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ReviewBiochimica et biophysica acta2014

Vascular wall extracellular matrix proteins and vascular diseases.

Junyan Xu, Guo-Ping Shi

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Review in Biochimica et biophysica acta, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 194 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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194citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

194 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 360 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Junyan XuDepartment of Medicine, Zhujiang Hospital, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Guo-Ping ShiDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Electronic address: gshi@rics.bwh.harvard.edu.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USZhujiang Hospital · CN

Funding

Role of mast cells in obesityR01HL060942 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO · PI SHI, GUO-PING · 1999 to 2019
$5.6M
Role of Mast Cells in AtherosclerosisR01HL081090 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHI, GUO-PING · 2007 to 2015
$3.3M
Role of mast cells in abdominal aortic aneurysmsR01HL088547 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI SHI, GUO-PING · 2008 to 2011
$1.7M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL060942NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL081090NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL088547
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Extracellular matrix proteins form the basic structure of blood vessels. Along with providing basic structural support to blood vessels, matrix proteins interact with different sets of vascular cells via cell surface integrin or non-integrin receptors. Such interactions induce vascular cell de novo synthesis of new matrix proteins during blood vessel development or remodeling. Under pathological conditions, vascular matrix proteins undergo proteolytic processing, yielding bioactive fragments to influence vascular wall matrix remodeling. Vascular cells also produce alternatively spliced variants that induce vascular cell production of different matrix proteins to interrupt matrix homeostasis, leading to increased blood vessel stiffness; vascular cell migration, proliferation, or death; or vascular wall leakage and rupture. Destruction of vascular matrix proteins leads to vascular cell or blood-borne leukocyte accumulation, proliferation, and neointima formation within the vascular wall; blood vessels prone to uncontrolled enlargement during blood flow diastole; tortuous vein development; and neovascularization from existing pathological tissue microvessels. Here we summarize discoveries related to blood vessel matrix proteins within the past decade from basic and clinical studies in humans and animals - from expression to cross-linking, assembly, and degradation under physiological and vascular pathological conditions, including atherosclerosis, aortic aneurysms, varicose veins, and hypertension.

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Aortic aneurysmAtherosclerosisExtracellular matrix proteinHypertensionVaricose vein

Identifiers

PMID25045854
PMCPMC4188798
OpenAlexW1964923925

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