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ArticleBiomolecules2023

Differential Expression of Circulating Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns in Patients with Coronary Artery Ectasia.

James N Tsoporis, Andreas S Triantafyllis, Andreas S Kalogeropoulos, Shehla Izhar, Angelos G Rigopoulos, Loukianos S Rallidis, Eleftherios Sakadakis, Ioannis K Toumpoulis, Vasileios Salpeas, Howard Leong-Poi and 2 more

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Article in Biomolecules, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

James N TsoporisKeenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, 30 Bond St., Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
Andreas S TriantafyllisSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-8037-463X
Andreas S KalogeropoulosSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Shehla IzharKeenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, 30 Bond St., Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
Angelos G RigopoulosSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0003-0735-2319
Loukianos S RallidisSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7349-0309
Eleftherios SakadakisSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Ioannis K ToumpoulisSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-1874-1785
Vasileios SalpeasSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Howard Leong-PoiKeenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, 30 Bond St., Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
Thomas G ParkerKeenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, University of Toronto, 30 Bond St., Toronto, ON M5B 1W8, Canada.
Ioannis RizosSecond Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-3490-3035
University General Hospital Attikon · GRSt. Michael's Hospital · CAMitera Hospital · GR

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is defined as abnormal dilation of a coronary artery with a diameter exceeding that of adjacent normal arterial segment by >1.5 times. CAE is a pathological entity of the coronary arteries and characterized as a variant of coronary atherosclerosis. CAE frequently coexists with coronary artery disease (CAD). While inflammation appears to be involved, the pathophysiology of CAE remains unclear. Damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), defined as endogenous molecules released from stressed or damaged tissue, are deemed as alarm signals by the innate immune system. Inflammatory agents can generate DAMPs and DAMPs can create a pro-inflammatory state. In a prospective cross-sectional study, we enrolled 29 patients with CAE and non-obstructive CAD, 19 patients with obstructive CAD without CAE, and 14 control subjects with normal (control) coronary arteries age- and sex-matched with the CAE patients, to investigate the differential expression of plasma DAMPs. Patients with CAE and non-obstructive CAD had increased plasma levels of the DAMPs S100B, S100A12, HMGB1, and HSP70, the DAMPs receptor TLR4, and miR328a-3p compared to CAD and controls. Plasma levels of the mir328a-3p target the protective soluble form of the DAMPs receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE), and the antioxidant DJ-1 was decreased in both CAE and CAD compared to controls. In an in vitro human umbilical vein endothelial cells model, circulating levels of S100B, HMGB1, HSP70 as well as CAE patient plasma induced inflammatory responses. The differential expression of the DAMPs S100B, HSP70, HMGB1, and their receptors TLR4 and sRAGE in CAE versus CAD makes them attractive novel biomarkers as therapeutic targets and therapeutics.

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Coronary Artery DiseaseHMGB1 ProteinAlarminsCoronary AngiographyCross-Sectional StudiesDilatation, PathologicEndothelial CellsHumansProspective StudiesToll-Like Receptor 4AlarminsHMGB1 ProteinToll-Like Receptor 4coronary artery ectasiaDJ-1HSP70inflammationS100A12S100BsRAGETLR4

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PMID38275751
PMCPMC10813324
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