Liver-heart crosstalk controls IL-22 activity in cardiac protection after myocardial infarction

Tingting Tang, Yuan-Yuan Li, Jingjing Li, Ke Wang, Yue Han, Wen-Yong Dong, Zheng-Feng Zhu, Ni Xia, Shao-Fang Nie, Min Zhang,

Theranostics · 2018 · 60 citations · 39 references

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Supplementation of IL-22 in the first week after acute MI effectively prevented left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure. This activity of IL-22 involved crosstalk between the liver and heart after demonstrating a role of the hepatic STAT3-FGF21 axis in IL-22-induced post-MI cardiac protection.

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