Vascular calcification is a widely-spread pathology with high mortality. It is active bioregulated process that is observed in pathogenesis of different desires, associated with metabolic dysfunction, congenital tissue desires and aging. Signal pathways and transcription factors that are involved in vascular calcification are also takes place in normal osteogenesis and/or vascular development. In the review the main attention is payed to the role of signaling pathways BMP (bone morphogenic protein), Notch, Wnt and to the role of transcription factors BMP2, RUNX2, Msx2 in vascular calcification. Probably, dysfunction of osteogenic signal pathways and transdifferentiation of vascular cells to osteoblast-like cells is a common prosses not only for vascular calcification or mineralization, but is a way of vascular degradation in general. Proosteogenic changes at cellular and molecular level may play role in pathogenesis of a disease without manifestation of vascular mineralization, such as thoracic aortic aneurys
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)6-21
JournalТрансляционная медицина
Volume7
Issue number1
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • aortic aneurysm, atherosclerosis, Bmp-2, media calcification, mediasclerosis, notch, Runx2, smooth muscle cell, vascular calcification, аневризма аорты, атеросклероз, гладкомышечные клетки, кальцификация медии, медиасклероз, сосудистая кальцификация

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