Mechanical communication in fibrosis progression

Y Long, Y Niu, K Liang, Y Du - Trends in cell biology, 2022 - cell.com
Mechanical hallmarks of fibrotic microenvironments are both outcomes and causes of
fibrosis progression. Understanding how cells sense and transmit mechanical cues in the …

Mechanical regulation of gene expression in cardiac myocytes and fibroblasts

JJ Saucerman, PM Tan, KS Buchholz… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The intact heart undergoes complex and multiscale remodelling processes in response to
altered mechanical cues. Remodelling of the myocardium is regulated by a combination of …

Personalized whole‐body models integrate metabolism, physiology, and the gut microbiome

I Thiele, S Sahoo, A Heinken, J Hertel… - Molecular systems …, 2020 - embopress.org
Comprehensive molecular‐level models of human metabolism have been generated on a
cellular level. However, models of whole‐body metabolism have not been established as …

The microenvironment of the pathogenesis of cardiac hypertrophy

F Bazgir, J Nau, S Nakhaei-Rad, E Amin, MJ Wolf… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pathological cardiac hypertrophy is a key risk factor for the development of heart failure and
predisposes individuals to cardiac arrhythmia and sudden death. While physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning in drug development: Characterizing the effect of 30 drugs on the QT interval using Gaussian process regression, sensitivity analysis, and …

FS Costabal, K Matsuno, J Yao, P Perdikaris… - Computer Methods in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Prolonged QT intervals are a major risk factor for ventricular arrhythmias and a leading
cause of sudden cardiac death. Various drugs are known to trigger QT interval prolongation …

Creation and application of virtual patient cohorts of heart models

SA Niederer, Y Aboelkassem… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Patient-specific cardiac models are now being used to guide therapies. The increased use
of patient-specific cardiac simulations in clinical care will give rise to the development of …

Cell signaling model for arterial mechanobiology

L Irons, JD Humphrey - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Arterial growth and remodeling at the tissue level is driven by mechanobiological processes
at cellular and sub-cellular levels. Although it is widely accepted that cells seek to promote …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiac mechanostructure: Using mechanics and anisotropy as inspiration for developing epicardial therapies in treating myocardial infarction

KD Dwyer, KLK Coulombe - Bioactive Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The mechanical environment and anisotropic structure of the heart modulate cardiac
function at the cellular, tissue and organ levels. During myocardial infarction (MI) and …

From transcript to tissue: multiscale modeling from cell signaling to matrix remodeling

L Irons, M Latorre, JD Humphrey - Annals of biomedical engineering, 2021 - Springer
Tissue-level biomechanical properties and function derive from underlying cell signaling,
which regulates mass deposition, organization, and removal. Here, we couple two existing …

Substrate stiffness and stretch regulate profibrotic mechanosignaling in pulmonary arterial adventitial fibroblasts

A Wang, S Cao, JC Stowe, D Valdez-Jasso - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pulmonary arterial adventitial fibroblasts (PAAFs) are important regulators of fibrotic vascular
remodeling during the progression of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a disease that …