The science underlying COVID-19: implications for the cardiovascular system

PP Liu, A Blet, D Smyth, H Li - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has affected health and economy
worldwide on an unprecedented scale. Patients have diverse clinical outcomes, but those …

DAMPs, PAMPs, and LAMPs in immunity and sterile inflammation

J Zindel, P Kubes - Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Recognizing the importance of leukocyte trafficking in inflammation led to some therapeutic
breakthroughs. However, many inflammatory pathologies remain without specific therapy …

Three tissue resident macrophage subsets coexist across organs with conserved origins and life cycles

SA Dick, A Wong, H Hamidzada, S Nejat… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Resident macrophages orchestrate homeostatic, inflammatory, and reparative activities. It is
appreciated that different tissues instruct specialized macrophage functions. However …

Role of cardiac macrophages on cardiac inflammation, fibrosis and tissue repair

WP Lafuse, DJ Wozniak, MVS Rajaram - Cells, 2020 - mdpi.com
The immune system plays a pivotal role in the initiation, development and resolution of
inflammation following insult or damage to organs. The heart is a vital organ which supplies …

Cardioimmunology: the immune system in cardiac homeostasis and disease

FK Swirski, M Nahrendorf - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
The past few decades have generated growing recognition that the immune system makes
an important contribution to cardiac development, composition and function. Immune cells …

Single-cell expression profiling reveals dynamic flux of cardiac stromal, vascular and immune cells in health and injury

N Farbehi, R Patrick, A Dorison, M Xaymardan… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Besides cardiomyocytes (CM), the heart contains numerous interstitial cell types which play
key roles in heart repair, regeneration and disease, including fibroblast, vascular and …

An acute immune response underlies the benefit of cardiac stem cell therapy

RJ Vagnozzi, M Maillet, MA Sargent, H Khalil… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Clinical trials using adult stem cells to regenerate damaged heart tissue continue to this
day,, despite ongoing questions of efficacy and a lack of mechanistic understanding of the …

Stress and inflammation in coronary artery disease: a review psychoneuroendocrineimmunology-based

M Fioranelli, AG Bottaccioli, F Bottaccioli… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Recent findings have deeply changed the current view of coronary heart disease, going
beyond the simplistic model of atherosclerosis as a passive process involving cholesterol …

A double-edged sword of immuno-microenvironment in cardiac homeostasis and injury repair

K Sun, Y Li, J Jin - Signal transduction and targeted therapy, 2021 - nature.com
The response of immune cells in cardiac injury is divided into three continuous phases:
inflammation, proliferation and maturation. The kinetics of the inflammatory and proliferation …

The extracellular matrix protein agrin promotes heart regeneration in mice

E Bassat, YE Mutlak, A Genzelinakh, IY Shadrin… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The adult mammalian heart is non-regenerative owing to the post-mitotic nature of
cardiomyocytes. The neonatal mouse heart can regenerate, but only during the first week of …