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ReviewThe international journal of biochemistry & cell biology2012

Microvascular remodeling and wound healing: a role for pericytes.

Brian M Dulmovits, Ira M Herman

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Review in The international journal of biochemistry & cell biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 83 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
83citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

83 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 181 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brian M DulmovitsSackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences Program in Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Department of Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology and the Center for Innovation in Wound Healing Research, Tufts University, 150 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Ira M Herman
Tufts University · US

Funding

Adipose Stem Cells for Diabetic RetinopathyR01EY022063 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI HERMAN, IRA M, PEIRCE-COTTLER, SHAYN · 2012 to 2015
$2.0M
Regulating retinal microvascular morphogenesisR01EY015125 · NEI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI HERMAN, IRA M · 2004 to 2010
$1.7M
Pericytes, pathological angiogenesis and diabetic retinopathyR21EY019553 · NEI · TUFTS UNIVERSITY BOSTON · PI HERMAN, IRA M · 2009 to 2010
$452k
NEI NIH HHS NIH EY15125NEI NIH HHS R01 EY015125NEI NIH HHS R01 EY022063NEI NIH HHS R21 EY019553PHS HHS 19533
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physiologic wound healing is highly dependent on the coordinated functions of vascular and non-vascular cells. Resolution of tissue injury involves coagulation, inflammation, formation of granulation tissue, remodeling and scarring. Angiogenesis, the growth of microvessels the size of capillaries, is crucial for these processes, delivering blood-borne cells, nutrients and oxygen to actively remodeling areas. Central to angiogenic induction and regulation is microvascular remodeling, which is dependent upon capillary endothelial cell and pericyte interactions. Despite our growing knowledge of pericyte-endothelial cell crosstalk, it is unclear how the interplay among pericytes, inflammatory cells, glia and connective tissue elements shape microvascular injury response. Here, we consider the relationships that pericytes form with the cellular effectors of healing in normal and diabetic environments, including repair following injury and vascular complications of diabetes, such as diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy. In addition, pericytes and stem cells possessing "pericyte-like" characteristics are gaining considerable attention in experimental and clinical efforts aimed at promoting healing or eradicating ocular vascular proliferative disorders. As the origin, identification and characterization of microvascular pericyte progenitor populations remains somewhat ambiguous, the molecular markers, structural and functional characteristics of pericytes will be briefly reviewed.

Indexed as

Wound HealingAnimalsDiabetes MellitusEndothelial CellsHumansMicrovesselsPericytesStem Cells

Identifiers

PMID22750474
PMCPMC3455116
OpenAlexW2026195614

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