Muscle Cell News Volume 8.09 | March 20 2023

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    2023-03-20 | MUSCN 8.09


    Muscle Cell News by STEMCELL Technologies
    Vol. 8.09 – 20 March, 2023
    TOP STORY

    Engineered Cardiac Tissue Model of Restrictive Cardiomyopathy for Drug Discovery

    Human variants in filamin C are linked to a variety of cardiomyopathies, and in this study, scientists investigated an in-frame deletion in a patient with restrictive cardiomyopathy.
    [Cell Reports Medicine]

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    Explore Antibodies for Epithelial Cell Markers
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    Knockdown of Deleterious miRNA in Progenitor Cell–Derived Small Extracellular Vesicles Enhances Tissue Repair in Myocardial Infarction

    MiR-192-5p– and miR-432-5p–depleted cardiac c-kit+ cell-V small extracellular vesicles enhanced cardiac function by reducing fibrosis and necrotic inflammatory responses.
    [Science Advances]

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    CAR Links Hypoxia Signaling to Improved Survival after Myocardial Infarction

    To elucidate whether the coxsackievirus and adenovirus receptor (CAR) contributed to hypoxia signaling and myocardial infarction pathology, researchers used a gain- and loss-of-function approach in transfected HEK293 cells, H9c2 cardiomyocytes and CAR knockout mice.
    [Experimental And Molecular Medicine]

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    Myoscaffolds Reveal Laminin Scarring Is Detrimental for Stem Cell Function While Sarcospan Induces Compensatory Fibrosis

    The authors investigated whether fibrotic extracellular matrix scarring affected human skeletal muscle progenitor cell functions that are essential for myoregeneration.
    [NPJ Regenerative Medicine]

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    Distinct Myofibre Domains of the Human Myotendinous Junction Revealed by Single Nucleus RNA-Seq

    Investigators profiled 24,161 nuclei in semitendinosus muscle-tendon samples from three healthy males by single nucleus RNA-sequencing, alongside spatial transcriptomics, to gain insight into the genes characterizing this specialization in humans.
    [Journal Of Cell Science]

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    Dynamic Transcriptomic Responses to Acute Exercise Stimuli in Young Adults

    Scientists assessed transcriptome-wide responses in skeletal muscle and circulating extracellular vehicles to a single exercise bout in young adults randomized to conventional resistance training or high-intensity training.
    [Physiological Genomics]

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    Smooth Muscle Contributes to the Development and Function of a Layered Intestinal Stem Cell Niche

    Investigators identified the mouse intestinal stem cell niche as a complex, multi-layered structure that encompassed distinct mesenchymal and smooth muscle populations.
    [Developmental Cell]

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    JMJD1C Promotes Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation by Activating Glycolysis in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

    In vitro, hypoxia-induced hyperproliferation and activated glycolytic processes in mouse pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells were impaired by JMJD1C knockdown.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    Silencing EIF3A Ameliorates Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension through HDAC1 and PTEN/PI3K/AKT Pathway In Vitro and In Vivo

    Pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells (PASMC) were isolated from rats and treated with PDGF-BB to simulate PASMC proliferation, and shRNA for EIF3 was conducted to investigate the mechanism behind the role of EIF3A in PASMC function in vitro.
    [Experimental Cell Research]

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    REVIEWS

    Obesity and the Risk of Cardiometabolic Diseases

    The authors present obesity as an evolutionarily novel condition, summarize the epidemiological evidence on its detrimental cardiometabolic consequences, and discuss the major mechanisms involved in the association between obesity and the risk of cardiometabolic diseases.
    [Nature Reviews Cardiology]

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    Metabolic Landscape in Cardiac Aging: Insights into Molecular Biology and Therapeutic Implications

    Scientists summarize emerging concepts about metabolic landscapes of cardiac aging, with specific focuses on why metabolic profile alters during cardiac degeneration and how we could utilize the current knowledge to improve the management of cardiac aging.
    [Signal Transduction And Targeted Therapy]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    FDA Shocks Sarepta, Ordering AdComm for DMD Gene Therapy in Sudden Change of Heart

    Two weeks after saying the FDA would assess its gene therapy without an advisory committee meeting, Sarepta has revealed the agency will now convene experts to dig into the data on its Duchenne muscular dystrophy submission.
    [Fierce Biotech]

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    Columbia University – New York, New York, United States

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    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai – New York, New York, United States

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