Heart failure remains a major public-health problem with an increase in the number of patients worsening from this disease. Despite current medical therapy, the condition still has a poor prognosis. Heart failure is complex but mitochondrial dysfunction …

Danqi pill (DQP) is a widely prescribed traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The objective of this study is to systematically characterize altered gene expression pattern induced by myocardial ischemia (MI) in a …

Aim: A longevity gene, Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) and energy sensor AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) have common activators such as caloric restriction, oxidative stress and exercise. The objective of this study is to characterize the role of cardiomyocyte …

Non-human primates (NHPs) can serve as a human-like model to study cell therapy using induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs). However, whether the efficacy of NHP and human iPSC-CMs is mechanistically similar remains unknown. To …

© 2018 The Author(s). Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are a major burden on the healthcare system: indeed, over two million new cases are diagnosed every year worldwide. Unfortunately, important drawbacks for the treatment of these patients derive from our …

Alleviation of tumor hypoxia has been the premise for improving the effectiveness of radiotherapy, which hinges upon the advanced delivery and rapid release of oxygen within the tumor region. Herein, we propose a " bubble-enhanced oxygen diffusion " …

A nanometer-sized inor-ganic/organic hybrid enhancement agent is constructed for photoacoustic imaging-guided high intensity focused ultrasound …

Noninvasive near‐infrared (NIR) light responsive therapy is a promising cancer treatment modality; however, some inherent drawbacks of conventional phototherapy heavily restrict its application in clinic. Rather than producing heat or reactive oxygen …

The development of activatable nanoplatforms to simultaneously improve diagnostic and therapeutic performances while reducing side effects is highly attractive for precision cancer medicine. Herein, we develop a one-pot, dopamine-mediated …

© 2018 The Author(s). In cardiovascular research, several mouse strains with differing genetic backgrounds are used to investigate mechanisms leading to and sustaining ventricular arrhythmias. The genetic background has been shown to affect the studied …