The role of epigenetics in congenital heart disease

TB Lim, SYR Foo, CK Chen - Genes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common birth defect among newborns
worldwide and contributes to significant infant morbidity and mortality. Owing to major …

Charting the path: navigating embryonic development to potentially safeguard against congenital heart defects

J Bragança, R Pinto, B Silva, N Marques… - Journal of Personalized …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Congenital heart diseases (CHDs) are structural or functional defects present at birth due to
improper heart development. Current therapeutic approaches to treating severe CHDs are …

Rare copy number variants and congenital heart defects in the 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome

EE Mlynarski, M Xie, D Taylor, MB Sheridan, T Guo… - Human genetics, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The 22q11. 2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS; velocardiofacial/DiGeorge syndrome;
VCFS/DGS; MIM# 192430; 188400) is the most common microdeletion syndrome. The …

Cardiomyocyte Differentiation from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells by WNT Switch Method

IK Mensah, ML Emerson, HJ Tan, H Gowher - Cells, 2024 - mdpi.com
The differentiation of ESCs into cardiomyocytes in vitro is an excellent and reliable model
system for studying normal cardiomyocyte development in mammals, modeling cardiac …

The role of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and the functioning of the heart in arterial hypertension–A review

M Młynarczyk, I Kasacka - Advances in medical sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
Many factors and molecular pathways are involved in the pathogenesis of arterial
hypertension. The increase in blood pressure may be determined by the properties of …

Glycogen synthase kinase-3 inhibition and insulin enhance proliferation and inhibit maturation of human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes via TCF and FOXO signaling

Q Yuan, D Verbueken, R Dinani, R Kim, E Schoger… - Stem Cell Reports, 2024 - cell.com
Embryonic signaling pathways exert stage-specific effects during cardiac development, yet
the precise signals for proliferation or maturation remain elusive. To uncover the cues for …

Long noncoding RNA TALNEC2 regulates myocardial ischemic injury in H9c2 cells by regulating miR‐21/PDCD4‐medited activation of Wnt/β‐catenin pathway

L Hao, J Wang, N Liu - Journal of Cellular Biochemistry, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The goal of this study was to explore the role of tumor associated long noncoding RNA
expressed on chromosome 2 (TALNEC2) in protecting against myocardial ischemic injury …

Long noncoding RNA SNHG6 contributes to ventricular septal defect formation via negative regulation of miR-101 and activation of Wnt/β-catenin pathway

Y Jiang, J Zhuang, Y Lin, X Wang… - Die Pharmazie-An …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
This study aimed to investigate the role and regulatory mechanism of small nucleolar RNA
host gene 6 (SNHG6), a long noncoding RNA, in the formation of ventricular septal defect …

(-)-Epigallocatechin gallate promotes MicroRNA 145 expression against myocardial hypoxic injury through dab2/wnt3a/β-catenin

CM Lin, WJ Fang, BW Wang, CM Pan… - The American Journal …, 2020 - World Scientific
MicroRNA 145 (miR-145) is a critical modulator of cardiovascular diseases. The
downregulation of myocardial miR-145 is followed by an increase in disabled-2 (Dab2) …

Sarcomere disassembly and transfection efficiency in proliferating human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes

Q Yuan, RGC Maas, ECJ Brouwer, J Pei… - Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Contractility of the adult heart relates to the architectural degree of sarcomeres in individual
cardiomyocytes (CMs) and appears to be inversely correlated with the ability to regenerate …