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ReviewAnnual review of biomedical engineering2021

Vascular Mechanobiology: Homeostasis, Adaptation, and Disease.

Jay D Humphrey, Martin A Schwartz

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Review in Annual review of biomedical engineering, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers.

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127citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

127 citing papers in PubMed.

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67 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jay D HumphreyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA; email: jay.humphrey@yale.edu.
Martin A SchwartzDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA; email: jay.humphrey@yale.edu.

Funding

TGFB-Dependent Mechanoresponses by Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells Govern AneurysmsP01HL134605 · NHLBI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI HUMPHREY, JAY D. · 2018 to 2022
$12.1M
Mechanisms Underlying The Progression of Large Artery Stiffness in HypertensionR01HL105297 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI FIGUEROA, CARLOS ALBERTO, HUMPHREY, JAY D. · 2010 to 2019
$3.0M
Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation and Degradative Phenotype in Thoracic Aorta Aneurysm and DissectionR01HL146723 · NHLBI · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI HUMPHREY, JAY D., TELLIDES, GEORGE · 2019 to 2022
$2.9M
NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL134605NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL105297NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL146723
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cells of the vascular wall are exquisitely sensitive to changes in their mechanical environment. In healthy vessels, mechanical forces regulate signaling and gene expression to direct the remodeling needed for the vessel wall to maintain optimal function. Major diseases of arteries involve maladaptive remodeling with compromised or lost homeostatic mechanisms. Whereas homeostasis invokes negative feedback loops at multiple scales to mediate mechanobiological stability, disease progression often occurs via positive feedback that generates mechanobiological instabilities. In this review, we focus on the cell biology, wall mechanics, and regulatory pathways associated with arterial health and how changes in these processes lead to disease. We discuss how positive feedback loops arise via biomechanical and biochemical means. We conclude that inflammation plays a central role in overriding homeostatic pathways and suggest future directions for addressing therapeutic needs.

Indexed as

ArteriesSignal TransductionBiomechanical PhenomenaBiophysicsHomeostasisaneurysmsatherosclerosisfeedbackfibrosishypertensionmechanotransduction

Identifiers

PMID34255994
PMCPMC8719655

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