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Regulation of force in vascular smooth muscle
Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology, 2003Vascular smooth muscle contraction plays a defining role in the regulation and maintenance of blood pressure, and its deregulation is associated with many clinical syndromes including hypertension, coronary vasospasm and congestive heart failure. Over the past 20 years, there has been a growing understanding of the regulation of 20 kDa myosin light ...
Ozgur, Ogut, Frank V, Brozovich
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Gap junctions in vascular smooth muscle
Acta Physiologica Scandinavica, 1998Gap junction channels are the only class of channels which span two closely apposed plasma membranes. There are over a dozen identified subunit proteins or connexins. Three generic types of gap junction channels are possible. They are the homotypic, heterotypic and heteromeric types, each of which has a distinct connexin distribution.
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MicroRNA and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
2011Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) exhibit extraordinary plasticity during postnatal development. Vascular injury initiates VSMC phenotypic switch from the contractile to proliferative phenotype, which plays a central role in vascular lesion formation and diverse vascular diseases.
Changqing, Xie +2 more
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Leptin and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2014This review concerns the influence of leptin on vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). VSMC express different isoforms of the leptin receptor (Ob-R) able to activate a wide range of intracellular signalling pathways, mediating many relevant biological actions.
Mariella, Trovati +5 more
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Vascular smooth muscle and arterial calcification
Zeitschrift f�r Kardiologie, 2000Smooth muscle cultures can calcify under certain circumstances. As a model system these cultures therefore provide information on why calcification occurs in atherosclerotic plaques. Whether all smooth muscle cells (under certain conditions), or only specific populations, can produce this mineralization has not been resolved.
Campbell, G. R., Campbell, J. H.
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1996
Smooth Muscle Tissue. The visceral mesenchyma (splanchnopleura) is the principal source for smooth muscle tissue. It also forms the layer-shaped muscle and connective tissue strata of the vessel walls. The vascular system of the human embryo develops from blood islets in the middle of the third week, shortly before somite formation, when the embryo can
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Smooth Muscle Tissue. The visceral mesenchyma (splanchnopleura) is the principal source for smooth muscle tissue. It also forms the layer-shaped muscle and connective tissue strata of the vessel walls. The vascular system of the human embryo develops from blood islets in the middle of the third week, shortly before somite formation, when the embryo can
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Effects of capsaicin on vascular smooth muscle
Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology, 1986Acute administration of capsaicin in vitro produced either vascular smooth muscle contraction (cat middle cerebral artery) or smooth muscle relaxation (guinea pig carotid artery and thoracic aorta). Prior in vivo treatment with capsaicin abolished the relaxation response of guinea pig vessels to acute capsaicin.
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Chemokine Receptors in Vascular Smooth Muscle
Microcirculation, 2003ABSTRACTAtherosclerosis is considered to be an inflammatory disease. Chemokines are low‐molecular‐weight proteins that exert their effects, in part, through mediating leukocytic infiltration into the vessel wall. Recently, studies have determined that chemokines and their receptors are present, and function on other cellular components comprising the ...
Alison D, Schecter +2 more
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Sarcoglycans in Vascular Smooth and Striated Muscle
Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2003Sarcoglycans are transmembrane proteins important in the maintenance of proper muscle function. Together, the sarcoglycans form a heteromeric complex that interacts with dystrophin, dystroglycan, and filamin C to form a mechanosignaling complex. Mutations in the genes encoding sarcoglycan can produce cardiomyopathy and muscular dystrophy.
Matthew T, Wheeler, Elizabeth M, McNally
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Actomyosin of Human Vascular Smooth Muscle
Nature, 1966ACTOMYOSIN of vascular smooth muscle appears to be similar in certain properties to actomyosin of uterine smooth muscle1. These properties include solubility, viscosity (ATP sensitivity), and ATPase activity. Needham2 first observed that uterine actomyosin showed an elevated ATPase activity when the potassium chloride concentration was raised from 0.1 ...
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