Exendin-4 Protects against Hyperglycemia-Induced Cardiomyocyte Pyroptosis via the AMPK-TXNIP Pathway

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is a common cardiac condition in patients with diabetes mellitus, which results in cardiac hypertrophy and subsequent heart failure. Chronic inflammation in the diabetic heart results in loss of cardiomyocytes and subsequentially cardiac dysfunction. Accumulated evidence impl...

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Main Authors: Hong Wei, Rui Bu, Qinghui Yang, Jing Jia, Tao Li, Qiuping Wang, Yanjun Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
Series:Journal of Diabetes Research
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/8905917