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ArticleAmerican journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology2025

Rapamycin reduces mineral density and promotes beneficial vascular remodeling in a murine model of severe medial arterial calcification.

Parya Behzadi, Andrew A Wendling, Rolando A Cuevas, Alex Crane, Claire C Chu, William J Moorhead, Ryan Wong, Mark Brown, Joshua Tamakloe, Swathi Suresh and 6 more

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Article in American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors.

Parya BehzadiDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3807-1109
Andrew A WendlingDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Rolando A CuevasDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3571-5845
Alex CraneDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Claire C ChuDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1735-5137
William J MoorheadDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Ryan WongDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1251-758X
Mark BrownDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3874-1352
Joshua TamakloeDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0009-0009-0929-0669
Swathi SureshDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Payam SalehiCardioVascular Center, Vascular Surgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Iris Z JaffeMolecular Cardiology Research Institute, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9300-1253
Allison L KuipersDepartment of Medicine, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1415-1742
Lyudmila LukashovaDepartment of Endodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Konstantinos VerdelisDepartment of Endodontics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Cynthia St HilaireDivision of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1871-6915

Funding

Medial Arterial Calcification in Peripheral Artery DiseaseR01HL176595 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Cynthia St. Hilaire · 2025 to 2026
$1.5M
Regulation of Vascular Calcification by Adenosine SignalingK22HL117917 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ST. HILAIRE, CYNTHIA · 2015 to 2017
$731k
Request for a high resolution microcomputed tomography system for the School of Dental Medicine, University of PittsburghS10OD021533 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI VERDELIS, KOSTAS · 2017 to 2017
$323k
American Heart Association (AHA) 24POST1186619HHS | National Institutes of Health (NIH) S10-OD021533HHS | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) K22HL117917HHS | NIH | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) R01HL176595NHLBI NIH HHS K22 HL117917NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL176595NIH HHS S10 OD021533
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is the narrowing of the arteries that carry blood to the lower extremities. PAD has been traditionally associated with atherosclerosis. However, recent studies have found that thrombotic events triggered by medial arterial calcification (MAC) is the primary cause of chronic limb ischemia below the knee. MAC is localized around the elastic fibers surrounding smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in arteries. Matrix GLA protein (MGP) binds circulating calcium and prevents hydroxyapatite mineral deposition, while also modulating pro-osteogenic signaling by attenuating bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-2-mediated activation of

Indexed as

Peripheral Arterial DiseaseSirolimusVascular CalcificationVascular RemodelingAnimalsCalcium-Binding ProteinsDisease Models, AnimalExtracellular Matrix ProteinsMaleMatrix Gla ProteinMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMuscle, Smooth, VascularMyocytes, Smooth MuscleCalcium-Binding ProteinsExtracellular Matrix ProteinsMatrix Gla ProteinSirolimuscollagenelastinmatrix GLA proteinmedial arterial calcificationrapamycin

Identifiers

PMID40338175
PMCPMC12187530

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