Connexin 43 is an emerging therapeutic target in ischemia/reperfusion injury, cardioprotection and neuroprotection

R Schulz, PM Görge, A Görbe, P Ferdinandy… - Pharmacology & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Connexins are widely distributed proteins in the body that are crucially important for heart
and brain functions. Six connexin subunits form a connexon or hemichannel in the plasma …

Nanovesicles derived from iron oxide nanoparticles–incorporated mesenchymal stem cells for cardiac repair

JR Lee, BW Park, J Kim, YW Choo, HY Kim… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Because of poor engraftment and safety concerns regarding mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)
therapy, MSC-derived exosomes have emerged as an alternative cell-free therapy for …

Mitochondrial connexin43 as a new player in the pathophysiology of myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion injury

M Ruiz-Meana, A Rodríguez-Sinovas… - Cardiovascular …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Connexins are transmembrane proteins whose best known function is to form gap junction
channels. Ventricular cardiomyocytes express the connexin isoform Cx43 and are rich in …

Early fetal hypoxia leads to growth restriction and myocardial thinning

M Ream, AM Ray, R Chandra… - American Journal of …, 2008 - journals.physiology.org
Hypoxia is necessary for fetal development; however, excess hypoxia is detrimental.
Hypoxia has been extensively studied in the near-term fetus, but less is known about earlier …

Acellular Cardiac Extracellular Matrix as a Scaffold for Tissue Engineering: In Vitro Cell Support, Remodeling, and Biocompatibility

Y Eitan, U Sarig, N Dahan, M Machluf - Tissue Engineering Part C …, 2010 - liebertpub.com
We have developed an efficient decellularization process for the isolation of extracellular
matrix (ECM) from native cardiac tissue. The isolated ECM exhibited desirable mechanical …

A myocardial infarct border-zone-on-a-chip demonstrates distinct regulation of cardiac tissue function by an oxygen gradient

ML Rexius-Hall, NN Khalil, SS Escopete, X Li, J Hu… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
After a myocardial infarction, the boundary between the injured, hypoxic tissue and the
adjacent viable, normoxic tissue, known as the border zone, is characterized by an oxygen …

[HTML][HTML] ElectroMap: high-throughput open-source software for analysis and mapping of cardiac electrophysiology

C O'Shea, AP Holmes, TY Yu, J Winter, SP Wells… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The ability to record and analyse electrical behaviour across the heart using optical and
electrode mapping has revolutionised cardiac research. However, wider uptake of these …

[HTML][HTML] Hypoxia-induced alternative splicing in endothelial cells

JE Weigand, JN Boeckel, P Gellert, S Dimmeler - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Adaptation to low oxygen by changing gene expression is vitally important for
cell survival and tissue development. The sprouting of new blood vessels, initiated from …

Gliotransmitters and cytokines in the control of blood-brain barrier permeability

ED Osipova… - Reviews in the …, 2018 - degruyter.com
The contribution of astrocytes and microglia to the regulation of neuroplasticity or
neurovascular unit (NVU) is based on the coordinated secretion of gliotransmitters and …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro model of ischemic heart failure using human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes

J Davis, A Chouman, J Creech, AM da Rocha… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) have been
used extensively to model inherited heart diseases, but hiPSC-CM models of ischemic heart …