Network pharmacology: curing causal mechanisms instead of treating symptoms

C Nogales, ZM Mamdouh, M List, C Kiel… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
For complex diseases, most drugs are highly ineffective, and the success rate of drug
discovery is in constant decline. While low quality, reproducibility issues, and translational …

Cellular and molecular pathobiology of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

S Mishra, DA Kass - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2021 - nature.com
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) affects half of all patients with heart
failure worldwide, is increasing in prevalence, confers substantial morbidity and mortality …

Inflammation in Heart Failure: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

SP Murphy, R Kakkar, CP McCarthy… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - jacc.org
It has long been observed that heart failure (HF) is associated with measures of systemic
inflammation. In recent years, there have been significant advancements in our …

Mechanisms of physiological and pathological cardiac hypertrophy

M Nakamura, J Sadoshima - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
Cardiomyocytes exit the cell cycle and become terminally differentiated soon after birth.
Therefore, in the adult heart, instead of an increase in cardiomyocyte number, individual …

Research priorities for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: national heart, lung, and blood institute working group summary

SJ Shah, BA Borlaug, DW Kitzman, AD McCulloch… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), a major public health problem that is
rising in prevalence, is associated with high morbidity and mortality and is considered to be …

Nitric oxide signalling in cardiovascular health and disease

C Farah, LYM Michel, JL Balligand - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2018 - nature.com
Nitric oxide (NO) signalling has pleiotropic roles in biology and a crucial function in
cardiovascular homeostasis. Tremendous knowledge has been accumulated on the …

Phenotype-specific treatment of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a multiorgan roadmap

SJ Shah, DW Kitzman, BA Borlaug, L Van Heerebeek… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart failure (HF) with preserved ejection fraction (EF; HFpEF) accounts for 50% of HF
cases, and its prevalence relative to HF with reduced EF continues to rise. In contrast to HF …

Cardiac fibroblasts regulate the development of heart failure via Htra3-TGF-β-IGFBP7 axis

T Ko, S Nomura, S Yamada, K Fujita, T Fujita… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tissue fibrosis and organ dysfunction are hallmarks of age-related diseases including heart
failure, but it remains elusive whether there is a common pathway to induce both events …

Inflammation and fibrosis in murine models of heart failure

L Bacmeister, M Schwarzl, S Warnke, B Stoffers… - Basic research in …, 2019 - Springer
Heart failure is a consequence of various cardiovascular diseases and associated with poor
prognosis. Despite progress in the treatment of heart failure in the past decades, prevalence …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk

HR Warren, E Evangelou, CP Cabrera, H Gao, M Ren… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Elevated blood pressure is the leading heritable risk factor for cardiovascular disease
worldwide. We report genetic association of blood pressure (systolic, diastolic, pulse …