Communications Biology (Jan 2021)

Cardiac-specific loss of mitoNEET expression is linked with age-related heart failure

  • Takaaki Furihata,
  • Shingo Takada,
  • Naoya Kakutani,
  • Satoshi Maekawa,
  • Masaya Tsuda,
  • Junichi Matsumoto,
  • Wataru Mizushima,
  • Arata Fukushima,
  • Takashi Yokota,
  • Nobuyuki Enzan,
  • Shouji Matsushima,
  • Haruka Handa,
  • Yoshizuki Fumoto,
  • Junko Nio-Kobayashi,
  • Toshihiko Iwanaga,
  • Shinya Tanaka,
  • Hiroyuki Tsutsui,
  • Hisataka Sabe,
  • Shintaro Kinugawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01675-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Takaaki Furihata et al. report a new mouse model with heart-specific deletion of the mitochondrial protein, mitoNEET. Their results suggest that loss of mitoNEET expression may contribute to age-associated heart failure in older adults.