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ReviewFrontiers in pharmacology2018

Therapeutic Potential of Polyphenols in Cardiac Fibrosis.

Ning Zhang, Wen-Ying Wei, Ling-Li Li, Can Hu, Qi-Zhu Tang

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Review in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

25 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ning ZhangDepartment of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Wen-Ying WeiDepartment of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Ling-Li LiDepartment of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Can HuDepartment of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Qi-Zhu TangDepartment of Cardiology, Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University · CNWuhan University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac fibrosis, in response to injury and stress, is central to a broad constellation of cardiovascular diseases. Fibrosis decreases myocardial wall compliance due to extracellular matrix (ECM) accumulation, leading to impaired systolic and diastolic function and causing arrhythmogenesis. Although some conventional drugs, such as β-blockers and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) inhibitors, have been shown to alleviate cardiac fibrosis in clinical trials, these traditional therapies do not tend to target all the fibrosis-associated mechanisms, and do not hamper the progression of cardiac fibrosis in patients with heart failure. Polyphenols are present in vegetables, fruits, and beverages and had been proposed as attenuators of cardiac fibrosis in different models of cardiovascular diseases. Together with results found in the literature, we can show that some polyphenols exert anti-fibrotic and myocardial protective effects by mediating inflammation, oxidative stress, and fibrotic molecular signals. This review considers an overview of the mechanisms of cardiac fibrosis, illustrates their involvement in different animal models of cardiac fibrosis treated with some polyphenols and projects the future direction and therapeutic potential of polyphenols on cardiac fibrosis.

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anti-fibroticcardiac fibrosispolyphenolssignaling pathwaytherapy

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PMID29497382
PMCPMC5818417
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