...Song Wenjing; Liu Mengmeng; Shang Lingling; Ding Tian; Kang Wenyan; Ge Shaohua Objectives: Clinical studies have confirmed that galectin-3 (Gal-3) levels are significantly elevated in periodontitis patients. The present study aimed to explore the effects of Gal-3 inhibition on periodontal...

...Natalia López-Andrés We thank Ahmed et al. for their letter regarding our study ‘Galectin-3 down-regulates antioxidant peroxiredoxin-4 in human cardiac fibroblasts’ [ 1 ]. As emphasized by Ahmed et al., Prx-4 levels decrease [ 2 ] whereas MFN-2, OPA-1 and PGC-1α levels increase [ 3 ] in dilated...

...Naseer Ahmed; Masooma Naseem; Javeria Farooq Recently, we have read with great interest the article published by Ibarrola et al. ( Clin. Sci. (Lond.) (2018) 132 , 1471–1485), which used proteomics and immunodetection methods to show that Galectin-3 (Gal-3) down-regulated the antioxidant...

...Jaime Ibarrola; Vanessa Arrieta; Rafael Sádaba; Ernesto Martinez-Martinez; Amaia Garcia-Peña; Virginia Alvarez; Amaya Fernández-Celis; Alicia Gainza; Enrique Santamaría; Joaquin Fernández-Irigoyen; Victoria Cachofeiro; Guillermo Zalba; Renaud Fay; Patrick Rossignol; Natalia López-Andrés Galectin-3...

... and no specific treatment exists for AAA, except surgery to prevent aortic rupture. Galectin-3 has been previously associated with CVD, but its potential role in AAA has not been addressed. Galectin-3 levels were increased in the plasma of AAA patients ( n =225) compared with the control group ( n =100...