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NLRP3 inflammasome suppression improves longevity and prevents cardiac aging in male mice
While NLRP3-inflammasome has been implicated in cardiovascular diseases, its role in physiological cardiac aging is largely unknown. During aging, many alterations occur in the organism, which are associated with progressive impairment of metabolic …
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Humanized bone facilitates prostate cancer metastasis and recapitulates therapeutic effects of zoledronic acid in vivo
Advanced prostate cancer (PCa) is known for its high prevalence to metastasize to bone, at which point it is considered incurable. Despite significant effort, there is no animal model capable of recapitulating the complexity of PCa bone metastasis. The …
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Muscarinic receptors promote pacemaker fate at the expense of secondary conduction system tissue in zebrafish
Deterioration or inborn malformations of the cardiac conduction system (CCS) interfere with proper impulse propagation in the heart and may lead to sudden cardiac death or heart failure. Patients afflicted with arrhythmia depend on antiarrhythmic …
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Resolvin D4 attenuates the severity of pathological thrombosis in mice
Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a common cardiovascular disease with a major effect on quality of life, and safe and effective therapeutic measures to efficiently reduce existent thrombus burden are scarce. Using a comprehensive targeted liquid …
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Inhibition of the LncRNA Gpr19 attenuates ischemia‐reperfusion injury after acute myocardial infarction by inhibiting apoptosis and oxidative stress via the miR‐324‐5p/Mtfr1 axis
Reperfusion therapy after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) can effectively restore the blood supply and nutritional support of ischemic myocardium and save the dying myocardium. However, myocardial ischaemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury has become a new …
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Genome-wide differential expression profiling of lncRNAs and mRNAs associated with early diabetic cardiomyopathy
Diabetic cardiomyopathy is one of the main causes of heart failure and death in patients with diabetes. There are no effective approaches to preventing its development in the clinic. Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNA) are increasingly recognized as important …
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A bivalent antihypertensive vaccine targeting L‐type calcium channels and angiotensin AT 1 receptors
Background and Purpose: Hypertension has been the leading preventable cause of premature death worldwide. The aim of this study was to design a more efficient vac- cine against novel targets for the treatment of hypertension. Experimental Approach: The …
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Kanglexin, a novel anthraquinone compound, protects against myocardial ischemic injury in mice by suppressing NLRP3 and pyroptosis
Pyroptosis is a form of inflammatory cell death that could be driven by the nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptor family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome activation following myocardial infarction (MI). Emerging evidence …
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Self-Assembled Polysaccharide–Diphenylalanine/Au Nanospheres for Photothermal Therapy and Photoacoustic Imaging
Gold-based nanomaterials have attracted extensive interest for potential application in photothermal therapy (PTT) owing to their distinctive properties including high photothermal transduction, biocompatibility, and low cytotoxicity. Herein, assembled …
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Effects of hyperoxia on alveolar and pulmonary vascular development in germ-free mice
Airway microbial dysbiosis is associated with subsequent bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) development in very preterm infants. However, the relationship of airway microbiome in normal pulmonary development has not been defined. To better understand the …