Phototherapy has attracted increasing attention in cancer therapy owing to its non-invasive nature, high spatiotemporal selectivity, and negligible side effects. However, a single photosensitizer often exhibits poor photothermal conversion efficiency or …

The fast evolution of medical micro- and nanorobots in the endeavor to perform non-invasive medical operations in living organisms has boosted the use of diverse medical imaging techniques in the last years. Among those techniques, photoacoustic imaging …

Oxidative stress could be a possible mechanism and a therapeutic target of atrial fibrillation (AF). However, the effects of the xanthine oxidase (XO) inhibition for AF remain to be fully elucidated. We investigated the effects of a novel XO inhibitor …

Stem cell-derived exosomes (SC-EXO) was an emerging therapeutic agent in regenerative medicine. Intratunical injection of SC-EXO is considered as a prospective approach for erectile dysfunction (ED) treatment. However, high vascularization of cavernous …

Background: Ischemia-reperfusion and cardiac remodeling is associated with cardiomyocyte death, excessive fibrosis formation, and functional decline, eventually resulting in heart failure (HF). Glucagon-like peptide (GLP)-1 agonists are reported to reduce …

Rationale. Pathological cardiac remodeling serves as a vital mechanism during the progression from myocardial infarction (MI) to chronic heart failure (CHF). Nobiletin (NOB), an active monomer extracted from the peel of citrus fruit, has been reported to …

Ferroptosis has been identified as an important role in damaged heart. Meanwhile, statin therapy has been reported to be beneficial for the treatment of heart failure(HF) under different conditions. However, the beneficial effects of statin treatment on …

Metabolic modulation is a promising therapeutic approach to prevent adverse remodeling of the ischemic heart. Because little is known about the involvement of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in regulating cardiac metabolism, we used unbiased transcriptome …

Background: Tomatoes contain carotenoids that have the potential to alter the effects of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT). Objectives: We hypothesized that dietary lyophilized tomato paste (TP) would reduce apoptosis within carotenoid-containing …

Humans and animals with pulmonary hypertension (PH) show right ventricular (RV) capillary growth, which positively correlates with overall RV hypertrophy. However, molecular drivers of RV vascular augmentation in PH are unknown. Prolyl hydroxylase (PHD2) …