Angina and no obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) have an unfavorable prognosis, possibly due to diffuse myocardial fibrosis (DMF). In DMF the proteoglycans biglycan and versican are actively remodeled by matrix metalloproteinase. We investigated biglycan and versican in females with angina an...
March 1, 2021
Journal:
J Cardiovasc Transl Res
Author:
Mygind ND, Holm Nielsen S, Michelsen MM, Pena A, Bechsgaard DF, Bove KB, Karsdal MA, Vejlstrup N, Prescott E, Kastrup J, Genovese F, Nielsen Bay H, Suhrs HE
Background and aims: A vulnerable plaque is an atherosclerotic plaque that is rupture-prone with a higher risk to cause cardiovascular symptoms such as myocardial infarction or stroke. Mimecan or osteoglycin is a small leucine-rich proteoglycan, important for collagen fibrillogenesis, that has been ...
November 25, 2020
Journal:
atherosclerosis
Author:
Tengryd C, Nielsen SH, Cavalera M, Bengtsson E, Genovese F, Dunér P, Orho-Melander M, Nilsson J, Edsfeldt A, Gonçalves I, Karsdal MA
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in industrialized countries. One underlying cause is atherosclerosis, which is a systemic disease characterized by plaques of retained lipids, inflammatory cells, apoptotic cells, calcium and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in the ar...
May 1, 2020
Journal:
J Intern Med
Author:
Nielsen SH, Jonasson L, Kalogeropoulos K, Karsdal MA, Reese-Petersen AL, Auf dem Keller U, Genovese F, Nilsson J, Goncalves I
This study investigated the association between body composition and risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) in postmenopausal women. In a retrospective analysis we assessed data from 5704 postmenopausal women (age 70.7 ± 6.5 yrs.) who in 1999-2001 participated in The Prospective Epidemiological Risk Facto...
January 17, 2020
Journal:
Sci Rep
Author:
Worm MS, Bager CL, Blair JPM, Secher NH, Riis BJ, Christiansen C, Nielsen Bay H
Blood levels of Glial Fibrillary Acidic protein (GFAP) reflect processes associated with different types of CNS injury. Evidence suggests that GFAP is cleaved by caspases during CNS injury, hence positioning GFAP fragments as potential biomarkers of injury-associated processes. We set out to develop...
November 6, 2019
Journal:
PLoS One
Author:
Jonesco DS, Hassager C, Frydland M, Kjærgaard J, Karsdal MA, Henriksen K
The involvement of fibrosis as an underlying pathology in heart diseases is becoming increasingly clear. In recent years, fibrosis has been granted a causative role in heart diseases and is now emerging as a major contributor to Atrial Fibrillation (AF) pathogenesis. AF is the most common arrhythmia...
November 6, 2019
Journal:
Matrix Biol
Author:
Reese-Petersen AL, Olesen MS, Karsdal MA, Svendsen JH, Genovese F
OBJECTIVE: Patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D) have a higher risk of developing chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular events (CVEs), and mortality than the general population. We hypothesized that two previously published biomarkers, namely PRO-C6, a biomarker of collagen type VI formation, and C3M...
September 13, 2019
Journal:
Diabetes Care
Author:
Pilemann-Lyberg S, Hansen TW, Tofte N, Winther SA, Holm Nielsen S, Theilade S, Karsdal MA, Genovese F, Rossing P, Rasmussen DGK
Cardiac fibrosis contributes to the development of heart failure in pulmonary hypertension. We aimed to assess the development of fibrosis and the effects of treatment with the anti-fibrotic agent pirfenidone in pressure overload induced right ventricular (RV) failure. Wistar rat weanlings were rand...
April 2, 2019
Journal:
Pulm Circ
Author:
Andersen S, Axelsen JB, Ringgaard S, Nyengaard JR, Holm Nielsen S, Genovese F, Karsdal MA, Hyldebrandt JA, Sørensen CB, de Man FS, Andersen A, Bogaard JH, Nielsen-Kudsk JE
BACKGROUND: Extracellular matrix metabolism and cardiac cell death participate centrally in myocardial infarction (MI). This study tested the roles of collagenolytic cathepsin K (CatK) in post-MI left ventricular remodeling. METHODS AND RESULTS: Patients with acute MI had higher plasma CatK levels ...
February 1, 2019
Journal:
J Mol Cell Cardiol
Author:
Fang W, He A, Xiang MX, Lin Y, Wang Y, Li J, Yang C, Zhang X, Liu CL, Sukhova GK, Barascuk N, Larsen L, Karsdal MA, Libby P, Shi GP
Background: Patients with atherosclerosis have a high risk of cardiovascular events and death. Atherosclerosis is characterized by accumulation of lipids, cells and extracellular matrix proteins in the intima. We hypothesized that dysregulated remodeling of the basement membrane proteins may be asso...
November 6, 2018
Journal:
J am heart assoc
Author:
Nielsen SH, Tengryd C, Edsfeldt A, Brix S, Genovese F, Bengtsson E, Karsdal MA, Leeming DJ, Nilsson J, Goncalves I
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