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ReviewBasic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology2025

Pericyte Electrical Signalling and Brain Haemodynamics.

Thomas A Longden, Dominic Isaacs

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Review in Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. A pericyte chloride clamp mechanism governs capillary control of cerebral blood flow.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  4. Cerebral capillary computation.American journal of physiology. Cell physiology · 2026
    Review
  5. The machinery of healthy vasodilatation: an overview.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2025
    Review
  6. The machinery of healthy vasoconstriction: an overview.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2025
    Review
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Thomas A LongdenDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7950-7677
Dominic IsaacsDepartment of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Funding

Vascular Signaling Plasticity - Novel Concepts and Tools for Studying Neurovascular Interactions in Health and DiseaseDP2NS121347 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LONGDEN, THOMAS A · 2020 to 2020
$2.3M
Pericytes as metabolic sentinels in the control of brain blood flow in health and Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG066645 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI LONGDEN, THOMAS A · 2020 to 2024
$1.9M
A pericyte Cl- clamp controls capillary electrical signaling and brain blood flowR01NS138179 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI Thomas A Longden · 2024 to 2026
$1.3M
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative CP2-1-0000000385NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066645NIH National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute 1DP2NS121347NIH National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute 1R01AG066645NIH National Institute on Aging, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute R01NS138179NINDS NIH HHS DP2 NS121347NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS138179
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dynamic control of membrane potential lies at the nexus of a wide spectrum of biological processes, ranging from the control of individual cell secretions to the orchestration of complex thought and behaviour. Electrical signals in all vascular cell types (smooth muscle cells, endothelial cells and pericytes) contribute to the control of haemodynamics and energy delivery across spatiotemporal scales and throughout all tissues. Here, our goal is to review and synthesize key studies of electrical signalling within the brain vasculature and integrate these with recent data illustrating an important electrical signalling role for pericytes, in doing so attempting to work towards a holistic description of blood flow control in the brain by vascular electrical signalling. We use this as a framework for generating further questions that we believe are important to pursue. Drawing parallels with electrical signal integration in the nervous system may facilitate deeper insights into how signalling is organized within the vasculature and how it controls blood flow at the network level.

Indexed as

BrainCerebrovascular CirculationHemodynamicsPericytesAnimalsEndothelial CellsHumansMembrane PotentialsSignal Transductionarteriolescapillariescerebral blood flowendothelial cellsfunctional hyperemiaKATP channelsKIR channelsneurovascular couplingpericytessmooth muscle cells

Identifiers

PMID40159653
PMCPMC11955720

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