Turmeric Protects the Cardiac Fibroblasts (CFs) of the Heart
By Kyle J. Norton
The heart formed part of the circulatory system pumps blood through the blood vessels. The blood provided not only nutrients to cell metabolism but also remove waste during the process.
According to the statistics, heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. Approximately, over 600,000 Americans die from heart disease each year or 1 in every 4 deaths are from heart disease.
Under normal condition, cardiac fibroblasts are activated by the immune system following injury with the function to repair and remodeling tissues of the heart.
Activation of cardiac fibroblasts for heart tissue healing during the post-infarction has been found to involve several processes in the transition to the proliferative phase of infarct healing, including the stimulation of inflammatory reaction, followed by rapid suppression of proinflammatory cytokines and subsequent resolution of the leukocytic infiltrate.
Any disruption of the process may cause forming heart scars and reduce the function of the heart tissue to perform its normal function, leading to many cardiac pathologic conditions, including hypertensive heart disease and aortic stenosis.
On findings a potential compound for the treatment of myocardial infarction complications, researchers examined the efficacy of curcumin the role of curcumin on cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) after myocardial infarction (MI).
The study included MI induced by permanent ligation of the left anterior descending coronary artery in adult mice received curcumin for 4 weeks.
Based on the results of the tested analysis, curcumin significantly attenuated collagen deposition associated with overgrowth, hardening, and/or scarring of various tissues in vivo.
Cardiac fibroblasts (CFs) proliferation and migration and expression of the matrix (MMP) associated with inflammation induced by MI were inhibited by the infection of curcumin.
Researchers after taking other factors into account wrote, “Our results provide new insights into the mechanism underlying the anti-fibrotic effects of curcumin in the heart”.
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Author Biography
Kyle J. Norton (Scholar, Master of Nutrition, All right reserved)
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published online, including worldwide health, ezine articles, article base, health blogs, self-growth, best before it’s news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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Some articles have been used as references in medical research, such as international journal Pharma and Bioscience, ISSN 0975-6299.
Sources
(1) Curcumin protects against myocardial infarction-induced cardiac fibrosis via SIRT1 activation in vivo and in vitro by Xiao J1, Sheng X1, Zhang X1, Guo M1, Ji X. (PubMed)
(2) The Living Scar – Cardiac Fibroblasts and the Injured Heart by Eva A Rog-Zielinska,1,2 Russell A Norris,3 Peter Kohl, and Roger Markwald. (PMC)