Role of protein phosphorylation in cell signaling, disease, and the intervention therapy

K Pang, W Wang, JX Qin, ZD Shi, L Hao, YY Ma… - MedComm, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Protein phosphorylation is an important post‐transcriptional modification involving an
extremely wide range of intracellular signaling transduction pathways, making it an …

Progress in understanding and treating idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: Recent insights and emerging therapies

H Guo, J Sun, S Zhang, Y Nie, S Zhou… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a long-lasting, continuously advancing, and irrevocable
interstitial lung disorder with an obscure origin and inadequately comprehended …

[HTML][HTML] Dysregulated overexpression of Sox9 induces fibroblast activation in pulmonary fibrosis

PR Gajjala, RK Kasam, D Soundararajan, D Sinner… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a fatal fibrotic lung disease associated with unremitting
fibroblast activation including fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transformation (FMT), migration …

[HTML][HTML] Empagliflozin reduces kidney fibrosis and improves kidney function by alternative macrophage activation in rats with 5/6-nephrectomy

YP Lu, HW Wu, T Zhu, XT Li, J Zuo, AA Hasan… - Biomedicine & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Sodium glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors originally developed for the
treatment of type 2 diabetes are clinically very effective drugs halting chronic kidney disease …

Application and study of ROCK inhibitors in pulmonary fibrosis: recent developments and future perspectives

Y Xie, L Yue, Y Shi, X Su, C Gan, H Liu… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Rho-associated coiled-coil-containing kinases (ROCKs), serine/threonine protein kinases,
were initially identified as downstream targets of the small GTP-binding protein Rho …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetic regulation of IPF fibroblast phenotype by glutaminolysis

Z Xiang, L Bai, JQ Zhou, RR Cevallos, JR Sanders… - Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective Excessive extra-cellular-matrix production and uncontrolled proliferation of the
fibroblasts are characteristics of many fibrotic diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary …

Dec1 Deficiency Ameliorates Pulmonary Fibrosis Through the PI3K/AKT/GSK-3β/β-Catenin Integrated Signaling Pathway

X Hu, M Zou, L Ni, M Zhang, W Zheng, B Liu… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Tissue remodeling/fibrosis is a main feature of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), which
results in the replacement of normal lung parenchyma with a collagen-rich extracellular …

Metformin attenuates fibroblast activation during pulmonary fibrosis by targeting S100A4 via AMPK-STAT3 axis

H Ji, H Dong, Y Lan, Y Bi, X Gu, Y Han… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Fibroblasts activation is a crucial process for development of fibrosis during idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis pathogenesis, and transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 plays a key …

Altered acylcarnitine metabolism and inflexible mitochondrial fuel utilization characterize the loss of neonatal myocardial regeneration capacity

E Kankuri, P Finckenberg, J Leinonen… - … & Molecular Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Myocardial regeneration capacity declines during the first week after birth, and this decline is
linked to adaptation to oxidative metabolism. Utilizing this regenerative window, we …

Aurora B kinase: a potential drug target for cancer therapy

A Ahmed, A Shamsi, T Mohammad, GM Hasan… - Journal of cancer …, 2021 - Springer
Background Ensuring genetic integrity is essential during the cell cycle to avoid aneuploidy,
one of the underlying causes of malignancies. Aurora kinases are serine/threonine kinase …