ArticleDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2014
Notch3 establishes brain vascular integrity by regulating pericyte number.
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- The role of pericytes in homeostasis and cardiovascular disease: A comprehensive review.Journal of advanced research · 2026Review
- Regulation of PDGF-BB signaling in placental pericytes by soluble PDGFRβ isoforms: implications for fetoplacental vascular development.Angiogenesis · 2026Article
- Endothelial Cell-Pericyte Crosstalk in the Brain Balances Microvascular Stability and Plasticity.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2026Review
- Friend or foe? Glial-vascular interactions in health and neurodegenerative disease.Pharmacological reviews · 2026Review
- Intracranial Aneurysm-Associated COL22A1 Variants Impair Cerebrovascular Structure and Barrier Integrity in Zebrafish.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Age-dependent vascular and neurological characteristics of CADASIL are recapitulated in Notch3 mutant zebrafish, implicating a role for type IV collagen in disease progression.Acta neuropathologica communications · 2026Article
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- Rediscovery of pericytes within the neurovascular unit for cerebral ischemia/reperfusion injury.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- A zebrafish multimodal toolbox to study the blood-brain barrier in health and disease.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Jagged-mediated lateral induction patterns Notch3 signaling within adult neural stem cell populations.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Development of the blood-brain barrier.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2026Review
- A Transcriptional Atlas of Endothelial Cell Zonation Along the Pulmonary Vascular Tree.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Integrated bulk, single-cell, and spatial transcriptomic analyses prioritize NOTCH1 as a candidate gene associated with neurovascular and immune-related alterations in Parkinson's disease.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2026Article
- Simultaneous onset of visual dysfunction and cerebral infarction in a young patient with CADASIL: a case report.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Endothelial-Pericyte Interactions Regulate Angiogenesis Via VEGFR2 Signaling During Retinal Development and Disease.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2025Article
- Ligand-Receptor Analysis of Brain Cell Type Marker Data Reveals Intricate Endothelial Interaction.Annals of neurosciences · 2025Article
- Deficiency of fibroblast growth factor 2 promotes contractile phenotype of pericytes in ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025Article
- Signaling pathways and molecular mechanisms involved in the onset and progression of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL); a focus on Notch3 signaling.The journal of headache and pain · 2025Review
- Multifaceted Role of Notch Signaling in Vascular Health and Diseases.Biomedicines · 2025Review
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Abstract
Brain pericytes are important regulators of brain vascular integrity, permeability and blood flow. Deficiencies of brain pericytes are associated with neonatal intracranial hemorrhage in human fetuses, as well as stroke and neurodegeneration in adults. Despite the important functions of brain pericytes, the mechanisms underlying their development are not well understood and little is known about how pericyte density is regulated across the brain. The Notch signaling pathway has been implicated in pericyte development, but its exact roles remain ill defined. Here, we report an investigation of the Notch3 receptor using zebrafish as a model system. We show that zebrafish brain pericytes express notch3 and that notch3 mutant zebrafish have a deficit of brain pericytes and impaired blood-brain barrier function. Conditional loss- and gain-of-function experiments provide evidence that Notch3 signaling positively regulates brain pericyte proliferation. These findings establish a new role for Notch signaling in brain vascular development whereby Notch3 signaling promotes expansion of the brain pericyte population.
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