Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Fibrosis: A Review on the Potential of Extracellular Matrix Proteins as Biomarkers
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…
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- Reese-Petersen AL,
- Olesen MS,
- Karsdal MA,
- Svendsen J,
- Genovese F,
Understanding Cardiac Extracellular Matrix Remodeling to Develop Biomarkers of Myocardial Infarction Outcomes
Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in industrialized countries, and myocardial infarction (MI) is a major CVD with significant morbidity and mortality. Following MI, the left ventricle (LV) undergoes a wound healing response to ischemia that results in extracellular matri…
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- Nielsen SH,
- Mouton AJ,
- DeLeon-Pennell KY,
- Genovese F,
- Karsdal MA,
- Lindsey ML,
The development and characterization of a competitive ELISA for measuring active ADAMTS-4 in a bovine cartilage ex vivo model
ADAMTS-4 (aggrecanase1) is believed to play an important role in the degradation of aggrecan during the progression of joint diseases. ADAMTS-4 is synthesized as a latent pro-enzyme that requires the removal of the pro-domain, exposing the N-terminal neoepitope, to achieve activity. We developed a m…
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- He Y,
- Zheng Q,
- Simonsen O,
- Petersen KK,
- Christiansen TG,
- Karsdal MA,
- Bay-Jensen AC,