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ArticleActa neuropathologica1995

Systemic vascular smooth muscle cell impairment in cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy.

M M Ruchoux, D Guerouaou, B Vandenhaute, J P Pruvo, P Vermersch, D Leys

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Article in Acta neuropathologica, 1995. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers.

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76citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 324 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Vasoreactivity in CADASIL: Comparison to structural MRI and neuropsychology.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2018
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  2. CADASIL mutations and shRNA silencing of NOTCH3 affect actin organization in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2012
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  9. Assessing changes on large cerebral arteries in CADASIL: Preliminary insights from a case-control analysis.Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association · 2025
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  11. CADASIL orFrontiers in neurology · 2025
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  14. Early remodeling and loss of light-induced dilation of retinal small arteries in CADASIL.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2024
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  15. Association of RareJournal of the American Heart Association · 2024
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  16. Progress to Clarify HowBiomolecules · 2024
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  20. The pericyte: A critical cell in the pathogenesis of CADASIL.Cerebral circulation - cognition and behavior · 2021
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16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

M M RuchouxNeuropathology Department, Hospital B, CHRU Lille, France.
D Guerouaou
B Vandenhaute
J P Pruvo
P Vermersch
D Leys
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Lille · FRLille’s Cardiology Hospital · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) is characterized by a cerebral non-atherosclerotic, nonamyloid angiopathy mainly affecting the small arteries penetrating the white matter. In the brain vessels of two patients with CADASIL, abnormal patches of granular osmiophilic material have recently been described. Here we report the observation of similar granular osmiophilic material within the vessel walls of muscle and skin biopsies from a 54-year-old woman belonging to a CADASIL family, who suffered from subcortical dementia with leukoencephalopathy demonstrated on neuroimaging. Postmortem examination disclosed changes of the vessel walls in all the organs chiefly leading to cerebral lesions. Ultrastructural study showed destruction of the vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) and the granular osmiophilic material already found in muscle and skin biopsies in this patient. Both changes were found all along the arterial tree. The findings of this study indicate that CADASIL is a systemic vascular disease involving arterial VSMC and that the lesions are different in each organ and vessel wall, depending on their fine structure. Moreover, it emphasizes that skin and muscle biopsies might be useful for diagnosis of and research into CADASIL.

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BrainCapillariesCerebral InfarctionCerebrovascular DisordersChromosomes, Human, Pair 17DesminFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryMiddle AgedMusclesMuscle, SkeletalMuscle, Smooth, VascularSkinDesmin

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