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ReviewBiomedicines2024

Recent Insights into Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Defective Angiogenesis in Systemic Sclerosis.

Eloisa Romano, Irene Rosa, Bianca Saveria Fioretto, Mirko Manetti

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Review in Biomedicines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eloisa RomanoSection of Internal Medicine, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2744-8625
Irene RosaSection of Anatomy and Histology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6352-0175
Bianca Saveria FiorettoSection of Anatomy and Histology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9275-7593
Mirko ManettiSection of Anatomy and Histology, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, Largo Brambilla 3, 50134 Florence, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-3956-8480

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In systemic sclerosis (SSc, or scleroderma), defective angiogenesis, clinically manifesting with abnormal capillary architecture and severe capillary reduction, represents a hallmark of early-stage disease, usually preceding the onset of tissue fibrosis, and is caused by several cellular and molecular mechanisms affecting microvascular endothelial cells with different outcomes. Indeed, once damaged, endothelial cells can be dysfunctionally activated, thus becoming unable to undergo angiogenesis and promoting perivascular inflammation. They can also undergo apoptosis, transdifferentiate into profibrotic myofibroblasts, or acquire a senescence-associated secretory phenotype characterized by the release of exosomes and several profibrotic and proinflammatory mediators. In this narrative review, we aimed to give a comprehensive overview of recent studies dealing with the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying SSc defective angiogenesis and the related endothelial cell dysfunctions, mainly the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition process. We also discussed potential novel vascular treatment strategies able to restore the angiogenic process and reduce the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in this complex disease.

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angiogenesisendothelial cellsendothelial-to-mesenchymal transitionsclerodermasystemic sclerosisvasculopathy

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PMID38927538
PMCPMC11201654

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