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Soliman O, Acharya Y, Gilard M, Duffy G, Wijns W, Kannan V, Sultan S. Systematic review of cardiovascular neurocristopathy-contemporary insights and future perspectives. Front Cardiovasc Med 2024; 11:1333265. [PMID: 38660479 PMCID: PMC11040563 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1333265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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Introduction Neural crest cells (NCCs) are multipotent and are attributed to the combination of complex multimodal gene regulatory mechanisms. Cardiac neural crest (CNC) cells, originating from the dorsal neural tube, are pivotal architects of the cardio-neuro-vascular domain, which orchestrates the embryogenesis of critical cardiac and vascular structures. Remarkably, while the scientific community compiled a comprehensive inventory of neural crest derivatives by the early 1980s, our understanding of the CNC's role in various cardiovascular disease processes still needs to be explored. This review delves into the differentiation of NCC, specifically the CNC cells, and explores the diverse facets of non-syndromic cardiovascular neurocristopathies. Methods A systematic review was conducted as per the PRISMA Statement. Three prominent databases, PubMed, Scopus, and Embase, were searched, which yielded 1,840 studies. We excluded 1,796 studies, and the final selection of 44 studies formed the basis of this comprehensive review. Results Neurocristopathies are a group of genetic disorders that affect the development of cells derived from the NC. Cardiovascular neurocristopathy, i.e., cardiopathy and vasculopathy, associated with the NCC could occur in the form of (1) cardiac septation disorders, mainly the aortico-pulmonary septum; (2) great vessels and vascular disorders; (3) myocardial dysfunction; and (4) a combination of all three phenotypes. This could result from abnormalities in NCC migration, differentiation, or proliferation leading to structural abnormalities and are attributed to genetic, familial, sporadic or acquired causes. Discussion Phenotypic characteristics of cardiovascular neurocristopathies, such as bicuspid aortic valve and thoracic aortic aneurysm, share a common embryonic origin and are surprisingly prevalent in the general population, necessitating further research to identify the underlying pathogenic and genetic factors responsible for these cardiac anomalies. Such discoveries are essential for enhancing diagnostic screening and refining therapeutic interventions, ultimately improving the lives of individuals affected by these conditions.
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- Osama Soliman
- Department of Cardiology, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland
- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Western Vascular Institute, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Galway, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Department of Cardiology, La Cavale Blanche Hospital, Brest, France
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- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Anatomy and Regenerative Medicine Institute (REMEDI), School of Medicine, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- Department of Cardiology, Galway University Hospital, Galway, Ireland
- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
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- CORRIB-CURAM-Vascular Group Collaborators, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Western Vascular Institute, Department of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, University Hospital Galway, University of Galway, Galway, Ireland
- Department of Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Surgery, Galway Clinic, Doughiska, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and University of Galway Affiliated Hospital, Galway, Ireland
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Yelbuz TM, Waldo KL, Zhang X, Zdanowicz M, Parker J, Creazzo TL, Johnson GA, Kirby ML. Myocardial volume and organization are changed by failure of addition of secondary heart field myocardium to the cardiac outflow tract. Dev Dyn 2003; 228:152-60. [PMID: 14517987 DOI: 10.1002/dvdy.10364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022] Open
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Cardiac neural crest ablation results in primary myocardial dysfunction and failure of the secondary heart field to add the definitive myocardium to the cardiac outflow tract. The current study was undertaken to understand the changes in myocardial characteristics in the heart tube, including volume, proliferation, and cell size when the myocardium from the secondary heart field fails to be added to the primary heart tube. We used magnetic resonance and confocal microscopy to determine that the volume of myocardium in the looped heart was dramatically reduced and the compact layer of myocardium was thinner after neural crest ablation, especially in the outflow tract and ventricular regions. Proliferation measured by 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine incorporation was elevated at only one stage during looping, cell death was normal and myocardial cell size was increased. Taken together, these results indicate that there are fewer myocytes in the heart. By incubation day 8 when the heart would have normally completed septation, the anterior (ventral) wall of the right ventricle and right ventricular outflow tract was significantly thinner in the neural crest-ablated embryos than normal, but the thickness of the compact myocardium was normal in all other regions of the heart. The decreased volume and number of myocardial cells in the heart tube after neural crest ablation most likely reflects the amount of myocardium added by the secondary heart field.
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- T Mesud Yelbuz
- Neonatal Perinatal Research Institute, Division of Neonatology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
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Ramsing M, Gillessen-Kaesbach G, Holzgreve W, Fritz B, Rehder H. Variability in the phenotypic expression of fryns syndrome: A report of two sibships. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 2000; 95:415-24. [PMID: 11146459 DOI: 10.1002/1096-8628(20001218)95:5<415::aid-ajmg2>3.0.co;2-j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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We report on two sibships with four fetuses of 12, 15, 17, and 20 weeks of gestation, respectively, and 1 preterm baby of 31 weeks of gestation affected by a multiple congenital disorder with manifestation suggestive of Fryns syndrome. In addition to the characteristic malformation pattern in Fryns syndrome, they presented with fetal hydrops, cystic hygroma, and multiple pterygias, allowing prenatal ultrasound diagnosis as early as in the 11th week of gestation. The two affected fetuses of family 1 showed severe craniofacial anomalies with bilateral cleft lip and palate, acral hypoplasia, postaxial oligodactyly, persistent truncus arteriosus, and interrupted aortic arch, asplenia sequence, and complex central nervous system midline malformations. In family 2 with three affected sibs, ear anomalies with atresia of the auditory canals, postaxial hexadactyly, intestinal atresias, callosal defects, and eye colobomas were the most outstanding features. On the basis of the present findings and former reports, the inter- and intrafamiliar phenotypic variability in Fryns syndrome, possible pathogenetic mechanisms, and the value of prenatal diagnosis are discussed. In the pathogenetic discussion, a special emphasis is put on the neural crest cell developmental field.
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- M Ramsing
- Institut für Klinische Genetik, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany
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Creazzo TL, Godt RE, Leatherbury L, Conway SJ, Kirby ML. Role of cardiac neural crest cells in cardiovascular development. Annu Rev Physiol 1998; 60:267-86. [PMID: 9558464 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.60.1.267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 223] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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The discovery in the chick embryo that a specific region of the neural crest, termed the cardiac neural crest, is essential for septation of the cardiac outflow tract and for aortic arch artery development has led to the classification of a whole series of human cardiac defects as neural crest-associated. Recently, several mouse genetic models have been effectively employed to yield new insights into the relationship between cardiac neural crest and structural heart development. In all the animal models of neural crest-related heart defects, prenatal mortality is too high to be attributed to structural defects of the heart alone, and there are obvious signs of severe cardiac dysfunction. The evidence indicates that poor viability is from impaired cardiac excitation-contraction coupling and contractile function at the myocyte level. The continued study of experimental and genetically defined models with neural crest-associated heart defects will prove useful in identifying the common pathways by which the neural crest contributes to normal heart development.
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- T L Creazzo
- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Developmental Biology Program, Augusta, Georgia 30912-2640, USA.
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Creazzo TL, Brotto MA, Burch J. Excitation-contraction coupling in the day 15 embryonic chick heart with persistent truncus arteriosus. Pediatr Res 1997; 42:731-7. [PMID: 9396550 DOI: 10.1203/00006450-199712000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Ca2+ transients were examined in embryonic chick hearts with an experimentally induced cardiac neural crest-related outflow tract defect known as persistent truncus arteriosus (PTA). In all of the animal models of neural crest-related heart defects, prenatal mortality is too high to be attributed to structural defects of the heart alone, suggesting that there is altered development of the myocardium. Earlier reports indicating reduced L-type Ca2+ current in hearts with PTA suggest that poor viability may be related to impairment of cardiac excitation-contraction coupling. To test this hypothesis, direct measurements of the systolic Ca2+ transient in fura-2-loaded myocytes from normal hearts and hearts with PTA were carried out. We found that Ca2+ transients were severely depressed in hearts with PTA and difficult to measure above background noise unless signal averaged or treated with isoproterenol (ISO). We confirmed that the reduced Ca2+ transients were due, at least partly, to a reduction in L-type Ca2+ current. In addition we found that although ISO could raise the L-type current in hearts with PTA to the level found in normal hearts in the absence of ISO, it could not fully restore the Ca2+ transient. Furthermore, caffeine-stimulated Ca2+ transients were diminished in size and the time-to-peak and the decaying phase were significantly slowed. Interestingly, these observations were not accompanied by a reduction in the number of Ca2+ release channels. These results indicated an impairment of SR function in addition to the reduction in L-type Ca2+ current. These results strongly support our hypothesis that the poor viability of embryos with PTA is due to impaired cardiac excitation-contraction coupling.
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- T L Creazzo
- Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Development Biology Program, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta 30912-2640, USA
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