Pericytes: Problems and Promises for CNS Repair

Microvascular complications are often associated with slow and progressive damage of various organs. Pericytes are multi-functional mural cells of the microcirculation that control blood flow, vascular permeability and homeostasis. Whereas accumulating evidence suggests that these cells are also imp...

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Autores principales: Laredo, Fabio, Plebanski, Julia, Tedeschi, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908836/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31866833
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00546
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description Microvascular complications are often associated with slow and progressive damage of various organs. Pericytes are multi-functional mural cells of the microcirculation that control blood flow, vascular permeability and homeostasis. Whereas accumulating evidence suggests that these cells are also implicated in a variety of diseases, pericytes represent promising targets that can be manipulated for therapeutic gain. Here, we review the role of pericytes in angiogenesis, blood-brain barrier (BBB) function, neuroinflammation, tissue fibrosis, axon regeneration failure, and neurodegeneration. In addition, we outline strategies altering pericyte behavior to point out problems and promises for axon regeneration and central nervous system (CNS) repair following injury or disease.
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spelling pubmed-69088362019-12-20 Pericytes: Problems and Promises for CNS Repair Laredo, Fabio Plebanski, Julia Tedeschi, Andrea Front Cell Neurosci Cellular Neuroscience Microvascular complications are often associated with slow and progressive damage of various organs. Pericytes are multi-functional mural cells of the microcirculation that control blood flow, vascular permeability and homeostasis. Whereas accumulating evidence suggests that these cells are also implicated in a variety of diseases, pericytes represent promising targets that can be manipulated for therapeutic gain. Here, we review the role of pericytes in angiogenesis, blood-brain barrier (BBB) function, neuroinflammation, tissue fibrosis, axon regeneration failure, and neurodegeneration. In addition, we outline strategies altering pericyte behavior to point out problems and promises for axon regeneration and central nervous system (CNS) repair following injury or disease. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-12-06 /pmc/articles/PMC6908836/ /pubmed/31866833 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fncel.2019.00546 Text en Copyright © 2019 Laredo, Plebanski and Tedeschi. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Pericytes: Problems and Promises for CNS Repair
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title_short Pericytes: Problems and Promises for CNS Repair
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6908836/
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