Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Retinol dehydrogenase 10 reduction mediated retinol metabolism disorder promotes diabetic cardiomyopathy in male mice

  • Yandi Wu,
  • Tongsheng Huang,
  • Xinghui Li,
  • Conghui Shen,
  • Honglin Ren,
  • Haiping Wang,
  • Teng Wu,
  • Xinlu Fu,
  • Shijie Deng,
  • Ziqi Feng,
  • Shijie Xiong,
  • Hui Li,
  • Saifei Gao,
  • Zhenyu Yang,
  • Fei Gao,
  • Lele Dong,
  • Jianding Cheng,
  • Weibin Cai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36837-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The current challenges for diabetic cardiomyopathy (DCM) are unclear mechanisms and no effective therapy in clinics. Here, the authors found that the decrease of cardiac retinol dehydrogenase 10 in type 2 diabetes leads to retinol metabolism disorder, cardiac lipid toxicity and cardiomyopathy development, suggesting that correcting the imbalance of cardiac retinol metabolism may be an effective strategy for the treatment of DCM.