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Apoptosis and long non-coding RNAs: Focus on their roles in Heart diseases
1Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia.
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Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a key role in heart cell death (apoptosis). Understanding lncRNA regulation of apoptosis offers new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular diseases.
Area of Science:
- Cardiovascular Biology
- Molecular Medicine
- Genetics
Background:
- Heart disease is a leading global cause of death, necessitating novel therapeutic targets.
- Apoptosis, or programmed cell death, is integral to cardiac pathologies like myocardial infarction and heart failure.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review recent discoveries on the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in regulating apoptosis within cardiovascular diseases.
- To highlight lncRNAs as potential therapeutic targets for preventing or managing heart conditions.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of current research on lncRNAs and apoptosis in cardiovascular disease.
- Analysis of mechanisms by which lncRNAs influence cardiomyocyte cell death pathways.
Main Results:
- lncRNAs are implicated in cardiomyocyte apoptosis through diverse mechanisms, including transcriptional regulation and signaling pathway modulation.
- Dysregulation of lncRNA-mediated apoptosis contributes to various cardiac conditions, such as reperfusion injury and heart failure.
Conclusions:
- lncRNAs are critical regulators of apoptosis in the heart.
- Targeting lncRNA-mediated apoptosis presents a promising strategy for developing new treatments for heart disease.
Abstract:
Heart disease is one of the principal death reasons around the world and there is a growing requirement to discover novel healing targets that have the potential to avert or manage these illnesses. On the other hand, apoptosis is a strongly controlled, cell removal procedure that has a crucial part in numerous cardiac problems, such as reperfusion injury, MI (myocardial infarction), consecutive heart failure, and inflammation of myocardium. Completely comprehending the managing procedures of cell death signaling is critical as it is the primary factor that influences patient mortality and morbidity, owing to cardiomyocyte damage. Indeed, the prevention of heart cell death appears to be a viable treatment approach for heart illnesses. According to current researches, a number of long non-coding RNAs cause the heart cells death via different methods that are embroiled in controlling the activity of transcription elements, the pathways that signals transmission within cells, small miRNAs, and the constancy of proteins. When there is too much cell death in the heart, it can cause problems like reduced blood flow, heart damage after restoring blood flow, heart disease in diabetics, and changes in the heart after reduced blood flow. Therefore, studying how lncRNAs control apoptosis could help us find new treatments for heart diseases. In this review, we present recent discoveries about how lncRNAs are involved in causing cell death in different cardiovascular diseases.
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