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ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2022

The dual role of the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway in cardiac physiology and pathophysiology.

Megan Cairns, Danzil Joseph, M Faadiel Essop

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Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Molecular Basis of Cardiomyopathies in Type 2 Diabetes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  15. Frontiers in Understanding the Pathological Mechanism of Diabetic Retinopathy.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Megan CairnsCentre for Cardio-Metabolic Research in Africa, Division of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Danzil JosephCentre for Cardio-Metabolic Research in Africa, Department of Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
M Faadiel EssopCentre for Cardio-Metabolic Research in Africa, Division of Medical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
Stellenbosch University · ZA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The heart is a highly metabolic organ with extensive energy demands and hence relies on numerous fuel substrates including fatty acids and glucose. However, oxidative stress is a natural by-product of metabolism that, in excess, can contribute towards DNA damage and poly-ADP-ribose polymerase activation. This activation inhibits key glycolytic enzymes, subsequently shunting glycolytic intermediates into non-oxidative glucose pathways such as the hexosamine biosynthetic pathway (HBP). In this review we provide evidence supporting the dual role of the HBP, i.e. playing a unique role in cardiac physiology and pathophysiology where acute upregulation confers cardioprotection while chronic activation contributes to the onset and progression of cardio-metabolic diseases such as diabetes, hypertrophy, ischemic heart disease, and heart failure. Thus although the HBP has emerged as a novel therapeutic target for such conditions, proposed interventions need to be applied in a context- and pathology-specific manner to avoid any potential drawbacks of relatively low cardiac HBP activity.

Indexed as

Biosynthetic PathwaysHexosaminesGlucoseHeartOxidative StressGlucoseHexosaminescardiac hypertrophydiabetesheartheart failurehexosamine biosynthetic pathwaymetabolismmyocardial ischemiaoxidative stress

Identifiers

PMID36353238
PMCPMC9637655
OpenAlexW4307265632

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