Fantastic story
AT1-#EndothelialCell crosstalk in Lung #Alveologenesis🤠
Hopx+ AT1 Vegfa KO->
Loss of Car4+ EC ramifying over Alveoli
w/o reduced PLVAP+ capillary EC->
Alveolar Smoothening (⏬Outpocketing?)🧐
Dr. Jichao Chen lab Dev Cell 2020
https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(20)30010-1
Arterial dissections: Common features and new perspectives
A comprehensive review covering diverse arterial beds
Biomechanics
#EndothelialCell+#SmoothMuscleCell plasticity
Genetics
TGFβ, ECM
Dr. Robert Graham lab Frontiers Cardiovascular Medicine 2022
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcvm.2022.1055862/full
Mouse Lung Spliceomic e15.5-P8
Enriched pathways Junctions; Hippo
Novel VEGFA splice variant
VEGFA i5😎
AT1 as a major lung cell for VEGFA expression & alternative splicing
VEGFA-188 (not -164) promote Car4+#Aerocyte specification
Dr. Francisca Vasconcelos & Cláudio Franco labs, Life Science Alliance 2022
https://www.life-science-alliance.org/content/5/12/e202201554
Lung #EndothelialCell Heterogeneity & Proliferation post H1N1 #Influenza injury
EC subpopulation 14 dpi trajectory (Slingshot)
Ligand-receptor analysis (FANTOM5)->
AT1-to-Car4-hi EC signaling in #AlveolarRegeneration
Dr. Edward E Morrisey lab @eLife 2020
https://elifesciences.org/articles/53072
Stabilizing FOXF1 to treat #AlveolarCapillaryDysplasia
Chemical screening->TanFe
⏬Ubiquitination of FOXF1 via⏬binding to #E3Ligase HECTD1/SHPRH/NEURL1B etc->
Restoring Lung #Angiogenesis of Foxf1+/-🐭
Dr. Vladimir Kalinichenko lab Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2022
https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/10.1164/rccm.202207-1332OC
How FOXF1 impacts #EndothelialCell #Angiogenesis?
As a transcription factor for S1PR1 & VE-Cad😎
An excellent story from Dr. Vladimir Kalinichenko lab @scisignal 2016👇
FOXF1 maintains endothelial barrier function and prevents edema after lung injury
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scisignal.aad1899
Alveolar Capillary Dysplasia with Misalignment of Pulmonary Veins, due to FOXF1 heterozygous mutation, has very complex Lung & ex-Lung vascular phenotypes
A few reads🤠
https://diagnosticpathology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13000-020-00972-6
https://www.nature.com/articles/jp201494
https://www.nature.com/articles/ejhg2012171
https://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476(04)00647-X/fulltext
Aberrant Mechanical tension-activated TGFβ1-SMAD2/3 signaling, synergized with Cdc42 deficiency, in AT2 alveolar cells causes peripheral-to-center progression #PulmonaryFibrosis in🐭post-lung lobe resection
Dr. Jingyu Chen & Nan Tang labs @cellpress 2019
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(19)31284-X
Interesting, ablation of TGFβR2 in Cdc42 KO AT2 cells blunts fibrotic expansion w/o rescuing #AlveolarRegeneration
In contrast, Normalizing the ectopic mechanical tension post-lung lobe resection, using a unique silicon prosthesis, rescues both alveolar regeneration & fibrosis
How Cdc42 controls AT2 cell mechanosensitivity & plasticity during #AlveolarRegeneration?
A Cdc42-F-actin-JNK/p38-YAP cascade
A very cool paper🤠👇
Dr. Nan Tang lab @CellReports 2016
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(16)30919-6
Single-cell Transcriptomic Atlas of human Lung
75k cells
58 molecular types: 15 epithelial, 9 endothelial, 9 stromal, 25 immune
7 tissue blocks
1♀️+2♂️
17/58👤molecular types absent in🐭 Lung
Dr. Stephen Quake & Mark Krasnow labs @Nature 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2922-4
AT1 cell Plasticity in #Alveologenesis & Lung Homestasis+Regeneration
AT1 contributes to 30% & 10% AT2 in neonatal & adult 🐭Hyperoxia Lung injury👹
TAZ (likely > #YAP) maintains adult AT1 lineage identity Fig 6E
Dr. David Frank & Edward Morrisey Labs @CellStemCell 2021
https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(21)00184-3
Vinculin-α-Catenin complex⏫#EndothelialCell Barrier during vascular morphogenesis
Vinculin a/b deficient🐟 48hpf->
Enhanced Permeability of 10 kD (not 70 kD) dextran of DLAV & ISV, but not dorsal aorta
Dr. Stephan Huveneers lab Vascular Biology 2022
https://vb.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/vb/aop/vb-22-0012/vb-22-0012.xml
Causal role of #Endotheliopathy in #Emphysema #COPD 🤠
i.v. Delivery of E4ORF1-transduced Lung #EndothelialCell
Or EC LRG1 (TGFβ/Alk1/Eng modulator) KO
alleviates elastase-induced🐭COPD
Dr. Alexandra Racanelli, Shahin Rafii & Augustine Choi labs J Exp Med 2021
https://rupress.org/jem/article-standard/218/8/e20200938/212491/Reversal-of-emphysema-by-restoration-of-pulmonary
Damage-associated transient progenitor in #AlveolarRegeneration
Lung Organoid+ multi reporter🐭->
Lineage trajectory of AT2 cells of bleomycin lung injury🤠
ILβ-primed AT2->
Cldn4+Ndrg1+Krt8+Ly6a+ bipotent DATP->
AT1
Dr. Joo-Hyeon LeeLab @CellStemCell 2020
https://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909(20)30287-3
ATF3+ lung capillary #EndothelialCell proliferates & promotes #AlveolarRegeneration post H1N1 injury #Flu
🫁ATF3 KO EC 14 dpi->
⏬Proliferation
⏫Apoptosis
Altered Angiogcrine🤠🧐 to⏬AT1+AT2 epithelial cells
Dr. Edward E. Morrisey lab bioRxiv 2022
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.14.512212v1.full
Reminiscent of the really cool work from Dr. Katrien De Bock @cell_metabolism 2021
#SkeletalMuscle ATF3/4+ Capillary #EndothelialCell, preferably surrounding oxidative myofibers, as a major cellular origin of Exercise-induced #Angiogenesis😎
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413121003314
Spatial Atlas of human Lung
Spatially-resolved multi-omics-> #AirwaySubmucosalGland-associated Lymphoid niche for IgA #PlasmaCell + T cells via CCL28/IL6/APRIL paracrine
5 locations, 13 patients
Systemic vs Pulmonary vascular trees
Immune recruiting venous NG2-ABCC9+ICAM1+ #Pericyte is abundant in CCL2/19/21 & CXCL12🤠
Love to dig into transcriptomes of systemic vs pulmonary #SmoothMuscleCell & pericytes along the bronchial tree😋
A spatially resolved atlas of the human lung characterizes a gland-associated immune niche
Love this powerful molecular micro-anatomy for human Lung👍
A great starting point for my Holiday-specific continued biomedical education on Lung🎄
Dr. Sarah Teichmann & Kerstin Meyer lab Nature Genetics 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-022-01243-4
Bioelectrical initiation of HeartBeat👹
"a noisy saddle-node on invariant circle bifurcation as the critical phase transition that starts the heart"
A wild & cool piece from Dr Sean Megason & Adam Cohen labs bioRxiv 2022 @SeanMegason @AdamEzraCohen
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.06.519309v1.full
Also do not miss this great thread from 1st Author @BillZJia
https://twitter.com/BillZJia/status/1601193364451250176
Tumor spheroid-microvasculature-on-a-chip
#Microfluidic
0.6×0.3×25 mm
5 & 15 dyn/cm2
MCF-7 spheroid
HUVEC monolayer
Tumor spheroid alters #EndothelialCell polarization to shear🤠
Sheared EC⏬spheroid growth🤠🤠
Dr. Hongxu Lu & Lining Arnold Ju labs bioRxiv 2022
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.19.517181v1.full
Vascular #BehçetSyndrome: from pathogenesis to treatment
Superficial & deep vein Thrombosis in 50% patients
Arterial involvement
Thrombosis+Aneurysm of abdominal aorta, pulmonary artery, peripheral arteries
Wait for more human Genetics for this still-mysterious disease 🧐
Dr. Giacomo Emmi lab Nat Rev Rheumatol 2022
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41584-022-00880-7
Nice work on Single-cell dynamics of core pluripotency factors in human pluripotent stem cells. Cells were expressing OCT4-mCherry, SOX2-mTurquoise2, or NANOG-mVenus:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.13.520282v1.full
5-channel (separated by microposts) #Microfluidic for #EndothelialCell-#Pericyte fibrin-
collagen co-culture
Human Lung fibroblast as feeder
Enable study of Synergy b/w #ShearStress & Pericyte on #SproutingAngiogenesis😁
Dr. Ryuji Yokokawa lab, Lab on a chip 2022
Innervation of #PosteriorTibialArtery by branching #TibialNerve
72 calves from 12♀️+24♂️donors
An anatomical basis for improving sympathectomy strategy to treat #ChronicLimbThreatheningIschemia
Dr. Yun Xie & Xiao-Zhen Zhao labs Clin Anat 2022
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ca.23997
Cardiovascular biologist, Dr. J. Geoffrey Pickering lab, Robarts Research Institute, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=IbrDx00AAAAJ&view_op