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ArticleJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2021

Impaired non-canonical transforming growth factor-β signalling prevents profibrotic phenotypes in cultured peptidylarginine deiminase 4-deficient murine cardiac fibroblasts.

Hanane Akboua, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Ugur Keser, Thorsten Wahlers, Adnana Paunel-Görgülü

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Article in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hanane AkbouaDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Kaveh EghbalzadehDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Ugur KeserDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Thorsten WahlersDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Adnana Paunel-GörgülüDepartment of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Center of the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6467-3544
University of Cologne · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) becomes rapidly activated in the infarcted heart. Hence, TGF-β-mediated persistent activation of cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) and exaggerated fibrotic responses may result in adverse cardiac remodelling and heart failure. Additionally, peptidylarginine deiminase 4 (PAD4) was described to be implicated in organ fibrosis. Here, we investigated the impact of PAD4 on CF function and myofibroblast transdifferentiation in vitro. The expression of fibrosis-related genes was largely similar in cultured WT and PAD4

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BiomarkersPhenotypeSignal TransductionAnimalsCardiomyopathiesCells, CulturedCell TransdifferentiationDisease Models, AnimalFibrosisGene ExpressionImmunophenotypingMiceMice, KnockoutMyofibroblastsProtein-Arginine Deiminase Type 4Transforming Growth Factor betaBiomarkerspeptidylarginine deiminase 4, mouseProtein-Arginine Deiminase Type 4Transforming Growth Factor betacardiac fibroblastsfibrosisPAD4TGF-βtransdifferentiation

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PMID34523218
PMCPMC8505821
OpenAlexW3201351106

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