Senescence mechanisms and targets in the heart

MS Chen, RT Lee, JC Garbern - Cardiovascular research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Cellular senescence is a state of irreversible cell cycle arrest associated with ageing.
Senescence of different cardiac cell types can direct the pathophysiology of cardiovascular …

Innate and adaptive immunity: the understudied driving force of heart valve disease

F Bartoli-Leonard, J Zimmer… - Cardiovascular research, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD), and its clinical manifestation that is calcific aortic valve
stenosis, is the leading cause for valve disease within the developed world, with no current …

Nuclear mechanosensing drives chromatin remodelling in persistently activated fibroblasts

CJ Walker, C Crocini, D Ramirez, AR Killaars… - Nature biomedical …, 2021 - nature.com
Fibrotic disease is caused by the continuous deposition of extracellular matrix by persistently
activated fibroblasts (also known as myofibroblasts), even after the resolution of the injury …

Programing cell assembly via ink-free, label-free magneto-archimedes based strategy

T Ren, M Maitusong, X Zhou, X Hong, S Cheng, Y Lin… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Tissue engineering raised a high requirement to control cell distribution in defined materials
and structures. In “ink”-based bioprintings, such as 3D printing and photolithography, cells …

Genes that escape X chromosome inactivation modulate sex differences in valve myofibroblasts

BA Aguado, CJ Walker, JC Grim, ME Schroeder… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Aortic valve stenosis is a sexually dimorphic disease, with women often
presenting with sustained fibrosis and men with more extensive calcification. However, the …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveal cellular diversity of aortic valve and the immunomodulation by PPARγ during hyperlipidemia

SH Lee, N Kim, M Kim, SH Woo, I Han, J Park… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Valvular inflammation triggered by hyperlipidemia has been considered as an important
initial process of aortic valve disease; however, cellular and molecular evidence remains …

Matters of the heart: cellular sex differences

CJ Walker, ME Schroeder, BA Aguado… - Journal of molecular and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nearly all cardiovascular diseases show sexual dimorphisms in prevalence, presentation,
and outcomes. Until recently, most clinical trials were carried out in males, and many animal …

Uncoupling the vicious cycle of mechanical stress and inflammation in calcific aortic valve disease

NH Dayawansa, S Baratchi, K Peter - Frontiers in Cardiovascular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) is a common acquired valvulopathy, which carries a
high burden of mortality. Chronic inflammation has been postulated as the predominant …

[HTML][HTML] Blocking the NLRP3 inflammasome reduces osteogenic calcification and M1 macrophage polarization in a mouse model of calcified aortic valve stenosis

J Lu, S **e, Y Deng, X **e, Y Liu - Atherosclerosis, 2022 - Elsevier
Background and aims Activated innate immune cells infiltrating the valve and their secreted
cytokines drive the differentiation of valve interstitial cells into myofibroblastic and …

Facile engineering of interactive double network hydrogels for heart valve regeneration

J Li, W Qiao, Y Liu, H Lei, S Wang, Y Xu, Y Zhou… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Regenerative heart valve prostheses are essential for treating valvular heart disease, which
requested interactive materials that can adapt to the tissue remodeling process. Such …