Center for Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular Sciences

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

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

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, 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bartoli-Leonard F, Turner ME, Zimmer J, Chapurlat R, Pham T, Aikawa M, Pradhan AD, Szulc P, Aikawa E

Elevated lipoprotein(a) as a predictor for coronary events in older men.

J Lipid Res. 2022;63(8):100242 - PMID: 35724702 - PMCID: PMC9304778 - DOI: 10.1016/j.jlr.2022.100242

Paquin A, Marsit O, Deschênes V, Rouabhia D, Hadjadj S, Clisson M, Robitaille C, Aikawa E, Levine RA, Pibarot P, Clavel MA, Beaudoin J

Progression of aortic stenosis after an acute myocardial infarction.

Open Heart. 2022;9(1):ePub - PMID: 35728891 - PMCID: PMC9214429 - DOI: 10.1136/openhrt-2022-002046

Decano JL, Iwamoto Y, Goto S, Lee JY, Matamalas JT, Halu A, Blaser M, Lee LH, Pieper B, Chelvanambi S, Silva-Nicolau J, Bartoli-Leonard F, Higashi H, Shibata H, Vyas P, Wang J, Gostjeva E, Body SC, Singh SA, Aikawa M, Aikawa E

A disease-driver population within interstitial cells of human calcific aortic valves identified via single-cell and proteomic profiling.

Cell Rep. 2022;39(2):110685 - PMID: 35417712 - DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2022.110685

Asano T, Chelvanambi S, Decano JL, Whelan MC, Aikawa E, Aikawa M

In silico Drug Screening Approach Using L1000-Based Connectivity Map and Its Application to COVID-19.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:842641 - PMID: 35402570 - PMCID: PMC8989014 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.842641

Wang L, Xu GE, Pan L, Aikawa E, Aikawa M, Xiao J, Huang NF

Editorial: Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine: Rising Stars 2021.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:928981 - PMID: 35757336 - PMCID: PMC9218798 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.928981

Marsit O, Clavel MA, Paquin A, Deschênes V, Hadjadj S, Sénéchal-Dumais I, Couet J, Arsenault M, Handschumacher MD, Levine RA, Aikawa E, Pibarot P, Beaudoin J

Effects of Cyproheptadine on Mitral Valve Remodeling and Regurgitation After Myocardial Infarction.

J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022;80(5):500-510 - PMID: 35902173 - DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.05.025

Uchida S, Yu J, Goldman M, Asmis R, Yang X, Aikawa E, Bourantas C, Aikawa M, Tevaearai Stahel H

Editorial: Research reproducibility and preventing fraud.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:979467 - PMID: 35979020 - PMCID: PMC9376614 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.979467

Atkins SK, Sonawane AR, Brouwhuis R, Barrientos J, Ha A, Rogers M, Tanaka T, Okui T, Kuraoka S, Singh SA, Aikawa M, Aikawa E

Induced pluripotent stem cell-derived smooth muscle cells to study cardiovascular calcification.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:925777 - PMID: 35958427 - PMCID: PMC9357895 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.925777

Morgan S, Lee LH, Halu A, Nicolau JS, Higashi H, Ha AH, Wen JR, Daugherty A, Libby P, Cameron SJ, Mix D, Aikawa E, Owens AP, Singh SA, Aikawa M

Identifying novel mechanisms of abdominal aortic aneurysm via unbiased proteomics and systems biology.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:889994 - PMID: 35990960 - PMCID: PMC9382335 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.889994

Kuo A, Checa A, Niaudet C, Jung B, Fu Z, Wheelock CE, Singh SA, Aikawa M, Smith LEH, Proia RL, Hla T

Murine endothelial serine palmitoyltransferase 1 (SPTLC1) is required for vascular development and systemic sphingolipid homeostasi.

Elife. 2022;11:ePub - PMID: 36197001 - PMCID: PMC9578713 - DOI: 10.7554/eLife.78861

Corti A, De Paolis A, Grossman P, Dinh PA, Aikawa E, Weinbaum S, Cardoso L

The effect of plaque morphology, material composition and microcalcifications on the risk of cap rupture: A structural analysis of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:1019917 - PMID: 36277774 - PMCID: PMC9583261 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.1019917

Krohn JB, Aikawa E, Aikawa M, Hutcheson JD, Sahoo S, Fish JE

Editorial: Extracellular vesicles in cardiovascular inflammation and calcification.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2022;9:1077124 - PMID: 36426218 - PMCID: PMC9680153 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.1077124

Sutton NR, Malhotra R, Hilaire CS, Aikawa E, Blumenthal RS, Gackenbach G, Goyal P, Johnson A, Nigwekar SU, Shanahan CM, Towler DA, Wolford BN, Chen Y

Molecular Mechanisms of Vascular Health: Insights From Vascular Aging and Calcification.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2022;43(1):15-29 - PMID: 36412195 - PMCID: PMC9793888 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.122.317332

Kum AST, De Moura DTH, Proença IM, Aikawa M, Sánchez-Luna SA, Ribeiro IB, Sasso JGRJ, Bestetti AM, Bernardo WM, Hourneaux de Moura EG

Gastroesophageal Reflux Waning Over Time in Endoscopic Versus Surgical Myotomy for the Treatment of Achalasia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Cureus. 2022;14(11):e31756 - PMID: 36569663 - PMCID: PMC9771598 - DOI: 10.7759/cureus.31756

Sud K, Narula N, Aikawa E, Arbustini E, Pibarot P, Merlini G, Rosenson RS, Seshan SV, Argulian E, Ahmadi A, Zhou F, Moreira AL, Côté N, Tsimikas S, Fuster V, Gandy S, Bonow RO, Gursky O, Narula J

The contribution of amyloid deposition in the aortic valve to calcification and aortic stenosis.

Nat Rev Cardiol. 2023;20(6):418-428 - PMID: 36624274 - PMCID: PMC10199673 - DOI: 10.1038/s41569-022-00818-2

Iqbal F, Schlotter F, Becker-Greene D, Lupieri A, Goettsch C, Hutcheson JD, Rogers MA, Itoh S, Halu A, Lee LH, Blaser MC, Mlynarchik AK, Hagita S, Kuraoka S, Chen HY, Engert JC, Passos LSA, Jha PK, Osborn EA, Jaffer FA, Body SC, Robson SC, Thanassoulis G, Aikawa M, Singh SA, Sonawane AR, Aikawa E

Sortilin enhances fibrosis and calcification in aortic valve disease by inducing interstitial cell heterogeneity.

Eur Heart J. 2023;44(10):885-898 - PMID: 36660854 - PMCID: PMC9991042 - DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehac818

Blaser MC, Kraler S, Lüscher TF, Aikawa E

Network-Guided Multiomic Mapping of Aortic Valve Calcification.

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2023;43(3):417-426 - PMID: 36727519 - PMCID: PMC9975082 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.122.318334

Wang Z, Tang M, Luan X, Tevaearai Stahel H, Aikawa M, Xie M, Ge S, Zhang S

Editorial: What do we know about COVID-19 implications for cardiovascular disease?

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023;10:1125655 - PMID: 36733303 - PMCID: PMC9887308 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1125655

Natarajan R, Moore K, Sahoo D, Nana-Sinkam P, Fowler AAB, Sime P, Sorci-Thomas M, Aikawa E, ATVB Council, friends, and colleagues

Shobha Ghosh (1958-2021).

Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2022;42(3):239-240 - PMID: 36808997 - DOI: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.122.317419

Sud K, Narula N, Aikawa E, Arbustini E, Pibarot P, Merlini G, Rosenson RS, Seshan SV, Argulian E, Ahmadi A, Zhou F, Moreira AL, Côté N, Tsimikas S, Fuster V, Gandy S, Bonow RO, Gursky O, Narula J

Author Correction: The contribution of amyloid deposition in the aortic valve to calcification and aortic stenosis.

Nat Rev Cardiol. 2023;20(6):429 - PMID: 36807395 - DOI: 10.1038/s41569-023-00848-4

Bartoli-Leonard F, Zimmer J, Sonawane AR, Perez K, Turner ME, Kuraoka S, Pham T, Li F, Aikawa M, Singh S, Brewster L, Aikawa E

NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation in Peripheral Arterial Disease.

J Am Heart Assoc. 2023;12(6):e026945 - PMID: 36892058 - PMCID: PMC10111545 - DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.122.026945

Cable J, Witwer KW, Coffey RJ, Milosavljevic A, von Lersner AK, Jimenez L, Pucci F, Barr MM, Dekker N, Barman B, Humphrys D, Williams J, de Palma M, Guo W, Bastos N, Hill AF, Levy E, Hantak MP, Crewe C, Aikawa E, Adamczyk AM, Zanotto TM, Ostrowski M, Arab T, Rabe DC, Sheikh A, da Silva DR, Jones JC, Okeoma C, Gaborski T, Zhang Q, Gololobova O

Exosomes, microvesicles, and other extracellular vesicles-a Keystone Symposia report.

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2023;1523(1):24-37 - PMID: 36961472 - PMCID: PMC10715677 - DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14974

Veulemans V, Billaud M, Nunes MCP, Goettsch C, Aikawa E

Editorial: Women in heart valve disease.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023;10:1150169 - PMID: 36994000 - PMCID: PMC10041336 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1150169

Andraski AB, Singh SA, Higashi H, Lee LH, Aikawa M, Sacks FM

The distinct metabolism between large and small HDL indicates unique origins of human apolipoprotein A4.

JCI Insight. 2023;8(8):ePub - PMID: 37092549 - PMCID: PMC10243815 - DOI: 10.1172/jci.insight.162481

Raju S, Botts SR, Blaser M, Prajapati K, Ho TWW, Ching C, Galant NJ, Fiddes L, Wu R, Clift CL, Pham T, Lee WL, Singh SA, Aikawa E, Fish JE, Howe KL

Endothelial cells secrete small extracellular vesicles bidirectionally containing distinct cargo to uniquely reprogram vascular cells in the circulation and vessel wall.

bioRxiv. 2023;:ePub - PMID: 37162986 - PMCID: PMC10168399 - DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.28.538787

Distefano R, Ilieva M, Madsen JH, Ishii H, Aikawa M, Rennie S, Uchida S

T2DB: A Web Database for Long Non-Coding RNA Genes in Type II Diabetes.

Noncoding RNA. 2023;9(3):ePub - PMID: 37218990 - PMCID: PMC10204529 - DOI: 10.3390/ncrna9030030

Nehl D, Goody PR, Maus K, Pfeifer A, Aikawa E, Bakthiary F, Zimmer S, Nickenig G, Jansen F, Hosen MR

Human and porcine aortic valve endothelial and interstitial cell isolation and characterization.

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023;10:1151028 - PMID: 37408661 - PMCID: PMC10318150 - DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1151028