Frontiers in cardiovascular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
To maintain its high energy demand the heart is equipped with a highly complex and
efficient enzymatic machinery that orchestrates ATP production using multiple energy …

Role of mitochondrial quality surveillance in myocardial infarction: from bench to bedside

H Zhou, J Ren, S Toan, D Mui - Ageing research reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Myocardial infarction (MI) is the irreversible death of cardiomyocyte secondary to prolonged
lack of oxygen or fresh blood supply. Historically considered as merely cardiomyocyte …

Regulation of pyruvate metabolism and human disease

LR Gray, SC Tompkins, EB Taylor - Cellular and molecular life sciences, 2014 - Springer
Pyruvate is a keystone molecule critical for numerous aspects of eukaryotic and human
metabolism. Pyruvate is the end-product of glycolysis, is derived from additional sources in …

Leukemic stem cells evade chemotherapy by metabolic adaptation to an adipose tissue niche

H Ye, B Adane, N Khan, T Sullivan, M Minhajuddin… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Adipose tissue (AT) has previously been identified as an extra-medullary reservoir for
normal hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) and may promote tumor development. Here, we …

Cardiac metabolism in heart failure: implications beyond ATP production

T Doenst, TD Nguyen, ED Abel - Circulation research, 2013 - ahajournals.org
The heart has a high rate of ATP production and turnover that is required to maintain its
continuous mechanical work. Perturbations in ATP-generating processes may therefore …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in heart failure: from pathophysiological mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

G Gallo, S Rubattu, M Volpe - International journal of molecular sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction, a feature of heart failure, leads to a progressive decline in
bioenergetic reserve capacity, consisting in a shift of energy production from mitochondrial …

First‐in‐class cardiolipin‐protective compound as a therapeutic agent to restore mitochondrial bioenergetics

HH Szeto - British journal of pharmacology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A decline in energy is common in aging, and the restoration of mitochondrial bioenergetics
may offer a common approach for the treatment of numerous age‐associated diseases …