To be or not to be: endothelial cell plasticity in development, repair, and disease

LJ Greenspan, BM Weinstein - Angiogenesis, 2021 - Springer
… Endothelial cells display an extraordinary plasticity both … cells or convert into hematopoietic
stem and progenitor cells or … forces that drive these responses. We compare both in vitro and …

[HTML][HTML] Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in calcific aortic valve disease

X Ma, D Zhao, P Yuan, J Li, Y Yun, Y Cui… - Acta Cardiologica …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
valves. Amongst them, the EndMT process is crucial in generating valve progenitor cells
, and transformed cells displayed increased capacity for migration in response to endothelin-1 …

Endothelial to mesenchymal transition: role in physiology and in the pathogenesis of human diseases

S Piera-Velazquez, SA Jimenez - Physiological reviews, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
… endothelial cells display remarkable phenotypic plasticity (67… cells displayed significantly
enhanced EndMT in response to … miR-126 on EndMT of endothelial progenitor cells (369), the …

Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition: Pathogenesis and therapeutic targets for chronic pulmonary and vascular diseases

X Lu, J Gong, PA Dennery, H Yao - Biochemical pharmacology, 2019 - Elsevier
… the heterogeneity of EndoMT in response to inflammatory responses remains elusive. …
Further understanding the role of lung endothelial cell plasticity in BPD could uncover novel …

Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition: Purposeful versus maladaptive differentiation

J Bischoff - Circulation research, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
cells exhibit distinct plasticity, which may provide valve endothelial … cells: partial EndMT-derived
cells showed progenitor cell qualities… to adaptive and maladaptive responses to disease. …

Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in pulmonary arterial hypertension

A Gorelova, M Berman, I Al Ghouleh - Antioxidants & redox signaling, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… to the pulmonary vasculature in the early response to hypoxia, and … to inhibit EndMT in
endothelial progenitor cells (203). … Endothelialmesenchymal transition drives expression of …

Valve endothelial-interstitial interactions drive emergent complex calcific lesion formation in vitro

TW Gee, JM Richards, A Mahmut, JT Butcher - Biomaterials, 2021 - Elsevier
… -1, inflammatory response related surface receptors and direct … with differentiation plasticity
[5], which was further shown to … In our model system, we show involvement of this pathway via …

Valvular endothelial cell response to the mechanical environment—a review

N Deb, CMR Lacerda - Cell Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2021 - Springer
… However, the formation of aortic and pulmonary valves from … of valve progenitor cells and
regulates heart valve formation [19]. As … Normal tricuspid valves did not show such correlations. …

Endothelial-mesenchymal transition in cardiovascular disease

Z Alvandi, J Bischoff - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
… factor receptor-2]) progenitor cells that originate from cardiac … by the inherent plasticity of
endocardial endothelial cells 4,82 and … in response to TGFβ2 alone, whereas in parallel, human

Human aortic valve interstitial cells display proangiogenic properties during calcific aortic valve disease

N Gendron, M Rosa, A Blandinieres… - … and Vascular Biology, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
… effects of VICs on human endothelial progenitor cells and the subsequent signaling …
Specific contribution of these cells to valve plasticity during both homeostasis and response