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ReviewTrends in pharmacological sciences2025

Cardiac fibrosis: from mechanisms and models to medicines.

Wenqiang Liu, Xuekun Wu, Wenshu Zeng, Mark Chandy, Joseph C Wu

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Review in Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Wenqiang LiuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Xuekun WuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Wenshu ZengStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Mark ChandyStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada.
Joseph C WuStanford Cardiovascular Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Greenstone Biosciences, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. Electronic address: joewu@stanford.edu.

Funding

Elucidating Anthracycline-Induced Cell Type-Specific Cardiovascular Toxicity with CRISPRi/a ScreensR01HL150693 · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$770k
Unraveling Proteasome Inhibitor-Induced Cardiovascular Toxicity through Integrative MultiomicsR01HL176822 · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$717k
Modeling Susceptibility to Radiation Therapy-induced Cardiotoxicity Using Cell Village iPSCsR01HL171102 · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$690k
Single-cell Multi-omic Profiling of Drug Responses Using Pooled iPSC-CM DifferentiationR01HL145676 · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$600k
Elucidating Sex Differences in Radiation-induced Cardiotoxicity with Cell Village iPSCsU01AI183953 · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · 2025 to 2025
$550k
American Heart Association-American Stroke Association 25POST1372048NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL145676NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL150693NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL171102NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL176822NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI183953
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cardiac fibrosis is a hallmark of cardiovascular and systemic diseases that arises in diverse pathological contexts such as inflammation, metabolic stress, and mechanical overload. Despite its clinical relevance, no FDA-approved therapies directly target cardiac fibrotic remodeling, highlighting persistent challenges in disease organization, model fidelity, and translational strategy. Recent advances in human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived models, engineered heart tissues, and in vivo systems have uncovered new fibrotic drivers, including immune-stroma crosstalk, metabolic reprogramming, and mechanotransduction, that are reshaping therapeutic development. This review synthesizes emerging molecular mechanisms, experimental models, and preclinical and clinical investigations of antifibrotic agents. Distinct from previous reviews, we emphasize cross-contextual alignment to support the development of precision antifibrotic therapy for cardiac fibrosis.

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Antifibrotic AgentsHeart DiseasesMyocardiumAnimalsFibrosisHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsAntifibrotic Agentsantifibrotic therapyfibroblast activation statesmultiscale platformsrepurposed drugstranslational models

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PMID40877078
PMCPMC13378603

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