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Foxc1 is required by pericytes during fetal brain angiogenesis

Biology Open, 2013
Summary Brain pericytes play a critical role in blood vessel stability and blood–brain barrier maturation. Despite this, how brain pericytes function in these different capacities is only beginning to be understood.
Julie A. Siegenthaler, Youngshik Choe, Katelin P. Patterson, Ivy Hsieh, Dan Li, Shou-Ching Jaminet, Richard Daneman, Tsutomu Kume, Eric J. Huang, Samuel J. Pleasure   +9 more
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Automating Vascular Biology: An End‐to‐End Automated Workflow for High‐Throughput Blood Vessel‐on‐a‐Chip Production and Multi‐Site Validation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
AngioPlate384 is a 384‐well open‐top platform that automates production of more than 100 miniaturized, perfusable blood vessels embedded in hydrogel and supported by stromal cells. Stromal‐endothelial co‐culture strengthens blood vessel barrier function and yields responses useful for translational planning. Scalable and automation‐ready, it suits drug
Dawn S. Y. Lin, Hanieh Mohammad Hashemi, Kimia Asadi Jozani, Anushree Chakravarty, Sonya Kouthouridis, Jessica Bonanno, Nicky Anvari, Shravanthi Rajasekar, Feng Zhang, Richard Y. Cheng, Narendra Kumar Singh, Luis Miguel Medina, Marc Durante, Yufang He, Boyang Zhang   +14 more
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Engineered ETS1‐Nanoconjugate Restores Immune Homeostasis through Dual Immune‐Vascular Modulation in Relapsing and Progressive Multiple Sclerosis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The biomimetic nanoplatform IMNP (ETS1 pDNA/PBAE@ITP‐MM) undergoes targeted disassembly at inflammatory vascular sites to release the ETS1 plasmid (pETS1). This release initiates a cascade of effects that inhibit pathogenic pathways and support immune homeostasis. (Abbreviations: EndMT, endothelial‐to‐mesenchymal transition; EC, endothelial cell; TC, T
Feng Zhang, Si‐Bo Yang, Yan Luo, Xiao‐Di Sun, Bo‐Hao Chang, Da‐Qiang Zhou, Jun‐Jie Jiang, Ya‐Nan Li, Jie‐Hong Wu, Hui‐Juan Jin, Hang Yang, Hang Hu, Yi‐Fan Zhou, Bo Hu   +13 more
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Pericyte signaling via soluble guanylate cyclase shapes the vascular niche and microenvironment of tumors

The EMBO Journal
Pericytes and endothelial cells (ECs) constitute the fundamental components of blood vessels. While the role of ECs in tumor angiogenesis and the tumor microenvironment is well appreciated, pericyte function in tumors remains underexplored. In this study,
Jing Zhu, Wu Yang, Jianyun Ma, Hao He, Zhen Liu, Xiaolan Zhu, Xueyang He, Jing He, Zhan Chen, Xiaoliang Jin, Xiaohong Wang, Kaiwen He, Wu Wei, Junhao Hu   +13 more
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A Tri‐Culture Heart‐on‐a‐Chip Platform With iPSC‐Derived Cardiac Cells for Predictive Cardiotoxicity Testing

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents the first entirely isogenic heart‐on‐chip, unifying cardiomyocytes, fibroblasts, and endothelial cells from a single iPSC source. The platform reveals a critical biological insight: the endothelium actively shields cardiac tissue from drug‐induced toxicity, challenging the predictive accuracy of conventional, avascular models for ...
Karine Tadevosyan, Jose Yeste, Mar Alvarez, Denise Marrero, Laura Casado‐Medina, Yvonne Richaud‐Patin, Olalla García‐Iglesias, Jagoda Litowczenko, Alba Morillas Garcia, Anton Guimerà, Xavi Illa, Rosa Villa, Angel Raya   +12 more
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FGF-2 signaling in nasopharyngeal carcinoma modulates pericyte-macrophage crosstalk and metastasis

JCI Insight, 2022
Molecular signaling in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is complex, and crosstalk among various cell compartments in supporting metastasis remains poorly understood. In particular, the role of vascular pericytes, a critical cellular component in the TME,
Yujie Wang, Qi Sun, Ying Ye, Xiaoting Sun, Sisi Xie, Yuhang Zhan, Jian Song, Xiaoqin Fan, Bin Zhang, Ming Yang, Lei Lv, Kayoko Hosaka, Yunlong Yang, Guohui Nie   +13 more
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Hydrogel Confinement Strategies for 3D Cell Culture in Microfluidic Systems

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Hydrogel confinement structures are key to organizing 3D cell cultures in microfluidic devices. This review classifies five structural strategies (micropillar, phaseguide, porous membrane, stepped‐height, and support‐free) and examines their trade‐offs alongside fabrication methods.
Soohyun Kim, Min Seok Lee, Sung Kyun Lee
wiley   +1 more source

Diabetes associated pericyte metabolic signatures and pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy

Frontiers in Endocrinology
Pericytes are metabolically active perivascular supporting cells. They are essential for establishing and maintaining the inner blood retinal barrier and retinal neurovascular homeostasis.
Casandra Carrillo, Teri L. Belecky-Adams, Nader Sheibani   +2 more
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Engineered Microfluidic Organoid Systems: New Paradigms for Menopause Mechanism Research and Personalized Medicine

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review explores the integration of microfluidic technology with organoid systems as an innovative platform for studying menopausea complex multi‐organ condition. By enabling precise simulation of inter‐organ communication and hormone responses, microfluidic organoids offer a physiologically relevant model for investigating menopausal syndrome and ...
Qianyi Zhang, He Huang, Hongliang Dong, Qiang Ma, Hongyan Jin   +4 more
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Pericytes in Vascular Development

Current Tissue Microenvironment Reports, 2020
Pericytes are essential components of capillaries in many tissues and organs, contributing to vessel stability and integrity, with additional contributions to microvascular function still being discovered. We review current and foundational studies identifying pericyte differentiation mechanics and their roles in the earliest stages of vessel formation.
Laura Beth Payne, Maruf Hoque, Clifton Houk, Jordan Darden, John C. Chappell   +4 more
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