{"title":"Autophagy at the synapse, an early site of dysfunction in neurodegeneration","authors":"Hilary Grosso Jasutkar , Ai Yamamoto","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100631","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100631","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Macroautophagy, herein referred to as autophagy, has long been implicated in the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases. However, an incomplete understanding of how autophagy contributes to disease pathogenesis has limited progress in acting on this potential target for the development of disease-modifying therapeutics. Research in the past few decades has revealed that autophagy plays a specialized role in the synapse, a site of early dysfunction in multiple neurodegenerative diseases. In this review, we discuss the evidence suggesting that inadequate autophagy at the synapse may contribute to neurodegeneration, and why the functions of autophagy may be particularly relevant for synaptic function.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100631"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035630/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9197631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jordan H Mallette, Breland F Crudup, Barbara T Alexander
{"title":"Growth restriction in preeclampsia: lessons from animal models","authors":"Jordan H Mallette, Breland F Crudup, Barbara T Alexander","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100647","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100647","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Preeclampsia remains a major health concern for mother and child. Yet, treatment options remain limited to early delivery. Placental dysfunction in preeclampsia occurs in response to an increase in oxidative stress<span><span> and inflammatory cytokines with vasoactive and antiangiogenic factors contributing to impaired maternal and fetal health. Moreover, recent studies indicate a potential role for epigenetic mediators in the pathophysiology of placental ischemia. Numerous </span>animal models<span><span> are utilized to explore the pathogenesis of preeclampsia and fetal growth restriction. This review provides a brief overview of recent progress in </span>preclinical studies regarding potential therapeutic targets for the treatment and prevention of preeclampsia with an emphasis on fetal growth restriction and the fetal programming of increased cardiovascular risk.</span></span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100647"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10035651/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9197630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Teleah G Belkin , Yow Keat Tham , Julie R McMullen
{"title":"Lipids regulated by exercise and phosphoinositide 3-kinase: potential role as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease","authors":"Teleah G Belkin , Yow Keat Tham , Julie R McMullen","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100633","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Lipids are organic biomolecules that provide structural support to cells, but are also important for energy storage and signaling. Lipid profiling has emerged as a new technology with the potential of identifying new biomarkers and therapeutic targets. The </span>lipid composition<span> of cardiomyocyte membranes is altered during the process of cardiac remodeling, including exercise-induced heart enlargement (physiological cardiac hypertrophy) and disease-induced pathological remodeling. Phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) is an essential regulator of exercise-induced physiological hypertrophy and mediator of cardioprotection in cardiac stress settings. In this review, we first briefly summarize the protective role of exercise and PI3K on the heart. Next, we describe the regulation of lipids in the heart and circulation by exercise or transgenic expression of PI3K (increased or decreased), and contrast this to cardiac disease settings. We also describe studies in which exercise or PI3K-regulated lipids have been associated with cardiorespiratory fitness or cardioprotection, and discuss potential clinical applications.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100633"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49818093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial overview: Multiscale and integrative regulators of cardiac muscle and matrix remodeling","authors":"Jennifer Davis, Timothy A McKinsey","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100645","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100645"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49818099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interplay between exercise, circadian rhythm, and cardiac metabolism and remodeling","authors":"Kyle Fulghum , Bradford G Hill","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100643","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Regular exercise improves cardiovascular and metabolic health. The beneficial effects of exercise are influenced by several factors, including exercise intensity, biological sex, and the time-of-day at which exercise is performed. In this short article, we review recent evidence of how exercise influences muscle metabolism and how circadian rhythm impacts tissue adaptations to exercise and exercise performance. Emerging out of these findings is a new appreciation for how nutrient timing and diurnal rhythms could be exploited to maximize the health benefits to exercise, while minimizing cardiovascular event risk.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100643"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49818096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mechanoelectrical transduction-related genetic forms of hearing loss","authors":"Jinsei Jung , Ulrich Müller","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100632","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100632","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hair cells of the mammalian cochlea are specialized mechanosensory cells that convert mechanical stimuli into electrical signals to initiate the neuronal responses that lead to the perception of sound. The mechanoelectrical transduction (MET) machinery of cochlear hair cells is a multimeric protein complex<span> that consists of the pore-forming subunits of the MET channel and several essential accessory subunits that are crucial to regulate channel function and render the channel mechanically sensitive. Mutations have been discovered in the genes that encode all known components of the MET machinery. These mutations cause hearing loss with or without vestibular dysfunction. Some mutations also affect other tissues such as the retina. In this brief review, we will summarize gene mutations that affect the MET machinery of hair cells and how the study of the affected genes has illuminated our understanding of the physiological role of the encoded proteins.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100632"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10022594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9153811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exercise and calcium in the heart","authors":"Ole J Kemi","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100644","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cardiomyocyte Ca<sup>2+</sup> dictates cardiac contraction via excitation–contraction coupling (ECC) and excitation–transcription coupling. Adaptation to these processes also majorly contributes to enhanced contractile function and capacity following exercise training. Cytoplasmic Ca<sup>2+</sup> release controls sarcomeric contraction, with important modulation by the voltage-sensitive plasma membrane <span>L</span>-type Ca<sup>2+</sup> channel and the Ryanodine receptor, as well as the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca<sup>2+</sup> ATPase. Exercise training increases and enhances these ECC subprocesses, in a manner that increases and enhances cardiac contraction. Also, adaptation to exercise training further includes myofilament Ca<sup>2+</sup> sensitization. Then, there are several aspects linked to postexercise training cardiomyocyte Ca<sup>2+</sup> handling that remains speculative and inconclusive, but could if proven true to be of special importance. This includes Ca<sup>2+</sup>-linked muscle-specific gene transcription to alter cell architecture and size, and it includes the scenario whereby Ca<sup>2+</sup> cycling and adaptations may alter arrhythmogenicity. These aspects of cardiac Ca<sup>2+</sup> adaptations to exercise training are discussed in this review article.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"32 ","pages":"Article 100644"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49818098","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exerkines: opening the way to protecting ischemic heart","authors":"Lili Feng , Bowen Li , Zhenjun Tian","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2022.100615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2022.100615","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span><span>Exercise, effectively and safely, contributes to the rehabilitation of the ischemic heart. In the field of cardiovascular health, it has attracted increasing attention because of lower cost and fewer side effects. Mechanisms of exercise in prevention and treatment of ischemic heart disease (IHD) involve the regulation of mitophagy, </span>oxidative stress<span>, inflammation, endoplasmic reticulum stress, apoptosis, and cardiac pathological remodeling through exerkines and gut </span></span>microbiomes. To provide theoretical basis and ideas for the prevention and postoperative rehabilitation of IHD, we summarized and discussed the latest progress and future development of the above mechanisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"31 ","pages":"Article 100615"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49773928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sylvan LJE Janssen , Kristian Berge , Tom Luiken , Vincent L Aengevaeren , Thijs MH Eijsvogels
{"title":"Cardiac troponin release in athletes: what do we know and where should we go?","authors":"Sylvan LJE Janssen , Kristian Berge , Tom Luiken , Vincent L Aengevaeren , Thijs MH Eijsvogels","doi":"10.1016/j.cophys.2022.100629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cophys.2022.100629","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cardiac troponins (cTn) are proteins that regulate cardiomyocyte contraction. A rise and fall of cTn above the upper reference limit is diagnostic of myocardial injury. Therefore, cTn measurements are part of the routine workup when suspecting acute coronary syndromes.</p><p>Exercise can also produce cTn elevations. Many studies in the last three decades have advanced our understanding of exercise-induced cTn release. Beyond technical improvements in cTn assays, various predictors of cTn release have been identified, whereas insight into exercise-induced cTn release patterns and its clinical implications have been improved. Whether cTn release in athletes represents a physiological or pathological response remains a topic of debate. This review summarizes our current understanding of exercise-induced cTn release and provides directions for future studies. We address how to 1) discriminate physiological versus pathological cTn release, 2) unravel the underlying mechanisms of exercise-induced cTn release, and 3) determine whether exercise-induced cTn elevation is a novel cardiovascular risk factor.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":52156,"journal":{"name":"Current Opinion in Physiology","volume":"31 ","pages":"Article 100629"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49861716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}