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Optogenetic Stimulation of Vagal Efferent Activity Preserves Left Ventricular Function in Experimental Heart Failure
Large clinical trials designed to test the efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) in patients with heart failure did not demonstrate benefits with respect to the primary endpoints. The nonselective nature of VNS may account for the failure to translate …
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Erythropoietin supports the growth and function of Sca-1+ stem cells and promotes myocardial infarction repair in mice
Background?Myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of death in the world-wide population. With the improvement of clinical therapy, the mortality in acute MI cases has been signi?cantly reduced. This study was to demonstrate that erythropoietin …
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Early Arterial Intimal Thickening and Plaque Is Related with Treatment Regime and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Young Adults Following Childhood Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
The long-term vascular effects following childhood hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) are not well characterized. We compared arterial wall morphology and function using very-high resolution ultrasound (25-55 MHz) in 62 patients following …
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Macrophage–NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation Exacerbates Cardiac Dysfunction after Ischemic Stroke in a Mouse Model of Diabetes
Ischemic stroke is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. In the post-stroke stage, cardiac dysfunction is common and is known as the brain–heart interaction. Diabetes mellitus worsens the post-stroke outcome. Stroke-induced systemic inflammation …
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A Novel Molecular Mechanism of IKK ε -Mediated Akt/mTOR Inhibition in the Cardiomyocyte Autophagy after Myocardial Infarction
Autophagy of cardiomyocytes after myocardial infarction (MI) is an important factor affecting the prognosis of MI. Excessive autophagy can lead to massive death of cardiomyocytes, which will seriously affect cardiac function. IKK ε plays a crucial role in …
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Cardiac repair in a murine model of myocardial infarction with human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
Background: Cellular replacement strategies using human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and their cardiac derivatives are emerging as novel treatments for post-myocardial infarction (MI) heart failure (HF); however, the mechanism of recovery of …
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Guanxinshutong capsule ameliorates cardiac function and architecture following myocardial injury by modulating ventricular remodeling in rats
Guanxinshutong capsule (GXST), which consists of five traditional Chinese medicines, has been used for a long time in China for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. However, the effects on …
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Construction of Nucleolin-Targeted Lipid Nanobubbles and Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Molecular Imaging in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
Purpose: To construct aptamer AS1411-functionalized targeted lipid nanobubbles that could simultaneously target abnormally highly expressed nucleolin (NCL) on tumor tissue and neovasculature. Additionally, the study of their contrast-enhanced ultrasound …
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Extreme Acetylation of the Cardiac Mitochondrial Proteome Does Not Promote Heart Failure
Rationale: Circumstantial evidence links the development of heart failure to post-translational modifications of mitochondrial proteins, including lysine acetylation (Kac). Nonetheless, direct evidence that Kac compromises mitochondrial performance …
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A bi-layered tubular scaffold for effective anti-coagulant in vascular tissue engineering
Acute coagulation is one of the vexed problems in transplantation of small-diameter artificial blood vessel. Three-dimensional porous heparin-modified gelatin (Gel)@chitosan (CS) tubular scaffold were successfully acquired by using the method of …