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Vascular endothelial cell development and diversity

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Trimm, Emily, Red-Horse, Kristy·2023·Nature Reviews Cardiology

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Vascular endothelial cells form the inner layer of blood vessels where they have a key role in the development and maintenance of the functional circulatory system and provide paracrine support to surrounding non-vascular cells. Technical advances in the past 5 years in single-cell genomics and in in vivo genetic labelling have facilitated greater insights into endothelial cell development, plasticity and heterogeneity. These advances have also contributed to a new understanding of the timing of endothelial cell subtype differentiation and its relationship to the cell cycle. Identification of novel tissue-specific gene expression patterns in endothelial cells has led to the discovery of crucial signalling pathways and new interactions with other cell types that have key roles in both tissue maintenance and disease pathology. In this Review, we describe the latest findings in vascular endothelial cell development and diversity, which are often supported by large-scale, single-cell studies, and discuss the implications of these findings for vascular medicine. In addition, we highlight how techniques such as single-cell multimodal omics, which have become increasingly sophisticated over the past 2 years, are being utilized to study normal vascular physiology as well as functional perturbations in disease.

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Authors
Trimm, E., & Red-Horse, K.
Affiliations
Stanford Medicine (US)
Venue
Nature Reviews Cardiology
Published
2022-10-05
Volume
20
Issue
3
Pages
197-210
ISSN
  • 1759-5002 (ISSN-L)
  • 1759-5010
OpenAlex
W4301600652
Cited by
537
References
187
Citations by year
2026: 143 · 2025: 196 · 2024: 162 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 2
FWCI
10.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Reviews Cardiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Hertz Foundation
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Angiogenesis and VEGF in Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
Keywords
vascular endothelial cells, endothelial cell development, endothelial heterogeneity, endothelial plasticity, endothelial differentiation, cell cycle, tissue-specific gene expression, single-cell RNA sequencing, brain endothelium, lung endothelium, liver endothelium
MeSH terms
Cell Differentiation, Humans, Signal Transduction, Endothelial Cells

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