Ferroptosis in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure

Biomed Pharmacother. 2023 Dec:168:115765. doi: 10.1016/j.biopha.2023.115765. Epub 2023 Oct 24.

Abstract

Heart failure has become a public health problem that we cannot avoid choosing to face in today's context. In the case of heart failure, pathological cardiac hypertrophy plays a major role because of its condition of absolute increase in ventricular mass under various stresses. Ferroptosis, it could be defined as regulatory mechanisms that regulate cell death in the absence of apoptosis in iron-dependent cells. This paper introduces various new research findings on the use of different regulatory mechanisms of cellular ferroptosis for the treatment of heart failure and cardiac hypertrophy, providing new therapeutic targets and research directions for clinical treatment. The role and mechanism of ferroptosis in the field of heart failure has been increasingly demonstrated, and the relationship between cardiac hypertrophy, which is one of the causes of heart failure, is also an area of research that we should focus on. In addition, the latest applications and progress of inducers and inhibitors of ferroptosis are reported in this paper, updating the breakthroughs in their fields.

Keywords: Cardiac hypertrophy; Ferroptosis; Heart failure; Inducer and inhibitor; Regulation mechanism.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Apoptosis
  • Cardiomegaly
  • Cell Death
  • Ferroptosis*
  • Heart Failure* / drug therapy
  • Humans