Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Macrophage-dependent IL-1β production induces cardiac arrhythmias in diabetic mice

  • Gustavo Monnerat,
  • Micaela L. Alarcón,
  • Luiz R. Vasconcellos,
  • Camila Hochman-Mendez,
  • Guilherme Brasil,
  • Rosana A. Bassani,
  • Oscar Casis,
  • Daniela Malan,
  • Leonardo H. Travassos,
  • Marisa Sepúlveda,
  • Juan Ignacio Burgos,
  • Martin Vila-Petroff,
  • Fabiano F. Dutra,
  • Marcelo T. Bozza,
  • Claudia N. Paiva,
  • Adriana Bastos Carvalho,
  • Adriana Bonomo,
  • Bernd K. Fleischmann,
  • Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho,
  • Emiliano Medei

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13344
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Ventricular arrhythmia is a leading cause of death in patients with diabetes. Here the authors show that inflammasome activation and ILK-1β production in cardiac macrophages cause arrhythmia in diabetic mice, which can be successfully treated using agonists to IL-1β receptor or NLRP3 inhibitors.