The physiology of bilirubin: health and disease equilibrium

L Vitek, TD Hinds, DE Stec, C Tiribelli - Trends in molecular medicine, 2023 - cell.com
Bilirubin has several physiological functions, both beneficial and harmful. In addition to
reactive oxygen species-scavenging activities, bilirubin has potent immunosuppressive …

Bilirubin as a metabolic hormone: the physiological relevance of low levels

JF Creeden, DM Gordon, DE Stec… - American Journal of …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Recent research on bilirubin, a historically well-known waste product of heme catabolism,
suggests an entirely new function as a metabolic hormone that drives gene transcription by …

[HTML][HTML] Bilirubin as a therapeutic molecule: challenges and opportunities

CA Adin - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
There is strong evidence that serum free bilirubin concentration has significant effects on
morbidity and mortality in the most significant health conditions of our times, including …

[HTML][HTML] Bilirubin gates the TRPM2 channel as a direct agonist to exacerbate ischemic brain damage

HW Liu, LN Gong, K Lai, XF Yu, ZQ Liu, MX Li, XL Yin… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
Stroke prognosis is negatively associated with an elevation of serum bilirubin, but how
bilirubin worsens outcomes remains mysterious. We report that post-, but not pre-, stroke …

Pharmaceutical strategies for preventing toxicity and promoting antioxidant and anti-inflammatory actions of bilirubin

A Nocentini, A Bonardi, S Pratesi… - Journal of enzyme …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Bilirubin (BR) is the final product of haem catabolism. Disruptions along BR
metabolic/transport pathways resulting from inherited disorders can increase plasma BR …

Bilirubin nanoparticles protect against cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury in mice

W Ai, S Bae, Q Ke, S Su, R Li, Y Chen… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) injury causes overproduction of reactive oxygen
species, which are the major culprits of oxidative stress that leads to inflammation …

[HTML][HTML] Recent updates and advances in Winiwarter-Buerger disease (thromboangiitis obliterans): biomolecular mechanisms, diagnostics and clinical consequences

B Fazeli, D Ligi, S Keramat, R Maniscalco… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Thromboangiitis obliterans (TAO) or Buerger's disease is a segmental inflammatory,
thrombotic occlusive peripheral vascular disease with unknown aetiology that usually …

Practices of therapeutic drug monitoring in tuberculosis: an international survey

I Margineanu, O Akkerman, D Cattaneo… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Tuberculosis (TB) is still one of the top 10 causes of death in low and lower-middle income
countries [1]. TB's long and complex treatment, side-effects, and development of resistant …

[HTML][HTML] Mutant CHCHD10 causes an extensive metabolic rewiring that precedes OXPHOS dysfunction in a murine model of mitochondrial cardiomyopathy

NM Sayles, N Southwell, K McAvoy, K Kim, A Pesini… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Mitochondrial cardiomyopathies are fatal diseases, with no effective treatment. Alterations of
heart mitochondrial function activate the mitochondrial integrated stress response (ISR mt), a …

[HTML][HTML] Heme oxygenase dependent bilirubin generation in vascular cells: a role in preventing endothelial dysfunction in local tissue microenvironment?

M Nitti, AL Furfaro, GE Mann - Frontiers in Physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Among antioxidants in the human body, bilirubin has been recognized over the past 20
years to afford protection against different chronic conditions, including inflammation and …