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ReviewAging and disease2017

Recent Progress in Vascular Aging: Mechanisms and Its Role in Age-related Diseases.

Xianglai Xu, Brian Wang, Changhong Ren, Jiangnan Hu, David A Greenberg, Tianxiang Chen, Liping Xie, Kunlin Jin

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Review in Aging and disease, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. The impact of age and sex on cerebral and large artery stiffness and the response to pulse pressure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  4. Insights Into Stria Vascular Function, Stria Immunity, and Age-Related Hearing Loss.Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology : JARO · 2025
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  5. A deep-learning retinal aging biomarker for cognitive decline and incident dementia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  11. New Perspectives on the Role and Therapeutic Potential of Melatonin in Cardiovascular Diseases.American journal of cardiovascular drugs : drugs, devices, and other interventions · 2024
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  18. Endogenous Vasoactive Peptides and Vascular Aging-Related Diseases.Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Xianglai Xu1Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China.
Brian Wang2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
Changhong Ren2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
Jiangnan Hu2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.
David A Greenberg5Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA 94945, USA.
Tianxiang Chen6Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
Liping Xie3Department of Urology, the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Province, China.
Kunlin Jin2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA.

Funding

Nanomotors for thrombolytic therapy after strokeR21NS084148 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR · PI JIN, KUNLIN · 2014 to 2015
$428k
NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS084148
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As with many age-related diseases including vascular dysfunction, age is considered an independent and crucial risk factor. Complicated alterations of structure and function in the vasculature are linked with aging hence, understanding the underlying mechanisms of age-induced vascular pathophysiological changes holds possibilities for developing clinical diagnostic methods and new therapeutic strategies. Here, we discuss the underlying molecular mediators that could be involved in vascular aging, e.g., the renin-angiotensin system and pro-inflammatory factors, metalloproteinases, calpain-1, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) and TGFβ-1 as well as the potential roles of testosterone and estrogen. We then relate all of these to clinical manifestations such as vascular dementia and stroke in addition to reviewing the existing clinical measurements and potential interventions for age-related vascular dysfunction.

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arterial stiffnessdementiaendothelial dysfunctionstrokevascular aging

Identifiers

PMID28840062
PMCPMC5524810

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