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ReviewJournal of biological engineering2019

Microvascular bioengineering: a focus on pericytes.

Huaning Zhao, John C Chappell

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Review in Journal of biological engineering, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 45 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Huaning ZhaoCenter for Heart and Reparative Medicine, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA 24016 USA.
John C ChappellCenter for Heart and Reparative Medicine, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, 2 Riverside Circle, Roanoke, VA 24016 USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0427-5170
Biomedical Research Institute · US

Funding

The Role of Vascular Flt-1 in Endothelial-Pericyte InteractionsR00HL105779 · NHLBI · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI CHAPPELL, JOHN CHRISTOPHER · 2015 to 2017
$727k
Flt-VEGF-Cx43 Regulation of Vascular Pericyte InvestmentR56HL133826 · NHLBI · VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV · PI CHAPPELL, JOHN CHRISTOPHER · 2016 to 2016
$386k
NHLBI NIH HHS R00 HL105779NHLBI NIH HHS R56 HL133826
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Capillaries within the microcirculation are essential for oxygen delivery and nutrient/waste exchange, among other critical functions. Microvascular bioengineering approaches have sought to recapitulate many key features of these capillary networks, with an increasing appreciation for the necessity of incorporating vascular pericytes. Here, we briefly review established and more recent insights into important aspects of pericyte identification and function within the microvasculature. We then consider the importance of including vascular pericytes in various bioengineered microvessel platforms including 3D culturing and microfluidic systems. We also discuss how vascular pericytes are a vital component in the construction of computational models that simulate microcirculation phenomena including angiogenesis, microvascular biomechanics, and kinetics of exchange across the vessel wall. In reviewing these topics, we highlight the notion that incorporating pericytes into microvascular bioengineering applications will increase their utility and accelerate the translation of basic discoveries to clinical solutions for vascular-related pathologies.

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CapillaryComputational modelingEndothelial cellsMicrofluidicsPericytes

Identifiers

PMID30984287
PMCPMC6444752
OpenAlexW2938669378

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