Blood vessel organoids for development and disease

K Salewskij, JM Penninger - Circulation research, 2023‏ - ahajournals.org
Despite enormous advances, cardiovascular disorders are still a major threat to global
health and are responsible for one-third of deaths worldwide. Research for new therapeutics …

Detection, risk factors, and functional consequences of cerebral microinfarcts

SJ Van Veluw, AY Shih, EE Smith, C Chen… - The Lancet …, 2017‏ - thelancet.com
Cerebral microinfarcts are small lesions that are presumed to be ischaemic. Despite the
small size of these lesions, affected individuals can have hundreds to thousands of cerebral …

Brain capillary pericytes exert a substantial but slow influence on blood flow

DA Hartmann, AA Berthiaume, RI Grant, SA Harrill… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
The majority of the brain's vasculature is composed of intricate capillary networks lined by
capillary pericytes. However, it remains unclear whether capillary pericytes influence blood …

Organizational hierarchy and structural diversity of microvascular pericytes in adult mouse cortex

RI Grant, DA Hartmann, RG Underly… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2019‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Smooth muscle cells and pericytes, together called mural cells, coordinate many distinct
vascular functions. Canonically, smooth muscle cells are ring-shaped and cover arterioles …

Pericytes as inducers of rapid, matrix metalloproteinase-9-dependent capillary damage during ischemia

RG Underly, M Levy, DA Hartmann, RI Grant… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - jneurosci.org
Blood–brain barrier disruption (BBB) and release of toxic blood molecules into the brain
contributes to neuronal injury during stroke and other cerebrovascular diseases. While …

Imaging the construction of capillary networks in the neonatal mouse brain

V Coelho-Santos, AA Berthiaume, S Ornelas… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
Capillary networks are essential for distribution of blood flow through the brain, and
numerous other homeostatic functions, including neurovascular signal conduction and …

Dynamic capillary stalls in reperfused ischemic penumbra contribute to injury: a hyperacute role for neutrophils in persistent traffic jams

ŞE Erdener, J Tang, K Kılıç, D Postnov… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2021‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Ever since the introduction of thrombolysis and the subsequent expansion of endovascular
treatments for acute ischemic stroke, it remains to be identified why the actual outcomes are …

Cerebral microinfarcts revisited: detection, causes, and clinical relevance

J Huang, GJ Biessels, FE de Leeuw… - … Journal of Stroke, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Cerebral microinfarcts (CMIs) are small ischemic lesions invisible to the naked eye at brain
autopsy, while the larger ones (0.5–4 mm in diameter) have been visualized in-vivo on …

A window of vascular plasticity coupled to behavioral recovery after stroke

MR Williamson, RL Franzen, CJA Fuertes… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - jneurosci.org
Stroke causes remodeling of vasculature surrounding the infarct, but whether and how
vascular remodeling contributes to recovery are unclear. We established an approach to …

Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD)–lessons from the animal models

M Mustapha, CMNCM Nassir, N Aminuddin… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) refers to a spectrum of clinical and imaging findings
resulting from pathological processes of various etiologies affecting cerebral arterioles …