The why's and wherefore's of this vascular biology section of Current Opinion in Hematology.
The why's and wherefore's of this vascular biology section of Current Opinion in Hematology.
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《当前血液学观点》的血管生物学部分的原因和原因。
DOI:
10.1097/moh.0000000000000242
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发表时间:
2016
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Plow,EdwardF
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作者:
Plow,EdwardF
This is my first attempt to organize an issue of Current Opinion in Hematology, and indeed, my first attempt to organize any comparable compilation of articles. When the Editor-in-Chief, Tom Stossel, recruited me to organize the ‘Vascular biology’section, he said it would be the easiest job I had ever done. Not quite true, but not a difficult job, and certainly an enjoyable task. The first task was to decide on a theme. One could choose to focus on a single topic and delve into it in great depth. That would require success in recruiting from a group of authors with a highly specialized interest and could lead to articles with extensive overlap. So, I decided that a broader topic was in order. Certainly,‘the endothelium’was a safe choice for a ‘Vascular biology’section. Each of the eight contributions in this issue of the Current Opinion in Hematology deals with some aspect of the endothelium. The authors were given a topic from within their area of expertise and asked to provide up-to-date perspectives on a particular molecule, signaling pathway, and/or mechanism within this area with an emphasis on developments during the past year.There is a unifying theme that links all eight articles. They deal with the communication between endothelial cells and their environment. This communication is bidirectional. To usurp terms that are used frequently in the integrin field, the signaling pathways can be both ‘outside-in’and ‘inside-out’. Outside-in signals are generated via receptors on the endothelial cell surfaces. These receptors are exemplified by protease-activated receptor-1, described by Grimsey and Trejo (pp. 274–279), and neuropilin, discussed by Kofler and Simons (pp. 260–267). These receptors recognize ligands in the microenvironment of endothelial cells that transduce outside-in signaling events. Endothelial cells can also adsorb exosomes from tumors that infuse microRNA and other informative molecules that can influence intracellular responses including angiogenesis as described by Ohyashiki (pp. 268–273) in his article. Endothelial cells sense changes in blood flow and wall shear stress at their extracellular