ArticleCardiovascular drugs and therapy2021
Methotrexate Therapy Promotes Cell Coverage and Stability in in-Stent Neointima.
Article in Cardiovascular drugs and therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
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.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.
- Combined Prognostic Value of Triglyceride-Glucose Index and Bilirubin in Drug-Eluting Stent Restenosis: From Clinical Risk Stratification to Exploratory Vascular-Cell Findings.Cardiovascular drugs and therapy · 2026Article
- Recent advances in surface functionalization of cardiovascular stents.Bioactive materials · 2025Review
- Long-Term Clinical Outcomes of Polymer-Free Sirolimus-Eluting Stent and Polymer-Coated Sirolimus-Eluting Stent in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes.International journal of nanomedicine · 2024Article
- Methotrexate improves endothelial function in early rheumatoid arthritis patients after 3 months of treatment.Arthritis research & therapy · 2022Article
- Repair effect of the poly (D,L-lactic acid) nanoparticle containing tauroursodeoxycholic acid-eluting stents on endothelial injury after stent implantation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Article
- Methotrexate Induces an Antioxidant Hormetic Response in Primary Rat Astrocytes.Dose-response : a publication of International Hormesis SocietyArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
purposeAnti-proliferative drugs released from drug-eluting stents delay cell coverage and vascular healing, which increases the risk of late stent thrombosis. We assessed the potential effects of systemic methotrexate (MTX) on cell coverage, vascular healing and inflammation activation in vivo and in vitro.
methodsWe applied MTX in the right common carotid artery in a rabbit stenting model to determine the impact on cell coverage and inflammation activation using a serial optical coherence tomography (OCT) analysis and elucidated the molecular mechanism of MTX in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs).
resultsLow-dose MTX promoted the development of cell coverage and vascular healing, which was associated with fewer uncovered struts (%) and cross-sections with any uncovered struts (%) at 4 weeks of stenting. The MTX group also exhibited lower rates of heterogeneity, microvessels and per-strut low-signal-intensity layers, indicating neointimal instability at 12 weeks of stenting. In vitro, low-dose MTX strongly inhibited HUVEC apoptosis, promoted proliferation and inhibited inflammatory activation by targeting the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT signalling pathway.
conclusionLow-dose MTX may be a key means of promoting early cell coverage via the inhibition of the inflammatory response and stability of neointima by targeting inflammatory pathways after stent implantation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What Socratic holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the Socratic graph.