Is mitochondrial dysfunction a common root of noncommunicable chronic diseases?

A Diaz-Vegas, P Sanchez-Aguilera, JR Krycer… - Endocrine …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial damage is implicated as a major contributing factor for a number of
noncommunicable chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, obesity, and …

[HTML][HTML] Down syndrome and Alzheimer's disease: common molecular traits beyond the amyloid precursor protein

W Gomez, R Morales, V Maracaja-Coutinho… - Aging (Albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent type of dementia. Down syndrome (DS) is the
leading genetic risk factor for Early-Onset AD, prematurely presenting the classic …

NAD+ Repletion Reverses Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction

D Tong, GG Schiattarella, N Jiang… - Circulation …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is a mortal clinical
syndrome without effective therapies. We recently demonstrated in mice that a combination …

[HTML][HTML] Xbp1s-FoxO1 axis governs lipid accumulation and contractile performance in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

GG Schiattarella, F Altamirano, SY Kim, D Tong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is now the dominant form of heart
failure and one for which no efficacious therapies exist. Obesity and lipid mishandling …

[HTML][HTML] Differential effects of oleic and palmitic acids on lipid droplet-mitochondria interaction in the hepatic cell line HepG2

A Eynaudi, F Díaz-Castro, JC Bórquez… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Fatty acid overload, either of the saturated palmitic acid (PA) or the unsaturated oleic acid
(OA), causes triglyceride accumulation into specialized organelles termed lipid droplets …

Epigenetic reader BRD4 (bromodomain-containing protein 4) governs nucleus-encoded mitochondrial transcriptome to regulate cardiac function

SY Kim, X Zhang, GG Schiattarella, F Altamirano… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: BET (bromodomain and extraterminal) epigenetic reader proteins, in particular
BRD4 (bromodomain-containing protein 4), have emerged as potential therapeutic targets in …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in mesenchymal stem cell mitochondria transfer for the repair of tissue injury and treatment of disease

L Zhang, Q Liu, H Hu, L Zhao, K Zhu - Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, 2022 - Elsevier
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have therapeutic value in many diseases. Mitochondria
transfer can promote wound healing and can potentially be applied to the repair of damaged …

Hydrogen sulfide releasing hydrogel for alleviating cardiac inflammation and protecting against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury

Q Zhang, L Wang, Y Yin, J Shen, J Xie… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Myocardial infarction is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Thus, protection
against myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury is particularly important to improve the …

Mitochondrial dysfunction in Down syndrome: From pathology to therapy

KL Tan, HC Lee, PS Cheah, KH Ling - Neuroscience, 2023 - Elsevier
Mitochondrial dysfunctions have been described in Down syndrome (DS) caused by either
partial or full trisomy of chromosome 21 (HSA21). Mitochondria play a crucial role in various …

Angiotensin-(1–9) prevents cardiomyocyte hypertrophy by controlling mitochondrial dynamics via miR-129-3p/PKIA pathway

C Sotomayor-Flores, P Rivera-Mejías… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Angiotensin-(1–9) is a peptide from the noncanonical renin-angiotensin system with
anti-hypertrophic effects in cardiomyocytes via an unknown mechanism. In the present study …