BRD4 expression in patients with essential hypertension and its effect on blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive rats

YM Yang, RH Shi, CX Xu, L Li - Journal of the American Society of …, 2018 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to investigate BRD4 expression in patients with essential
hypertension (EH) and its effects on the blood pressure in spontaneously hypertensive …

[HTML][HTML] Action mechanisms and therapeutic targets of renal fibrosis

SX Ma, YQ Shang, HQ Zhang… - Journal of Nephrology …, 2018 - oap-lifescience.org
Renal fibrosis was a chronic and progressive process affecting kidneys in chronic kidney
disease (CKD), regardless of cause. Although no effective targeted therapy yet existed to …

BET-inhibition by JQ1 alleviates streptozotocin-induced diabetic cardiomyopathy

M Guo, HX Wang, WJ Chen - Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a cascade of complex events leading to eventual heart failure in
diabetes. JQ1, one of Bromodomain and extra-terminal domain (BET) protein inhibitors, has …

[HTML][HTML] Inhibition of BRD4 reduces neutrophil activation and adhesion to the vascular endothelium following ischemia reperfusion injury

S Reid, N Fine, VK Bhosle, J Zhou, R John… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Renal ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is associated with inflammation, including neutrophil
infiltration that exacerbates the initial ischemic insult. The molecular pathways involved are …

[HTML][HTML] Brd4 inhibition ameliorates Pyocyanin-mediated macrophage dysfunction via transcriptional repression of reactive oxygen and nitrogen free radical pathways

F Zhu, F Xiong, J He, K Liu, Y You, Q Xu, J Miao… - Cell Death & …, 2020 - nature.com
Macrophages play critical roles in the first-line immune defense against airway infections
caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA). The redox-active phenazine-pyocyanin (PCN) …

Inhibition of epigenetic reader proteins by apabetalone counters inflammation in activated innate immune cells from Fabry disease patients receiving enzyme …

L Fu, S Wasiak, LM Tsujikawa, BD Rakai… - Pharmacology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Fabry disease (FD) is a rare X‐linked disorder of lipid metabolism, characterized by the
accumulation of globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) due to defective the lysosomal enzyme, α …

DKK3 promotes oxidative stress injury and fibrosis in HK-2 cells by activating NOX4 via β-catenin/TCF4 signaling

J Song, Y Chen, Y Chen, M Qiu, W Xiang, B Ke… - Molecular and Cellular …, 2023 - Springer
Oxidative stress and fibrosis may accelerate the progression of chronic kidney disease
(CKD). DKK3 is related to regulating renal fibrosis and CKD. However, the molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Crohn's strictures—moving away from the knife

E Stenke, B Bourke, U Knaus - Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Crohn's disease (CD) is a lifelong inflammatory bowel disease with a rapidly rising
incidence in the pediatric population. A common complication of CD is the development of …

FOXO4 expression associates with glioblastoma development and FOXO4 expression inhibits cell malignant phenotypes in vitro and in vivo

M Qi, LA Sun, XC Jiang, YL Han, L Wang, WH Niu… - Life sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Background and aim Forkhead box protein O4 (FOXO4) is a transcription factor, and
aberrant FOXO4 expression is associated with development of various human cancers. This …

[HTML][HTML] Focus: Drug Development: A Novel Epi-drug Therapy Based on the Suppression of BET Family Epigenetic Readers

DG Shin, D Bayarsaihan - The yale journal of biology and …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Recent progress in epigenetic research has made a profound influence on
pharmacoepigenomics, one of the fastest growing disciplines promising to provide new epi …