Biology and therapeutic targeting of vascular endothelial growth factor A

L Pérez-Gutiérrez, N Ferrara - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023‏ - nature.com
The formation of new blood vessels, called angiogenesis, is an essential pathophysiological
process in which several families of regulators have been implicated. Among these, vascular …

Vascular endothelial cell development and diversity

E Trimm, K Red-Horse - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2023‏ - nature.com
Vascular endothelial cells form the inner layer of blood vessels where they have a key role
in the development and maintenance of the functional circulatory system and provide …

Single-cell transcriptomics for the assessment of cardiac disease

AMA Miranda, V Janbandhu, H Maatz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death globally. An advanced understanding
of cardiovascular disease mechanisms is required to improve therapeutic strategies and …

Origin and function of activated fibroblast states during zebrafish heart regeneration

B Hu, S Lelek, B Spanjaard, H El-Sammak… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The adult zebrafish heart has a high capacity for regeneration following injury. However, the
composition of the regenerative niche has remained largely elusive. Here, we dissected the …

Single-cell RNA sequencing unveils unique transcriptomic signatures of organ-specific endothelial cells

DT Paik, L Tian, IM Williams, S Rhee, H Zhang, C Liu… - Circulation, 2020‏ - ahajournals.org
Background: Endothelial cells (ECs) display considerable functional heterogeneity
depending on the vessel and tissue in which they are located. Whereas these functional …

[HTML][HTML] Progress in multicellular human cardiac organoids for clinical applications

H Kim, RD Kamm, G Vunjak-Novakovic, JC Wu - Cell Stem Cell, 2022‏ - cell.com
Advances in self-organizing cardiac organoids to recapitulate human cardiogenesis have
provided a powerful tool for unveiling human cardiac development, studying cardiovascular …

Heterogeneity of immune cells in human atherosclerosis revealed by scRNA-Seq

J Vallejo, C Cochain, A Zernecke… - Cardiovascular …, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Immune cells in atherosclerosis include T, B, natural killer (NK) and NKT cells,
macrophages, monocytes, dendritic cells (DCs), neutrophils, and mast cells. Advances in …

Single-cell profiling of vascular endothelial cells reveals progressive organ-specific vulnerabilities during obesity

O Bondareva, JR Rodríguez-Aguilera, F Oliveira… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Obesity promotes diverse pathologies, including atherosclerosis and dementia, which
frequently involve vascular defects and endothelial cell (EC) dysfunction. Each organ has …

Multiomics network medicine approaches to precision medicine and therapeutics in cardiovascular diseases

RS Wang, BA Maron, J Loscalzo - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and …, 2023‏ - ahajournals.org
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of death worldwide and display
complex phenotypic heterogeneity caused by many convergent processes, including …

PRDM16 is a compact myocardium-enriched transcription factor required to maintain compact myocardial cardiomyocyte identity in left ventricle

T Wu, Z Liang, Z Zhang, C Liu, L Zhang, Y Gu… - Circulation, 2022‏ - ahajournals.org
Background: Left ventricular noncompaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC) was discovered half a
century ago as a cardiomyopathy with excessive trabeculation and a thin ventricular wall. In …