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Protective Role of H2S in High Glucose-Induced Cardiomyocyte and Endothelial Cell Dysfunction: A Mechanistic Review
Xiaoya Zhai1, Yefei Gao1, Haifei Lou1
1Department of Cardiology, Shaoxing People's Hospital, Shaoxing, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S), recognized as a significant gasotransmitter, has been shown to effectively reduce damage to cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells caused by diabetes. Its protective effects primarily stem from several mechanisms, including S-sulfhydration of proteins, reduction of cell death, alleviation of mitochondrial damage, improvement of ion channel dysfunction, interaction with nitric oxide, and modulation of angiogenesis. H2S is synthesized by cystathionine β-synthase (CBS), cystathionine γ-lyase (CSE), and 3-mercaptopyruvate sulfurtransferase (3-MST), whose expression is significantly reduced under diabetic conditions, including experimental high-glucose treatment in cells and diabetes mellitus animal models. This review summarizes the protective role of H2S and its donors in these pathological processes, highlights existing research gaps-including challenges in the targeted delivery of H2S donors, limited clinical translation, and incomplete mechanistic understanding-and discusses future directions for developing targeted H2S-based therapeutic strategies.
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