Key result
Cardiac transcription factors represent promising therapeutic targets in cardiac hypertrophy to prevent the onset of heart failure and sudden death.
Why the study?
Are cardiac transcription factors promising therapeutic targets to prevent the onset of heart failure in cardiac hypertrophy?
Are cardiac transcription factors promising therapeutic targets to prevent the onset of heart failure in cardiac hypertrophy?
Cardiac transcription factors are highlighted as promising therapeutic targets to prevent the progression of compensatory cardiac hypertrophy to heart failure.
Should not yet change practice in hypertrophy; leaves open transcription factors as targets pending prospective validation.
Regulation of gene expression is central to cell growth, differentiation and diseases. Context specific and signal dependent regulation of gene expression is achieved to a large part by transcription factors. Cardiac transcription factors regulate heart development and are also involved in stress regulation of the adult heart, which may lead to cardiac hypertrophy. Hypertrophy of cardiac myocytes is an outcome of the imbalance between prohypertrophic factors and antihypertrophic factors. This is initially a compensatory mechanism but sustained hypertrophy may lead to heart failure. The growing knowledge of transcriptional control mechanisms is helpful in the development of novel therapies. This review summarizes the role of cardiac transcription factors in cardiac hypertrophy, emphasizing their potential as attractive therapeutic targets to prevent the onset of heart failure and sudden death as they can be converging targets for current therapy.
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Kohli et al. (2012) conducted a review in Cardiac hypertrophy. Transcription factors targeted therapy was evaluated. Cardiac transcription factors represent promising therapeutic targets in cardiac hypertrophy to prevent the onset of heart failure and sudden death.
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