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ReviewCirculation research2015

Lifestyle effects on hematopoiesis and atherosclerosis.

Matthias Nahrendorf, Filip K Swirski

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In one paragraph

Review in Circulation research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03279393 (Stress and Atherosclerotic Plaque Macrophages), which is not on this map. Cited by 62 papers.

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62citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT03279393 early_phase1completednot on this mapstarted 2017, after this paper: background citation

Stress and Atherosclerotic Plaque Macrophages: A Systems Biology Approach - PET/MRI of the Brain-hematopoiesis-atherosclerosis Axis in PTSD Patients

TypeinterventionalSponsorZahi FayadRan2017 to 2023Enrolled190ConditionsPTSD, Trauma, HealthyArmsfluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET/MRI
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Relationship of Chronic Stress and Hypertension with Bone Resorption.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025
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  15. Cardiovascular Brain Circuits.Circulation research · 2023
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  17. The Impact of Exercise on Immunity, Metabolism, and Atherosclerosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Matthias NahrendorfFrom the Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. mnahrendorf@mgh.harvard.edu fswirski@mgh.harvard.edu.
Filip K SwirskiFrom the Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. mnahrendorf@mgh.harvard.edu fswirski@mgh.harvard.edu.

Funding

Monocyte Heterogeneity in Experimental and Human AtherosclerosisR01HL095612 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SWIRSKI, FILIP K · 2009 to 2016
$3.4M
Dynamic interactions between ischemic stroke, immunity and the bone marrowR01NS084863 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MOSKOWITZ, MICHAEL A., NAHRENDORF, MATTHIAS · 2014 to 2018
$3.2M
Cell-Cell Interaction in Heart FailureR01HL117829 · NHLBI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI NAHRENDORF, MATTHIAS · 2014 to 2017
$1.7M
Innate Response Activator B cells in Bacterial Lung InfectionR56AI104695 · NIAID · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI SWIRSKI, FILIP K · 2013 to 2013
$403k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL095612NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL095612NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL117829NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL117829NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI104695NIAID NIH HHS R56AI104695NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS084863NINDS NIH HHS R01NS084863
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diet, exercise, stress, and sleep are receiving attention as environmental modifiers of chronic inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis, the culprit condition of myocardial infarction and stroke. Accumulating data indicate that psychosocial stress and a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet aggravate cardiovascular disease, whereas regular physical activity and healthy sleeping habits help prevent it. Here, we raise the possibility that inflammation-associated leukocyte production plays a causal role in lifestyle effects on atherosclerosis progression. Specifically, we explore whether and how potent real-life disease modifiers influence hematopoiesis' molecular and cellular machinery. Lifestyle, we hypothesize, may rearrange hematopoietic topography, diverting production from the bone marrow to the periphery, thus propagating a quantitative and qualitative drift of the macrophage supply chain. These changes may involve progenitor-extrinsic and intrinsic communication nodes that connect organ systems along neuroimmune and immunometabolic axes, ultimately leading to an altered number and phenotype of lesional macrophages. We propose that, in conjunction with improved public health policy, future therapeutics could aim to modulate the quantitative and qualitative output, as well as the location, of the hematopoietic tree to decrease the risk of atherosclerosis complications.

Indexed as

HematopoiesisLife StyleAdipose TissueAnimalsAtherosclerosisBone MarrowCell LineageChemotaxisDiet, WesternExerciseHumansInflammationMacrophagesMiceModels, CardiovascularMonocytesatherosclerosisbone marrowcell proliferationdiethematopoiesismacrophagesmonocytespsychosocial, stresssleepspleen

Identifiers

PMID25722442
PMCPMC4347940

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