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ReviewJournal of cellular physiology2022

Disturbed flow's impact on cellular changes indicative of vascular aneurysm initiation, expansion, and rupture: A pathological and methodological review.

Kevin Sunderland, Jingfeng Jiang, Feng Zhao

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Review in Journal of cellular physiology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

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29citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 39 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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kevin SunderlandDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7059-851X
Jingfeng JiangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA.
Feng ZhaoDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
Michigan Technological University · USTexas A&M University · US

Funding

Engineered Anisotropic and Vascularized Human Cardiac PatchR01HL146652 · NHLBI · TEXAS ENGINEERING EXPERIMENT STATION · PI ZHAO, FENG · 2020 to 2023
$1.4M
Personalized Management of Intracranial Aneurysms Using Computer-aided AnalyticsR01EB029570 · NIBIB · MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · PI JIANG, JINGFENG · 2021 to 2024
$1.3M
Therapeutic Lymphatic Vessel RegenerationR15CA202656 · NCI · MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · PI ZHAO, FENG · 2016 to 2016
$465k
Development of Off-the-shelf Completely Biological Small-Diameter Blood Vessel with Human Stem CellsR15HL145654 · NHLBI · MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · PI GUILLORY, ROGER J. · 2019 to 2019
$459k
Development of Off-the-shelf Completely Biological Small-Diameter Blood Vessel wiR15HL115521 · NHLBI · MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY · PI ZHAO, FENG · 2013 to 2013
$410k
American Heart Association-American Stroke Association 18PRE33990321NCI NIH HHS R15 CA202656NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146652NHLBI NIH HHS R15 HL115521NHLBI NIH HHS R15 HL145654NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB029570NIH HHS 1R01EB029570-01A1NIH HHS 1R01HL146652-01A1NIH HHS 1R15HL145654-01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aneurysms are malformations within the arterial vasculature brought on by the structural breakdown of the microarchitecture of the vessel wall, with aneurysms posing serious health risks in the event of their rupture. Blood flow within vessels is generally laminar with high, unidirectional wall shear stressors that modulate vascular endothelial cell functionality and regulate vascular smooth muscle cells. However, altered vascular geometry induced by bifurcations, significant curvature, stenosis, or clinical interventions can alter the flow, generating low stressor disturbed flow patterns. Disturbed flow is associated with altered cellular morphology, upregulated expression of proteins modulating inflammation, decreased regulation of vascular permeability, degraded extracellular matrix, and heightened cellular apoptosis. The understanding of the effects disturbed flow has on the cellular cascades which initiate aneurysms and promote their subsequent growth can further elucidate the nature of this complex pathology. This review summarizes the current knowledge about the disturbed flow and its relation to aneurysm pathology, the methods used to investigate these relations, as well as how such knowledge has impacted clinical treatment methodologies. This information can contribute to the understanding of the development, growth, and rupture of aneurysms and help develop novel research and aneurysmal treatment techniques.

Indexed as

Intracranial AneurysmEndothelial CellsExtracellular MatrixHemodynamicsHumansInflammationaneurysmdisturbed flowinflammationvascular cells

Identifiers

PMID34486114
PMCPMC8810685
OpenAlexW3197477919

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