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Statins and endothelium

Rescue of EndMT-associated endothelial dysfunction by modulating the YAP pathway

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Statins exert cardiovascular protective effects that are independent of cholesterol lowering. Using endothelial cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells, Liu et al. show that statins can improve endothelial dysfunction by inhibiting endothelial–mesenchymal transition via epigenetic regulation of the GGTase–RhoA–YAP1–SOX9 signaling pathway.

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Fig. 1: Inhibition of YAP1-mediated chromatin remodeling reverses an EndMT process in iPS-ECs.

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This work was supported by grants from the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI; R01HL150877, R01HL156008) the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean government (MSIT) (2020R1A2C3003784, 2020M3A9I4038454), and the Brain Korea 21 FOUR Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine.

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    Seongho Bae & Young-sup Yoon

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Science, Brain Korea 21 Project, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

    Cholomi Jung

  3. Severance Biomedical Science Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

    Cholomi Jung & Young-sup Yoon

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Bae, S., Jung, C. & Yoon, Ys. Rescue of EndMT-associated endothelial dysfunction by modulating the YAP pathway. Nat Cardiovasc Res 2, 420–422 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44161-023-00268-0

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