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ArticleScientific reports2016

Factors regulating capillary remodeling in a reversible model of inflammatory corneal angiogenesis.

Anthony Mukwaya, Beatrice Peebo, Maria Xeroudaki, Zaheer Ali, Anton Lennikov, Lasse Jensen, Neil Lagali

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Article in Scientific reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anthony MukwayaDepartment of Ophthalmology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden.
Beatrice PeeboDepartment of Ophthalmology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden.
Maria XeroudakiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden.
Zaheer AliDepartment of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Anton LennikovDepartment of Ophthalmology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden.
Lasse JensenDepartment of Medical and Health Sciences, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden.
Neil LagaliDepartment of Ophthalmology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, 58183 Linköping, Sweden.
Linköping University · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Newly formed microcapillary networks arising in adult organisms by angiogenic and inflammatory stimuli contribute to pathologies such as corneal and retinal blindness, tumor growth, and metastasis. Therapeutic inhibition of pathologic angiogenesis has focused on targeting the VEGF pathway, while comparatively little attention has been given to remodeling of the new microcapillaries into a stabilized, functional, and persistent vascular network. Here, we used a novel reversible model of inflammatory angiogenesis in the rat cornea to investigate endogenous factors rapidly invoked to remodel, normalize and regress microcapillaries as part of the natural response to regain corneal avascularity. Rapid reversal of an inflammatory angiogenic stimulus suppressed granulocytic activity, enhanced recruitment of remodelling macrophages, induced capillary intussusception, and enriched pathways and processes involving immune cells, chemokines, morphogenesis, axonal guidance, and cell motility, adhesion, and cytoskeletal functions. Whole transcriptome gene expression analysis revealed suppression of numerous inflammatory and angiogenic factors and enhancement of endogenous inhibitors. Many of the identified genes function independently of VEGF and represent potentially new targets for molecular control of the critical process of microvascular remodeling and regression in the cornea.

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Vascular RemodelingAnimalsCapillariesCorneal NeovascularizationDisease Models, AnimalMaleRatsRats, WistarVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Avascular endothelial growth factor A, rat

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PMID27561355
PMCPMC4999823
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