{"title":"COVID-19 and BRD4: a stormy and cardiotoxic bromo-romance.","authors":"Emma L Robinson, Timothy A McKinsey","doi":"10.20517/jca.2021.20","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Severe systemic inflammation in COVID-19 patients can lead to dysfunction of multiple organs, including the heart. Using an ex vivo cardiac organoid system, Mills et al discovered that inhibitors of the chromatin reader protein, bromodomain-containing protein 4, protect cardiomyocytes from COVID-associated \"cytokine storm\". We briefly review these important findings and highlight the translational significance of the work.</p>","PeriodicalId":75051,"journal":{"name":"The journal of cardiovascular aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8664241/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The journal of cardiovascular aging","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.20517/jca.2021.20","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Severe systemic inflammation in COVID-19 patients can lead to dysfunction of multiple organs, including the heart. Using an ex vivo cardiac organoid system, Mills et al discovered that inhibitors of the chromatin reader protein, bromodomain-containing protein 4, protect cardiomyocytes from COVID-associated "cytokine storm". We briefly review these important findings and highlight the translational significance of the work.