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ReviewPathobiology of aging & age related diseases2016

Fatty old hearts: role of cardiac lipotoxicity in age-related cardiomyopathy.

Konstantinos Drosatos

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Review in Pathobiology of aging & age related diseases, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Sex Differences in Response to Diet Enriched With Glutathione Precursors in the Aging Heart.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2025
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  2. Immunometabolism in the Aging Heart.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Konstantinos DrosatosMetabolic Biology Laboratory, Department of Pharmacology, Center for Translational Medicine, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA; drosatos@temple.edu.
Temple University · US

Funding

Role of KLF5 in cardiac and systemic fatty acid metabolismR01HL130218 · NHLBI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI DROSATOS, KONSTANTINOS · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Mechanisms of Reduced Fatty Acid Oxidation and Cardiac Dysfunction in SepsisR00HL112853 · NHLBI · TEMPLE UNIV OF THE COMMONWEALTH · PI DROSATOS, KONSTANTINOS · 2014 to 2016
$725k
NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL112853NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL130218
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Age-related cardiomyopathy accounts for a significant part of heart failure cases. Imbalance of the energetic equilibrium of the heart along with mitochondrial dysfunction and impaired β-adrenergic receptor signaling contributes in the aggravation of cardiac function in the elderly. In this review article, studies that correlate cardiac aging with lipotoxicity are summarized. The involvement of inhibition of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-α, β-adrenergic receptor desensitization, and mitochondrial dysfunction as underlying mechanisms for the lipid-driven age-related cardiomyopathy are presented with the aim to indicate potential therapeutic targets for cardiac aging.

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agingheartlipidslipotoxicity

Identifiers

PMID27558317
PMCPMC4996860
OpenAlexW2516591253

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