Mechanisms and consequences of endothelial cell senescence

SI Bloom, MT Islam, LA Lesniewski… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Endothelial cells are located at the crucial interface between circulating blood and semi-
solid tissues and have many important roles in maintaining systemic physiological function …

Cellular senescence and cardiovascular diseases: moving to the “heart” of the problem

K Evangelou, PVS Vasileiou… - Physiological …, 2023 - journals.physiology.org
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) constitute the prime cause of global mortality, with an
immense impact on patient quality of life and disability. Clinical evidence has revealed a …

The latest in animal models of pulmonary hypertension and right ventricular failure

O Boucherat, V Agrawal, A Lawrie, S Bonnet - Circulation research, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) describes heterogeneous population of patients with a mean
pulmonary arterial pressure> 20 mm Hg. Rarely, PH presents as a primary disorder but is …

Senescent cells: a therapeutic target in cardiovascular diseases

M Suda, KH Paul, T Minamino, JD Miller, A Lerman… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Senescent cell accumulation has been observed in age-associated diseases including
cardiovascular diseases. Senescent cells lack proliferative capacity and secrete senescence …

Eliminating senescent cells can promote pulmonary hypertension development and progression

E Born, L Lipskaia, M Breau, A Houssaini, D Beaulieu… - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Senescent cells (SCs) are involved in proliferative disorders, but their role in
pulmonary hypertension remains undefined. We investigated SCs in patients with …

Allele-specific control of rodent and human lncRNA KMT2E-AS1 promotes hypoxic endothelial pathology in pulmonary hypertension

YY Tai, Q Yu, Y Tang, W Sun, NJ Kelly… - Science translational …, 2024 - science.org
Hypoxic reprogramming of vasculature relies on genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic circuitry,
but the control points are unknown. In pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease …

Mechanisms of pulmonary vascular dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension and implications for novel therapies

H Christou, RA Khalil - American Journal of Physiology …, 2022 - journals.physiology.org
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a serious disease characterized by various degrees of
pulmonary vasoconstriction and progressive fibroproliferative remodeling and inflammation …

Therapeutic opportunities for senolysis in cardiovascular disease

M Sweeney, SA Cook, J Gil - The FEBS journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cellular senescence within the cardiovascular system has, until recently, been understudied
and unappreciated as a factor in the development of age‐related cardiovascular diseases …

TGFβ signaling pathways in human health and disease

PY Chen, L Qin, M Simons - Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Transforming growth factor beta (TGFβ) is named for the function it was originally discovered
to perform-transformation of normal cells into aggressively growing malignant cells. It …

SIRT3 regulates clearance of apoptotic cardiomyocytes by deacetylating frataxin

J Gao, C Huang, L Kong, W Zhou, M Sun… - Circulation …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Efferocytosis is an activity of macrophages that is pivotal for the resolution
of inflammation in hypertension. The precise mechanism by which macrophages coordinate …