ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2022
Molecular basis for pericyte-induced capillary tube network assembly and maturation.
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- Microvascularization of the Vocal Folds: Molecular Architecture, Functional Insights, and Personalized Research Perspectives.Journal of personalized medicine · 2025Review
- Pericytes and Diabetic Microangiopathies: Tissue Resident Mesenchymal Stem Cells with High Plasticity and Regenerative Capacity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- The role of endothelial cell-pericyte interactions in vascularization and diseases.Journal of advanced research · 2025Review
- An Interplay Between Pericytes, Mesenchymal Stem Cells, and Immune Cells in the Process of Tissue Regeneration.Analytical cellular pathology (Amsterdam) · 2025Review
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- Characterization of Proteome Changes in Aged and Collagen VI-Deficient Human Pericyte Cultures.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Article
- Hypoxic Inducible Factor Stabilization in Pericytes beyond Erythropoietin Production: The Good and the Bad.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Commonly disrupted pathways in brain and kidney in a pig model of systemic endotoxemia.Journal of neuroinflammation · 2024Article
- Enhancing human capillary tube network assembly and maturation through upregulated expression of pericyte-derived TIMP-3.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Selective mural cell recruitment of pericytes to networks of assembling endothelial cell-lined tubes.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024Article
- Elucidating the Morphogenic and Signaling Roles of Defined Growth Factors Controlling Human Endothelial Cell Lumen Formation Versus Sprouting Behavior.The American journal of pathology · 2023Article
- Stromal netrin 1 coordinates renal arteriogenesis and mural cell differentiation.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2023Article
- Extracellular Matrix Remodeling in Vascular Disease: Defining Its Regulators and Pathological Influence.Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Here we address the functional importance and role of pericytes in capillary tube network assembly, an essential process that is required for vascularized tissue development, maintenance, and health. Healthy capillaries may be directly capable of suppressing human disease. Considerable advances have occurred in our understanding of the molecular and signaling requirements controlling EC lumen and tube formation in 3D extracellular matrices. A combination of SCF, IL-3, SDF-1α, FGF-2 and insulin ("Factors") in conjunction with integrin- and MT1-MMP-induced signaling are required for EC sprouting behavior and tube formation under serum-free defined conditions. Pericyte recruitment to the abluminal EC tube surface results in elongated and narrow tube diameters and deposition of the vascular basement membrane. In contrast, EC tubes in the absence of pericytes continue to widen and shorten over time and fail to deposit basement membranes. Pericyte invasion, recruitment and proliferation in 3D matrices requires the presence of ECs. A detailed analysis identified that EC-derived PDGF-BB, PDGF-DD, ET-1, HB-EGF, and TGFβ1 are necessary for pericyte recruitment, proliferation, and basement membrane deposition. Blockade of these individual factors causes significant pericyte inhibition, but combined blockade profoundly interferes with these events, resulting in markedly widened EC tubes without basement membranes, like when pericytes are absent.
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