Aortic aneurysms: current pathogenesis and therapeutic targets

MJ Cho, MR Lee, JG Park - Experimental & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Aortic aneurysm is a chronic disease characterized by localized expansion of the aorta,
including the ascending aorta, arch, descending aorta, and abdominal aorta. Although aortic …

Abdominal aortic aneurysm and cardiometabolic traits share strong genetic susceptibility to lipid metabolism and inflammation

S Zheng, PS Tsao, C Pan - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Abdominal aortic aneurysm has a high heritability and often co-occurs with other
cardiometabolic disorders, suggesting shared genetic susceptibility. We investigate this …

[HTML][HTML] Targeting autophagy in aortic aneurysm and dissection

ZM Fang, X Feng, Y Chen, H Luo, DS Jiang… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Autophagy is a well-conserved biological process that maintains homeostasis. Accumulating
evidence has revealed that autophagy plays an important role in various cardiovascular …

The circular RNA Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated regulates oxidative stress in smooth muscle cells in expanding abdominal aortic aneurysms

F Fasolo, G Winski, Z Li, Z Wu, H Winter, J Ritzer… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2023 - cell.com
An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a pathological widening of the aortic wall
characterized by loss of smooth muscle cells (SMCs), extracellular matrix degradation, and …

Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Increased DNA Damage in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA‐SMC)

BS Tavris, AS Peters, D Böckler… - Oxidative Medicine and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing evidence for enhanced oxidative stress in the vascular wall of abdominal
aortic aneurysms (AAA). Mitochondrial damage and dysfunction are hypothesized to be …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinformatic analyses of the role of m6A RNA methylation regulators in abdominal aortic aneurysm

C Fu, L Feng, J Zhang, D Sun - Annals of Translational Medicine, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background N6-methyladenosine (m6A) is found in almost all nuclear RNAs of eukaryotes,
playing an important and diverse role in many biological processes. Nonetheless, the roles …

Pharmacological inhibition of MALT1 (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1) induces ferroptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells

B Yan, D Belke, Y Gui, YX Chen, ZS Jiang… - Cell Death …, 2023 - nature.com
MALT1 (mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1) is a human
paracaspase protein with proteolytic activity via its caspase-like domain. The …

Ganglioside GM3 Protects Against Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm by Suppressing Ferroptosis

F Zhang, K Li, W Zhang, Z Zhao, F Chang, J Du… - Circulation, 2024 - Am Heart Assoc
BACKGROUND: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a potentially life-threatening vascular
condition, but approved medical therapies to prevent AAA progression and rupture are …

HMGB2 Deficiency Mitigates Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm by Suppressing Ang‐II‐Caused Ferroptosis and Inflammation via NF‐κβ Pathway

H Wu, L Chen, K Lu, Y Liu, W Lu… - Mediators of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background. Ferroptosis is a new form of cell death, which is closely related to the
occurrence of many diseases. Our work focused on the mechanism by which HMGB2 …

AAAKB: A manually curated database for tracking and predicting genes of Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA)

D Yao, S Mei, W Tang, X Xu, Q Lu, Z Shi - PLoS One, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA), an extremely dangerous vascular disease with high
mortality, causes massive internal bleeding due to aneurysm rupture. To boost the research …