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ArticleReactive oxygen species (Apex, N.C.)2016

Huntington's Disease-Induced Cardiac Disorders Affect Multiple Cellular Pathways.

Girish C Melkani

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Article in Reactive oxygen species (Apex, N.C.), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Systemic Symptoms in Huntington's Disease: A Comprehensive Review.Movement disorders clinical practice · 2024
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  3. Targeting the cGAS-STING pathway mitigates Huntington disease pathogenesis in a knock-in mouse model.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  15. Hypertension, Antihypertensive Use and the Delayed-Onset of Huntington's Disease.Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Girish C MelkaniDepartment of Biology, Molecular Biology and Heart Institutes, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182, USA.
San Diego State University · US

Funding

Metabolome-Genome Associations for Determining Mechanisms of Aging in DrosophilaR01AG049494 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PROMISLOW, DANIEL EDWARD · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
Genetic analysis and regulation of laminopathy induced cardiac defectsR21AG049454 · NIA · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MELKANI, GIRISH C. · 2015 to 2016
$469k
Using metabolomics to identify mechanisms of natural variation in agingR56AG049494 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI PROMISLOW, DANIEL EDWARD, VILLEN, JUDIT · 2022 to 2022
$319k
Genetic analysis and regulation of amyloids flux in the Drosophila heartR21RR032100 · NCRR · SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MELKANI, GIRISH C. · 2011 to 2011
$224k
NCRR NIH HHS R21 RR032100NIA NIH HHS R01 AG049494NIA NIH HHS R21 AG049454NIA NIH HHS R56 AG049494
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a rare, inherited, progressive, and fatal neurological disorder resulting from expanded polyglutamine repeats in the huntingtin protein. While HD is predominately characterized as a disease of the central nervous system, mortality surveys and epidemiological studies reveal heart disease as one of the leading causes of death in HD patients. Emerging evidence supports a link between HD and cardiovascular disease, such as cardiac amyloidosis (accumulation of aggregates in the heart). Experimental animal and clinical studies have attempted to explain the mechanisms of HD-induced cardiac pathology in the association of protein misfolding, autophagic defects, oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and cell death. HD is increasingly understood as a complex disease with peripheral components of cardiac and skeletal muscle pathophysiology. While the discovery of these linkages and apparent pathological markers is promising, the mechanism of HD-induced cardiac pathology and the nature of its cell autonomy remain elusive. Further study of the wide-ranging cardiac function in HD patients is needed. This review highlights published literature on the pathological factors associated with HD-induced cardiac amyloidosis and other cardiovascular diseases, and addresses gaps in this expanding area of study. Through comprehensive experimental and clinical studies, potential drugs can be tested to attenuate and/or ameliorate HD-induced cardiac pathology and mortality.

Indexed as

Cardiac amyloidosisCardiac diseasesCardiomyopathyHuntington’s diseaseOxidative stressProtein aggregationsProtein unfoldingReactive oxygen species

Identifiers

PMID29963642
PMCPMC6022757
OpenAlexW2486161075

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