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Diabetes mellitus is a major cause of death and disability and a large economic burden on health care systems across the world. Globally, 1 in 12 all-cause deaths in adults have been attributed to diabetes and its complications. Epidemiological data suggest that diabetes may in itself give rise to a specific cardiomyopathy characterized by progressively impaired left ventricular (LV) diastolic function and, in humans, a predominant phenotype of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF). Despite current glucose lowering therapies, diabetic patients are still at higher risk of developing heart disease.
Excessive production of reactive oxygen species, metabolic disturbances (eg alterations in substrate supply or utilisation), remodelling of the extracellular matrix, and mitochondrial dysfunction have been advocated as main determinants of both vascular and myocardial dysfunction in diabetes. However, a unifying mechanism upstream of the observed LV functional changes is still missing.
I have investigated the molecular signature of diabetes in heart cells/muscle of patients and animal models and discovered that cardiac dysfunction is prevented by increasing the myocardial level of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4). BH4 is a key cofactor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), and is responsible for maintaining the enzyme’s function in the presence of oxidative stress. These findings open the possibility that BH4 supplementation may provide a novel therapeutic tool in the management of patients with diabetes and HFpEF.
Excessive production of reactive oxygen species, metabolic disturbances (eg alterations in substrate supply or utilisation), remodelling of the extracellular matrix, and mitochondrial dysfunction have been advocated as main determinants of both vascular and myocardial dysfunction in diabetes. However, a unifying mechanism upstream of the observed LV functional changes is still missing.
I have investigated the molecular signature of diabetes in heart cells/muscle of patients and animal models and discovered that cardiac dysfunction is prevented by increasing the myocardial level of tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4). BH4 is a key cofactor of nitric oxide synthase (NOS), and is responsible for maintaining the enzyme’s function in the presence of oxidative stress. These findings open the possibility that BH4 supplementation may provide a novel therapeutic tool in the management of patients with diabetes and HFpEF.
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FASEB JOURNALno. 3 (2024): e23448-e23448
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2023)
American Journal of Physiology-heart and Circulatory Physiologyno. 4 (2023): H430-H442
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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR CARDIOLOGY (2022): S160-S161
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