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Mitochondria-Targeted Peptide SS-31 Treats High Blood Pressure Heart Damage

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The takeaway

The mitochondria-targeted antioxidant peptide SS-31 ameliorated hypertensive cardiomyopathy in rats, reducing cardiac fibrosis, hypertrophy, and diastolic dysfunction — protecting the heart from high blood pressure damage.

Key finding

The mitochondria-targeted antioxidant peptide SS-31 ameliorated hypertensive cardiomyopathy in rats, reducing cardiac fibrosis, hypertrophy, and diast

What the researchers found

The mitochondria-targeted antioxidant peptide SS-31 ameliorated hypertensive cardiomyopathy in rats, reducing cardiac fibrosis, hypertrophy, and diastolic dysfunction — protecting the heart from high blood pressure damage.

Why it matters

Relevant for peptide research.

How the study worked

research study.

What this study cannot tell us

See abstract.

How to read the evidence

emerging evidence.

When this study was published

Published in 2011.

The bigger picture

Advances peptide research.

Questions still open

  • Further research needed.

Common questions

What was studied?
Mitochondria-Targeted Peptide SS-31 Treats High Blood Pressure Heart Damage
What was found?
The mitochondria-targeted antioxidant peptide SS-31 ameliorated hypertensive cardiomyopathy in rats, reducing cardiac fibrosis, hypertrophy, and diastolic dysfunction — protecting the heart from high blood pressure damage.

Read the original research

Mitochondrial targeted antioxidant Peptide ameliorates hypertensive cardiomyopathy.

Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 58(1), 73-82

Citation

Dai, Dao-Fu; Chen, Tony; Szeto, Hazel; Nieves-Cintrón, Madeline; Kutyavin, Vassily; Santana, Luis F; Rabinovitch, Peter S. (2011). Mitochondrial targeted antioxidant Peptide ameliorates hypertensive cardiomyopathy.. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 58(1), 73-82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2010.12.044