Aikawa-Aikawa Laboratories

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Katsuki S, Kumar Jha P, Lupieri A, Nakano T, Passos LSA, Rogers MA, Becker-Greene D, Le TD, Decano JL, Ho Lee L, Guimaraes GC, Abdelhamid I, Halu A, Muscoloni A, Vittorio Cannistraci C, Higashi H, Zhang H, Vromman A, Libby P, Keith Ozaki C, Sharma A, Singh SA, Aikawa E, Aikawa M

Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin 9 Promotes Macrophage Activation via LDL Receptor-Independent Mechanisms.

Circ Res. 2022;131(11):873-889 - PMID: 36263780 - PMCID: PMC9973449 - DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.320056

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;:ePub - PMID: 36624274 - 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