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ArticleCurrent hypertension reports2016

Pulmonary Arterial Stiffness: Toward a New Paradigm in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Pathophysiology and Assessment.

Michal Schäfer, Cynthia Myers, R Dale Brown, Maria G Frid, Wei Tan, Kendall Hunter, Kurt R Stenmark

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Article in Current hypertension reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers.

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39citing papers in PubMed
6.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 68 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. LOXL2 inhibition ameliorates pulmonary artery remodeling in pulmonary hypertension.American journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2024
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  13. Arterial load and right ventricular-vascular coupling in pulmonary hypertension.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michal SchäferUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12700 E. 19th Avenue, Box B131, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Michal.Schafer@ucdever.edu.
Cynthia MyersUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12700 E. 19th Avenue, Box B131, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Cynthia.Myers@ucdenver.edu.
R Dale BrownUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12700 E. 19th Avenue, Box B131, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Dale.Brown@ucdenver.edu.
Maria G FridUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12700 E. 19th Avenue, Box B131, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Maria.Frid@ucdenver.edu.
Wei Tan427 University of Colorado Boulder, 1111 Engineering Drive, ECME 114, Boulder, CO, 80309, USA. WTan@colorado.edu.
Kendall HunterUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12700 E. 19th Avenue, Box B131, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Kendall.Hunter@ucdenver.edu.
Kurt R StenmarkUniversity of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 12700 E. 19th Avenue, Box B131, Aurora, CO, 80045, USA. Kurt.Stenmark@ucdenver.edu.
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus · USUniversity of Colorado Boulder · US

Funding

VRAC and Rho in pulmonary EC proliferationP01HL014985 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI STENMARK, KURT R. · 1985 to 2019
$35.1M
Translational Pulmonary Vascular Biology ProgramT32HL007171 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Sonia Castro Flores, Tim Lahm · 1985 to 2026
$9.4M
Fibroblasts and Mononuclear Fibrogenic Cells Drive Right Ventricular Pulmonary ArR01HL114887 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BULL, TODD M, BUTTRICK, PETER N. · 2012 to 2016
$3.4M
Crosstalk Between Metabolism and Inflammation in Pulmonary HypertensionR01HL125827 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI STENMARK, KURT R., ZHANG, QINGHONG · 2015 to 2015
$492k
NHLBI NIH HHS 1R01HL114887-03NHLBI NIH HHS 5 P01 HL014985-40A1NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL125827-01NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stiffening of the pulmonary arterial bed with the subsequent increased load on the right ventricle is a paramount feature of pulmonary hypertension (PH). The pathophysiology of vascular stiffening is a complex and self-reinforcing function of extracellular matrix remodeling, driven by recruitment of circulating inflammatory cells and their interactions with resident vascular cells, and mechanotransduction of altered hemodynamic forces throughout the ventricular-vascular axis. New approaches to understanding the cell and molecular determinants of the pathophysiology combine novel biopolymer substrates, controlled flow conditions, and defined cell types to recapitulate the biomechanical environment in vitro. Simultaneously, advances are occurring to assess novel parameters of stiffness in vivo. In this comprehensive state-of-art review, we describe clinical hemodynamic markers, together with the newest translational echocardiographic and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging methods, to assess vascular stiffness and ventricular-vascular coupling. Finally, fluid-tissue interactions appear to offer a novel route of investigating the mechanotransduction processes and disease progression.

Indexed as

Pulmonary ArteryVascular StiffnessEchocardiographyHemodynamicsHumansHypertension, PulmonaryExtracellular matrixImagingInflammationMacrophagePulmonary hypertensionVascular stiffening

Identifiers

PMID26733189
OpenAlexW2223092492

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