Nanomedicinal Aspects in Cardiovascular Diseases

Author(s):  
Uzma Farooq ◽  
Mohd. Aamir Mirza ◽  
Sradhanjali Mohapatra ◽  
Zeenat Iqbal
2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (17) ◽  
pp. 2243-2262
Author(s):  
Danlin Liu ◽  
Gavin Richardson ◽  
Fehmi M. Benli ◽  
Catherine Park ◽  
João V. de Souza ◽  
...  

Abstract In the elderly population, pathological inflammation has been associated with ageing-associated diseases. The term ‘inflammageing’, which was used for the first time by Franceschi and co-workers in 2000, is associated with the chronic, low-grade, subclinical inflammatory processes coupled to biological ageing. The source of these inflammatory processes is debated. The senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) has been proposed as the main origin of inflammageing. The SASP is characterised by the release of inflammatory cytokines, elevated activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome, altered regulation of acetylcholine (ACh) nicotinic receptors, and abnormal NAD+ metabolism. Therefore, SASP may be ‘druggable’ by small molecule therapeutics targeting those emerging molecular targets. It has been shown that inflammageing is a hallmark of various cardiovascular diseases, including atherosclerosis, hypertension, and adverse cardiac remodelling. Therefore, the pathomechanism involving SASP activation via the NLRP3 inflammasome; modulation of NLRP3 via α7 nicotinic ACh receptors; and modulation by senolytics targeting other proteins have gained a lot of interest within cardiovascular research and drug development communities. In this review, which offers a unique view from both clinical and preclinical target-based drug discovery perspectives, we have focused on cardiovascular inflammageing and its molecular mechanisms. We have outlined the mechanistic links between inflammageing, SASP, interleukin (IL)-1β, NLRP3 inflammasome, nicotinic ACh receptors, and molecular targets of senolytic drugs in the context of cardiovascular diseases. We have addressed the ‘druggability’ of NLRP3 and nicotinic α7 receptors by small molecules, as these proteins represent novel and exciting targets for therapeutic interventions targeting inflammageing in the cardiovascular system and beyond.


2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Banik ◽  
Ralf Schwarzer ◽  
Nina Knoll ◽  
Katarzyna Czekierda ◽  
Aleksandra Luszczynska

1994 ◽  
Vol 72 (04) ◽  
pp. 563-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomo Rankinen ◽  
Sari Väisänen ◽  
Michele Mercuri ◽  
Rainer Rauramaa

SummaryThe association between apolipoprotein(a) [apo(a)], fibrinogen, fibrinopeptide A (FPA) and carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) was analyzed in Eastern Finnish men aged 50 to 60 years. Apo(a) correlated directly with carotid bifurcation (r = 0.26, p = 0.001), but not with common carotid IMT. Men in the lowest quartile of apo(a) had thinner (p = 0.013) IMT in bifurcation [1.59 mm (95% Cl 1.49; 1.68)] compared to the men in the highest [1.91 mm (95% Cl 1.73; 2.09)] apo(a) quartile. The difference remained (p=0.038) after adjusting for confounders. Plasma fibrinogen was not related to carotid IMT, whereas FPA correlated with common carotid (r = 0.21, p = 0.016) and carotid bifurcation (r = 0.21, p = 0.018) IMT. These associations abolished after adjusting for the confounders. The data suggest that apo(a) associate with carotid atherosclerosis independent of other risk factors for ischemic cardiovascular diseases.


2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Nessa ◽  
Sa Latif ◽  
NI Siddiqui

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-42
Author(s):  
T. A. Mulerova ◽  
M. Yu. Ogarkov ◽  
O. L. Barbarash

1409 people (901 Shors, 508 non-indigenous people) from remote villages of Mountain Shoriya (Orton and Ust-Kabyrsa) and urban-type settlement Sheregesh took part in the survey. In Shors, the risk of developing hypertension was determined by elevated levels of total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol, violation of carbohydrate metabolism, obesity, including its abdominal type, the family anamnesis of early cardiovascular diseases, and a carriage of prognostically unfavorable genotypes D/D and C/C of the corresponding genes ACE and AGTR 1 candidates; in the cohort of non-indigenous ethnos-elevated levels of total cholesterol and triglycerides, obesity, abdominal obesity, the family anamnesis of early cardiovascular diseases, a carrier of the minor genotype C/C of the AGTR 1 gene


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