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Ala Bielawska
Researcher at Medical University of South Carolina
Publications - 1
Citations - 131
Ala Bielawska is an academic researcher from Medical University of South Carolina. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chemistry & Mitophagy. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 82 citations.
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Lipotoxic very-long-chain ceramides cause mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, and cell death in cardiomyocytes.
Brittany A. Law,Xianghai Liao,Kelsey Moore,Abigail Southard,Patrick Roddy,Ruiping Ji,Zdzislaw M. Szulc,Ala Bielawska,P. Christian Schulze,P. Christian Schulze,L. Ashley Cowart +10 more
TL;DR: The results support a model by which CerS2 and VLC ceramides have a distinct role in lipotoxicity, leading to mitochondrial damage, which results in subsequent adaptive mitophagy, which causes cell death in cardiomyocytes.