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Smoothelin in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells [PDF]

Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2007
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 ...
van Eys, G.J.J.M., Niessen, P.M.G., Rensen, S.S.M.   +2 more
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Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Function and Oxidative Stress Induced by NADPH Oxidase with the Clinical Implications

Cells, 2021
Among reactive oxygen species, superoxide mediates the critical vascular redox signaling, resulting in the regulation of the human cardiovascular system.
Kazumi Takaishi, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Shingo Kawashima, Shinji Kawahito   +3 more
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Biochemical Properties of a Bushmaster Snake Venom Serine Proteinase (LV-Ka), and Its Kinin Releasing Activity Evaluated in Rat Mesenteric Arterial Rings

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2004
A serine proteinase with kallikrein-like activity (LV-Ka) has been purified to homogeneity from bushmaster snake (Lachesis muta muta) venom. Physicochemical studies indicated that LV-Ka is a single chain glycoprotein with a molecular mass (Mr) of 33 kDa ...
Maria L.D. Weinberg, Liza F. Felicori, Cynthia A. Bello, Henrique P.B. Magalhães, Alvair P. Almeida, Arinos Magalhães, Eladio F. Sanchez   +6 more
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iPLA2β overexpression in smooth muscle exacerbates angiotensin II-induced hypertension and vascular remodeling. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Calcium independent group VIA phospholipase A(2) (iPLA(2)β) is up-regulated in vascular smooth muscle cells in some diseases, but whether the up-regulated iPLA(2)β affects vascular morphology and blood pressure is unknown.
Lindsay E Calderon, Shu Liu, Wen Su, Zhongwen Xie, Zhenheng Guo, Wanda Eberhard, Ming C Gong   +6 more
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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells [PDF]

Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 2016
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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Purinergic Signaling During Hyperglycemia in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2020
The activation of purinergic receptors by nucleotides and/or nucleosides plays an important role in the control of vascular function, including modulation of vascular smooth muscle excitability, and vascular reactivity.
Miguel Martin-Aragon Baudel, Ricardo Espinosa-Tanguma, Madeline Nieves-Cintron, Manuel F. Navedo   +3 more
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Acute glucose influx-induced mitochondrial hyperpolarization inactivates myosin phosphatase as a novel mechanism of vascular smooth muscle contraction

Cell Death and Disease, 2021
It is well-established that long-term exposure of the vasculature to metabolic disturbances leads to abnormal vascular tone, while the physiological regulation of vascular tone upon acute metabolic challenge remains unknown.
Jie Xu, Hongyan Yang, Lu Yang, Zhen Wang, Xinghua Qin, Jiaheng Zhou, Ling Dong, Jia Li, Minsheng Zhu, Xing Zhang, Feng Gao   +10 more
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Bindarit inhibits human coronary artery smooth muscle cell proliferation, migration and phenotypic switching [PDF]

, 2012
Bindarit, a selective inhibitor of monocyte chemotactic proteins (MCPs) synthesis, reduces neointimal formation in animal models of vascular injury and recently has been shown to inhibit in-stent late loss in a placebo-controlled phase II clinical trial.
DI LAURO M. V., Maria Vittoria Di Lauro (127364), Teresa Iuvone (127378), Angelo Guglielmotti, Angelo Guglielmotti (127381), Pasquale Maffia (127384), Gianluca Grassia (127362), Cicala, C., MADDALUNO, MARCELLA, Francesco Maione, Maria Vittoria Di Lauro, Nicola Mascolo, Nicola Mascolo (127387), Maffia, P., Gianluca Grassia, Armando Ialenti, Antonio Parisi (127365), GRASSIA, GIANLUCA, Guglielmotti, A., IALENTI, ARMANDO, Grassia, G., IUVONE, TERESA, MASCOLO, NICOLA DOMENICO C. FERDINANDO, Carla Cicala (127370), Pasquale Maffia, MAIONE, FRANCESCO, Maione, F., Iuvone, T., Maddaluno, M., GUGLIELMOTTI A., Daniele De Filippis (127374), De Filippis, D., Antonio Parisi, Carla Cicala, Armando Ialenti (127390), Ialenti, A., Parisi, A., CICALA, CARLA, MAFFIA, PASQUALE, Marcella Maddaluno (127360), Marcella Maddaluno, Teresa Iuvone, PARISI A., Mascolo, N., Francesco Maione (127366), Di Lauro, M.V., Daniele De Filippis, DE FILIPPIS, DANIELE   +47 more
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α-Smooth Muscle Actin and ACTA2 Gene Expressions in Vasculopathies

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, 2015
α-smooth muscle actin, encoded by ACTA2 gene, is an isoform of the vascular smooth muscle actins, typically expressed in the vascular smooth muscle cells contributing to vascular motility and contraction. ACTA2 gene mutations cause a diversity of diffuse
Shi-Min Yuan
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Dietary salt initiates redox signaling between endothelium and vascular smooth muscle through NADPH oxidase 4

Redox Biology, 2022
Prevention of phenotype switching of vascular smooth muscle cells is an important determinant of normal vascular physiology. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) promotes osteogenic differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells through expression of Runt related ...
Kai er Ying, Wenguang Feng, Wei-Zhong Ying, Xingsheng Li, Dongqi Xing, Yong Sun, Yabing Chen, Paul W. Sanders   +7 more
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