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. 2020 Jul 16;17:44. doi: 10.1186/s12987-020-00202-7

Table 1.

Modeling cerebrovascular disease (CVD) in culture. Summary of current in vitro models of CVD that include the modeled in vitro condition, blood brain barrier (BBB) pathology and utilized in vitro BBB model

CVD In vitro model condition BBB pathology Utilized in vitro BBB model Refs.
Stroke
 Ischemic

OGD (1–5 h)

OGD + Reperfusion (reoxygenation + normal glucose level)

(1–5 h + 1–96 h)

Chemical ischemia (rotenone, antimycin and sodium azide)

Enzymatic (GOX, GOX/CAT and 2-deoxyglucose)

Hyperpermeability

Cytotoxicity

Inflammation

BBB recovery

Angiogenesis

BEC monolayer

2-D model

DIV-BBB

3-D model

[78, 127, 148, 160, 162, 165]

[164, 166, 167, 182]

[126]

[135]

[156158]

 Hemorrhagic

hemin/hemoglobin +/OGD

thrombin ± OGD

Hyperpermeability

Cytotoxicity

Inflammation

BEC monolayer

2-D model

[187, 189, 207211]

[186]

Vascular dementia
 CADASIL

Replicative senescence

H2O2 (50 μM)

modification of telomerase

DNA damage

NOTCH3 mutation

Senescence

Hyperpermeability

Inflammation

BEC monolayer

hiPSC

[194, 201, 202]

[206]

Vascular malformation
 CCM 1-3 Gene silencing Hyperpermeability signaling BEC monolayer [59, 95]

BEC brain endothelial cell, CAT catalase, CCM cerebral cavernous malformation, GOX glucose oxidase, hiPSC human induced pluripotent stem cell, OGD oxygen glucose deprivation