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Finerenone Ameliorated Ventricular Remodeling Post Myocardial Infarction in Rats by Reducing NF-KB Pathway-mediated Pyroptosis.

Article D Peer reviewed Preclinical

Key takeaways

In rats that had heart attacks, the drug finerenone lowered heart swelling and scarring by blocking a protein pathway that causes cell death — this has not been tested in people with kidney disease yet.

Who did this work

Sun X · Song L · Liu Q · Chen N · Ding X · Zhang X · Chi J · Dong Y · Yang K · Liu Y · Liu W

Source

Article · PubMed, the drug frontier · 2026 Aug 21
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42628621/