Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells: Physiology and role in liver diseases

J Poisson, S Lemoinne, C Boulanger, F Durand… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (LSECs) are highly specialized endothelial cells
representing the interface between blood cells on the one side and hepatocytes and hepatic …

Endothelial-specific cre mouse models: is your cre credibile?

S Payne, S De Val, A Neal - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and …, 2018 - Am Heart Assoc
The field of vascular biology has gained enormous insight from the use of Cre and inducible
Cre mouse models to temporally and spatially manipulate gene expression within the …

[HTML][HTML] Endothelial lactate controls muscle regeneration from ischemia by inducing M2-like macrophage polarization

J Zhang, J Muri, G Fitzgerald, T Gorski… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Endothelial cell (EC)-derived signals contribute to organ regeneration, but angiocrine
metabolic communication is not described. We found that EC-specific loss of the glycolytic …

PIK3CA and CCM mutations fuel cavernomas through a cancer-like mechanism

AA Ren, DA Snellings, YS Su, CC Hong, M Castro… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Vascular malformations are thought to be monogenic disorders that result in dysregulated
growth of blood vessels. In the brain, cerebral cavernous malformations (CCMs) arise owing …

FOXO1 couples metabolic activity and growth state in the vascular endothelium

K Wilhelm, K Happel, G Eelen, S Schoors, MF Oellerich… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Endothelial cells (ECs) are plastic cells that can switch between growth states with different
bioenergetic and biosynthetic requirements. Although quiescent in most healthy tissues …

Role of PFKFB3-driven glycolysis in vessel sprouting

K De Bock, M Georgiadou, S Schoors, A Kuchnio… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Vessel sprouting by migrating tip and proliferating stalk endothelial cells (ECs) is controlled
by genetic signals (such as Notch), but it is unknown whether metabolism also regulates this …

Dll4 and Notch signalling couples sprouting angiogenesis and artery formation

ME Pitulescu, I Schmidt, BD Giaimo, T Antoine… - Nature cell …, 2017 - nature.com
Endothelial sprouting and proliferation are tightly coordinated processes mediating the
formation of new blood vessels during physiological and pathological angiogenesis …

Lung endothelial cells regulate pulmonary fibrosis through FOXF1/R-Ras signaling

F Bian, YW Lan, S Zhao, Z Deng, S Shukla… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Pulmonary fibrosis results from dysregulated lung repair and involves multiple cell types.
The role of endothelial cells (EC) in lung fibrosis is poorly understood. Using single cell RNA …

Cardiac lymphatics are heterogeneous in origin and respond to injury

L Klotz, S Norman, JM Vieira, M Masters, M Rohling… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
The lymphatic vasculature is a blind-ended network crucial for tissue-fluid homeostasis,
immune surveillance and lipid absorption from the gut. Recent evidence has proposed an …

Role of glutamine and interlinked asparagine metabolism in vessel formation

H Huang, S Vandekeere, J Kalucka, L Bierhansl… - The EMBO …, 2017 - embopress.org
Endothelial cell (EC) metabolism is emerging as a regulator of angiogenesis, but the precise
role of glutamine metabolism in EC s is unknown. Here, we show that depriving EC s of …