Autophagy and cardiac diseases: Therapeutic potential of natural products

X Wu, Z Liu, XY Yu, S Xu, J Luo - Medicinal Research Reviews, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
The global incidence of cardiac diseases is expected to increase in the coming years,
imposing a substantial socioeconomic burden on healthcare systems. Autophagy is a tightly …

Induced pluripotent stem cells: at the heart of cardiovascular precision medicine

IY Chen, E Matsa, JC Wu - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2016‏ - nature.com
The advent of human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC) technology has revitalized the
efforts in the past decade to realize more fully the potential of human embryonic stem cells …

Self-assembling human heart organoids for the modeling of cardiac development and congenital heart disease

YR Lewis-Israeli, AH Wasserman, MA Gabalski… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Congenital heart defects constitute the most common human birth defect, however
understanding of how these disorders originate is limited by our ability to model the human …

Transcriptionally active HERV-H retrotransposons demarcate topologically associating domains in human pluripotent stem cells

Y Zhang, T Li, S Preissl, ML Amaral, JD Grinstein… - Nature …, 2019‏ - nature.com
Chromatin architecture has been implicated in cell type-specific gene regulatory programs,
yet how chromatin remodels during development remains to be fully elucidated. Here, by …

Autophagy is required for endothelial cell alignment and atheroprotection under physiological blood flow

AC Vion, M Kheloufi, A Hammoutene, J Poisson… - Proceedings of the …, 2017‏ - pnas.org
It has been known for some time that atherosclerotic lesions preferentially develop in areas
exposed to low SS and are characterized by a proinflammatory, apoptotic, and senescent …

Cellular metabolism and induced pluripotency

J Wu, A Ocampo, JCI Belmonte - Cell, 2016‏ - cell.com
The discovery of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) a decade ago, which we are
celebrating in this issue of Cell, represents a landmark discovery in biomedical research …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of mitochondrial dysfunction in lysosomal storage disorders: a review

KM Stepien, F Roncaroli, N Turton… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
Mitochondrial dysfunction is emerging as an important contributory factor to the
pathophysiology of lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs). The cause of mitochondrial …

Biology of the cardiac myocyte in heart disease

AK Peter, MA Bjerke, LA Leinwand - Molecular biology of the cell, 2016‏ - molbiolcell.org
Cardiac hypertrophy is a major risk factor for heart failure, and it has been shown that this
increase in size occurs at the level of the cardiac myocyte. Cardiac myocyte model systems …

[HTML][HTML] Regulation of endogenous cardiomyocyte proliferation: The known unknowns

I Secco, M Giacca - Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Myocardial regeneration in patients with cardiac damage is a long-sought goal of clinical
medicine. In animal species in which regeneration occurs spontaneously, as well as in …

LAMP-2B regulates human cardiomyocyte function by mediating autophagosome–lysosome fusion

C Chi, A Leonard, WE Knight, KM Beussman… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
Mutations in lysosomal-associated membrane protein 2 (LAMP-2) gene are associated with
Danon disease, which often leads to cardiomyopathy/heart failure through poorly defined …