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Bone morphogenetic protein-4 (BMP4) is a member of the bone morphogenetic protein family which plays a key role in the bone formation and embryonic development. In addition to these predominate and well-studied effects, the growing evidences highlight BMP4 as an important factor in cardiovascular diseases, such as hypertension, pulmonary hypertension and valve disease. Our recent works demonstrated that BMP4 mediated cardiac hypertrophy, apoptosis, fibrosis and ion channel remodeling in pathological cardiac hypertrophy. In this review, we discussed the role of BMP4 in pathological cardiac hypertrophy, as well as the recent advances about BMP4 in cardiovascular diseases closely related to pathological cardiac hypertrophy/heart failure. We put forward that BMP4 is a novel therapeutic target for pathological cardiac hypertrophy/heart failure.
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This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Number 2012CB517803), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81173049, 81121003) and the Chang Jiang Scholar Candidates Program for Provincial Universities in Heilongjiang [Grant Number 2011CJHB002].
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Guo, WT., Dong, DL. Bone morphogenetic protein-4: a novel therapeutic target for pathological cardiac hypertrophy/heart failure. Heart Fail Rev 19, 781–788 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10741-014-9429-8
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