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ReviewJournal of cardiovascular development and disease2021

Excess Provisional Extracellular Matrix: A Common Factor in Bicuspid Aortic Valve Formation.

Christine B Kern

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Review in Journal of cardiovascular development and disease, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. BMPR2 affects valve development via ECM-receptor interaction in zebrafish.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2026
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  4. Chromosomal Location and Identification ofDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christine B KernDepartment of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, 171 Ashley Avenue, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA.
Medical University of South Carolina · US

Funding

Proteoglycan Metabolism During Cardiac Valve Development and DiseaseR01HL160802 · NHLBI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI KERN, CHRISTINE BRUINS · 2022 to 2025
$2.1M
Proteoglycan Regulation During Cardiac Valve Development and HomeostasisR01HL121382 · NHLBI · MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA · PI KERN, CHRISTINE BRUINS · 2014 to 2017
$1.5M
American Heart Association #17GRNT33700214National Institutes of Heath, Heart Lung and Blood Institute HL121382NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL121382NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL160802
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is the most common cardiac malformation, found in 0.5% to 2% of the population. BAVs are present in approximately 50% of patients with severe aortic stenosis and are an independent risk factor for aortic aneurysms. Currently, there are no therapeutics to treat BAV, and the human mutations identified to date represent a relatively small number of BAV patients. However, the discovery of BAV in an increasing number of genetically modified mice is advancing our understanding of molecular pathways that contribute to BAV formation. In this study, we utilized the comparison of BAV phenotypic characteristics between murine models as a tool to advance our understanding of BAV formation. The collation of murine BAV data indicated that excess versican within the provisional extracellular matrix (P-ECM) is a common factor in BAV development. While the percentage of BAVs is low in many of the murine BAV models, the remaining mutant mice exhibit larger and more amorphous tricuspid AoVs, also with excess P-ECM compared to littermates. The identification of common molecular characteristics among murine BAV models may lead to BAV therapeutic targets and biomarkers of disease progression for this highly prevalent and heterogeneous cardiovascular malformation.

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aortaaortic valvebicuspid aortic valveneural crestNOTCH1outflow tractversican

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PMID34436234
PMCPMC8396938
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