Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Macrophage hypoxia signaling regulates cardiac fibrosis via Oncostatin M

  • Hajime Abe,
  • Norihiko Takeda,
  • Takayuki Isagawa,
  • Hiroaki Semba,
  • Satoshi Nishimura,
  • Masaki Suimye Morioka,
  • Yu Nakagama,
  • Tatsuyuki Sato,
  • Katsura Soma,
  • Katsuhiro Koyama,
  • Masaki Wake,
  • Manami Katoh,
  • Masataka Asagiri,
  • Michael L. Neugent,
  • Jung-whan Kim,
  • Christian Stockmann,
  • Tomo Yonezawa,
  • Ryo Inuzuka,
  • Yasushi Hirota,
  • Koji Maemura,
  • Takeshi Yamashita,
  • Kinya Otsu,
  • Ichiro Manabe,
  • Ryozo Nagai,
  • Issei Komuro

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10859-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Fibrosis is a hallmark of several cardiac pathologies and its underlying mechanisms are still poorly defined. Here the authors show that macrophage hypoxia signaling following transverse aortic constriction in mice suppresses the activation of cardiac fibroblasts by secreting oncostatin M.