Abstract：
:Quantum dots (QDs) are fluorescent semiconductor nanocrystals that possess a number of superior fluorescent properties compared to more established organic dyes and fluorescent proteins. As a result, QDs are being studied for use in a wide range of biological applications. We have examined QDs for one such application, visualization of blood vessels of the chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM), a popular model for studying various aspects of blood vessel development including angiogenesis. Intravitally injected QDs were found to be biocompatible and were kept in circulation over the course of 4 days without any observed deleterious effects. QD vascular residence time was tunable through QD surface chemistry modification. We also found that use of QDs with higher emission wavelengths (>655 nm) virtually eliminated all chick-derived autofluorescence and improved depth-of-field imaging. QDs were compared to FITC-dextrans, a fluorescent dye commonly used for imaging CAM vessels. QDs were found to image vessels as well as or better than FITC-dextrans at 2-3 orders of magnitude lower concentration. We also demonstrated that QDs are fixable with low fluorescence loss and thus can be used in conjunction with histological processing for further sample analysis.
journal_name
Microvasc Resjournal_title
Microvascular researchauthors
Smith JD,Fisher GW,Waggoner AS,Campbell PGdoi
10.1016/j.mvr.2006.09.003subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-03-01 00:00:00pages
75-83issue
2eissn
0026-2862issn
1095-9319pii
S0026-2862(06)00097-5journal_volume
73pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:Recently the zebrafish has emerged as a promising vertebrate model of lymphatic vasculature development. The establishment of numerous transgenic lines that label the lymphatic endothelium in the zebrafish has allowed the fine examination of the developmental timing and the anatomy of their lymphatic vasculature. Alth...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2014.06.001
更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of type 1 diabetes (T1D) is growing worldwide, stressing the requirement to limit the threat of its long-term complications. In this regard, the development of methods for the early diagnosis and non-invasive monitoring of vascular abnormalities is widely recognized as one of the greatest prioriti...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2019.04.002
更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common cause of blindness worldwide. While recent studies have revealed that the loss of choroidal endothelial cells (ChECs) is critical to the disease pathogenesis of dry AMD, in vitro studies are needed to fully elucidate the disease mechanism. However, these studies remai...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2018.12.002
更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study aims to assess the relationship between spontaneous oscillations in changes in cerebral tissue oxyhemoglobin concentrations (Delta [HbO2]) and arterial blood pressure (ABP) signals in healthy elderly subjects during the resting state using wavelet coherence analysis. Continuous recordings of near-infrared s...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2014.02.008
更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a common complication of congenital heart defects with left-to-right shunts. Current preclinical models do not reproduce clinical characteristics of shunt-related pulmonary hypertension. Aorto-caval shunt was firstly described as a model of right ventricle volume overload. The pathop...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2014.05.005
更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The Raynaud's phenomenon often accompanies systemic rheumatic diseases and is also known as a vascular side effect of chemotherapy. Therapy of the Raynaud's phenomenon with nitrates or calcium-channel-blockers is rarely beneficial. In contrast, the PDE-V-inhibitor sildenafil seems to be effective in these patients. Fo...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2005.03.001
更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We examined the impact of lymph flow obstruction in large post-nodal lymphatic vessels in sheep. A silk ligature was placed 2 cm downstream from the prescapular or popliteal lymph node and tightened to interrupt flow. At 6, 12 and 16 weeks after lymph flow blockage, a network of small interconnecting lymphatics (appro...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2006.11.003
更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We determined whether the solvent drag reflection coefficient (sigma f) for total proteins of a canine perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation decreases at elevated venous pressures (Pv). We found that sigma f (estimated using the hematocrit-protein technique) remained constant at all Pv's (30-95 mm Hg) evalua...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(92)90006-b
更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A microvascular network model described in the preceding paper (B. Dawant, M. Levin, and A. S. Popel, 1986, Microvasc. Res. 31, 203-222) featuring random distribution of vessel diameters and lengths, is extended to calculate the distributions of red blood cell flux and discharge hematocrit throughout the network. A re...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(86)90036-1
更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this paper we quantitatively investigate the hypothesis proposed by Michel (Exp. Physiol. 82, 1-30, 1997) and Weinbaum (Ann. Biomed. Eng. 26, 1-17, 1998) that the Starling forces are determined by the local difference in the hydrostatic and colloid osmotic pressure across the endothelial surface glycocalyx, which w...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/mvre.1999.2177
更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An increasing body of evidence suggests that the deleterious effects of Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) on remote organ function could, at least in part, be due to loss of the normal balance of immune, inflammatory, and soluble mediator metabolism that attends injury of the tubular epithelium. Such dysregulation, acting at ...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2008.09.001
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The contractile responses of cultured rat and calf endothelial cells (EC), vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC), and fibroblasts (FB) to vasoactive mediators (thrombin, serotonin, bradykinin, and histamine), forskolin, and cytochalasin B were compared. Cells were grown on a pliable silicone membrane, and contraction wa...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(92)90015-h
更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The proepicardium (PE), a transient embryonic structure crucial for the development of the epicardium and heart, contains its own population of endothelial cells (ECs). The aim of our study was to determine the pattern, anatomical orientation and phenotypic marker expression of the endothelial cell network w...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2015.08.007
更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The steatotic liver is characterized by deranged intrahepatic microvasculature that is believed to predispose it to ischemia-reperfusion injury. The aim of this study was to investigate the distorted hepatic hemodynamics and its impact on the redox status of the steatotic liver. Hepatic hemodynamic parameters, hepatic...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0026-2862(03)00021-9
更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We present a simple method for isolation and long-term cultivation of porcine and murine cerebral capillary endothelial cells (cEC). Two major points are made. First, that the "characteristic" morphology of the endothelial cells depends mainly on the presence of endothelial cell growth factors in the culture medium an...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(89)90034-4
更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An ex vivo perfused solid tumor preparation provides control over the physiological, biochemical, and pharmacological composition of the arterial input and easy access to the venous output. This is advantageous for studies of transport and metabolism in solid tumors. Here we present a tissue-isolated tumor preparation...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/mvre.1994.1063
更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Synthetic big endothelin-1 (ET-1), a 39-residue precursor of ET-1, has been reported to elicit potent contractile action on helical strip specimens obtained from the porcine coronary artery, but its molar potency was found to be 140-fold lower than that of ET-1 [Saito, Y., Nakao, K., Mukoyama, M., Imura, H., 1990. Inc...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2006.04.007
更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:There is evidence that vascular beds distal to the ophthalmic artery (OA) show vasoconstriction in response to a step decrease in systemic blood pressure (BP). The mediators of this response are mostly unidentified. The aim of the current study was to test the hypothesis that α2-adrenoreceptors may contribute to the r...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2010.10.001
更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Angiotensin II (Ang II), the dominant effector of the renin-angiotensin system, elicits numerous inflammatory-proliferative responses, thereby being involved in angiogenesis. T cells play an important role in angiogenesis as well by delivering vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to inflammatory sites. Since we h...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2006.03.001
更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Studies of microvascular geometry made from microscope observations of tissues in vivo or after perfusion with a silastic elastomer or india ink are restricted to a two-dimensional field of view. Microvascular corrosion casts, however, if of sufficient rigidity and structural integrity, can yield three-dimensional inf...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(83)90044-4
更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Hyperoxia and hyperbaric oxygen therapy can restore oxygen tensions in tissues distressed by ischemic injury and poor vascularization and is believed to also yield angiogenesis and regulate tissue perfusion. The aim of this study was to develop a model in which hyperoxia-driven microvascular changes could be quantifie...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2016.02.001
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:High aerobic fitness may prevent age-related decrements in cutaneous vasodilation while type 2 diabetes may exacerbate this decline. The mechanisms underlying these responses remain unclear, but may be due to an excess of reactive oxygen species. We hypothesized that superoxide scavenging or NADPH oxidase inh...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2019.103886
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Vessel size index (R(v), μm) has been proposed as a quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) derived imaging biomarker in oncology, for the non-invasive assessment of tumour blood vessel architecture and vascular targeted therapies. Appropriate pre-clinical evaluation of R(v) in animal tumour models will improve ...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2012.08.001
更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We studied the absorbing peripheral lymphatic vessel with the light microscope, the transmission electron microscope, the scanning electron microscope, and three-dimensional models of the diaphragm of several rodents and insectivores under normal and experimental conditions (lymphatic stasis and dehydration). To clari...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/mvre.1998.2101
更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We have applied theories of mass transfer, in laminar and turbulent flow, to red cells in the stopped-flow apparatus in order to estimate the effect of extracellular diffusion boundary layers on the initial rate of O2 uptake. We compared the theoretical predictions with the results of our previous stopped-flow experim...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(83)90058-4
更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The first description of endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) in 1997 led rapidly to substantial changes in our understanding of angiogenesis, and within 5 years to the first clinical studies in humans using bone marrow derived EPC to enhance coronary neovascularisation and cardiac function after myocardial ischemia. Ho...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2009.12.004
更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Despite intensive study in the area of angiogenesis, relatively little is known about normal angiogenesis in adult animals. Preliminary studies using the Griffonia simplicifolia I (GSI) lectin as a microvascular marker indicated that capillary sprouting occurs in the clear "windows" of normal intact adult rat mesenter...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1006/mvre.1994.1029
更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Oxygen pressure histograms were determined with the multiwire surface electrode from the gastrocnemius muscle in patients with arterial occlusive disease and compared with those of healthy volunteers. Seven out of 22 patients had normally distributed histograms like volunteers, but the mean PO2 values were lower than ...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(85)90024-x
更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Endothelial cells are suggested regulators of tumor response to radiation. Anti-vascular targeting agents can enhance tumor response by targeting endothelial cells. Here, we have conducted experiments in vitro to discern the effects of radiation combined with the anti-angiogenic Sunitinib on endothelial (HUV...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mvr.2013.10.008
更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This study was designed to determine if vascular dysfunction and enhanced norepinephrine sensitivity occurring in early experimental juvenile diabetes (S. M. Mueller, T. M. Mueller, and P. J. Ertel, 1982, Amer. J. Physiol. 243, H139-H144) persist, improve, or worsen in adulthood. Alloxan was administered to rats at 4 ...
journal_title：Microvascular research
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0026-2862(84)90030-x
更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00
