From DNA Repair to Redox Signaling: The Multifaceted Role of APEX1 (Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease 1) in Cardiovascular Health and Disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APEX1) serves as a potent regulatory factor in innate immunity, exhibiting both redox and endonuclease activities. Its redox function enables the regulation of transcription factors such as NF-κB or STAT3, whereas its endonuclease activity recognizes apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites in damaged DNA lesions during base excision repair (BER) and double-stranded DNA repair, thereby I confirm.anti-inflammatory, antioxidative stress and antiapoptotic effects. APEX1 is expressed in a variety of cell types that constitute the cardiovascular system, including cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and immune cells. Emerging genetic and experimental evidence points towards the functional roles of APEX1 in the pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases, including neointimal formation and atherosclerosis. This review aims to present comprehensive coverage of the up-to-date literature concerning the molecular and cellular functions of APEX1, with a particular focus on how APEX1 contributes to the (dys)functions of different cell types during the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. Furthermore, we underscore the potential of APEX1 as a therapeutic target for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".