Vascular smooth muscle cells in aortic aneurysm: from genetics to mechanisms

H Lu, W Du, L Ren, MH Hamblin… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Aortic aneurysm, including thoracic aortic aneurysm and abdominal aortic aneurysm, is the
second most prevalent aortic disease following atherosclerosis, representing the ninth …

[HTML][HTML] The mechanism and therapy of aortic aneurysms

J Gao, H Cao, G Hu, Y Wu, Y Xu, H Cui, HS Lu… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Aortic aneurysm is a chronic aortic disease affected by many factors. Although it is generally
asymptomatic, it poses a significant threat to human life due to a high risk of rupture …

The Year of the Rat: The Rat Genome Database at 20: a multi-species knowledgebase and analysis platform

JR Smith, GT Hayman, SJ Wang… - Nucleic acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Formed in late 1999, the Rat Genome Database (RGD, https://rgd. mcw. edu) will be 20 in
2020, the Year of the Rat. Because the laboratory rat, Rattus norvegicus, has been used as …

Lack of an effective drug therapy for abdominal aortic aneurysm

J Golledge, JV Moxon, TP Singh… - Journal of internal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture is a common cause of death in adults. Current
AAA treatment is by open surgical or endovascular aneurysm repair. Rodent model and …

[HTML][HTML] Smoking and the pathophysiology of peripheral artery disease

W Wang, T Zhao, K Geng, G Yuan, Y Chen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Smoking is one of the most important preventable factors causing peripheral artery disease
(PAD). The purpose of this review is to comprehensively analyze and summarize the …

[HTML][HTML] Abdominal aortic aneurysm formation with a focus on vascular smooth muscle cells

G Qian, O Adeyanju, A Olajuyin, X Guo - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a lethal degenerative vascular disease that affects,
mostly, the elder population, with a high mortality rate (> 80%) upon rupture. It features a …

[HTML][HTML] Microfibrillar-associated protein 4 in health and disease

R Kanaan, M Medlej-Hashim, R Jounblat, B Pilecki… - Matrix Biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Microfibrillar-associated protein 4 (MFAP4) is an extracellular matrix protein
belonging to the fibrinogen-related domain family. It has been localized to elastic fiber-rich …

Mouse models for abdominal aortic aneurysm

J Golledge, SM Krishna, Y Wang - British Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) rupture is estimated to cause 200,000 deaths each year.
Currently, the only treatment for AAA is surgical repair; however, this is only indicated for …

Twenty years of studying AngII (angiotensin II)-induced abdominal aortic pathologies in mice: continuing questions and challenges to provide insight into the human …

H Sawada, HS Lu, LA Cassis… - … thrombosis, and vascular …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
AngII (angiotensin II) infusion in mice has been used to provide mechanistic insight into
human abdominal aortic aneurysms for over 2 decades. This is a technically facile animal …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention of CaCl2-induced aortic inflammation and subsequent aneurysm formation by the CCL3–CCR5 axis

Y Ishida, Y Kuninaka, M Nosaka, A Kimura… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inflammatory mediators such as cytokines and chemokines are crucially involved in the
development of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA). Here we report that CaCl2 application …