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ReviewCirculation research2011

The regulation of valvular and vascular sclerosis by osteogenic morphogens.

Kristina I Boström, Nalini M Rajamannan, Dwight A Towler

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Review in Circulation research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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106citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
12.8field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

106 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 251 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. QCT Volumetric Bone Mineral Density and Vascular and Valvular Calcification: The Framingham Study.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kristina I BoströmDepartment of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 10833 LeConte Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. kbostrom@mednet.ucla.edu
Nalini M Rajamannan
Dwight A Towler
Northwestern University · US

Funding

ULTRASTRUCTURE OF THE INTIMA IN EARLY LESION FORMATIONP01HL030568 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI TONTONOZ, PETER J · 1985 to 2019
$55.2M
OSTEOGENIC REGULATION OF VASCULAR CALCIFICATIONR01HL069229 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TOWLER, DWIGHT A. · 2001 to 2022
$7.9M
Molecular Mechanisms of MGP; Role in AVMsR01HL081397 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BOSTROM, KRISTINA I · 2006 to 2025
$7.7M
MSX2-WNT SIGNALING IN CARDIOVASCULAR CALCIFICATIONR01HL081138 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TOWLER, DWIGHT A. · 2005 to 2013
$3.4M
Role of Lrp5/Beta-Catenin in Aortic Valve CalcificationR01HL085591 · NHLBI · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI RAJAMANNAN, NALINI M · 2007 to 2011
$2.1M
TNF-ALPHA AND BMP2-WNT SIGNALING IN DIABETIC VASCULAR DISEASER01HL088651 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI TOWLER, DWIGHT A. · 2008 to 2012
$1.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS 3R01HL085591S1NHLBI NIH HHS 5R01HL085591NHLBI NIH HHS HL030568NHLBI NIH HHS HL069229NHLBI NIH HHS HL081138NHLBI NIH HHS HL081397NHLBI NIH HHS HL088651NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL030568NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL069229NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL081138NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL081397NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL085591NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL088651
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vascular calcification increasingly afflicts our aging, dysmetabolic population. Once considered only a passive process of dead and dying cells, vascular calcification has now emerged as a highly regulated form of biomineralization organized by collagenous and elastin extracellular matrices. During skeletal bone formation, paracrine epithelial-mesenchymal and endothelial-mesenchymal interactions control osteochondrocytic differentiation of multipotent mesenchymal progenitor cells. These paracrine osteogenic signals, mediated by potent morphogens of the bone morphogenetic protein and wingless-type MMTV integration site family member (Wnt) superfamilies, are also active in the programming of arterial osteoprogenitor cells during vascular and valve calcification. Inflammatory cytokines, reactive oxygen species, and oxylipids-increased in the clinical settings of atherosclerosis, diabetes, and uremia that promote arteriosclerotic calcification-elicit the ectopic vascular activation of osteogenic morphogens. Specific extracellular and intracellular inhibitors of bone morphogenetic protein-Wnt signaling have been identified as contributing to the regulation of osteogenic mineralization during development and disease. These inhibitory pathways and their regulators afford the development of novel therapeutic strategies to prevent and treat valve and vascular sclerosis.

Indexed as

AnimalsBone Morphogenetic ProteinsHeart Valve DiseasesHumansOsteocytesOsteogenesisParacrine CommunicationSclerosisVascular DiseasesBone Morphogenetic Proteins

Identifiers

PMID21852555
PMCPMC3167074
OpenAlexW1985945376

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