Dilated cardiomyopathy: a new insight into the rare but common cause of heart failure

P Giri, A Mukhopadhyay, M Gupta, B Mohapatra - Heart Failure Reviews, 2022 - Springer
Heart failure is a global health burden responsible for high morbidity and mortality with a
prevalence of greater than 60 million individuals worldwide. One of the major causes of …

The insect perspective on Z-disc structure and biology

F Schöck, N González-Morales - Journal of Cell Science, 2022 - journals.biologists.com
Myofibrils are the intracellular structures formed by actin and myosin filaments. They are
paracrystalline contractile cables with unusually well-defined dimensions. The sliding of …

Pathogenesis of Cardiomyopathy Caused by Variants in ALPK3, an Essential Pseudokinase in the Cardiomyocyte Nucleus and Sarcomere

R Agarwal, H Wakimoto, JA Paulo, Q Zhang… - Circulation, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: ALPK3 encodes α-kinase 3, a muscle-specific protein of unknown function.
ALPK3 loss-of-function variants cause cardiomyopathy with distinctive clinical …

Molecular genetic basis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

AJ Marian - Circulation research, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease of the myocardium characterized
by a hypertrophic left ventricle with a preserved or increased ejection fraction. Cardiac …

Analysis of potential copy-number variations and genes associated with first-trimester missed abortion

W Zeng, H Qi, Y Du, L Cai, X Wen, Q Wan, Y Luo, J Zhu - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Background Copy number variation sequencing (CNV-seq) was proven to be a highly
effective tool in studying of chromosomal copy number variations (CNVs) in prenatal …

CaMKII regulates the proteins TPM1 and MYOM2 and promotes diacetylmorphine-induced abnormal cardiac rhythms

M Ji, L Su, L Liu, M Zhuang, J Xiao, Y Guan, S Zhu… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Although opioids are necessary for the treatment of acute pain, cancer pain, and palliative
care, opioid abuse is a serious threat to society. Heroin (Diacetylmorphine) is the most …

Identification of biomarkers, pathways, and potential therapeutic targets for heart failure using next-generation sequencing data and bioinformatics analysis

P Ganekal, B Vastrad, C Vastrad… - Therapeutic …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Heart failure (HF) is the most common cardiovascular diseases and the leading
cause of cardiovascular diseases related deaths. Increasing molecular targets have been …

DNA methylation analysis of Turner syndrome BAV

J Gutierrez, BA Davis, KA Nevonen, S Ward… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Turner Syndrome (TS) is a rare cytogenetic disorder caused by the complete loss or
structural variation of the second sex chromosome. The most common cause of early …

Toward comprehensive functional analysis of gene lists weighted by gene essentiality scores

R Fan, Q Cui - Bioinformatics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Gene functional enrichment analysis represents one of the most popular
bioinformatics methods for annotating the pathways and function categories of a given gene …

Molecular basis of urostyle development in frogs: genes and gene regulation underlying an evolutionary novelty

G Senevirathne, NH Shubin - Open Biology, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Evolutionary novelties entail the origin of morphologies that enable new functions. These
features can arise through changes to gene function and regulation. One key novelty is the …