A preclinical study using exogenous retinoids in a novel Usher syndrome 1F mouse model reveals a possible therapy to treat mutant PCDH15-mediated visual dysfunction.
Vitamin A formation from β-carotene promotes an anti-inflammatory environment and remodeling of atherosclerotic lesions during the healing of atherosclerosis.
Fabio Da Silva, Fariba Jian Motamedi ... Andreas Schedl
Lineage tracing and genetic experiments resolve a long-standing controversy by showing that retinoic acid signaling is active in cardiomyocytes, both during development and after myocardial infarction, and protects damaged hearts from apoptosis.
John B Lees-Shepard, Sarah-Anne E Nicholas ... David J Goldhamer
Daily palovarotene treatment reduces pathogenic expansion of fibro/adipogenic progenitors but results in long bone growth plate loss and overgrowths of synovial cartilage in juvenile mice.
Filomena Caccavale, Giovanni Annona ... Salvatore D'Aniello
Previously undescribed morphogenetic and developmental mechanisms unravel that the cooperation of two ancient signaling pathways, nitric oxide and retinoic acid, is essential to build a chordate embryo.
An induced pluripotent stem-cell-based, human heart and lung co-differentiation model reveals their shared signaling requirement and enables investigation of their developmental mutual interaction and tissue boundary formation.