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Lactation is Associated with Accelerated Postpartum Pelvic Floor Muscle Recovery in a Pregnant Simulated Birth Injury Model

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthy pelvic floor muscles (PFMs) are essential for proper pelvic floor function. The biggest risk factor for PFM dysfunction is injury sustained during vaginal childbirth, yet the factors that facilitate or impair PFM recovery from birth injury remain unknown.
Bianca L. Peña, Khushi M. Diwakar, Hillary K. Tran, Selena Cao, Celeste E. Lintz, Laila N. Hayes, Marianna Alperin, Karen L. Christman   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Considerations for an In Vitro, Cell-Based Testing Platform for Detection of Drug-Induced Inotropic Effects in Early Drug Development. Part 2: Designing and Fabricating Microsystems for Assaying Cardiac Contractility With Physiological Relevance Using Human iPSC-Cardiomyocytes

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019
Contractility of the myocardium engines the pumping function of the heart and is enabled by the collective contractile activity of its muscle cells: cardiomyocytes.
Alexandre J. S. Ribeiro, Brian D. Guth, Brian D. Guth, Michael Engwall, Sandy Eldridge, C. Michael Foley, Liang Guo, Gary Gintant, John Koerner, Stanley T. Parish, Jennifer B. Pierson, Mathew Brock, Khuram W. Chaudhary, Yasunari Kanda, Brian Berridge   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sarcomere Dysfunction in Nemaline Myopathy

Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases, 2017
Nemaline myopathy (NM) is among the most common non-dystrophic congenital myopathies (incidence 1:50.000). Hallmark features of NM are skeletal muscle weakness and the presence of nemaline bodies in the muscle fiber. The clinical phenotype of NM patients is quite diverse, ranging from neonatal death to normal lifespan with almost normal motor function.
de Winter, Josine M, Ottenheijm, Coen A C   +1 more
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Integrated Opto–Biomechatronics For Single Muscle Fibre Structure‐Function Assessment: The MyoRobot 3.0

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We present the MyoRobot 3.0, an advanced platform that combines high‐resolution imaging with automated mechanical testing to improve the accuracy of single muscle fibre analysis. The system tracks fibre diameter changes during stretch, preventing major stress miscalculations.
Michael Haug, Moritz Hellmann, Larysa Kovbasyuk, Maria Eleni Vazakidou, Milena Theis, Oliver Friedrich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leonurine Ameliorates Doxorubicin‐Induced Cardiotoxicity via STING/NF‐κB/NLRP3 Inflammasome Signaling Pathway

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Doxorubicin‐induced cardiomyopathy (DIC) remains a dose‐limiting clinical challenge. This study reveals that cardiac vascular endothelial cells (CVECs) act as initial sensors of doxorubicin cardiotoxicity: circulating doxorubicin activates the cGAS‑STING pathway in CVECs, triggering NLRP3 inflammasome‑mediated pyroptosis and release of ...
Wang Jun, Chen Xiaoyang, Xu Jianglin, Yang Zhi, Tao Meijiao, He Jiale, Zhao Jiangfeng, Hei Xuanding, Xu Xuegong, Wang Wei, Li Chun   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aberrant GRP78 Phase Transition Sustains Endothelial IRE1α Signaling and Drives Blood–Brain Barrier Failure in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vascular Aβ40 corrupts GRP78 phase behavior in brain endothelial cells, sustaining IRE1α–TRAF2–JNK signaling and driving apoptosis, tight junction loss, and blood–brain barrier failure in cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Pharmacological IRE1α inhibition restores vascular integrity, reduces leakage, and improves functional outcomes, revealing a targetable ...
Honglin Zheng, Qiang Li, Haiyang Luo, Yapei Yuan, Na Zhang, Yongting Lu, Suying Duan, Jieshi Zhong, Hang Zhang, Chenyang Liu, Yaochong Zhang, Wenzhuo Zhao, Yaxuan Song, Tuo Wang, Si Yan, Yapeng Li, Han Liu, Yuan Gao, Zongping Xia, Yuming Xu   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Pak1 Activator Ameliorates ER Stress for HFpEF Therapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Chronic metabolic stress is a major contributor to HFpEF progression. Under prolonged metabolic stress, Pak1 activity becomes impaired, contributing to disrupted ER proteostasis, cardiomyocyte apoptosis, fibrosis, and diastolic dysfunction. Mechanistically, Pak1 overexpression activates the ERK1/2–MNK1–eIF4E signaling axis, promotes translational ...
Honglin Xu, Hongyuan Zhang, Tayyiba Azam, Susanne S. Hille, Yingjuan Liu, Min Zi, Jiaqing Lang, He Yu, Yujia Cao, Bernard D. Keavney, Tamer M. A. Mohamed, Jessica M. Miller, Riham R. E. Abouleisa, Ming Xu, Elizabeth J. Cartwright, Oliver J. Müller, Ming Lei, Xin Wang   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

microRNA-1 regulates sarcomere formation and suppresses smooth muscle gene expression in the mammalian heart

eLife, 2013
microRNA-1 (miR-1) is an evolutionarily conserved, striated muscle-enriched miRNA. Most mammalian genomes contain two copies of miR-1, and in mice, deletion of a single locus, miR-1-2, causes incompletely penetrant lethality and subtle cardiac defects ...
Amy Heidersbach, Chris Saxby, Karen Carver-Moore, Yu Huang, Yen-Sin Ang, Pieter J de Jong, Kathryn N Ivey, Deepak Srivastava   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sarcomeric proteins and inherited cardiomyopathies [PDF]

Cardiovascular Research, 2007
Over the last two decades, a large number of mutations have been identified in sarcomeric proteins as a cause of hypertrophic, dilated or restrictive cardiomyopathy. Functional analyses of mutant proteins in vitro have revealed several important functional changes in sarcomeric proteins that might be primarily involved in the pathogenesis of each ...
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Multi‐method analysis for the three‐dimensional reconstruction of muscle fascicles from DiceCT datasets

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Muscle architecture is a major determinant of muscle performance and, in mammalian lineages, has been correlated with both feeding ecology and locomotor behaviors. Over the past decade, contrast‐enhanced micro‐CT (DiceCT) has emerged as an alternative to traditional dissection‐based measurement.
Aleksandra Ratkiewicz, Michael C. Granatosky, Cassidy E. Davis, Julia Molnar, Adam Hartstone‐Rose, Edwin Dickinson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source