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Calcium and Vascular Smooth Muscle Contraction [PDF]

Circulation Research, 1971
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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Mebendazole reduces vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation and neointimal formation following vascular injury in mice.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Mebendazole is an antihelminthic drug that exerts its effects via interference with microtubule function in parasites. To determine the utility of mebendazole as a potential treatment for vascular diseases involving proliferation of vascular smooth ...
Jintao Wang, Hui Wang, Chiao Guo, Wei Luo, Alyssa Lawler, Aswin Reddy, Julia Wang, Eddy B Sun, Daniel T Eitzman   +8 more
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CADASIL: A monogenic condition causing stroke and subcortical vascular dementia [PDF]

, 2002
Mutations in Notch3 are the cause of cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL), an inherited small vessel disease leading to subcortical strokes and vascular dementia. The phenotypic presentation
Dichgans, Martin
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Lack of α8 integrin leads to morphological changes in renal mesangial cells, but not in vascular smooth muscle cells

BMC Cell Biology, 2010
Background Extracellular matrix receptors of the integrin family are known to regulate cell adhesion, shape and functions. The α8 integrin chain is expressed in glomerular mesangial cells and in vascular smooth muscle cells.
Hilgers Karl F, Goppelt-Struebe Margarete, Özcan Zehra, Zürn Christina, Fahlbusch Fabian, Jahn Angelika, Volkert Gudrun, Marek Ines, Rascher Wolfgang, Hartner Andrea   +9 more
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Endothelial cell-derived extracellular vesicles alter vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype through high-mobility group box proteins

Journal of Extracellular Vesicles, 2020
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, Yayoi Kimura, Tomoko Akiyama, Ariele Y. Baggett, Kyle J. Preston, Rosario Scalia, Satoru Eguchi, Victor Rizzo   +7 more
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Vascular smooth muscle Sirtuin-1 protects against aortic dissection during Angiotensin II-induced hypertension [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Sirtuin-1 (SirT1), a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide(+)-dependent deacetylase, is a key enzyme in the cellular response to metabolic, inflammatory, and oxidative stresses; however, the role of endogenous SirT1 in the vasculature has not ...
Akiki, Rachid, Bachschmid, Markus, Cohen, Richard A., Fry, Jessica L., Gao, Yuan Z., Morgan, Kathleen G., Seta, Francesca, Shiraishi, Yasunaga, Turcotte, Raphaël, Yu, Xunjie, Zhang, Yanhang   +10 more
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Vascular smooth muscle caldesmon.

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1986
Caldesmon, a major actin- and calmodulin-binding protein, has been identified in diverse bovine tissues, including smooth and striated muscles and various nonmuscle tissues, by denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of tissue homogenates and immunoblotting using rabbit anti-chicken gizzard caldesmon.
T Clark, Michael P. Walsh, C Sutherland, U Gröschel-Stewart, P K Ngai   +4 more
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Smooth muscle cells largely develop independently of functional hemogenic endothelium

Stem Cell Research, 2014
Vascular smooth muscle cells represent a major component of the cardiovascular system. In vitro studies have shown that FLK1+ cells derived from embryonic stem (ES) cells can differentiate into both endothelial and smooth muscle cells.
Monika Stefanska, Guilherme Costa, Michael Lie-a-Ling, Valerie Kouskoff, Georges Lacaud   +4 more
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Gasdermin D affects aortic vascular smooth muscle cell pyroptosis and Ang II-induced vascular remodeling

Heliyon, 2023
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are primarily responsible for vasoconstriction and the regulation of blood pressure1. Pyroptosis, a particular form of regulated cell death, is involved in multiple vascular injuries, including hypertensive vascular ...
Zimin Fang, Gaojun Wu, Jian Sheng, Bozhi Ye, Zhouqing Huang, Jianjiang Xu, Jianqin Zhang, Jibo Han, Bingjiang Han, Jiajun Xu   +9 more
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Mechanisms of vascular smooth muscle contraction and the basis for pharmacologic treatment of smooth muscle disorders [PDF]

, 2016
The smooth muscle cell directly drives the contraction of the vascular wall and hence regulates the size of the blood vessel lumen. We review here the current understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which agonists, therapeutics, and diseases ...
Aggarwal, M., Brozovich, F. V., Degen, C. V., Gao, Yuan Z., Morgan, K. G., Nicholson, C. J.   +5 more
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