Obesity cardiomyopathy: evidence, mechanisms, and therapeutic implications

J Ren, NN Wu, S Wang, JR Sowers… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The prevalence of heart failure is on the rise and imposes a major health threat, in part, due
to the rapidly increased prevalence of overweight and obesity. To this point …

Cardiomyocyte senescence and cellular communications within myocardial microenvironments

X Tang, PH Li, HZ Chen - Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Cardiovascular diseases have become the leading cause of human death. Aging is an
independent risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Cardiac aging is associated with …

FUNDC1 insufficiency sensitizes high fat diet intake-induced cardiac remodeling and contractile anomaly through ACSL4-mediated ferroptosis

Z Pei, Y Liu, S Liu, W Jin, Y Luo, M Sun, Y Duan… - Metabolism, 2021 - Elsevier
Objective Ferroptosis is indicated in cardiovascular diseases. Given the prominent role of
mitophagy in the governance of ferroptosis and our recent finding for FUN14 domain …

Physical exercise and selective autophagy: benefit and risk on cardiovascular health

NN Wu, H Tian, P Chen, D Wang, J Ren, Y Zhang - Cells, 2019 - mdpi.com
Physical exercise promotes cardiorespiratory fitness, and is considered the mainstream of
non-pharmacological therapies along with lifestyle modification for various chronic diseases …

FUNDC1 interacts with FBXL2 to govern mitochondrial integrity and cardiac function through an IP3R3-dependent manner in obesity

J Ren, M Sun, H Zhou, A Ajoolabady, Y Zhou, J Tao… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Defective mitophagy is causally linked to obesity complications. Here, we identified an
interaction between mitophagy protein FUNDC1 (FUN14 domain containing 1) and receptor …

SGLT2 inhibitor empagliflozin alleviates cardiac remodeling and contractile anomalies in a FUNDC1-dependent manner in experimental Parkinson's disease

W Yu, L Wang, W Ren, H Xu, NN Wu, D Yu… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2024 - nature.com
Recent evidence shows a close link between Parkinson's disease (PD) and cardiac
dysfunction with limited treatment options. Mitophagy plays a crucial role in the control of …

[HTML][HTML] Pentacyclic triterpene oleanolic acid protects against cardiac aging through regulation of mitophagy and mitochondrial integrity

Y Gong, Y Luo, S Liu, J Ma, F Liu, Y Fang, F Cao… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2022 - Elsevier
Advanced aging exhibits altered cardiac geometry and function involving mitochondrial
anomaly. Natural compounds display promises in the regulation of cardiac homeostasis via …

Cardamonin protects against lipopolysaccharide-induced myocardial contractile dysfunction in mice through Nrf2-regulated mechanism

Y Tan, H Wan, M Sun, W Zhang, M Dong… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2021 - nature.com
In patients with sepsis, lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from the outer membrane of gram-negative
bacteria triggers cardiac dysfunction and heart failure, but target therapy for septic …

[HTML][HTML] Double knockout of Akt2 and AMPK accentuates high fat diet-induced cardiac anomalies through a cGAS-STING-mediated mechanism

Y Gong, G Li, J Tao, NN Wu, MR Kandadi, Y Bi… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2020 - Elsevier
High fat diet intake contributes to undesired cardiac geometric and functional changes
although the underlying mechanism remains elusive. Akt and AMPK govern to cardiac …

[HTML][HTML] A novel 3', 5'-diprenylated chalcone induces concurrent apoptosis and GSDME-dependent pyroptosis through activating PKCδ/JNK signal in prostate cancer

Y Zhang, J Yang, Z Wen, X Chen, J Yu, D Yuan… - Aging (albany …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Although androgen deprivation therapy may initially be effective in prostate cancer, the
disease can gradually progress to castration-resistant prostate cancer, at which point …