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Hao Yin
@haoyin.bsky.social
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Vascular biologist
Downregulated FGF9 in type 2 diabetic #SkeletalMuscle
db/db🐭

Re-analysis of Human SkM #T2D #Sarcopenia transcriptomes
Hub genes: FGF9 BDH1 LDHA

#SciRep 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 25, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Hao's Preprint Reading List
November 25th 2025

Ion channels in Lymphatic vessels

Liver inflammation in Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Perfusable Endometriosis on a chip

Piezo1, Angiopoietin 2, Schlemm's Canal

Spiral artery remodeling in human pregnancy

docs.google.com/document/d/e...
November 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
#MetaplasticBreastCancer #Immunotherapy

Pathological complete response was achieved in
1⃣2/33 Neoadjuvant Chemo
2⃣2/7 Neoadjuvant Chemo + Immunotherapy

Love to see some immunopathology on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes & PD-L1

#BreastCancer 2025
www.dovepress.com/promising-re...
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
u-Segment3D
Universal consensus 3D segmentation of cells from 2D segmented stacks

Work on complex networks, organelles & even endothelial filopodia🤯

A solid step toward single-cell 3D spatial omics 👹

@natmethods.nature.com 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Single-nucleus profiling of Ossabaw pig🐷#Atherosclerosis model
Castrated♂️ 16-mo
+High fat & high fructose diet for 9 mo

Smooth muscle cell subclusters
⏬ACAA2+ SMC
⏬TRPC4+ SMC
⏫SPP1+ SMC
⏫NFATC2+ SMC

⏫Pericyte BDNF TGFβ Oncostatin M

⏫Myeloid SEMA3C

#iScience 2025
www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
#RNAEditing #PulmonaryArterialHypertension

ADAR1 (both p150 & p110 isoforms) ⬇️in 👤PAH (in 🫁vascular smooth muscle cell)

SMC ADAR1 KO🐭 excerbates PAH

SMC ⏫dsRNA➡️⏫PKR-eIF2B-IFNβ➡️
Macrophage M1 polarization➡️
SMC proliferation

@kekeyuan.bsky.social #CircRes 2025
www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
PRMT5 di-methylates H3R8 & H4R3▶️
⏬Myocardin-dependent #SmoothMuscleCell contractile gene transcription
⏫SMC proliferation/migration & intimal hyperplasia in injured🐭carotid artery

PRMT5 (& PRMT4) ⬆️in PDGBB-treated SMC &👤coronary #Atherosclerosis

#CardiovascRes 2023
academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
CellWhisperer

From Transcriptome to Text

A great LLM-Chatbot explorer for CELLxGENE & GEO & your own data!

Contrastive language image pretraining
Geneformer
BioBERT
>1 million bulk/pseudo-bulk transcriptomes

cellwhisperer.bocklab.org

#NatBiotech 2025
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Senolytic CAR-T

"Ablation of uPAR+ intestinal senescent cells with senolytic CAR T cells in vivo or in vitro is sufficient to promote the regenerative potential of aged intestinal stem cells", improves gut barrier integrity & mucosal immune function

bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Postnatal Cerebral Perivascular Fibroblast
#SciArt

Fibroblast PDGFRα KO🐭(P0)
👉⏬Perivascular Fibroblast & Perivascular Mφ coverage of penetrating vessels (P10)
👉↔️SMC/Astrocyte coverage

@hejcell.bsky.social
@siegenthalerlab.bsky.social
@devbiol.bsky.social 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
PRMT5 methylates & stabilizes KLF4 protein▶️
⏫#SmoothMuscleCell proliferation/migration & intimal hyperplasia in injured🐭carotid artery

Evidence from #SmoothMuscleCell PRMT5 KO🐭 & Lentiviral PRMT5

PRMT5⬆️ in👤carotid stenosis & PDGF-BB-treated SMC

#CardioVascRes 2023
academic.oup.com/cardiovascre...
November 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Beautiful work on renal microvascular mural cells from @ondinecleaver.bsky.social
#SciArt

Tbx18+ ureteric stromal progenitor at E13.5 contributes to renal arterial/arteriolar NG2+ αSMA- mural cells & inner cortical NG2+ capillary pericyte

@devbiol.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Inflammatory phenotype of Smooth Muscle Cell needed for Muscular Atherosclerotic Lesion Cap formation

Smooth Muscle Cell MyD88 KO🐭 +AAV8-PCSK9 +HFD
👉↔️aortic plaque burden, Mφ, collagen, necrotic core
👉⏬Plaque SMC, Cap SMC ⏫Medial SMC

#Atherosclerosis 2025
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 19, 2025 at 8:06 PM
#Senescence #Mechanobiology

Human adult lung #Fibroblast undergoes spontaneous #Senescence on soft, viscoelastic hydrogel

Norbornene-modified #HyaluronicAcid▶️
#Stiffness
β-cyclodextrin-modified #HyaluronicAcid▶️
#Viscoelasticity

Likely #YAP independent

bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
“Time is brain” for cell therapies?🧠

Our #AdvSci perspective😆
@rrust.bsky.social
@dominikusbrian.com
@lydenlab.bsky.social

#StemCellTherapy for #Stroke should be timed to a biomarker-defined “window of receptivity”, not just the thrombolysis clock

advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
November 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Lab-in-the-loop therapeutic antibody design with deep learning

Targets
EGFR
IL6
HER2
OSM

11 lead Ab➡️ 4 rounds with > 3X ⏫binding affinity➡️ > 1800 Ab designs

Hope this system can yield antibodies with better immunohistochemical performance as well

bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
PRMT5 methylates NF-κB p65 to enhance trimethylamine N-oxide-NOX4-induced #SmoothMuscleCell inflammation

SM22α+ SMC PRMT5 KO🐭 + carotid wire injury + TMAO i.p.▶️
⏬p65 methylation
⏬Vascular cell VCAM1
⏬CD68 recruitment

#CellDeathDis 2022
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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