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Hao Yin
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Vascular biologist
Lung morphogenesis🦎 Squamate/Lizards

Pressure-driven pushing of 🫁epithelium +
Proliferation-driven expansion of elongating epithelial subbronchi/diverticulae

Smooth muscle mesh provides structural guide for epithelial protrusions

#DevDyn 2025
anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
#SmoothMuscleCell m6A Epitranscriptomics

METTL14 ⬆️in 🐭 #ThoracicAorticAneurysm (AngII+HFD) or erastin-treated SMC

Liproxstatin-1 or AAV-shMettl14⏬🐭TAA

METTL14-IGF2BP2 stabilizes ACSL4 mRNA➡️
SMC #Ferroptosis

SRAMP➡️m6A site prediction

#AJPCellPhys 2025
journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 PM
APOE4 genotype promotes a brain Pericyte-to-Myofibroblast transition

Evidence from APOE4🐭, miBrain & 👤🧠

What's 🧠Myofibroblast?
👉Distinct from Perivascular fibroblast
👉Source of fibronectin, soiling amyloid aggr.
👉Can scatter in 🧠parenchyma
👉TGFβ-driven

bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Meningeal vascular remodeling in 2~4 mo ovariectomized🐭
⏬blood vessel length
⏫blood vessel tortuosity
⏫PDPL+ lymphatic vessel area fraction
Ectopic vessel muscularization
Perivascular scattered αSMA+ cells in dura mater

#Cells_MDPI 2025
www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/14...
November 15, 2025 at 11:20 PM
My continued biomedical education

Shaping neutrophil morphology & function
The importance of a segmented nucleus

Polylobular nuclei likely help Neutrophil with
👉Motile flexibility
👉Differentiation
👉NETosis
👉Rapid switching b/w A/B compartments

#NatRevImmunol 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Germline Bmp9 KO🐭, Not Bmp10 KO🐭or BMP9-neutralizing Ab

Normoxia
⏬muscularized pulmonary arterioles

Normoxia + Tamoxifen (Not Cre off-target effects)
Cardiomegaly
Splenomegaly
⏬alveolar space
⏫🫁iron-loaded Mφ

#Angiogenesis 2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
November 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
In vivo two-photon microscopy for studies of #NeuroVascularCoupling in rodents

(More than) a beginner’s guide🫡

Likely adaptable for skeletal muscle with second skin window😁

#Neurophotonics 2025
www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neu...
November 14, 2025 at 12:13 PM
#SmoothMuscleCell Mettl14, ⬆️in injured artery, aggravates #IntimalHyperplasia via ⏫nascent KLF4 & SERPINE1 mRNA synthesis (Not impacting mRNA stability)

Likely Mettl3, but not other m6A readers/writers/erasers, plays a minor role

@insight.jci.org 2025
insight.jci.org/articles/vie...
November 13, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Do Not miss this great @navbo.bsky.social online event😆

Specification of Endothelial Cell Phenotypes

Organized by Dr. Ralf Adams @ralfhadams.bsky.social
& Dr. Vicki Bautch

Abstract deadline November 20

members.navbo.org/calendar-of-...
November 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Zebrafishology, study design guidelines for rigorous & reproducible data using zebrafish

Actually, this is an entertaining reading piece for a non-fishman like me😀

Reminder: Zebrafish is an emerging model of #Aortopathy!

Victoria Bedell lab #CommunBiol 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
#Autophagy #Mechanobiology

Interesting evidence on opposite effects of ⏫matrix stiffness on Autophagy of #EndothelialCell⏬ vs #SmoothMuscleCell⏫

280~480 kPa, crosslinked poly(L-lysine)-hyaluronic acid film on coverglass

#BioactiveMat 2021
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
#DiabeticRetinopathy

EC LRG1 ⏫Pericyte TGFβ▶️
Hypercontractile & matrix phenotype

Lrg1 KO in hyperglycemic🐭 rescues
👉Retinal vascular permeability
👉⬇️Density φ Oxygenation in deep vasc plexus
👉⬇️ERG b-wave amp

@giuliaderossi.bsky.social #ScienceTM 2025
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 12, 2025 at 12:32 PM
YOLT-101
Another single-infusion #BaseEditor therapy for Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia
From #YolTech Therapeutics

0.6 mg/kg N=3
Being effective in 1 wk
Sustained 70% ⬇️plasma PCSk9 & 50% ⬇️LDL-C till 16-wk

medRxiv 2025
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
1st single-cell #SpatialTranscriptomics map of human coronary #Atherosclerosis published in peer-reviewed format🤠

CosMx 1k + GeoMx @brukerspatial

Immune cell-focused analysis

Use CosMx data to deconvolve GeoMx cell composition...😆

#EmboMolMed 2025
www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
#Rhabdomyosarcoma
Nanostring multiplex protein + microRNA nCounter (not very spatial omics)
5 Embryonal
7 spindle cell-sclerosing

Poor prognosis
INPP4B
miR-3144-3p
miR-612
miR-302d-3p
miR-421
miR-548ar-5p
miR-548y

Atif Ahmed lab Cancers 2022
www.mdpi.com/2072-6694/14...
November 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My continued biomedical education

Structural immunity: immune cells as architects of tissue barriers

Beyond destroying, Macrophages & Neutrophils also build - transport/synthesize/deposit matrix components during skin repair or myocardial fibrosis

#NatRevImmun 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Perturbing MEK–ERK–c-Myc bioenergetic axis in tumor #EndothelialCell suppress primary tumor growth

Evidence from an engineered tumor cell type-selective #AnthraxToxin system allowing
MEK cleavage/inactivation in selective #TumorMicroEnvironmental cell types

#PNAS 2025
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Lipid quality control #Ferroptosis

"Lipid Droplet-localized FSP1/ferroptosis suppressor protein 1 reduces CoQ10 to generate local antioxidants that prevent neutral lipid peroxidation"

Any role of FSP1 in #Atherosclerosis!?😆

@olzmannlab.bsky.social #NatCellBio 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Second Skin"
A flexible PDMS window enables up to 3-week intravital imaging of mouse tissue dynamics of mammary gland, tumor & even skeletal muscle!

Direct visualization of satellite cell division in injured muscle

Enjoyable re-reading!😄

#ScienceAdvances 2021
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
November 8, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#MetaplasticBreastCancer

Neoadjuvant chemo-immunotherapy response predicts long-term survival

KEYNOTE-522
N=32 stage I-III

high stromal tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes corr. pCR
pCR (n=7)➡️no recurrence
2/3 of residual disease➡️recurrence in 14 mo

#NPJBreastCancer2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Hao's Preprint Reading List
November 7 2025

EndMT Thermogenesis Brown Adipose Tissue

hiPSC-derived Lymphatic Endothelial Cell

MERFISH+ 3D Spatial Transcriptomics

Atherogenic stress & Neurovascular functions

Smooth muscle lineage in Medial Arterial Calcification

docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 7, 2025 at 12:05 PM
#SmoothMuscleCell Epitranscriptomics

METTL3-YTHDC1 (m6A reader) ⏫SGK1 mRNA synthesis (but not stability)

135 METTL3 target genes by RNAseq+MeRIPseq in rat SMC

SMC Mettl3 KO🐭➡️
⏬carotid #IntimalHyperplasia➡️
⏫by AAV9-SM22a-SGK1

#ATVB 2025 @ahascience.bsky.social
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
November 6, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Bioengineering of the implantable vascularized pancreatic islet constructs for insulin delivery suitable for clinical upscaling

Amniogel (human amniotic membrane-derived)
Blood outgrowth endothelial cell
Isolate islet
s.c. graft in diabetic NSG🐭

bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
NRIP2+ #SmoothMuscleCell (likely mediating metabolic resilience by Leptin signaling) #AorticDissection

Leptin antagonist R128Q or AAV9-SM22a-NRIP2
⏬🐭AD #AorticRupture (BAPN)
⏫contractile SMC
⏫SMC mitochondrial ultrastructure & OXPHOS

#AdvSci 2025
advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM