ArticleCell2011
Endothelial-derived angiocrine signals induce and sustain regenerative lung alveolarization.
Article in Cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04057833 (A Phase 1 Open-Label, Single-Center Investigator Initiated Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 326 papers.
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A Phase 1 Open-Label, Single-Center Investigator Initiated Trial (IIT) of E-CEL UVEC Cells as an Adjunct Cell Therapy for the Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair in Adults
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326 citing papers in PubMed, 498 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Therapeutic targeting of endothelial calcium signaling accelerates the resolution of lung injury.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025Article
- Postnatal Abrogation of VEGFR2 Blocks Terminal Cap2 Differentiation by Preventing the Developmental Progression from a Capillary Intermediate Cell State.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Pro-Angiogenic Bioactive Molecules in Vascular Morphogenesis: Integrating Endothelial Cell Dynamics.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
To identify pathways involved in adult lung regeneration, we employ a unilateral pneumonectomy (PNX) model that promotes regenerative alveolarization in the remaining intact lung. We show that PNX stimulates pulmonary capillary endothelial cells (PCECs) to produce angiocrine growth factors that induce proliferation of epithelial progenitor cells supporting alveologenesis. Endothelial cells trigger expansion of cocultured epithelial cells, forming three-dimensional angiospheres reminiscent of alveolar-capillary sacs. After PNX, endothelial-specific inducible genetic ablation of Vegfr2 and Fgfr1 in mice inhibits production of MMP14, impairing alveolarization. MMP14 promotes expansion of epithelial progenitor cells by unmasking cryptic EGF-like ectodomains that activate the EGF receptor (EGFR). Consistent with this, neutralization of MMP14 impairs EGFR-mediated alveolar regeneration, whereas administration of EGF or intravascular transplantation of MMP14(+) PCECs into pneumonectomized Vegfr2/Fgfr1-deficient mice restores alveologenesis and lung inspiratory volume and compliance function. VEGFR2 and FGFR1 activation in PCECs therefore increases MMP14-dependent bioavailability of EGFR ligands to initiate and sustain alveologenesis.
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