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    Membrane nanotubes facilitate the propagation of inflammatory injury in the heart upon overactivation of the β-adrenergic receptor

    Acute sympathetic stress quickly induces cardiac inflammation and injury, suggesting that pathogenic signals rapidly spread among cardiac cells and that cell-to-cell communication may play an important role in...

    **g Shen, Ji-Min Wu, Guo-Min Hu, Ming-Zhe Li, Wen-Wen Cong in Cell Death & Disease (2020)

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    Mitochondria are transported along microtubules in membrane nanotubes to rescue distressed cardiomyocytes from apoptosis

    Membrane nanotubes (MNTs) act as “highways” between cells to facilitate the transfer of multiple signals and play an important role in many diseases. Our previous work reported on the transfer of mitochondria ...

    **g Shen, Jiang-Hui Zhang, Han **ao, Ji-Min Wu, Kang-Min He in Cell Death & Disease (2018)