RNA-based diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for cardiovascular disease

D Lu, T Thum - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 - nature.com
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death globally and are associated with
increasing financial expenditure. With the availability of next-generation sequencing …

Anti-atherosclerotic therapies: milestones, challenges, and emerging innovations

I Hetherington, H Totary-Jain - Molecular Therapy, 2022 - cell.com
Atherosclerosis is the main underlying pathology for many cardiovascular diseases (CVDs),
which are the leading cause of death globally and represent a serious health crisis …

Pkm2 regulates cardiomyocyte cell cycle and promotes cardiac regeneration

A Magadum, N Singh, AA Kurian, I Munir, T Mehmood… - Circulation, 2020 - ahajournals.org
Background: The adult mammalian heart has limited regenerative capacity, mostly
attributable to postnatal cardiomyocyte cell cycle arrest. In the last 2 decades, numerous …

Emergence of synthetic mRNA: In vitro synthesis of mRNA and its applications in regenerative medicine

H Kwon, M Kim, Y Seo, YS Moon, HJ Lee, K Lee, H Lee - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
The field of gene therapy has evolved over the past two decades after the first introduction of
nucleic acid drugs, such as plasmid DNA (pDNA). With the development of in vitro …

Nanomaterials for mRNA‐based therapeutics: Challenges and opportunities

D Li, Q Liu, M Yang, H Xu, M Zhu… - Bioengineering & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Messenger RNA (mRNA) holds great potential in develo** immunotherapy, protein
replacement, and genome editing. In general, mRNA does not have the risk of being …

Nanoscale platforms for messenger RNA delivery

B Li, X Zhang, Y Dong - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Messenger RNA (mRNA) has become a promising class of drugs for diverse therapeutic
applications in the past few years. A series of clinical trials are ongoing or will be initiated in …

[HTML][HTML] Delivery of modified mRNA to damaged myocardium by systemic administration of lipid nanoparticles

MJW Evers, W Du, Q Yang, SAA Kooijmans… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Lipid Nanoparticles (LNPs) are a promising drug delivery vehicle for clinical siRNA
delivery. Modified mRNA (modRNA) has recently gained great attention as a therapeutic …

Altering sphingolipid metabolism attenuates cell death and inflammatory response after myocardial infarction

Y Hadas, AS Vincek, E Youssef, MM Żak, E Chepurko… - Circulation, 2020 - ahajournals.org
Background: Sphingolipids have recently emerged as a biomarker of recurrence and
mortality after myocardial infarction (MI). The increased ceramide levels in mammalian heart …

mRNA-based protein replacement therapy for the heart

A Magadum, K Kaur, L Zangi - Molecular Therapy, 2019 - cell.com
Myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure (HF) are the leading causes of death in the
United States and in most other industrialized nations. MI leads to a massive loss of …

[HTML][HTML] Internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated translation and its potential for novel mRNA-based therapy development

R Marques, R Lacerda, L Romão - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many conditions can benefit from RNA-based therapies, namely, those targeting internal
ribosome entry sites (IRESs) and their regulatory proteins, the IRES trans-acting factors …