This week’s articles describe ways to potentially prevent heart failure after myocardial infarction and treat the autoimmune disease plaque psoriasis.
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
Lipoprotein lends a hand for heart attacks
Heywood et al. report that in both healthy and insulin-resistant mice, administration of high-density lipoprotein after a heart attack increases cardiac glucose uptake and function through activation of AKT signaling.
AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE
Nixing IL-36 in psoriasis
Mahil et al. show that the cytokine IL-36 mediates the inflammation associated with plaque psoriasis.