Perivascular adipose tissue in cardiovascular diseases-an updateAdriana Grigoras1, Cornelia Amalinei2, Raluca Anca Balan1, Simona Eliza Giusca1, Irina Draga Caruntu1 1Department of Morphofunctional Sciences I-Histology, Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy; Iaži-Romania 2Department of Pathology, Institute of Legal Medicine; Iaži-Romania
The perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) has been recently recognized as an important factor in vascular biology, with implications in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases. The cell types and the precursor cells of PVAT appear to be different according to their location, with the component cell type including white, brown, and beige adipocytes. PVAT releases a panel of adipokines and cytokines that maintain vascular homeostasis, but it also has the ability of intervention in the pathogenesis of the atherosclerotic plaques development and in the vascular tone modulation. In this review, we summarize the current knowledge and discuss the role of PVAT as a major contributing factor in the pathogenesis of ischemic coronary disease, hypertension, obesity, and diabetes mellitus. The new perspective of PVAT as an endocrine organ, along with the recent knowledge of the mechanisms involved in dysfunctional PVAT intervention in local vascular homeostasis perturbations, nowadays represent a new area of research in cardiovascular pathology, aiming to discover new therapeutic methods. Keywords: perivascular adipose tissue, atherosclerosis, obesity, hypertension
Adriana Grigoras, Cornelia Amalinei, Raluca Anca Balan, Simona Eliza Giusca, Irina Draga Caruntu. Perivascular adipose tissue in cardiovascular diseases-an update. Anatol J Cardiol. 2019; 22(5): 219-231
Corresponding Author: Cornelia Amalinei, Romania |
|