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[Scientific Reports] Researchers elucidated the overall smoking-induced miRNA changes and those specific to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).They investigated the downstream effects on regulatory gene expression and the correlation to cellular composition.

[Nature Communications] Researchers performed ischemia/reperfusion experiments in mice to assess the impact of genetic ACKR3 deficiency in platelets on tissue injury in ischemic myocardium and brain.

[Scientific Reports] Investigators investigated the role of lipid phosphate phosphatase 3 and lysophospholipid signaling in a well-defined model of pathologic aortic injury.

[Scientific Reports] Scientists investigated the anti-oxidative and cardioprotective effect of extracellular vesicles derived from ticagrelor-pretreated cardiomyocytes under diabetes mellitus conditions.

[Experimental and Molecular Medicine] To enhance the maturation of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hESC-CMs), the authors identified a natural steroidal alkaloid, tomatidine, as a new substance that stimulated the maturation of hESC-CMs.

[Cell Death & Disease] Researchers demonstrated that a positive correlation of protein arginine methyltransferase 5 (PRMT5) expression and trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO)-induced vascular inflammation, with upregulated vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 expression in primary rat and human vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro.