Cardiac-specific loss of mitoNEET expression is linked with age-related heart failure

Takaaki Furihata et al. report a new mouse model with heart-specific deletion of the mitochondrial protein, mitoNEET. Their results suggest that loss of mitoNEET expression may contribute to age-associated heart failure in older adults.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Takaaki Furihata, Shingo Takada, Naoya Kakutani, Satoshi Maekawa, Masaya Tsuda, Junichi Matsumoto, Wataru Mizushima, Arata Fukushima, Takashi Yokota, Nobuyuki Enzan, Shouji Matsushima, Haruka Handa, Yoshizuki Fumoto, Junko Nio-Kobayashi, Toshihiko Iwanaga, Shinya Tanaka, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Hisataka Sabe, Shintaro Kinugawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-01-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-01675-4