Clinical trial in a dish: using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells to identify risks of drug-induced cardiotoxicity

CK Lam, JC Wu - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Drug-induced cardiotoxicity is a significant clinical issue, with many drugs in the market
being labeled with warnings on cardiovascular adverse effects. Treatments are often …

Ebselen, Iron Uptake Inhibitor, Alleviates Iron Overload‐Induced Senescence‐Like Neuronal Cells SH‐SY5Y via Suppressing the mTORC1 Signaling Pathway

S Mukem, I Sayoh, S Maungchanburi… - Advances in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing evidence highlights that excessive iron accumulation in the brain plays a vital
role in neuronal senescence and is implicated in the pathogenesis of age‐related …

An alternative mechanism of subcellular iron uptake deficiency in cardiomyocytes

Y Dai, N Ignatyeva, H Xu, R Wali, K Toischer… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Systemic defects in intestinal iron absorption, circulation, and retention cause
iron deficiency in 50% of patients with heart failure. Defective subcellular iron uptake …

[HTML][HTML] Building multi-dimensional induced pluripotent stem cells-based model platforms to assess cardiotoxicity in cancer therapies

D Thomas, S Shenoy, N Sayed - Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications have contributed significantly toward poor
survival of cancer patients worldwide. These complications that result in myocardial and …

Ebselen restores peri-implantitis-induced osteogenic inhibition via suppressing BMSCs ferroptosis

Z Huang, G Chen, H Wu, X Huang, R Xu… - Experimental Cell …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is hard to reconstruct bone defects in peri-implantitis due to osteogenesis inhibited by
excessive reactive oxygen species (ROS). Ferroptosis, a recently identified regulated cell …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and molecular aspects of iron metabolism in failing myocytes

B Kozłowska, B Sochanowicz, L Kraj, M Palusińska… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Heart failure (HF) is a common disease that causes significant limitations on the organism's
capacity and, in extreme cases, leads to death. Clinically, iron deficiency (ID) plays an …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac iron metabolism during aging–Role of inflammation and proteolysis

S Walter, C Mertens, MU Muckenthaler, C Ott - Mechanisms of ageing and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Iron is the most abundant trace element in the human body. Since iron can switch between
its 2-valent and 3-valent form it is essential in various physiological processes such as …

Death-seq identifies regulators of cell death and senolytic therapies

A Colville, JY Liu, C Rodriguez-Mateo, S Thomas… - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Selectively ablating damaged cells is an evolving therapeutic approach for age-related
disease. Current methods for genome-wide screens to identify genes whose deletion might …

Chronic ethanol exposure induces deleterious changes in cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells

R Liu, F Sun, LC Armand, R Wu, C Xu - Stem cell reviews and reports, 2021 - Springer
Chronic alcohol consumption in adults can induce cardiomyopathy, arrhythmias, and heart
failure. In newborns, prenatal alcohol exposure can increase the risk of congenital heart …

[HTML][HTML] Gaining insight into mitochondrial genetic variation and downstream pathophysiology: What can i (pscs) do?

JD Moreira, DM Gopal, DN Kotton, JL Fetterman - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are specialized organelles involved in energy production that have retained
their own genome throughout evolutionary history. The mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is …