Molecular mechanisms of pulmonary vascular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension

JA Leopold, BA Maron - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a devastating disease that is precipitated by
hypertrophic pulmonary vascular remodeling of distal arterioles to increase pulmonary artery …

Human cardiac gene therapy

K Ishikawa, T Weber, RJ Hajjar - Circulation research, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
In the past 10 years, there has been tremendous progress made in the field of gene therapy.
Effective treatments of Leber congenital amaurosis, hemophilia, and spinal muscular …

Upregulation of Piezo1 (Piezo type mechanosensitive ion channel component 1) enhances the intracellular free calcium in pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells …

J Liao, W Lu, Y Chen, X Duan, C Zhang, X Luo… - …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Emerging studies have reported the mechanosensitive Piezo1 (piezo type
mechanosensitive ion channel component 1) plays essential roles in regulating the vascular …

[HTML][HTML] Current and emerging therapeutic approaches to pulmonary hypertension

M Bisserier, N Pradhan, L Hadri - Reviews in cardiovascular …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive and fatal lung disease of
multifactorial etiology. Most of the available drugs and FDA-approved therapies for treating …

Different roles of myocardial ROCK1 and ROCK2 in cardiac dysfunction and postcapillary pulmonary hypertension in mice

S Sunamura, K Satoh, R Kurosawa… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Although postcapillary pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an important prognostic factor for
patients with heart failure (HF), its pathogenesis remains to be fully elucidated. To elucidate …

Metabolic dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension: from basic science to clinical practice

SY Chan, LJ Rubin - European Respiratory Review, 2017 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an often-fatal vascular disease of unclear molecular origins.
The pulmonary vascular remodelling which occurs in PH is characterised by elevated …

Rg3 promotes the SUMOylation of SERCA2a and corrects cardiac dysfunction in heart failure

Z Liu, X Bian, W Gao, J Su, C Ma, X Xiao, T Yu… - Pharmacological …, 2021 - Elsevier
SUMOylation of sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca 2+ ATPase 2a (SERCA2a) has
been shown to play a critical role in the abnormal Ca 2+ cycle of heart failure. Ginsenoside …

Sarcoplasmic reticulum and calcium signaling in muscle cells: Homeostasis and disease

R Bravo-Sagua, V Parra, F Muñoz-Cordova… - International review of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The sarco/endoplasmic reticulum is an extensive, dynamic and heterogeneous
membranous network that fulfills multiple homeostatic functions. Among them, it …

Genetic modification of the lung directed toward treatment of human disease

D Sondhi, KM Stiles, BP De, RG Crystal - Human gene therapy, 2017 - liebertpub.com
Genetic modification therapy is a promising therapeutic strategy for many diseases of the
lung intractable to other treatments. Lung gene therapy has been the subject of numerous …

Inhalation delivery of nucleic acid gene therapies in preclinical drug development

CA Ruzycki, D Montoya, H Irshad, J Cox… - Expert Opinion on …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Inhaled gene therapy programs targeting diseases of the lung have seen
increasing interest in recent years, though as of yet no product has successfully entered the …