Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences

Atkins SK, Singh SA, Aikawa E

Calcific Aortic Valve Disease "Omics"; Is Timely, But Are We Looking Too Late?

JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2020;5(12):1178-1180 - PMID: 33427821 - PMCID: PMC7775952 - DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2020.11.001

Sonawane AR, Aikawa E, Aikawa M

Connections for Matters of the Heart: Network Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:873582 - PMID: 35665246 - PMCID: PMC9160390 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.873582

Dacano JL, Aikawa M, Singh SA

Promise of a Novel Bedside-to-Bench Paradigm: Can Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Proteomics Balloon Into Clinical Practice?

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2022;42(7):865-867 - PMID: 35616034 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.122.317802

Garelnabi M, Cowdin M, Fang Y, Shrestha B, Ushio-Fukai M, Aikawa E, Graham G, Molema G, Yanagisawa H, Aikawa M

Embracing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Scientific Community-Viewpoints of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee of the North American Vascular Biology Organization.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:863256 - PMID: 35463765 - PMCID: PMC9021758 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.863256

Aikawa E, Hutcheson JD

The Developmental Origin of Calcific Aortic Stenosis.

N Engl J Med. 2022;386(14):1372-1374 - PMID: 35388675 - DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr2200439

Gomes NFA, Silva VR, Levine RA, Esteves WAM, de Castro ML, Passos LSA, Dal-Bianco JP, Pantaleão AN, da Silva JLP, Tan TC, Dutra WO, Aikawa E, Hung J, Nunes MCP

Progression of Mitral Regurgitation in Rheumatic Valve Disease: Role of Left Atrial Remodeling.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:862382 - PMID: 35360029 - PMCID: PMC8962951 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.862382

Alvandi Z, Nagata Y, Passos LSA, Hashemi Gheinani A, Guerrero JL, Wylie-Sears J, Romero DC, Morris BA, Sullivan SM, Yaghoubian KM, Alvandi A, Adam RM, Aikawa E, Levine RA, Bischoff J

Wnt Site Signaling Inhibitor Secreted Frizzled-Related Protein 3 Protects Mitral Valve Endothelium From Myocardial Infarction-Induced Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2022;11(7):e023695 - PMID: 35348006 - PMCID: PMC9075477 - DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.121.023695

Davidson SM, Boulanger CM, Aikawa E, Badimon L, Barile L, Binder CJ, Brisson A, Buzas E, Emanueli C, Jansen F, Katsur M, Lacroix R, Lim SK, Mackman N, Mayr M, Menasché P, Nieuwland R, Sahoo S, Takov K, Thum T, Vader P, Wauben MHM, Witwer K, Sluijter JPG

Methods for the identification and characterization of extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular studies - from exosomes to microvesicles.

Cardiovasc Res. 2022;119(1):45-63 - PMID: 35325061 - PMCID: PMC10233250 - DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvac031

Passos LSA, Jha PK, Becker-Greene D, Blaser MC, Romero D, Lupieri A, Sukhova GK, Libby P, Singh SA, Dutra WO, Aikawa M, Levine RA, Nunes MCP, Aikawa E

Prothymosin Alpha: A Novel Contributor to Estradiol Receptor Alpha-Mediated CD8⁺ T-Cell Pathogenic Responses and Recognition of Type 1 Collagen in Rheumatic Heart Valve Disease.

Circulation. 2022;145(7):531-548 - PMID: 35157519 - PMCID: PMC8869797 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.057301

Rogers MA, Atkins SK, Zheng KH, Singh SA, Chelvanambi S, Pham TH, Kuraoka S, Stroes ESG, Aikawa M, Aikawa E

Lipoprotein(a) Induces Vesicular Cardiovascular Calcification Revealed With Single-Extracellular Vesicle Analysis.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:778919 - PMID: 35155626 - PMCID: PMC8831739 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.778919

Sawada H, Katsumata Y, Higashi H, Zhang C, Li Y, Morgan S, Lee LH, Singh SA, Chen JZ, Franklin MK, Moorleghen JJ, Howatt DA, Rateri DL, Shen YH, LeMaire SA, Aikawa M, Majesky MW, Lu HS, Daugherty A

Second Heart Field-derived Cells Contribute to Angiotensin II-mediated Ascending Aortopathies.

Circulation. 2022;145(13):987-1001 - PMID: 35143327 - PMCID: PMC9008740 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.058173

Buffolo F, Monticone S, Camussi G, Aikawa E

Role of Extracellular Vesicles in the Pathogenesis of Vascular Damage.

Hypertension. 2022;79(5):863-873 - PMID: 35144490 - PMCID: PMC9010370 - DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17957

Tanaka T, Asano T, Okui T, Kuraoka S, Singh SA, Aikawa M, Aikawa E

Computational Screening Strategy for Drug Repurposing Identified Niclosamide as Inhibitor of Vascular Calcification.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;8:826529 - PMID: 35127876 - PMCID: PMC8811128 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.826529

Human P, Bezuidenhout D, Aikawa E, Zilla P

Residual Bioprosthetic Valve Immunogenicity: Forgotten, Not Lost.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;8:760635 - PMID: 35059444 - PMCID: PMC8764456 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.760635

Kraler S, Blaser MC, Aikawa E, Camici GG, Luscher TF

Calcific aortic valve disease: from molecular and cellular mechanisms to medical therapy.

Eur Heart J. 2021;43(7):683-697 - PMID: 34849696 - PMCID: PMC8843796 - DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab757

van der Ven CFT, Tibbitt MW, Conde J, van Mil A, Hjortnaes J, Doevendans PA, Sluijter JPG, Aikawa E, Langer RS

Controlled delivery of gold nanoparticle-coupled miRNA therapeutics via an injectable self-healing hydrogel.

Nanoscale. 2021;13(48):20451-20461 - PMID: 34817483 - PMCID: PMC8675028 - DOI: 10.1039/d1nr04973a

Iwata H, Osborn EA, Ughi GJ, Murakami K, Goettsch C, Hutcheson JD, Mauskapf A, Mattson PC, Libby P, Singh SA, Matamalas J, Aikawa E, Tearney GJ, Aikawa M, Jaffer FA

Highly Selective PPARα (Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor α) Agonist Pemafibrate Inhibits Stent Inflammation and Restenosis Assessed by Multimodality Molecular-Microstructural Imaging.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2021;10(20):e020834 - PMID: 34632804 - PMCID: PMC8751880 - DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.121.020834

Kuraoka S, Higashi H, Yanagihara Y, Sonawane AR, Mukai S, Mlynarchik AK, Whelan MC, Hottiger MO, Nasir W, Delanghe B, Aikawa M, Singh SA

A Novel Spectral Annotation Strategy Streamlines Reporting of mono-ADP-ribosylated Peptides Derived from Mouse Liver and Spleen in Response to IFN-γ.

Mol Cell Proteomics. 2021;21(4):100153 - PMID: 34592425 - PMCID: PMC9014395 - DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2021.100153

Zhang H, Chen ZB, Fredman G, Gomez D, Grumbach IM, Huang NF, Nguyen P, Ouimet M, Sutton NR, Aikawa E

What Makes a Great Mentor: Interviews With Recipients of the ATVB Mentor of Women Award.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2021;41(11):2641-2647 - PMID: 34547925 - PMCID: PMC8551033 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.121.316558

Meerman M, Driessen R, van Engeland NCA, Bergsma I, Steenhuijsen JLG, Kozono D, Aikawa E, Hjortnaes J, Bouten CVC

Radiation Induces Valvular Interstitial Cell Calcific Response in an in vitro Model of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;8:687885 - PMID: 34527708 - PMCID: PMC8435633 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.687885

Bartoli-Leonard F, Zimmer J, Aikawa E

Innate and adaptative immunity: The understudied driving force of heart valve disease.

Cardiovasc Res. 2021;117(13):2506-2524 - PMID: 34432007 - PMCID: PMC8783388 - DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvab273

Lupieri A, Nagata Y, Passos LSA, Beker-Greene D, Kirkwood KA, Wylie-Sears J, Alvandi Z, Higashi H, Hung JW, Singh SA, Bischoff J, Levine RA, Aikawa E

Integration of Functional Imaging, Cytometry, and Unbiased Proteomics Reveals New Features of Endothelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Ischemic Mitral Valve Regurgitation in Human Patients.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;8:688396 - PMID: 34458332 - PMCID: PMC8387660 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.688396

Bartoli-Leonard F, Aikawa E

Recapitulating the Complex Pathology of Atherosclerosis: Which Model to Use?

Circ Res. 2021;129(4):491-493 - PMID: 34351800 - PMCID: PMC8352010 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.319721

Hutcheson JD, Schlotter F, Creager MD, Li X, Pham T, Vyas P, Higashi H, Body SC, Aikawa M, Singh SA, Kos L, Aikawa E

Elastogenesis Correlates With Pigment Production in Murine Aortic Valve Leaflets.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;8:678401 - PMID: 34239903 - PMCID: PMC8257952 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2021.678401

Rogers MA, Aikawa E

Unbiased omics identifies mechanistic regulators of calcific aortic valve disease.

Eur Heart J. 2021;42(30):2948-2950 - PMID: 34179985 - PMCID: PMC8347449 - DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehab381

Bartoli-Leonard F, Aikawa E

Old Drugs for an Old Pathology? Drug Repurposing for Calcific Aortic Valve Disease.

Circ Res. 2021;128(9):1317-1319 - PMID: 33914606 - PMCID: PMC8095786 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.319149

Blaser MC, Kraler S, Lüscher TF, Aikawa E

Multi-Omics Approaches to Define Calcific Aortic Valve Disease Pathogenesis.

Circ Res. 2021;128(9):1371-1397 - PMID: 33914608 - PMCID: PMC8095729 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.120.317979

Jha PK, Vijay A, Halu A, Uchida S, Aikawa M

Gene Expression Profiling Reveals the Shared and Distinct Transcriptional Signatures in Human Lung Epithelial Cells Infected With SARS-CoV-2, MERS-CoV, or SARS-CoV: Potential Implications in Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;7:623012 - PMID: 33521069 - PMCID: PMC7844200 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.623012

Ruiz JL, Hutcheson JD, Cardoso L, Bakhshian Nik A, Condado de Abreu A, Pham T, Buffolo F, Busatto S, Federici S, Ridolfi A, Aikawa M, Bertazzo S, Bergese P, Weinbaum S, Aikawa E

Nanoanalytical analysis of bisphosphonate-driven alterations of microcalcifications using a 3D hydrogel system and in vivo mouse model.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021;118(14):ePub - PMID: 33795519 - PMCID: PMC8040669 - DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1811725118

de Freitas RCC, Hirata RDC, Hirata MH, Aikawa E

Circulating Extracellular Vesicles As Biomarkers and Drug Delivery Vehicles in Cardiovascular Diseases.

Biomolecules. 2021;11(3):ePub - PMID: 33808038 - PMCID: PMC8001426 - DOI: 10.3390/biom11030388

Decano JL, Singh SA, Bueno CG, Lee LH, Halu A, Chelvanambi S, Matamalas JT, Zhang H, Mlynarchik AK, Qiao J, Sharma A, Mukai S, Wang J, Anderson DG, Ozaki CK, Libby P, Aikawa E, Aikawa M

Systems Approach to Discovery of Therapeutic Targets for Vein Graft Disease PPARα Pivotally Regulates Metabolism, Activation, and Heterogeneity of Macrophages and Lesion Development.

Circulation. 2021;143(25):2454-2470 - PMID: 33821665 - PMCID: PMC8212880 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.043724

Kraler S, Wenzl FA, Akhmedov A, Blaser MC, Aikawa E, Lüscher TF

ApoA-I mimetics improve aortic stenosis-associated left-ventricular diastolic dysfunction but fail to benefit rabbit models with normal aortic valves.

Int J Cardiol. 2021;332:159-161 - PMID: 33626387 - DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2021.02.044

Silva VR, Neves EGA, Passos LSA, Cristina de Melo F, Teixeira-Carvalho A, Nassif MCL, Junqueira LL, Aikawa E, Dutra WO, Nunes MCP

Decreased Cytokine Plasma Levels and Changes in T-Cell Activation Are Associated With Hemodynamic Improvement and Clinical Outcomes After Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy in Patients With Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;7:604826 - PMID: 33614739 - PMCID: PMC7888299 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.604826

Majumdar U, Manivannan S, Basu M, Ueyama Y, Blaser MC, Cameron E, McDermott MR, Lincoln J, Cole SE, Wood S, Aikawa E, Lilly B, Garg V

Nitric oxide prevents aortic valve calcification by S-nitrosylation of USP9X to activate NOTCH signaling.

Sci Adv. 2021;7(6):ePub - PMID: 33547080 - PMCID: PMC7864581 - DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abe3706

Passos LSA, Nunes MCP, Aikawa E

Rheumatic Heart Valve Disease Pathophysiology and Underlying Mechanisms.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2021;7:612716 - PMID: 33537348 - PMCID: PMC7848031 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.612716

Rogers MA, Hutcheson JD, Okui T, Goettsch C, Singh SA, Halu A, Schlotter F, Higashi H, Wang L, Whelan MC, Mlynarchik AK, Daugherty A, Nomura M, Aikawa M, Aikawa E

Dynamin-related protein 1 inhibition reduces hepatic PCSK9 secretion.

Cardiovasc Res. 2021;117(11):2340-2353 - PMID: 33523181 - PMCID: PMC8479802 - DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvab034

Passos LSA, Nunes MCP, Zilla P, Yacoub MH, Aikawa E

Raising awareness for rheumatic mitral valve disease.

Glob Cardiol Sci Pract. 2020;2020(2):e202026 - PMID: 33426043 - PMCID: PMC7768627 - DOI: 10.21542/gcsp.2020.26

Uiterwijk M, Smits AIPM, van Geemen D, van Klarenbosch B, Dekker S, Cramer MJ, van Rijswijk JW, Lurier EB, Di Luca A, Brugmans MCP, Mes T, Bosman AW, Aikawa E, Gründeman PF, Bouten CVC, Kluin J

In Situ Remodeling Overrules Bioinspired Scaffold Architecture of Supramolecular Elastomeric Tissue-Engineered Heart Valves.

JACC Basic Transl Sci. 2020;5(12):1187-1206 - PMID: 33426376 - PMCID: PMC7775962 - DOI: 10.1016/j.jacbts.2020.09.011

Aikawa M, Manabe I, Marx N

Editorial: New Trends in Vascular Inflammation Research: From Biology to Therapy.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019;6:102 - PMID: 31555666 - PMCID: PMC6722177 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00102

Engelbrecht E, Levesque MV, He L, Vanlandewijck M, Nitzsche A, Niazi H, Kuo A, Singh SA, Aikawa M, Holton K, Proia RL, Kono M, Pu WT, Camerer E, Betsholtz C, Hla T

Sphingosine 1-phosphate-regulated transcriptomes in heterogenous arterial and lymphatic endothelium of the aorta.

Elife. 2020;9:ePub - PMID: 32091396 - PMCID: PMC7054001 - DOI: 10.7554/eLife.52690

Rogers MA, Aikawa E

Complex association of lipoprotein(a) with aortic stenosis.

Heart. 2020;106(10):711-712 - PMID: 32086294 - DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2019-316498

Fehr AR, Singh SA, Kerr CM, Mukai S, Higashi H, Aikawa M

The impact of PARPs and ADP-ribosylation on inflammation and host-pathogen interactions.

Genes Dev. 2020;34(5-6):341-359 - PMID: 32029454 - PMCID: PMC7050484 - DOI: 10.1101/gad.334425.119

Marsit O, Clavel MA, Côté-Laroche C, Hadjadj S, Bouchard MA, Handschumacher MD, Clisson M, Drolet MC, Boulanger MC, Kim DH, Guerrero JL, Bartko PE, Couet J, Arsenault M, Mathieu P, Pibarot P, Aïkawa E, Bischoff J, Levine RA, Beaudoin J

Attenuated Mitral Leaflet Enlargement Contributes to Functional Mitral Regurgitation After Myocardial Infarction.

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020;75(4):395-405 - PMID: 32000951 - PMCID: PMC7946170 - DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.11.039

Nakato R, Wada Y, Nakaki R, Nagae G, Katou Y, Tsutsumi S, Nakajima N, Fukuhara H, Iguchi A, Kohro T, Kanki Y, Saito Y, Kobayashi M, Izumi-Taguchi A, Osato N, Tatsuno K, Kamio A, Hayashi-Takanaka Y, Wada H, Ohta S, Aikawa M, Nakajima H, Nakamura M, McGee RC, Heppner KW, Kawakatsu T, Genno M, Yanase H, Kume H, Senbonmatsu T, Homma Y, Nishimura S, Mitsuyama T, Aburatani H, Kimura H, Shirahige K

Comprehensive epigenome characterization reveals diverse transcriptional regulation across human vascular endothelial cells.

Epigenetics Chromatin. 2019;12(1):77 - PMID: 31856914 - PMCID: PMC6921469 - DOI: 10.1186/s13072-019-0319-0

Rogers MA, Chen J, Nallamshetty S, Pham T, Goto S, Muehlschlegel JD, Libby P, Aikawa M, Aikawa E, Plutzky J

Retinoids Repress Human Cardiovascular Cell Calcification With Evidence for Distinct Selective Retinoid Modulator Effects.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019;40(3):656-669 - PMID: 31852220 - PMCID: PMC7047603 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.313366

Rogers MA, Aikawa E

MicroRNA Extracellular Vesicle Stowaways in Cell-Cell Communication and Organ Crosstalk.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019;39(12):2448-2450 - PMID: 31770027 - PMCID: PMC6980729 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.313533

Arima N, Sasaki Y, Lee LH, Zhang H, Figueiredo JL, Mlynarchik AK, Qiao J, Yamada I, Higashi H, Ha AH, Halu A, Mizuno K, Singh SA, Yamazaki Y, Aikawa M

Multi-organ systems study reveals Igfbp7 as a suppressor of gluconeogenesis after gastric bypass surgery.

J Proteome Res. 2019;19(1):129-143 - PMID: 31661273 - DOI: 10.1021/acs.jproteome.9b00441

Andraski AB, Singh SA, Lee LH, Higashi H, Smith N, Zhang B, Aikawa M, Sacks FM

Effects of Replacing Dietary Monounsaturated Fat With Carbohydrate on HDL (High-Density Lipoprotein) Protein Metabolism and Proteome Composition in Humans.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2019;39(11):2411-2430 - PMID: 31554421 - PMCID: PMC6874109 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.312889

Phillippi JA, Aikawa E, Hutcheson J

Editorial: Exploring the Frontiers of Regenerative Cardiovascular Medicine.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019;6:13 - PMID: 30873414 - PMCID: PMC6401650 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00013

Goto S, Rogers MA, Blaser MC, Higashi H, Lee LH, Schlotter F, Body SC, Aikawa M, Singh SA, Aikawa E

Standardization of Human Calcific Aortic Valve Disease in vitro Modeling Reveals Passage-Dependent Calcification.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2019;6:49 - PMID: 31041314 - PMCID: PMC6476921 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2019.00049