ReviewGenes2025
Cardiac Fibroblasts: Helping or Hurting.
Review in Genes, 2025. 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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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed.
- MicroRNAs in Cardiovascular Diseases: Molecular Networks of Cellular Homeostasis, Inflammation, and Pathological Remodeling.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Molecular Mechanisms of Cardiac Fibrosis: A Pathologist's Perspective.Current issues in molecular biology · 2026Review
- Migration of Cardiac Cells: Hot Topics that have not Attracted Clinical Attention.International journal of medical sciences · 2026Review
- Epicardial adipose tissue as a metabolically active visceral fat depot: an emerging target in cardiovascular disease.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Early Cytoskeletal Remodeling Drives Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Pathogenesis inJournal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Article
- Small Interfering RNA (siRNA) for Cardiorenal Disease: Mechanistic Insights from Preclinical and Clinical Studies.Journal of cardiovascular translational research · 2025Review
- Advances in Epicardial Biology: Insights from Development, Regeneration, and Human Cardiac Organoids.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
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5 authors.
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Abstract
Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) are the essential cell type for heart morphogenesis and homeostasis. In addition to maintaining the structural integrity of the heart tissue, muscle fibroblasts are involved in complex signaling cascades that regulate cardiomyocyte proliferation, migration, and maturation. While CFs serve as the primary source of extracellular matrix proteins (ECM), tissue repair, and paracrine signaling, they are also responsible for adverse pathological changes associated with cardiovascular disease. Following activation, fibroblasts produce excessive ECM components that ultimately lead to fibrosis and cardiac dysfunction. Decades of research have led to a much deeper understanding of the role of CFs in cardiogenesis. Recent studies using the single-cell genomic approach have focused on advancing the role of CFs in cellular interactions, and the mechanistic implications involved during cardiovascular development and disease. Arguably, the unique role of fibroblasts in development, tissue repair, and disease progression categorizes them into the friend or foe category. This brief review summarizes the current understanding of cardiac fibroblast biology and discusses the key findings in the context of development and pathophysiological conditions.
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