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 …

Cardiac fibrosis: Cell biological mechanisms, molecular pathways and therapeutic opportunities

NG Frangogiannis - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Cardiac fibrosis is a common pathophysiologic companion of most myocardial diseases,
and is associated with systolic and diastolic dysfunction, arrhythmogenesis, and adverse …

The inflammatory response in myocardial injury, repair, and remodelling

NG Frangogiannis - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2014 - nature.com
Myocardial infarction triggers an intense inflammatory response that is essential for cardiac
repair, but which is also implicated in the pathogenesis of postinfarction remodelling and …

Targeting galectin-driven regulatory circuits in cancer and fibrosis

KV Mariño, AJ Cagnoni, DO Croci… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Galectins are a family of endogenous glycan-binding proteins that have crucial roles in a
broad range of physiological and pathological processes. As a group, these proteins use …

Distinct longevity mechanisms across and within species and their association with aging

A Tyshkovskiy, S Ma, AV Shindyapina, S Tikhonov… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Lifespan varies within and across species, but the general principles of its control remain
unclear. Here, we conducted multi-tissue RNA-seq analyses across 41 mammalian species …

Galectin-1: a jack-of-all-trades in the resolution of acute and chronic inflammation

V Sundblad, LG Morosi, JR Geffner… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
Regulatory signals provide negative input to immunological networks promoting resolution
of acute and chronic inflammation. Galectin-1 (Gal-1), a member of a family of evolutionarily …

Ischemia/reperfusion injury: pathophysiology, current clinical management, and potential preventive approaches

CD Sánchez-Hernández… - Mediators of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Myocardial ischemia reperfusion syndrome is a complex entity where many inflammatory
mediators play different roles, both to enhance myocardial infarction‐derived damage and to …

Galectin-1 prevents pathological vascular remodeling in atherosclerosis and abdominal aortic aneurysm

R Roldán-Montero, JM Pérez-Sáez, I Cerro-Pardo… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Pathological vascular remodeling is the underlying cause of atherosclerosis and abdominal
aortic aneurysm (AAA). Here, we analyzed the role of galectin-1 (Gal-1), a β-galactoside …

Danger signals in the initiation of the inflammatory response after myocardial infarction

JJ De Haan, MB Smeets, G Pasterkamp… - Mediators of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
During myocardial infarction, sterile inflammation occurs. The danger model is a solid
theoretic framework that explains this inflammation as danger associated molecular patterns …

The interplay of galectins-1,-3, and-9 in the immune-inflammatory response underlying cardiovascular and metabolic disease

AA Mansour, F Krautter, Z Zhi, AJ Iqbal… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - Springer
Galectins are β-galactoside-binding proteins that bind and crosslink molecules via their
sugar moieties, forming signaling and adhesion networks involved in cellular …