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ArticleJCI insight2023

Dissecting aortic aneurysm in Marfan syndrome is associated with losartan-sensitive transcriptomic modulation of aortic cells.

Yifei Sun, Keiichi Asano, Lauriane Sedes, Anna Cantalupo, Jens Hansen, Ravi Iyengar, Martin J Walsh, Francesco Ramirez

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Article in JCI insight, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Direct Vascular Effects of Angiotensin II (A Systematic Short Review).International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  3. Growth arrest of thoracic aortic aneurysms in aging Marfan mice.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026
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  8. Transport across the thoracic aortic wall: implications for aneurysm pathobiology, diagnosis, and treatment.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2025
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  18. Transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) in the pathogenesis of hereditary thoracic aneurysm disorders.Cardiovascular pathology : the official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Pathology
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yifei Sun
Keiichi Asano
Lauriane Sedes
Anna Cantalupo
Jens Hansen
Ravi Iyengar
Martin J Walsh
Francesco Ramirez
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · US

Funding

PAGES: Physical Activity Genomics, Epigenomics/transcriptomics SiteU24DK112331 · NIDDK · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI STUART C. SEALFON, Martin John Walsh · 2017 to 2026
$18.5M
TGFB-Dependent Mechanoresponses by Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells Govern AneurysmsP01HL134605 · NHLBI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HUMPHREY, JAY D. · 2018 to 2022
$12.1M
Mouse Models for Systems Therapeutics Degenerative DiseasesR01AR069307 · NIAMS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI IYENGAR, SRINIVAS RAVI V, RAMIREZ, FRANCESCO B · 2017 to 2021
$2.6M
Underlying chromatin architecture defines functionality for CFTR expressionR01DK118946 · NIDDK · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI WALSH, MARTIN JOHN · 2018 to 2022
$2.1M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL134605NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR069307NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK118946NIDDK NIH HHS U24 DK112331
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To improve our limited understanding of the pathogenesis of thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) that leads to acute aortic dissection, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) was employed to profile disease-relevant transcriptomic changes of aortic cell populations in a well-characterized mouse model of the most commonly diagnosed form of Marfan syndrome (MFS). As result, 2 discrete subpopulations of aortic cells (SMC3 and EC4) were identified only in the aorta of Fbn1mgR/mgR mice. SMC3 cells highly express genes related to extracellular matrix formation and nitric oxide signaling, whereas the EC4 transcriptional profile is enriched in smooth muscle cell (SMC), fibroblast, and immune cell-related genes. Trajectory analysis predicted close phenotypic modulation between SMC3 and EC4, which were therefore analyzed together as a discrete MFS-modulated (MFSmod) subpopulation. In situ hybridization of diagnostic transcripts located MFSmod cells at the intima of Fbn1mgR/mgR aortas. Reference-based data set integration revealed transcriptomic similarity between MFSmod- and SMC-derived cell clusters modulated in human TAA. Consistent with the angiotensin II type I receptor (At1r) contribution to TAA development, MFSmod cells were absent in the aorta of Fbn1mgR/mgR mice treated with the At1r antagonist losartan. Altogether, our findings indicate that a discrete dynamic alteration of aortic cell identity is associated with dissecting TAA in MFS mice and increased risk of aortic dissection in MFS patients.

Indexed as

Aortic AneurysmAortic Aneurysm, ThoracicAortic DissectionMarfan SyndromeAnimalsAortaHumansLosartanMiceTranscriptomeLosartanCardiovascular diseaseExpression profilingExtracellular matrixGeneticsVascular Biology

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PMID37022786
PMCPMC10322683
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