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Record W4406868194 · doi:10.1002/smsc.202400489

Shear Stress and Microbubble‐Mediated Modulation of Endothelial Cell Immunobiology

2025· article· en· W4406868194 on OpenAlex
Elahe Memari, Davindra Singh, Ryan Alkins, Brandon Helfield

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Bibliographic record

VenueSmall Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicPhotoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging
Canadian institutionsKingston Health Sciences CentreQueen's UniversityConcordia University
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchCancer Research SocietyCanada Research ChairsBurroughs Wellcome Fund
KeywordsChemokineImmune systemEndothelial stem cellCell biologyEndotheliumCytokineChemistryImmunologyCancer researchBiologyIn vitroEndocrinologyBiochemistry

Abstract

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Cellular immunotherapy remains hindered in the context of solid tumors due to the immunosuppressive microenvironment, in which key endothelial cell adhesion molecules (CAM) are suppressed. Microbubble‐mediated focused ultrasound is being explored for targeted immunotherapy and can exert local shear stress upon neighboring endothelial cells. However, fluid and microbubble‐induced shear modulation of endothelial immunobiology is not well understood. Herein, the influence of both types of shear stress on human endothelial vein (HUVEC) and brain endothelial (HBEC‐5i) CAM expression and secretion of over 90 cytokines using acoustically coupled microscopy is examined. Fluid flow results in time‐dependent modulation of CAM expression, where ICAM‐1 peaked at 4 h (1.98‐fold, p < 0.001, HUVEC) and 24 h (1.56‐fold, p < 0.001, HBEC‐5i). While some chemokines are significantly enhanced (up to 16.2‐fold; p < 0.001) from both endothelial cell types (e.g., IL‐8, MCP‐1, MCP‐3), others are differentially expressed (e.g., CCL5, CXCL‐16, SDF‐1). Under ultrasound, ICAM‐1 expression at 4 h increased (≈1.4‐fold, p < 0.01) and resulted in significant large‐magnitude ( p < 0.05) differential expression of 20 cytokines, most of which have immune‐activating function and within a subset of those induced by shear‐flow. Microbubble‐mediated ultrasound regulates ICAM‐1 expression and the human endothelial secretome toward an immune cell recruitment paradigm, and thus may reinforce solid tumor cellular immunotherapy efforts.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.290
Threshold uncertainty score0.199

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.004
GPT teacher head0.190
Teacher spread0.186 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it