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 …

Myocarditis

G Fung, H Luo, Y Qiu, D Yang, B McManus - Circulation research, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Viral myocarditis remains a prominent infectious-inflammatory disease for patients
throughout the lifespan. The condition presents several challenges including varied modes …

Intertumoral heterogeneity within medulloblastoma subgroups

FMG Cavalli, M Remke, L Rampasek, J Peacock… - Cancer cell, 2017 - cell.com
While molecular subgrouping has revolutionized medulloblastoma classification, the extent
of heterogeneity within subgroups is unknown. Similarity network fusion (SNF) applied to …

[HTML][HTML] Small heat shock proteins: role in cellular functions and pathology

R Bakthisaran, R Tangirala, CM Rao - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2015 - Elsevier
Small heat shock proteins (sHsps) are conserved across species and are important in stress
tolerance. Many sHsps exhibit chaperone-like activity in preventing aggregation of target …

Regulation of mammalian autophagy in physiology and pathophysiology

B Ravikumar, S Sarkar, JE Davies… - Physiological …, 2010 - journals.physiology.org
(Macro) autophagy is a bulk degradation process that mediates the clearance of long-lived
proteins and organelles. Autophagy is initiated by double-membraned structures, which …

Enhanced autophagy ameliorates cardiac proteinopathy

MS Bhuiyan, JS Pattison, H Osinska… - The Journal of …, 2013 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Basal autophagy is a crucial mechanism in cellular homeostasis, underlying both normal
cellular recycling and the clearance of damaged or misfolded proteins, organelles and …

New roles for desmin in the maintenance of muscle homeostasis

G Agnetti, H Herrmann, S Cohen - The FEBS journal, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Desmin is the primary intermediate filament (IF) of cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle. By
linking the contractile myofibrils to the sarcolemma and cellular organelles, desmin IF …

Proteotoxicity and cardiac dysfunction—Alzheimer's disease of the heart?

MS Willis, C Patterson - New England Journal of Medicine, 2013 - Mass Medical Soc
Proteotoxicity and Cardiac Dysfunction — Alzheimer's Disease of the Heart? | New England
Journal of Medicine Skip to main content The New England Journal of Medicine homepage …

[HTML][HTML] Human αB-crystallin mutation causes oxido-reductive stress and protein aggregation cardiomyopathy in mice

NS Rajasekaran, P Connell, ES Christians, LJ Yan… - Cell, 2007 - cell.com
The autosomal dominant mutation in the human αB-crystallin gene inducing a R120G amino
acid exchange causes a multisystem, protein aggregation disease including …

Cardiovascular Toxicity of Proteasome Inhibitors: Underlying Mechanisms and Management Strategies: JACC: CardioOncology State-of-the-Art Review

G Georgiopoulos, N Makris, A Laina, F Theodorakakou… - Cardio Oncology, 2023 - jacc.org
Proteasome inhibitors (PIs) are the backbone of combination treatments for patients with
multiple myeloma and AL amyloidosis, while also indicated in Waldenström's …