ArticleFrontiers in cardiovascular medicine2022
1α,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 Promotes Angiogenesis After Cerebral Ischemia Injury in Rats by Upregulating the TGF-β/Smad2/3 Signaling Pathway.
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- Systematic Review of the Differential Effects of TGF-β1 in Ischemic and Hemorrhagic Preclinical Stroke Models.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Pooled it
- Vitamin D Signaling in Neurodegenerative Disorders: Mechanisms, Therapeutic Potential, and Clinical Implications.Nutrients · 2026Review
- MicroRNA-21a-5p Promotes Cerebral Angiogenesis in Transient Ischemic Attack by Targeting RBMS3 and Subsequently Modulating the TGFBR1/SMAD2/3 Pathway.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- Vitamin D Activates Nrf2 to Prevent Nerve Injury and Reduce Brain Damage in Acute Cerebral Infarction.Current medical science · 2025Article
- Dexmedetomidine Promotes Angiogenesis After Ischemic Stroke Through the NRF2/HO-1/VEGF Pathway.Neurochemical research · 2025Article
- 1,25-D3 Protects Diabetic Brain Injury Through GLP-1R/PI3K/Akt Pathway by Experimental and Molecular Docking Studies.Mediators of inflammation · 2025Article
- Study on the Regulatory Mechanism of the PDK1-Mediated TGF-β/Smad Signaling Pathway in Hypoxia-Induced Yak Lungs.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Gypenoside XVII Reduces Synaptic Glutamate Release and Protects against Excitotoxic Injury in Rats.Biomolecules · 2024Article
- Microglia/macrophages require vitamin D signaling to restrain neuroinflammation and brain injury in a murine ischemic stroke model.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2023Article
- A cuproptosis-related signature for predicting the prognosis of gastric cancer.Journal of gastrointestinal oncology · 2023Article
- Calcipotriol Attenuates Form Deprivation Myopia Through a Signaling Pathway Parallel to TGF-β2-Induced Increases in Collagen Expression.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2023Article
- 1,25-D3 attenuates cerebral ischemia injury by regulating mitochondrial metabolismFrontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Stroke is a disease with high morbidity, disability and mortality, which seriously endangers the life span and quality of life of people worldwide. Angiogenesis and neuroprotection are the key to the functional recovery of penumbra function after acute cerebral infarction. In this study, we used the middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) model to investigate the effects of 1α,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25-D3) on transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β)/Smad2/3 signaling pathway. Cerebral infarct volume was measured by TTC staining. A laser speckle flow imaging system was used to measure cerebral blood flow (CBF) around the ischemic cortex of the infarction, followed by platelet endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 (PECAM-1/CD31) and isolectin-B4 (IB4) immunofluorescence. The expression of vitamin D receptor (VDR), TGF-β, Smad2/3, p-Smad2, p-Smad3, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was analyzed by western blot and RT-qPCR. Results showed that compared with the sham group, the cerebral infarction volume was significantly increased while the CBF was reduced remarkably in the MCAO group. 1,25-D3 reduced cerebral infarction volume, increased the recovery of CBF and expressions of VDR, TGF-β, p-Smad2, p-Smad3, and VEGF, significantly increased IB4
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