ArticleGeroScience2021
Treatment with a DC-SIGN ligand reduces macrophage polarization and diastolic dysfunction in the aging female but not male mouse hearts.
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- A defective mechanosensing pathway affects fibroblast-to-myofibroblast transition in the old male mouse heart.iScience · 2023Article
- Sex-specific phenotypes in the aging mouse heart and consequences for chronic fibrosis.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2022Article
- Targeting the Metabolic-Inflammatory Circuit in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction.Current heart failure reports · 2022Review
- Alginate oligosaccharide alleviates D-galactose-induced cardiac ageing via regulating myocardial mitochondria function and integrity in mice.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Cardiac diastolic dysfunction in aging arises from increased ventricular stiffness caused by inflammation and interstitial fibrosis. The diastolic dysfunction contributes to heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), which in the aging population is more common in women. This report examines its progression over 12 weeks in aging C57BL/6J mice and correlates its development with changes in macrophage polarization and collagen deposition.Aged C57BL/6J mice were injected with dendritic cell-specific intercellular adhesion molecule-3-grabbing nonintegrin (DC-SIGN) ligand 1 (DCSL1, an anti-inflammatory agent) or saline for 12 weeks. Echo and Doppler measurements were performed before and after 4 and 12 weeks of treatment. DCSL1 prevented the worsening of diastolic dysfunction over time in females but not in males. Cardiac single cell suspensions analyzed by flow cytometry revealed changes in the inflammatory infiltrate: (1) in males, there was an increased total number of leukocytes with an increased pro-inflammatory profile compared with females and they did not respond to DCSL1; (2) by contrast, DCSL1 treatment resulted in a shift in macrophage polarization to an anti-inflammatory phenotype in females. Notably, DCSL1 preferentially targeted tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα
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