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Vascular Permeability

Vascular permeability refers to the ability of substances, such as fluids, macromolecules, and cells, to move across the endothelial barrier of blood vessels.
This process is essential for the exchange of nutrients, gases, and waste products between the bloodstream and surrounding tissues.
Alterations in vascular permeability can contribute to the development of various pathological conditions, including inflammation, edema, and tumor angiogenesis.
Understanding and optimizing the measurement of vascular permeability is crucial for research in fields such as cardiovascular biology, oncology, and drug delivery.
PubCompare.ai's AI-driven protocol comparison tool can help streamline your vascular permeability research by allowing you to easily locate, evaluate, and compare protocols from literature, pre-prints, and patents, ensuring your studies are grounded in the best available evidence and leveraging AI-powered analysis to identify the most accurate and reproducible methods.

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Animals, cell culture and transfection, RT-PCR, SPHK activity assay, S1P measurement, confocal imaging, endothelial permeability determination, and lung vascular permeability determination are described in the expanded Material and Methods section in the online data supplement, available at http://circres.ahajournals.org.
Publication 2008
Animals Biological Assay Cell Culture Techniques Dietary Supplements Endothelium Lung Permeability Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction Transfection Vascular Permeability
Details of the mathematical model can be found in the appendix. Briefly, a Krogh cylinder geometry was used where a cylindrical blood vessel segment is surrounded by tissue with a radius approximately equal to half the local inter-capillary distance (Figure 1B). Blood flows from the arterial end, where a systemic two-compartment model with biexponential decay defines the concentration. The local blood concentration is determined by the blood velocity, permeability of the vessel wall, and fraction of free drug (not bound to blood cells or plasma proteins). Cellular uptake in the blood was ignored (File S1) given the slower kinetics relative to blood flow [22] (link). A mixed boundary condition is used at the capillary interface, where the flux at the capillary wall determined by the permeability is equal to the diffusive flux into the tissue. In the tissue, the free drug undergoes radial and axial diffusion along with agent specific reaction terms. For small molecules, this involves cellular uptake and metabolism (e.g. oxygen utilization, irreversible trapping over short time scales by FDG phosphorylation, reversible uptake for doxorubicin). For antibodies, this involves reversible binding and dissociation with irreversible internalization. Due to the lack of functional lymphatics in tumors, lymphatic drainage was ignored [23] (link). The following equations defined the plasma concentration, plasma tissue interface, and tissue concentration (for first order kinetics):

where [C]plasma is the total concentration of drug in the plasma, t is time, v is the local blood velocity, L is the length along the vessel segment, Rcap is the capillary radius, H is the hematocrit, P is the vessel wall permeability, ffree is the fraction of drug that is unbound, [C]tissue,free is the unbound concentration in the tissue (overall/pseudohomogenous concentration), and epsilon the void fraction. D is the effective diffusion coefficient in tissue, r is the radial distance from a vessel, and krxn defines the local reaction rate (which is first order in this example equation).
The method of lines was used with axial and radial variations and solved with a stiff solver using Matlab (The Mathworks; Natick, MA). A sparse Jacobian was defined to decrease simulation times.
Publication 2011
Antibodies Arteries BLOOD Blood Cells Blood Circulation Blood Vessel Capillaries Cells Diffusion Doxorubicin Drainage Kinetics Lymphatic System Metabolism Neoplasms Oxygen Permeability Pharmaceutical Preparations Phosphorylation Plasma Plasma Proteins Radius Tissues Urination Vascular Permeability Volumes, Packed Erythrocyte

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Publication 2016
Arteries Blood Vessel Contrast Media Diffusion Extracellular Space gadobutrol Gadolinium Gadovist Microtubule-Associated Proteins Necrosis Neoplasms Normal Saline Perfusion Plasma Radionuclide Imaging Tissues Vascular Permeability
EB intravenous injection is a well-established method for measuring lung vascular permeability. We compared this new method with the EBA assay after intravenous injection of EB. Eighteen mice were divided into three groups, which included the control and 6 h and 24 h model groups. The mice of the model groups were instilled i.n. with 4 mg of LPS/kg b.w., and the mice of the control group were instilled i.n. with 50 µl of PBS. One hour before the mice were sacrificed, 10 mg of FITC-Dextran/kg b.w. was instilled i.n. into the airway of the model and control groups. The FI of the plasma FITC-Dextran was measured as described above.
EB (20 mg/kg b.w.; Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO, USA) was injected into the retroorbital venous sinus in the model and control mice for 30 minutes as previously reported [6] (link), [10] (link) before all of the mice were euthanized. The lungs were perfused free of blood (perfusion pressure of 5 mmHg) with PBS containing 2 mM EDTA via thoracotomy. The right lung was homogenized in PBS (1 ml/100 µg tissue), incubated with 2 volumes of formamide (18 hours at 60°C), and centrifuged at 5,000×g for 30 minutes. The optical density of the supernatant was determined spectrophotometrically at 620 nm and 740 nm using a Synergy H1 plate reader (BioTek). The extravasated EBA concentration in the lung homogenate was calculated against a standard curve (micrograms of Evans Blue dye per lung). The following formula was used to correct the optical densities for contamination with heme pigments: E620(corrected) = E620(raw)−(1.426×E740(raw)+0.030). Given the different routes of administration, the fold changes relative to the basal and not the absolute values were compared.
Publication 2014
Biological Assay BLOOD Edetic Acid Evans Blue fluorescein isothiocyanate dextran formamide Heme Lung Mus Perfusion Pigmentation Plasma Pressure Sinuses, Nasal Thoracotomy Tissues Vascular Permeability Veins Vision
We performed Medline and Scopus searches of articles from 1960–2010 using the search terms “systemic capillary leak syndrome”, “idiopathic capillary leak syndrome”, “capillary leak”, “vascular leak”, and “vascular permeability”, retrieving articles in English, French, and Chinese. Given the extreme dearth of clinical cases, most references report findings from a single patient, and with the exception of the therapeutic experience from the Mayo Clinic, none included more than 3 patients. For this reason, we have made every effort to summarize trends from separate reports where similar procedures or tests were done (e.g. skin biopsies). However, conclusions from such studies should be interpreted with caution since in most cases there was considerable variability in disease severity, treatments and temporal association of sample collection to acute symptoms. Where possible, we compare and contrast published findings with our experience in evaluating and treating 25 well defined SCLS patients at Mayo Clinic and 16 patients seen at NIAID (some were seen at both institutions). The funding sources had no role in the design, analysis, or reporting of this study or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
Publication 2010
Biopsy Blood Vessel Capillaries Capillary Leak Syndrome Chinese Patients Skin Specimen Collection Vascular Permeability Vision

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The efficacy of UBX1967 was studied in a mouse model of diabetic retinopathy, by a single administration of streptozotocin (STZ).

C57BL/6J mice of 6- to 7-week were weighted and their baseline glycemia was measured (Accu-Chek, Roche). Mice were injected intraperitoneally with STZ (Sigma-Alderich, St. Lois, Mo.) for 5 consecutive days at 55 mg/Kg. Age-matched controls were injected with buffer only. Glycemia was measured again a week after the last STZ injection and mice were considered diabetic if their non-fasted glycemia was higher than 17 mM (300 mg/dL). STZ treated diabetic C57BL/6J mice were intravitreally injected with 1l of UBX1967 (2 μM or 20 μM, formulated as a suspension in 0.015% polysorbate-80, 0.2% Sodium Phosphate, 0.75% Sodium Chloride, pH 7.2) at 8 and 9 weeks after STZ administration. Retinal Evans blue permeation assay was performed at 10 weeks after STZ treatment.

FIGS. 11A and 11B show preliminary results for this protocol. Retinal and choroidal vascular leakage after intravitreal (IVT) administration UBX1967 improved in vascular permeability at both dose levels.

Patent 2024
Animal Model Biological Assay Blood Vessel Buffers Choroid Diabetes Mellitus Diabetic Retinopathy Evans Blue Figs Mice, Inbred C57BL Mus Polysorbate 80 Retina Retinal Diseases Sodium Chloride sodium phosphate Streptozocin Vascular Permeability
The positional candidate genes were ranked based on their predicted association with seven functional terms related to the Bphs phenotype: Cardiac, G-protein coupled receptor, Histamine, Pertussis toxin, Type I hypersensitivity, Vascular Permeability, and ER/EMC/ERAD. Gene Weaver74 (link) was used to identify genes annotated with each term. Each term was entered the Gene Weaver homepage (https://geneweaver.org) and search restricted to human, rat, and mouse genes, and to curated lists only. Mouse homologs for each gene were retrieved using the batch query tool in MGI (http://www.informatics.jax.org/batch_data.shtml). In addition, using the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and PubMed, additional gene expression data sets were retrieved for each phenotype term. Final gene lists consisted of the unique set of genes associated with each process term.
Publication 2023
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia G-Protein-Coupled Receptors Gene Expression Genes Heart Histamine Homo sapiens Immediate Hypersensitivity Mice, Laboratory Pertussis Toxin Phenotype Vascular Permeability
For the permeability assay of keratinocyte monolayers, we used an in vitro vascular permeability assay kit (Sigma-Aldrich). The N/TERT were plated on the 18 mm coverslips prepared according to the manufacturer’s protocol and the experimental treatment was performed as described above. Then, the samples were treated with Fluorescein-Streptavidin for 5 min and fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde for 15 min, washed in PBS 3 times, mounted on slides and imaged with the confocal microscope. The areas inside large keratinocyte islands were chosen for the imaging.
To test the basal-to-apical permeability of RHE cultures, we adapted a method used in.104 (link) The RHEs were cultured and stimulated as described above. After 24 h of stimulation, the biotin stock solution (10 mg/mL in water, Tocris, Cat.# 7302) was added directly to the media at the bottom of the inserts to the final concentration of 0.5 mg/mL. The cultures were incubated for 1 h. Then RHEs were fixed in 4% formaldehyde overnight and embedded in paraffin. 5 μm sections were cut, deparaffinized and directly stained with Fluorescein-Streptavidin (Sigma-Aldrich, Cat.# 17–10398) at 1:2000 30 min in PBS.
For the apical-to-basal permeability assay on RHE cultures, RHE cultures were moved from deep well plates to standard 12 well plates after 11 days of airlift (10 days of standard airlifted culture followed by 24 h of stimulation). In 12 well plate, 1.850 mL medium with continuous respective stimulation was added to the bottom well and 0.6 mL medium with continuous respective stimulation and 0.2 mM Na-Fluorescein (Sigma-Aldrich) was placed in the upper chamber, on top of the cornified layer. The fluorescence intensity in the bottom well was measured after 24 h of incubation with fluorescein (meas. filter 492 nm, ref. filter 570 nm).
Publication 2023
Biological Assay Biotin Cysteamine Fluorescein Fluorescence Formaldehyde Keratinocyte Microscopy, Confocal Paraffin Embedding paraform Permeability Streptavidin TERT protein, human Therapies, Investigational Vascular Permeability
To calculate the maximum concentration at which there was no cell death a MTS cell viability assay was performed. HUVECs were cultured according to supplier protocols, subcultured, and seeded in a 96 well‐plate at a density of 10 000 cells per well. After allowing for cell adhesion overnight, the cells were treated with serial dilutions of DESs dissolved in fresh HUVEC media. The plate was incubated for 4 hours before the media was aspirated and replaced with fresh media containing 20% MTS Reagent. After 1 hours the absorbance was measured at 490 nm (BioTek Synergy neo2).
To assess vascular permeability, transport across transwell cell culture experiments were used. First, sufficient 24 well‐plate transwell inserts were coated with 0.1% gelatin under sterile conditions and stored at 4 °C overnight. The excess gelatin was removed by inversion of transwell and washed with sterile PBS. HUVECs were cultured according to supplier protocols, subcultured, and seeded on the transwell inserts with 400 µL of 250 000 cells mL−1 media. The outer well was then filled with 600 µL of fresh media and allowed to grow for 48 hours before the experimental progression. After monolayers had formed, the media was removed from the top chamber and replaced with media containing 0.15% IL and 0.9 U mL−1 insulin, this was in preparation for the concentration and insulin to IL ratio to be used in the future in vivo studies. The plate was incubated in appropriate cell culture conditions and 300 µL samples were taken from the plate wells and replaced with fresh media every 10 minutes for 1 hour. The samples were then stored at 4 °C until they were diluted appropriately and quantified using ELISA.
Publication 2023
Biological Assay Cell Adhesion Cell Culture Techniques Cell Death Cells Cell Survival Desmosine Disease Progression Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay Gelatins Insulin Inversion, Chromosome Sterility, Reproductive Technique, Dilution Vascular Permeability
The validated biomechanical model for calf muscle microvascular perfusion was reported previously.15 Briefly, the ANSYS SpaceClaim application within the ANSYS Workbench (Ansys, Inc, v. 18.2) was used for creating 3‐dimensional volumes of leg segments with a thickness of 10 mm to maintain continuity and clinical relevance (same thickness as CE‐MRI scans). The 2‐compartment Tofts‐Kermode model17 of plasma and tissue was taken as the basis of our computational microvascular model, which was used to describe the CE‐MR signal enhancement by GBCA as a reaction term in the tissue regions. The convection‐diffusion and reaction models were adopted to simulate 3‐dimensional convection‐enhanced delivery in the tissue regions.18 The skeletal muscle tissue was modeled as a porous media using the user‐defined model of elastic solid tissue with a porosity of 20% to 80% (Figure).
The primary microvascular model parameters include the transfer rate constant (kt),15, 19, 20 a measure of vascular leakiness; the interstitial permeability to fluid flow (Ktissue)15, 19, 20 which reflects the permeability of the microvasculature that is modeled as a porous medium20; porosity (φ),15, 20, 21 a measure of the fraction of the extracellular space or tissue porosity; the outflow filtration coefficient (OFC)15, 20; and the microvascular pressure (pυ).15, 20, 22 The OFC is the product of the vessel permeability and the microvascular surface area per unit volume.15, 20 Further details of the computational microvascular model were reported previously.15Parameters of the finite element model were calculated using the programming method implemented in the ANSYS software (v. 18.2). The developed full porous model is a generalization of the Navier–Stokes equations and Darcy law commonly used for flows in porous regions. Blood perfusion velocity and pressure were determined and described for each muscle domain. Blood perfusion was assumed to be transient, incompressible flow. On the boundaries, mass sources were applied to introduce additional fluid into the simulation. The arterial input function corresponding to the signal intensity of the contrast agent in the blood plasma was obtained from CE‐MRI scans1 and applied as a boundary condition for the suggested biomechanical model. Furthermore, a relative static pressure of zero was specified over the outlet boundary, and the flow velocity at the wall boundary was also set to zero. Full information about model parameters is available in our previous publication.15 The grid test and transient time step sensitivity tests were performed to check the quality of the model and for solution convergence. Mean square and mean absolute percentage errors were calculated to estimate the best agreement between simulated and CE‐MRI signal intensities. Intrarater and interrater (for 3 patients with PAD and 5 controls) reproducibility for simulated mean signal intensity over all time steps was excellent for all muscle groups, as reported previously.15
Publication 2023
Arteries BLOOD Blood Vessel Contrast Media Convection Diffusion Elastic Tissue Extracellular Space Filtration Generalization, Psychological Hypersensitivity Interstitial Fluid MRI Scans Muscle Tissue Obstetric Delivery Patients Perfusion Permeability Permeability, Microvascular Plasma Pressure Skeletal Muscles Step Test Tissues Transients Vascular Permeability

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Vascular permeability is a crucial physiological process that governs the movement of substances, such as fluids, macromolecules, and cells, across the endothelial barrier of blood vessels.
This exchange of nutrients, gases, and waste products between the bloodstream and surrounding tissues is essential for maintaining homeostasis and supporting various biological functions.
Alterations in vascular permeability can contribute to the development of various pathological conditions, including inflammation, edema, and tumor angiogenesis.
Understanding and optimizing the measurement of vascular permeability is crucial for research in fields like cardiovascular biology, oncology, and drug delivery.
Researchers often utilize techniques like the In Vitro Vascular Permeability Assay Kit, Evans blue dye, FITC-dextran, and Texas Red dextran to assess and quantify vascular permeability.
These methods can provide valuable insights into the underlying mechanisms and help identify potential therapeutic targets.
The Evans blue dye, for instance, is a widely used marker for measuring vascular permeability, as it binds to serum albumin and can be detected spectrophotometrically.
Formamide (N,N-dimethylformamide) is commonly used to extract the dye from tissues for quantification.
PubCompare.ai's AI-driven protocol comparison tool can streamline your vascular permeability research by enabling you to easily locate, evaluate, and compare protocols from literature, pre-prints, and patents.
This ensures your studies are grounded in the best available evidence and leverages AI-powered analysis to identify the most accurate and reproducible methods, helping you elevate the quality of your vascular permeability research.