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Calcium ionophore enhances endothelial inflammation similarly, whereas calcium chelators and protein kinase C inhibitor block Wnt5a-induced activation, suggesting a role for the Wnt/Ca2+/protein kinase C pathway in endothelial inflammatory regulation. Wnt5a activates RelA nuclear translocation and DNA binding. Activated blood vessels, histiocytes, and synoviocytes express Wnt5a in atherosclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis but not in normal tissue, supporting the role of Wnt5a as an inflammatory mediator in vivo. Our data suggest that endothelial inflammation is regulated by a dual system consisting of β-catenin–independent Wnt signaling and TNF-α–mediated signaling.</jats:p>","journal":"The Journal of Immunology","year":2010,"id":660935,"datarank":0.7984514968707613,"base_score":5.3230099791384085,"endowment":5.3230099791384085,"self_citation_contribution":0.7984514968707613,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.7984514968707613,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":204,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":10,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1725336,"name":"Jungtae Kim","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":133849,"name":"Dong Wook Kim","orcid":"0009-0008-8756-359X","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1725337,"name":"Yunhi Ha","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1725338,"name":"Min Hwan Ihm","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":190718,"name":"Hyeri Kim","orcid":null,"position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":114222,"name":"Kyuyoung Song","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1725339,"name":"Inchul Lee","orcid":null,"position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":985725,"name":"Jihun Kim","orcid":"0000-0003-4856-6305","position":0,"is_corresponding":false}],"reference_count":0,"raw_metadata":{"has_enrichment":true,"resolved":true,"title":"Wnt5a Induces Endothelial Inflammation via β-Catenin–Independent Signaling","abstract":"<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title>\n               <jats:p>Wnt signaling has been implicated in certain inflammatory diseases. 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