Remodeling of Cardiac Macrophage Subsets Serves as a Critical Driver of Early Diabetic Myocardial Injury.
Journal of inflammation research
Xu K, Zhang YM, Yang L, Zhang L, Zhang YW, Guo JQ, Cai JP.
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2026
Immunology
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Key Finding
In early DCM, the cardiac immune microenvironment becomes already dysregulated, with significant increases in monocytes, dendritic cells, basophils, NK cells, and T cells. Using an early DCM mouse model, this study revealed a profound shift in the cardiac immune microenvironment from homeostasis toward inflammation-fibrosis-lipid reprogramming, with macrophage subset remodeling serving as a central driver of early injury.
Countstar Connection
The researchers relied on Countstar (model not specified) to measure cell number and viability in the study's cell samples during quality assessment for the immune-cell research.
