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Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease

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    • Shenglin Xian
    • Ang Chen
    • Xiaodan Wu
    • Chuanghong  Lu
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    • Feng Huang
    • Zhiyu Zeng
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    Affiliations: Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Nanning, Guangxi 530021, P.R. China
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Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is an autoimmune disease caused by rheumatic fever following group A hemolytic streptococcal infection and primarily affects the mitral valve. RHD is currently a major global health problem. However, the exact pathological mechanisms associated with RHD‑induced cardiac valve damage remain to be elucidated. The endothelial‑mesenchymal transition (EndMT) serves a key role in a number of diseases with an important role in cardiac fibrosis and the activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway is involved in regulating the EndMT. Nevertheless, there are no studies to date, to the best of the authors' knowledge, investigating the association between RHD and EndMT. Thus, the aim of the current study was to investigate the potential role of EndMT in cardiac valve damage and assess whether activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling was activated during RHD‑induced valvular injury in a rat model of RHD induced by inactivated Group A streptococci and complete Freund's adjuvant. Inflammation and fibrosis were assessed by hematoxylin and eosin and Sirius red staining. Serum cytokine and rheumatoid factor levels were measured using ELISA kits. Expression levels of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway‑related factors [activin A, Smad2, Smad3, phosphorylated (p‑)Smad2 and p‑Smad3], EndMT‑related factors [lymphoid enhancer factor‑1 (LEF‑1), Snail1, TWIST, zinc finger E‑box‑binding homeobox (ZEB)1, ZEB2, α smooth muscle actin (α‑SMA) and type I collagen α 1 (COL1A1)], apoptosis‑related markers (BAX and cleaved caspase‑3) and valvular inflammation markers (NF‑κB and p‑NF‑κB) were detected using reverse transcription‑quantitative PCR and western blot analyses. Compared with the control group, the degree of valvular inflammation and fibrosis, serum levels of IL‑6, IL‑17, TNF‑α and expression of apoptosis‑related markers (BAX and cleaved caspase‑3) and valvular inflammation marker (p‑NF‑κB), activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway‑related factors (activin A, p‑Smad2 and p‑Smad3), EndMT‑related factors (LEF‑1, Snail1, TWIST, ZEB 1, ZEB2, α‑SMA and COL1A1) were significantly increased in the RHD group. These results suggested that the activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway was activated during the development of valvular damage caused by RHD and that the EndMT is involved in RHD‑induced cardiac valve damage.
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Xian S, Chen A, Wu X, Lu C, Wu Y, Huang F and Zeng Z: Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease. Mol Med Rep 23: 10, 2021.
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Xian, S., Chen, A., Wu, X., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Huang, F., & Zeng, Z. (2021). Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease. Molecular Medicine Reports, 23, 10. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11648
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Xian, S., Chen, A., Wu, X., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Huang, F., Zeng, Z."Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease". Molecular Medicine Reports 23.1 (2021): 10.
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Xian, S., Chen, A., Wu, X., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Huang, F., Zeng, Z."Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease". Molecular Medicine Reports 23, no. 1 (2021): 10. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11648
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Xian S, Chen A, Wu X, Lu C, Wu Y, Huang F and Zeng Z: Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease. Mol Med Rep 23: 10, 2021.
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Xian, S., Chen, A., Wu, X., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Huang, F., & Zeng, Z. (2021). Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease. Molecular Medicine Reports, 23, 10. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11648
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Xian, S., Chen, A., Wu, X., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Huang, F., Zeng, Z."Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease". Molecular Medicine Reports 23.1 (2021): 10.
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Xian, S., Chen, A., Wu, X., Lu, C., Wu, Y., Huang, F., Zeng, Z."Activation of activin/Smad2 and 3 signaling pathway and the potential involvement of endothelial‑mesenchymal transition in the valvular damage due to rheumatic heart disease". Molecular Medicine Reports 23, no. 1 (2021): 10. https://doi.org/10.3892/mmr.2020.11648
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