ReviewOxidative medicine and cellular longevity2021
Melatonin to Rescue the Aged Heart: Antiarrhythmic and Antioxidant Benefits.
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- STAT-Mediated Mitochondrial Regulation in Cardiovascular Diseases: Mechanistic Insights and STAT3-Focused Therapeutic Strategies.Biomolecules · 2026Review
- Melatonin inhibits ferroptosis in myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury by inhibiting the ATM/p53 signaling pathway.Redox report : communications in free radical research · 2025Article
- Association Between Melatonin Receptor Agonists and Cardiac Arrhythmia; Disproportionality Analysis Studies Using Pharmacovigilance Databases.Cardiovascular toxicology · 2025Article
- Melatonin Interplay in Physiology and Disease-The Fountain of Eternal Youth Revisited.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- The Impact of Dietary Melatonin on Heart and Lung Telomere Length and Shelterin Protein Gene Expression of Pulmonary Hypertensive Broiler Chickens.Veterinary medicine and science · 2025Article
- Cartilage defect repair in a rat model via a nanocomposite hydrogel loaded with melatonin-loaded gelatin nanofibers and menstrual blood stem cells: an in vitro and in vivo study.Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine · 2024Article
- Melatonin alleviates aging-related heart failure through melatonin receptor 1A/B knockout in mice.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Melatonin Ameliorates Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) through SESN2 Regulated Antiapoptosis.Obstetrics and gynecology international · 2023Article
- Arrhythmia related to hypertensive left ventricular hypertrophy in Iraqi patients: frequency and outcome.Journal of medicine and life · 2022Article
- Antioxidants in Arrhythmia Treatment-Still a Controversy? A Review of Selected Clinical and Laboratory Research.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Revisiting the role of melatonin in human melanocyte physiology: A skin context perspective.Journal of pineal research · 2022Review
- Analysis of age-related left ventricular collagen remodeling in living donors: Implications in arrhythmogenesis.iScience · 2022Article
- Melatonin as the Cornerstone of Neuroimmunoendocrinology.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Mechanisms Underlying Antiarrhythmic Properties of Cardioprotective Agents Impacting Inflammation and Oxidative Stress.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Melatonin as an Anti-Aging Therapy for Age-Related Cardiovascular and Neurodegenerative Diseases.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Review
- Melatonin attenuates radiation-induced cortical bone-derived stem cells injury and enhances bone repair in postradiation femoral defect model.Military Medical Research · 2021Article
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Abstract
Aging comes with gradual loss of functions that increase the vulnerability to disease, senescence, and death. The mechanisms underlying these processes are linked to a prolonged imbalance between damage and repair. Damaging mechanisms include oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, chronodisruption, inflammation, and telomere attrition, as well as genetic and epigenetic alterations. Several endogenous tissue repairing mechanisms also decrease. These alterations associated with aging affect the entire organism. The most devastating manifestations involve the cardiovascular system and may lead to lethal cardiac arrhythmias. Together with structural remodeling, electrophysiological and intercellular communication alterations during aging predispose to arrhythmic events. Despite the knowledge on repairing mechanisms in the cardiovascular system, effective antiaging strategies able to reduce the risk of arrhythmias are still missing. Melatonin is a promising therapeutic candidate due to its pleiotropic actions. This indoleamine regulates chronobiology and endocrine physiology. Of relevance, melatonin is an antiaging, antioxidant, antiapoptotic, antiarrhythmic, immunomodulatory, and antiproliferative molecule. This review focuses on the protective effects of melatonin on age-induced cardiac functional and structural alterations, potentially becoming a new fountain of youth for the heart.
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