Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33785860›Full record

ArticleActa pharmacologica Sinica2022

Harmine is an effective therapeutic small molecule for the treatment of cardiac hypertrophy.

Jie Huang, Yang Liu, Jia-Xin Chen, Xin-Ya Lu, Wen-Jia Zhu, Le Qin, Zi-Xuan Xun, Qiu-Yi Zheng, Er-Min Li, Ning Sun and 2 more

Open access · bronzeAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Acta pharmacologica Sinica, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. High-throughput screening of EGFR/CaJournal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2026
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Article
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Jie Huang *Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Yang Liu *Department of Echocardiography, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Jia-Xin ChenDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Xin-Ya LuDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Wen-Jia ZhuDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Le QinDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Zi-Xuan XunDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Qiu-Yi ZhengDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Er-Min LiDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China.
Ning SunDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China. sunning@fudan.edu.cn.
Chen XuDepartment of Physiology and Pathophysiology, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China. xu_chen85@fudan.edu.cn.
Hai-Yan ChenDepartment of Echocardiography, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China. chen.haiyan@zs-hospital.sh.cn.
State Key Laboratory of Medical NeurobiologyFudan University · CNChildren's Hospital of Fudan University · CNZhongshan Hospital · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Harmine is a β-carboline alkaloid isolated from Banisteria caapi and Peganum harmala L with various pharmacological activities, including antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antitumor, anti-depressant, and anti-leishmanial capabilities. Nevertheless, the pharmacological effect of harmine on cardiomyocytes and heart muscle has not been reported. Here we found a protective effect of harmine on cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats in vivo. Further, harmine could inhibit the phenotypes of norepinephrine-induced hypertrophy in human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes in vitro. It reduced the enlarged cell surface area, reversed the increased calcium handling and contractility, and downregulated expression of hypertrophy-related genes in norepinephrine-induced hypertrophy of human cardiomyocytes derived from embryonic stem cells. We further showed that one of the potential underlying mechanism by which harmine alleviates cardiac hypertrophy relied on inhibition of NF-κB phosphorylation and the stimulated inflammatory cytokines in pathological ventricular remodeling. Our data suggest that harmine is a promising therapeutic agent for cardiac hypertrophy independent of blood pressure modulation and could be a promising addition of current medications for cardiac hypertrophy.

Indexed as

Administration, OralAnimalsBanisteriopsisCardiomegalyDose-Response Relationship, DrugHarmineMolecular StructureMyocytes, CardiacNorepinephrinePeganumProtective AgentsRatsRats, WistarSmall Molecule LibrariesStructure-Activity RelationshipHarmineNorepinephrineProtective AgentsSmall Molecule Librariescardiac hypertrophyharminehESCs-derived cardiomyocytesinflammatoryNESHR

Identifiers

PMID33785860
PMCPMC8724320
OpenAlexW3143946391

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.