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Nikolaos Diakos, MD, PhD

The Texas Heart Institute
Verified email at texasheart.org
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[PDF][PDF] The pyruvate-lactate axis modulates cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure

…, S Lettlova, KM Parnell, TS Shankar, NA Diakos… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
The metabolic rewiring of cardiomyocytes is a widely accepted hallmark of heart failure (HF).
These metabolic changes include a decrease in mitochondrial pyruvate oxidation and an …

Magnitude and time course of changes induced by continuous-flow left ventricular assist device unloading in chronic heart failure: insights into cardiac recovery

…, R Alharethi, BB Reid, A Saidi, NA Diakos… - Journal of the American …, 2013 - jacc.org
… , etc.) were not included in the current analysis (n = 8). By doing so, we eliminated a group
of … HF with preserved systolic function were also excluded (n = 2). The remaining 80 patients …

[HTML][HTML] Mutations in 2 distinct genetic pathways result in cerebral cavernous malformations in mice

…, AH Grossmann, NA Diakos… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) are a common type of vascular malformation in
the brain that are a major cause of hemorrhagic stroke. This condition has been …

Cardiac, skeletal, and smooth muscle mitochondrial respiration: are all mitochondria created equal?

…, RS Garten, NA Diakos… - American Journal …, 2014 - journals.physiology.org
Unlike cardiac and skeletal muscle, little is known about vascular smooth muscle mitochondrial
respiration. Therefore, the present study examined mitochondrial respiratory rates in …

Evidence of glycolysis up-regulation and pyruvate mitochondrial oxidation mismatch during mechanical unloading of the failing human heart: implications for cardiac …

NA Diakos, S Navankasattusas, ED Abel… - JACC: Basic to …, 2016 - jacc.org
This study sought to investigate the effects of mechanical unloading on myocardial energetics
and the metabolic perturbation of heart failure (HF) in an effort to identify potential new …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide DNA methylation encodes cardiac transcriptional reprogramming in human ischemic heart failure

…, JP Barchue, SV Pamboukian, NA Diakos… - Laboratory …, 2019 - nature.com
Ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICM) is the clinical endpoint of coronary heart disease and a leading
cause of heart failure. Despite growing demands to develop personalized approaches to …

Sheet-like remodeling of the transverse tubular system in human heart failure impairs excitation-contraction coupling and functional recovery by mechanical unloading

T Seidel, S Navankasattusas, A Ahmad, NA Diakos… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
… Next, similar to the analysis of tissue samples, we grouped cells by low (<1 µm, n=8) and
high (>1 µm, n=7) intracellular sarcolemma distance as a measure of high and low t-system …

Myocardial atrophy and chronic mechanical unloading of the failing human heart: implications for cardiac assist device–induced myocardial recovery

NA Diakos, CH Selzman, FB Sachse, J Stehlik… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - jacc.org
… (B) Western blot of UBB, ubiquitin conjugates, and UBE2; densitometry analysis is shown
of immunoblot data for UBE2 (n = 23 HF patients, 9 normal donors) (C), UBB (n = 9 heart HF …

Myocardial sympathetic innervation and long-term left ventricular mechanical unloading

…, KG Malliaras, JV Terrovitis, N Diakos… - JACC: Cardiovascular …, 2010 - jacc.org
Objectives : The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of left ventricular assist
devices (LVADs) on myocardial sympathetic innervation of the failing heart. Background : …

The addition of strength training to aerobic interval training: effects on muscle strength and body composition in CHF patients

…, A Tasoulis, V Agapitou, N Diakos… - Journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… Subjects were randomly assigned to aerobic (n= 10) or combined aerobic plus strength
training group (n= 10). Aerobic group performed interval training on cycle ergometers. Strength …