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Transfer and Expression of the Interferon Gamma Gene in Human Endothelial Cells Inhibits Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Growth in Vitro

Cell Transplantation, 1997
Intimal hyperplasia in blood vessels is primarily caused by the migration and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Excessive intimal thickening characterizes atherosclerosis as well as bypass graft and angioplasty failures.
Alison T. Stopeck M.D., Mahmood Vahedian, Stuart K. Williams   +2 more
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Imbalance of Endothelium-derived Relaxing and Contracting Factors: A New Concept in Hypertension? [PDF]

, 2017
The endothelium has a strategical anatomical position between the circulating blood and vascular smooth muscle cells. It has recently been recognized that endothelial cells play an important regulatory role in the circulation.
Lüscher, T. F.
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Self‐Assembling Peptide Hydrogels Support Stromal Vascular Fraction Viability to Promote In Vivo Nerve Regeneration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Stromal vascular fraction (SVF) may enhance nerve repair, especially when delivered in a self‐assembling peptide hydrogel (SAPH). In vitro, softer SAPH increased neuronal explant outgrowth and supported greater SVF viability and proliferation. In a rat sciatic defect, SVF in an optimized SAPH produced motor and sensory recovery equivalent to autograft ...
Liam A. McMorrow, Steffan Llewellyn, Jared McSweeney, Alessandro Faroni, Aline F. Miller, Alberto Saiani, Adam J. Reid   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Atrial Natriuretic Peptide: Binding and Cyclic GMP Response in Cultured Vascular SmoothMuscle Cells From Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats [PDF]

, 2017
Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) is vasodilatory and natriuretic, but whereas increased plasma ANP levels occur in spontaneously hypertensive rats, their elevated vascular resistance suggests inappropriate target tissue responsiveness to ANP.
Baur, Ursula, Bühler, Fritz R., Jones, C. Richard, Resink, Thérèse J., Scott-Burden, Timothy   +4 more
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Human Brain Vasculature‐on‐a‐Chip Model Constructed With Microvessels Isolated From Cryopreserved Postmortem Human Brain Tissue

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This manuscript describes the cultivation of viable microvessels from cryopreserved human brain tissue. When embedded in hydrogels and cultured in microfluidic devices, these microvessels exhibit complex architectures reminiscent of arterioles and capillaries, can be perfused, and display intact barrier function. Collectively, these results demonstrate
Brian J. O'Grady, A. Scott McCall, Samuel Cullison, Daniel Chavarria, Matthew S. Schrag, Ethan S. Lippmann   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

siRNA Delivery via Cross‐Linked Gelatin Microparticles Enables Targeted Modulation of Osteogenic‐Vascular Cross‐Talk: An Advanced Human 3D in Vitro Test System for Therapeutic siRNA

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Osteogenic‐angiogenic cross‐talk is a vital prerequisite for vascularized bone regeneration. In this study, we investigated the effects of siRNA‐mediated silencing of two inhibitory proteins, Chordin and WWP‐1, via CaP‐NP‐loaded gelatin microparticles in osteogenically differentiated microtissues.
Franziska Mitrach, Jonas Kubat, Stefan Simm, Alexandra H. Springwald, Burak Demir, Anton Liebezeit, Michael C. Hacker, Michaela Schulz‐Siegmund   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low‐Temperature Fabrication of Thymosin β4‐Loaded Soluble Microneedles to Promote Wound Healing by Specific Binding to Downregulated Immune Regulators Vsig4 and IL22rɑ2

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic diagram depicting the fabrication and application of thymosin β4 (Tβ4)‐loaded microneedle patches for wound treatment. The Tβ4 was loaded into chitosan (CS) and sucrose MNs under mild conditions (4°C, 65% relative humidity). The Tβ4 MN patch specifically binds to the downregulated immune regulators Vsig4 and IL22rα2, thereby accelerating ...
Shilong He, Mei Yuan, Changkang Feng, Yixuan Zhang, Jinjing Che   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Double labelling immunohistochemical characterization of autonomic sympathetic neurons innervating the sow retractor clitoridis muscle [PDF]

, 2008
Retrograde neuronal tracing and immunohistochemical methods were used to define the neurochemical content of sympathetic neurons projecting to the sow retractor clitoridis muscle (RCM). Differently from the other smooth muscles of genital organs, the RCM
Acone, Franca, Bo Minelli, Luisa, Botti, Maddalena, Gazza, Ferdinando, Palmieri, Giovanni, Panu, Rino, Ragionieri, Luisa   +6 more
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Automating Vascular Biology: An End‐to‐End Automated Workflow for High‐Throughput Blood Vessel‐on‐a‐Chip Production and Multi‐Site Validation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
AngioPlate384 is a 384‐well open‐top platform that automates production of more than 100 miniaturized, perfusable blood vessels embedded in hydrogel and supported by stromal cells. Stromal‐endothelial co‐culture strengthens blood vessel barrier function and yields responses useful for translational planning. Scalable and automation‐ready, it suits drug
Dawn S. Y. Lin, Hanieh Mohammad Hashemi, Kimia Asadi Jozani, Anushree Chakravarty, Sonya Kouthouridis, Jessica Bonanno, Nicky Anvari, Shravanthi Rajasekar, Feng Zhang, Richard Y. Cheng, Narendra Kumar Singh, Luis Miguel Medina, Marc Durante, Yufang He, Boyang Zhang   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Somatic PDGFRB activating variants promote smooth muscle cell phenotype modulation in intracranial fusiform aneurysm

Journal of Biomedical Science
Background The fusiform aneurysm is a nonsaccular dilatation affecting the entire vessel wall over a short distance. Although PDGFRB somatic variants have been identified in fusiform intracranial aneurysms, the molecular and cellular mechanisms driving ...
Li Hao, Xiaolong Ya, Jiaye Wu, Chuming Tao, Ruochen Ma, Zhiyao Zheng, Siqi Mou, Yiming Ling, Yingxi Yang, Jiguang Wang, Yan Zhang, Qing Lin, Jizong Zhao   +12 more
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