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  1. Article ; Online: Mitochondrial influences on smooth muscle phenotype.

    Pearce, William J

    American journal of physiology. Cell physiology

    2023  Volume 326, Issue 2, Page(s) C442–C448

    Abstract: Smooth muscle cells transition reversibly between contractile and noncontractile phenotypes in response to diverse influences, including many from mitochondria. Numerous molecules including myocardin, procontractile miRNAs, and the mitochondrial protein ... ...

    Abstract Smooth muscle cells transition reversibly between contractile and noncontractile phenotypes in response to diverse influences, including many from mitochondria. Numerous molecules including myocardin, procontractile miRNAs, and the mitochondrial protein prohibitin-2 promote contractile differentiation; this is opposed by mitochondrial reactive oxygen species (mtROS), high lactate concentrations, and metabolic reprogramming induced by mitophagy and/or mitochondrial fission. A major pathway through which vascular pathologies such as oncogenic transformation, pulmonary hypertension, and atherosclerosis cause loss of vascular contractility is by enhancing mitophagy and mitochondrial fission with secondary effects on smooth muscle phenotype. Proproliferative miRNAs and the mitochondrial translocase TOMM40 also attenuate contractile differentiation. Hypoxia can initiate loss of contractility by enhancing mtROS and lactate production while simultaneously depressing mitochondrial respiration. Mitochondria can reduce cytosolic calcium by moving it across the inner mitochondrial membrane via the mitochondrial calcium uniporter, and then through mitochondria-associated membranes to and from calcium stores in the sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum. Through these effects on calcium, mitochondria can influence multiple calcium-sensitive nuclear transcription factors and genes, some of which govern smooth muscle phenotype, and possibly also the production of genomically encoded mitochondrial proteins and miRNAs (mitoMirs) that target the mitochondria. In turn, mitochondria also can influence nuclear transcription and mRNA processing through mitochondrial retrograde signaling, which is currently a topic of intensive investigation. Mitochondria also can signal to adjacent cells by contributing to the content of exosomes. Considering these and other mechanisms, it is becoming increasingly clear that mitochondria contribute significantly to the regulation of smooth muscle phenotype and differentiation.
    MeSH term(s) Calcium/metabolism ; Muscle, Smooth, Vascular/metabolism ; Mitochondria/metabolism ; MicroRNAs/genetics ; MicroRNAs/metabolism ; Myocytes, Smooth Muscle/metabolism ; Mitochondrial Proteins/genetics ; Mitochondrial Proteins/metabolism ; Phenotype ; Lactates/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Calcium (SY7Q814VUP) ; MicroRNAs ; Mitochondrial Proteins ; Lactates
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-11-27
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ZDB-ID 392098-7
    ISSN 1522-1563 ; 0363-6143
    ISSN (online) 1522-1563
    ISSN 0363-6143
    DOI 10.1152/ajpcell.00354.2023
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  2. Article ; Online: For myosin light chain phosphatase, a very small subunit can make very big differences in the heart.

    Pearce, William J

    American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology

    2018  Volume 314, Issue 6, Page(s) H1157–H1159

    MeSH term(s) Heart ; Heart Failure ; Humans ; Myosin Light Chains ; Myosin-Light-Chain Phosphatase ; Phosphorylation
    Chemical Substances Myosin Light Chains ; Myosin-Light-Chain Phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.53)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-03-23
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Editorial ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 603838-4
    ISSN 1522-1539 ; 0363-6135
    ISSN (online) 1522-1539
    ISSN 0363-6135
    DOI 10.1152/ajpheart.00164.2018
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  3. Article ; Online: Fetal Cerebrovascular Maturation: Effects of Hypoxia.

    Pearce, William J

    Seminars in pediatric neurology

    2018  Volume 28, Page(s) 17–28

    Abstract: The human cerebral vasculature originates in the fourth week of gestation and continues to expand and diversify well into the first few years of postnatal life. A key feature of this growth is smooth muscle differentiation, whereby smooth muscle cells ... ...

    Abstract The human cerebral vasculature originates in the fourth week of gestation and continues to expand and diversify well into the first few years of postnatal life. A key feature of this growth is smooth muscle differentiation, whereby smooth muscle cells within cerebral arteries transform from migratory to proliferative to synthetic and finally to contractile phenotypes. These phenotypic transformations can be reversed by pathophysiological perturbations such as hypoxia, which causes loss of contractile capacity in immature cerebral arteries. In turn, loss of contractility affects all whole-brain cerebrovascular responses, including those involved in flow-metabolism coupling, vasodilatory responses to acute hypoxia and hypercapnia, cerebral autoregulation, and reactivity to activation of perivascular nerves. Future strategies to minimize cerebral injury following hypoxia-ischemic insults in the immature brain might benefit by targeting treatments to preserve and promote contractile differentiation in the fetal cerebrovasculature. This could potentially be achieved through inhibition of receptor tyrosine kinase-mediated growth factors, such as vascular endothelial growth factor and platelet-derived growth factor, which are mobilized by hypoxic and ischemic injury and which facilitate contractile dedifferentiation. Interruption of the effects of other vascular mitogens, such as endothelin and angiotensin-II, and even some miRNA species, also could be beneficial. Future experimental work that addresses these possibilities offers promise to improve current clinical management of neonates who have suffered and survived hypoxic, ischemic, asphyxic, or inflammatory cerebrovascular insults.
    MeSH term(s) Cerebral Arteries/embryology ; Cerebral Arteries/growth & development ; Cerebral Arteries/metabolism ; Cerebral Arteries/physiopathology ; Cerebrovascular Disorders/metabolism ; Cerebrovascular Disorders/physiopathology ; Fetal Diseases/metabolism ; Fetal Diseases/physiopathology ; Humans ; Hypoxia, Brain/metabolism ; Hypoxia, Brain/physiopathology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-06-20
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Review
    ZDB-ID 1290000-x
    ISSN 1558-0776 ; 1071-9091
    ISSN (online) 1558-0776
    ISSN 1071-9091
    DOI 10.1016/j.spen.2018.05.003
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  4. Article ; Online: In cerebrovascular circadian rhythms, EETs keep the beat. Focus on "Rhythmic expression of cytochrome P450 epoxygenases CYP4x1 and CYP2c11 in the rat brain and vasculature".

    Pearce, William J

    American journal of physiology. Cell physiology

    2014  Volume 307, Issue 11, Page(s) C986–8

    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases/metabolism ; Brain/enzymology ; Circadian Rhythm/physiology ; Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System/metabolism ; Cytochrome P450 Family 2 ; Endothelial Cells/enzymology ; Male ; Steroid 16-alpha-Hydroxylase/metabolism
    Chemical Substances Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System (9035-51-2) ; cytochrome P-450 4X1 (EC 1.13.-) ; Aryl Hydrocarbon Hydroxylases (EC 1.14.14.1) ; CYP2C11 protein, rat (EC 1.14.14.1) ; Cytochrome P450 Family 2 (EC 1.14.14.1) ; Steroid 16-alpha-Hydroxylase (EC 1.14.14.1)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-10-01
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Editorial ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 392098-7
    ISSN 1522-1563 ; 0363-6143
    ISSN (online) 1522-1563
    ISSN 0363-6143
    DOI 10.1152/ajpcell.00327.2014
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  5. Article: The fetal cerebral circulation: three decades of exploration by the LLU Center for Perinatal Biology.

    Pearce, William J

    Advances in experimental medicine and biology

    2014  Volume 814, Page(s) 177–191

    Abstract: For more than three decades, research programs in the Center of Perinatal Biology have focused on the vascular biology of the fetal cerebral circulation. In the 1980s, research in the Center demonstrated that cerebral autoregulation operated over a ... ...

    Abstract For more than three decades, research programs in the Center of Perinatal Biology have focused on the vascular biology of the fetal cerebral circulation. In the 1980s, research in the Center demonstrated that cerebral autoregulation operated over a narrower pressure range, and was more vulnerable to insults, in fetuses than in adults. Other studies were among the first to establish that compared to adult cerebral arteries, fetal cerebral arteries were more hydrated, contained smaller smooth muscle cells and less connective tissue, and had endothelium less capable of producing NO. Work in the 1990s revealed that pregnancy depressed reactivity to NO in extra-cerebral arteries, but elevated it in cerebral arteries through effects involving changes in cGMP metabolism. Comparative studies verified that fetal lamb cerebral arteries were an excellent model for cerebral arteries from human infants. Biochemical studies demonstrated that cGMP metabolism was dramatically upregulated, but that contraction was far more dependent on calcium influx, in fetal compared to adult cerebral arteries. Further studies established that chronic hypoxia accelerates functional maturation of fetal cerebral arteries, as indicated by increased contractile responses to adrenergic agonists and perivascular adrenergic nerves. In the 2000s, studies of signal transduction established age-dependent roles for PKG, PKC, PKA, ERK, ODC, IP3, myofilament calcium sensitivity, and many other mechanisms. These diverse studies clearly demonstrated that fetal cerebral arteries were functionally quite distinct compared to adult cerebral arteries. In the current decade, research in the Center has expanded to a more molecular focus on epigenetic mechanisms and their role in fetal vascular adaptation to chronic hypoxia, maternal drug abuse, and nutrient deprivation. Overall, the past three decades have transformed thinking about, and understanding of, the fetal cerebral circulation due in no small part to the sustained research efforts by faculty and staff in the Center for Perinatal Biology.
    MeSH term(s) California ; Cerebral Arteries/embryology ; Cerebral Arteries/physiology ; Cerebrovascular Circulation/physiology ; Developmental Biology/history ; Embryology/history ; Fetal Development/physiology ; History, 20th Century ; History, 21st Century ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/history ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/physiopathology
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-07-11
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Historical Article ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ISSN 2214-8019 ; 0065-2598
    ISSN (online) 2214-8019
    ISSN 0065-2598
    DOI 10.1007/978-1-4939-1031-1_16
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  6. Article: Dissolved organic matter transformations in a freshwater rivermouth.

    Pearce, Nolan J T / Larson, James H / Evans, Mary Anne / Bailey, Sean W / Frost, Paul C / James, William F / Xenopoulos, Marguerite A

    Biogeochemistry

    2023  Volume 163, Issue 3, Page(s) 245–263

    Abstract: River-to-lake transitional areas are biogeochemically active ecosystems that can alter the amount and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) as it moves through the aquatic continuum. However, few studies have directly measured carbon processing ... ...

    Abstract River-to-lake transitional areas are biogeochemically active ecosystems that can alter the amount and composition of dissolved organic matter (DOM) as it moves through the aquatic continuum. However, few studies have directly measured carbon processing and assessed the carbon budget of freshwater rivermouths. We compiled measurements of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and DOM in several water column (light and dark) and sediment incubation experiments conducted in the mouth of the Fox river (Fox rivermouth) upstream from Green Bay, Lake Michigan. Despite variation in the direction of DOC fluxes from sediments, we found that the Fox rivermouth was a net sink of DOC where water column DOC mineralization outweighed the release of DOC from sediments at the rivermouth scale. Although we found DOM composition also changed during our experiments, alterations in DOM optical properties were largely independent of the direction of sediment DOC fluxes. We found a consistent decrease in humic-like and fulvic-like terrestrial DOM and a consistent increase in the overall microbial composition of rivermouth DOM during our incubations. Moreover, greater ambient total dissolved phosphorus concentrations were positively associated with the consumption of terrestrial humic-like, microbial protein-like, and more recently derived DOM but had no effect on bulk DOC in the water column. Unexplained variation indicates that other environmental controls and water column processes affect the processing of DOM in this rivermouth. Nonetheless, the Fox rivermouth appears capable of substantial DOM transformation with implications for the composition of DOM entering Lake Michigan.
    Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10533-022-01000-z.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-02
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1478541-9
    ISSN 1573-515X ; 0168-2563
    ISSN (online) 1573-515X
    ISSN 0168-2563
    DOI 10.1007/s10533-022-01000-z
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  7. Article ; Online: Radiolabeled Biodistribution of Expansile Nanoparticles: Intraperitoneal Administration Results in Tumor Specific Accumulation.

    Colby, Aaron H / Kirsch, Jack / Patwa, Amit N / Liu, Rong / Hollister, Beth / McCulloch, William / Burdette, Joanna E / Pearce, Cedric J / Oberliels, Nicholas H / Colson, Yolonda L / Liu, Kebin / Grinstaff, Mark W

    ACS nano

    2023  Volume 17, Issue 3, Page(s) 2212–2221

    Abstract: Nanoparticle ... ...

    Abstract Nanoparticle biodistribution
    MeSH term(s) Mice ; Humans ; Animals ; Tissue Distribution ; Mesothelioma, Malignant/drug therapy ; Mesothelioma ; Injections, Intraperitoneal ; Nanoparticles
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-26
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
    ISSN 1936-086X
    ISSN (online) 1936-086X
    DOI 10.1021/acsnano.2c08451
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  8. Article: Epigenetics: an expanding new piece of the stroke puzzle.

    Pearce, William J

    Translational stroke research

    2011  Volume 2, Issue 3, Page(s) 243–247

    Language English
    Publishing date 2011-10-04
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2541897-X
    ISSN 1868-601X ; 1868-4483
    ISSN (online) 1868-601X
    ISSN 1868-4483
    DOI 10.1007/s12975-011-0094-0
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  9. Article ; Online: MicroRNAs in brain development and cerebrovascular pathophysiology.

    Ma, Qingyi / Zhang, Lubo / Pearce, William J

    American journal of physiology. Cell physiology

    2019  Volume 317, Issue 1, Page(s) C3–C19

    Abstract: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of highly conserved non-coding RNAs with 21-25 nucleotides in length and play an important role in regulating gene expression at the posttranscriptional level via base-paring with complementary sequences of the 3'- ... ...

    Abstract MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of highly conserved non-coding RNAs with 21-25 nucleotides in length and play an important role in regulating gene expression at the posttranscriptional level via base-paring with complementary sequences of the 3'-untranslated region of the target gene mRNA, leading to either transcript degradation or translation inhibition. Brain-enriched miRNAs act as versatile regulators of brain development and function, including neural lineage and subtype determination, neurogenesis, synapse formation and plasticity, neural stem cell proliferation and differentiation, and responses to insults. Herein, we summarize the current knowledge regarding the role of miRNAs in brain development and cerebrovascular pathophysiology. We review recent progress of the miRNA-based mechanisms in neuronal and cerebrovascular development as well as their role in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. These findings hold great promise, not just for deeper understanding of basic brain biology but also for building new therapeutic strategies for prevention and treatment of pathologies such as cerebral ischemia.
    MeSH term(s) Animals ; Brain/blood supply ; Brain/growth & development ; Brain/metabolism ; Cerebrovascular Disorders/genetics ; Cerebrovascular Disorders/metabolism ; Cerebrovascular Disorders/physiopathology ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; Humans ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/genetics ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/metabolism ; Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain/physiopathology ; MicroRNAs/genetics ; MicroRNAs/metabolism ; Neovascularization, Pathologic ; Neovascularization, Physiologic ; Neurogenesis ; Neurons/metabolism ; Signal Transduction
    Chemical Substances MicroRNAs
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-03-06
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Review
    ZDB-ID 392098-7
    ISSN 1522-1563 ; 0363-6143
    ISSN (online) 1522-1563
    ISSN 0363-6143
    DOI 10.1152/ajpcell.00022.2019
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  10. Article ; Online: Postnatal development alters functional compartmentalization of myosin light chain kinase in ovine carotid arteries.

    Sorensen, Dane W / Injeti, Elisha R / Mejia-Aguilar, Luisa / Williams, James M / Pearce, William J

    American journal of physiology. Regulatory, integrative and comparative physiology

    2021  Volume 321, Issue 3, Page(s) R441–R453

    Abstract: The rate-limiting enzyme for vascular contraction, myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), phosphorylates regulatory myosin light chain ( ... ...

    Abstract The rate-limiting enzyme for vascular contraction, myosin light chain kinase (MLCK), phosphorylates regulatory myosin light chain (MLC
    MeSH term(s) Age Factors ; Animals ; Calcium/metabolism ; Calmodulin/metabolism ; Carotid Arteries/enzymology ; Carotid Arteries/growth & development ; Catalysis ; Electric Stimulation ; Female ; Fetus ; Gestational Age ; Kinetics ; Myosin Light Chains/metabolism ; Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase/metabolism ; Phosphorylation ; Sheep, Domestic
    Chemical Substances Calmodulin ; Myosin Light Chains ; Myosin-Light-Chain Kinase (EC 2.7.11.18) ; Calcium (SY7Q814VUP)
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-28
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Comparative Study ; Journal Article ; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't ; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
    ZDB-ID 603839-6
    ISSN 1522-1490 ; 0363-6119
    ISSN (online) 1522-1490
    ISSN 0363-6119
    DOI 10.1152/ajpregu.00293.2020
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