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ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2025

The immunology of diabetic cardiomyopathy.

Ming Song, Honggang Dai, Quan Zhou, Xiao Meng

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Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Ming SongState Key Laboratory for Innovation and Transformation of Luobing Theory, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research of MOE, NHC, CAMS and Shandong Province, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Honggang DaiState Key Laboratory for Innovation and Transformation of Luobing Theory, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research of MOE, NHC, CAMS and Shandong Province, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Quan ZhouState Key Laboratory for Innovation and Transformation of Luobing Theory, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research of MOE, NHC, CAMS and Shandong Province, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Xiao MengState Key Laboratory for Innovation and Transformation of Luobing Theory, Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research of MOE, NHC, CAMS and Shandong Province, Department of Cardiology, Qilu Hospital of Shandong University, Jinan, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a notable microvascular complication of diabetes, characterized primarily by myocardial fibrosis and functional abnormalities. Long-term hyperglycemia induces excessive activation and recruitment of immune cells and triggers the cascade of inflammatory responses, resulting in systemic and local cardiac inflammation. Emerging evidence highlights the significant roles of immunology in modulating the pathology of diabetic cardiomyopathy. As the primary effectors of inflammatory reactions, immune cells are consistently present in cardiac tissue and can be recruited under pathological hyperglycemia circumstances. A disproportionate favor to proinflammatory types of immune cells and the increased proinflammatory cytokine levels mediate fibroblast proliferation, phenotypic transformation, and collagen synthesis and ultimately rise to cardiac fibrosis and hypertrophy. Meanwhile, the severity of cardiac fibrosis is also strongly associated with the diverse phenotypes and phenotypic alterations of the immune cells, including macrophages, dendritic cells, mast cells, neutrophils, and natural killer cells in innate immunity and CD4

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Diabetic CardiomyopathiesAnimalsFibrosisHumansImmunity, Innatecardiac fibrosisdiabetesdiabetic cardiomyopathyimmune cellsimmunity

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PMID40260277
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