Endothelial Cell News Volume 6.05 |Feb 8 2021

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    Vol. 6.05 – 8 February, 2021
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    Endothelium-Derived Stromal Cells Contribute to Hematopoietic Bone Marrow Niche Formation

    Researchers identified rare LNGFR+ cells in human fetal and regenerative bone marrow that co-expressed endothelial and stromal markers. This endothelial subpopulation displayed transcriptional reprogramming consistent with endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition and could generate multipotent stromal cells that reconstituted the bone marrow niche upon transplantation.
    [Cell Stem Cell]

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    Derive and expand human endothelial cells with EC-Cult™-XF Culture Kit.
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    NEDD9 is a Novel and Modifiable Mediator of Platelet-Endothelial Adhesion in the Pulmonary Circulation

    Data from liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry and microscale thermophoresis informed the development of a novel antibody to inhibit platelet-endothelial adhesion, which was tested in cells from chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension patients and three animal models in vivo.
    [American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine]

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    Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Epithelium Misidentified as Brain Microvascular Endothelium Requires ETS Factors to Acquire Vascular Fate

    Scientists demonstrated that induced brain microvascular endothelial cells lacked functional attributes of endothelial cells since they were deficient in vascular lineage genes while expressing clusters of genes related to the neuroectodermal epithelial lineage.
    [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America]

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    The ER Stress Response Mediator ERO1 Triggers Cancer Metastasis by Favoring the Angiogenic Switch in Hypoxic Conditions

    ERO1 alpha deficiency reduced tumor cell migration and lung metastases by impinging on tumor angiogenesis, negatively regulating the upstream ATF4/CHOP branch of the Unfolded Protein Response and selectively impeding oxidative folding of angiogenic factors, among which VEGF-A.
    [Oncogene]

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    EVL Regulates VEGF Receptor-2 Internalization and Signaling in Developmental Angiogenesis

    Endothelial‐specific EVL deletion compromised the radial sprouting of the vascular plexus and reduced the endothelial tip cell density and filopodia formation.
    [EMBO Reports]

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    Up-Regulation of Long Non-Coding RNA SNHG16 Promotes Diabetes-Related Retinal Microvascular Endothelial Cell Dysfunction via Activating NF-κB and PI3K/AKT Pathways

    Investigators found that small nucleolar RNA host gene 16 (SNHG16) expression was significantly up-regulated in human retinal microvascular endothelial cells (hRMECs) treated with high glucose. Functionally, SNHG16 could facilitate hRMEC proliferation, migration and angiogenesis.
    [Molecular Therapy-Nucleic Acids]

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    Active Perception during Angiogenesis: Filopodia Speed Up Notch Selection of Tip Cells In Silico and In Vivo

    Scientists provide the first proof of concept in silico/in vivo study demonstrating that filopodia played an unexpected role in speeding up collective endothelial decisions during the time-constrained process of ‘tip cell’ selection during blood vessel formation.
    [Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences]

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    Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells-Derived MicroRNA-203-Containing Extracellular Vesicles Alleviate Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Progression through Modulating the DTL/p21 Axis

    The authors investigated the potential of extracellular vesicles derived from HUVECs to transfer miR-203 to affect the progression of non-small cell lung cancer.
    [Cancer Gene Therapy]

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    A Novel Method for Visualizing and Tracking Endogenous mRNA in a Specific Cell Population in Pathological Neovascularization

    To detect and visualize endoglin mRNA in oxygen-induced retinopathy mice, researchers designed and synthesized a novel imaging probe composed of short-hairpin anti-sense endoglin RNA coupled to a fluorophore and black hole quencher.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Notch Signaling-Modified Mesenchymal Stem Cells Improve Tissue Perfusion by Induction of Arteriogenesis in a Rat Hindlimb Ischemia Model

    In Sprague–Dawley rats, hindlimb ischemia was generated by femoral artery removal, then seven days after ischemic induction 1×105 SB623 cells or PBS was injected into the ischemic adductor muscle.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Reduced Pericyte and Tight Junction Coverage in Old Diabetic Rats Are Associated with Hyperglycemia-Induced Cerebrovascular Pericyte Dysfunction

    Using a nonobese T2DN diabetes mellitus (DM) rat, the authors isolated parenchymal arterioles, cultured cerebral microvascular pericytes, and examined whether cerebrovascular pericyte in DM was damaged and whether pericyte dysfunction may play a role in the regulation of cerebral hemodynamics and blood-brain barrier integrity.
    [American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology]

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    REVIEWS

    Endothelial Cell Receptors in Tissue Lipid Uptake and Metabolism

    Scientists summarize recent in vitro and in vivo findings on the importance of endothelial cell receptors and uptake pathways in regulating fatty acids and cholesterol uptake in normal physiology and cardiovascular disease.
    [Circulation Research]

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    Endothelial YAP/TAZ Signaling in Angiogenesis and Tumor Vasculature

    The authors overview the upstream signals from the tumor microenvironment that control endothelial YAP/TAZ activation and explore the role of their downstream targets in driving tumor angiogenesis.
    [Frontiers in Oncology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Connectyx Announces Grant of Exclusive Worldwide License from National Institutes of Health for Repurposing Metformin to Treat Degenerative Eye Disease

    Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc. announced it has entered into an Exclusive Patent License Agreement to practice inventions contained within the patent applications listed below with the National Eye Institute, of the National Institutes of Health, including the repurposed use of Metformin to treat Retinal Degeneration.
    [Connectyx Technologies Holdings Group, Inc.]

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