College of Medicine
Jiang Lab
Led by Zhihua Jiang · Surgery
What we study
The Jiang Lab studies how damage signals and immune responses affect aortic aneurysms and dissections. They use mouse models and human tissue samples to explore how stress signals and immune cell types influence these conditions.
What working here is like
- Wet lab
- Mice
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 3
Current projects
Danger signals
They study how stress signals from dying cells affect aortic aneurysms using mouse models and human tissue.
Dysregulated adaptive immune responses
They investigate how immune cell types influence aortic disease progression.
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Impact of cytoskeleton deficiency
They explore how weakened cell structures contribute to aortic weakening.
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Recent papers, explained
- GSDMD Deficiency Attenuates the Development of Ascending Aortic Dissections in a Novel Mouse Model
2025 · Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
Tests whether a protein called GSDMD affects aortic dissection in mice.
- Commonly Used Myh11-CreER T2 Strain Carries a Y-Linked Functional Wild-Type Tlr7 Allele
2023 · Arteriosclerosis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
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- Nicotine Exacerbates TAAD Formation Induced by Smooth Muscle-Specific Deletion of the TGF-β Receptor 2
2021 · Journal of Immunology Research
Shows nicotine worsens aortic problems in mice missing a gene.
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