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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells [PDF]
Decades of work have shown that vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotypes are controlled by cues received from the local environment.1–3 When nestled into a cage of cross-linked collagen and elastin of its own making,4 medial SMCs exhibit a fully differentiated phenotype conferred by the transcriptional activity of myocardin and serum response ...
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Vascular smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis [PDF]
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are a major cell type present at all stages of an atherosclerotic plaque. According to the 'response to injury' and 'vulnerable plaque' hypotheses, contractile VSMCs recruited from the media undergo phenotypic conversion to proliferative synthetic cells that generate extracellular matrix to form the fibrous cap and ...
Martin R. Bennett+6 more
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Human tribbles-1 controls proliferation and chemotaxis of smooth muscle cells via MAPK signaling pathways [PDF]
Migration and proliferation of smooth muscle cells are key to a number of physiological and pathological processes, including wound healing and the narrowing of the vessel wall.Previous work has shown links between inflammatory stimuli and vascular ...
Agnes Czibula+58 more
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Smoothelin in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells [PDF]
Smoothelin-A and -B have only been found in fully differentiated contractile smooth muscle cells. They are increasingly used to monitor the smooth muscle cell differentiation process to a contractile or synthetic phenotype. Vascular-specific smoothelin-B is the first smooth muscle cell marker that disappears when vascular tissues are compromised, for ...
Petra Niessen+2 more
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Role of smooth muscle progenitor cells in vascular mechanical injury and repair
Smooth muscle progenitor cells are precursor cells that express both smooth muscle cell and stem cell markers, and can differentiate into smooth muscle cells under specific condition.
Zhu-feng Dong+7 more
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Calcium and Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction [PDF]
Radioactive calcium flux in rabbit aorta was studied to evaluate factors regulating the movement of calcium into and out of the cell. Calcium content was estimated both from (1) the amount of 45 Ca present in the tissue and the specific activity of Ca in the bathing medium, and (2) determination of chemical calcium ...
Charles L. Seidel, David F. Bohr
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Assessment of a novel, capsid-modified adenovirus with an improved vascular gene transfer profile [PDF]
<p>Background: Cardiovascular disorders, including coronary artery bypass graft failure and in-stent restenosis remain significant opportunities for the advancement of novel therapeutics that target neointimal hyperplasia, a characteristic of both ...
AA Soyombo+47 more
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Vascular Smooth Muscle Updated [PDF]
• This brief review of the rapidly developing research on vascular smooth muscle presents the state of the art as I see it from within my own frame of reference. For a more objective, detailed insight into the workings of vascular smooth muscle, several substantial reviews and compendiums may be read (1-7).
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The vascular endothelium and smooth muscle form adjacent cellular layers that comprise part of the vascular wall. Each cell type can regulate the other’s structure and function through a variety of paracrine effectors.
Michael J. Boyer+7 more
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Redox signaling, Nox5 and vascular remodeling in hypertension [PDF]
Purpose of review: Extensive data indicate a role for reactive oxygen species (ROS) and redox signaling in vascular damage in hypertension. However, molecular mechanisms underlying these processes remain unclear, but oxidative post-translational ...
De Lucca Camargo, Livia+5 more
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