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Caveolin-3 promotes a vascular smooth muscle contractile phenotype

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2015
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated the importance of cardiovascular diseases in Western countries. Among the cell types associated with a dysfunctional vasculature, smooth muscle cells are believed to play an essential role in the development of ...
Jorge L. Gutierrez-Pajares, Jeannette eIturrieta, Vipin eDulam, Yu eWang, Yu eWang, Stephanos ePavlides, Gabriella eMalacari, Michael P. Lisanti, Philippe G. Frank   +8 more
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HDAC9 is implicated in atherosclerotic aortic calcification and affects vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype. [PDF]

, 2019
Aortic calcification is an important independent predictor of future cardiovascular events. We performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis to determine SNPs associated with the extent of abdominal aortic calcification (n = 9,417) or descending ...
Bagchi, Aranya, Barnes, Hanna J, Bloch, Donald B, Bowden, Donald W, Budoff, Matthew, Buswell, Mary D, Buys, Emmanuel S, Campbell, Catherine Y, Criqui, Michael H, Debette, Stephanie, Erbel, Raimund, Feitosa, Mary F, Franceschini, Nora, Freedman, Barry I, Gudnason, Vilmundur, Guo, Xiuqing, Harris, Tamara, Hoffmann, Udo, Hwang, Shih-Jen, Johnson, Andrew D, Jöckel, Karl-Heinz, Kälsch, Hagen, Lindsay, Mark E, Lino Cardenas, Christian L, Lu, Lingyi, Malhotra, Rajeev, Mauer, Andreas C, Moebus, Susanne, Nicholson, Christopher J, Nigwekar, Sagar U, Nöthen, Markus M, O'Donnell, Christopher J, Pechlivanis, Sonali, Post, Wendy S, Rhee, David K, Rotter, Jerome I, Rourke, Caitlin O', Shelton, Georgia, Sigurdsson, Sigurdur, Sigurslid, Haakon H, Slocum, Charles, Smith, Albert V, Song, Ci, Thanassoulis, George, Wang, Judy, Wong, Quenna, Wunderer, Florian, Yao, Jie, Zapol, Warren M, Zhang, Xiaoling   +49 more
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Effect of Caspase Inhibitor Ac-DEVD-CHO on Apoptosis of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Induced by Artesunate

AIMS Bioengineering, 2014
Numerous studies have shown that the proliferation and apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells play a key role in restenosis. Artesunate is a triterpenoid with a peroxide structure and its antimalarial, antitumor, and antiangiogenetic activities can ...
Jingwen Zhang, Lu Wang, Huolin Chen, Tieying Yin, Yanqun Teng, Kang Zhang, Donghong Yu, Guixue Wang   +7 more
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Emerging role of ARHGAP29 in melanoma cell phenotype switching

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study gives first insights into the role of ARHGAP29 in malignant melanoma. ARHGAP29 was revealed to be connected to tumor cell plasticity, promoting a mesenchymal‐like, invasive phenotype and driving tumor progression. Further, it modulates cell spreading by influencing RhoA/ROCK signaling and affects SMAD2 activity. Rho GTPase‐activating protein
Beatrice Charlotte Tröster, Melanie Kappelmann‐Fenzl, Anja Katrin Bosserhoff, Nicole Rachinger   +3 more
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Camphorated p-chlorophenol-induced contractile dynamics in aortic rings of Wistar rats

Revista Información Científica, 2021
Introduction: camphorated p-chlorophenol is a chlorophenolic derivative commonly used as an intra-oral medication in endodontics. Scientific reports on its effects in arterial vascular smooth muscle and local blood flow regulation are scarce. Objective:
Oscar Rodríguez-Reyes, Robert Patejdl, Thomas Noack, Ana Ibis Bosch-Nuñez, Liset María García-Riza   +4 more
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Guidance Molecules in Vascular Smooth Muscle

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Several highly conserved families of guidance molecules, including ephrins, Semaphorins, Netrins, and Slits, play conserved and distinct roles in tissue remodeling during tissue patterning and disease pathogenesis.
Alexandra Christine Finney, Anthony Wayne Orr, Anthony Wayne Orr, Anthony Wayne Orr   +3 more
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Short Chain (≤C4) Esterification Increases Bioavailability of Rosmarinic Acid and Its Potency to Inhibit Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
Rosmarinic acid is a natural phenolic acid and active compound found in many culinary plants, such as rosemary, mint, basil and perilla. Aiming to improve the pharmacokinetic profile of rosmarinic acid and its activity on vascular smooth muscle cell ...
Tina Blažević, Gottfried Reznicek, Limin Ding, Gangqiang Yang, Patricia Haiss, Elke H. Heiss, Verena M. Dirsch, Rongxia Liu   +7 more
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Patient‐specific pharmacogenomics demonstrates xCT as predictive therapeutic target in colon cancer with possible implications in tumor connectivity

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This study integrates transcriptomic profiling of matched tumor and healthy tissues from 32 colorectal cancer patients with functional validation in patient‐derived organoids, revealing dysregulated metabolic programs driven by overexpressed xCT (SLC7A11) and SLC3A2, identifying an oncogenic cystine/glutamate transporter signature linked to ...
Marco Strecker, Keren Zohar, Martin Böttcher, Thomas Wartmann, Henry Freudenstein, Maximilian Doelling, Mihailo Andric, Wenjie Shi, Or Kakhlon, Katrin Hippe, Beatrix Jahnke, Dimitrios Mougiakakos, Franziska Baenke, Daniel Stange, Roland S. Croner, Michal Linial, Ulf D. Kahlert   +16 more
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Aggressive prostate cancer is associated with pericyte dysfunction

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Tumor‐produced TGF‐β drives pericyte dysfunction in prostate cancer. This dysfunction is characterized by downregulation of some canonical pericyte markers (i.e., DES, CSPG4, and ACTA2) while maintaining the expression of others (i.e., PDGFRB, NOTCH3, and RGS5).
Anabel Martinez‐Romero, Ane Martinez‐Larrinaga, Joaquim Grego‐Bessa, Saioa Garcia‐Longarte, Hielke van Splunder, Ianire Astobiza, Amaia Ercilla, Laura Bozal‐Basterra, Isabel Mendizabal, Pilar Villacampa, Arkaitz Carracedo, Mariona Graupera   +11 more
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Regulation of Pulmonary Vascular Smooth Muscle Contractility in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Implications for Therapy

Frontiers in Physiology, 2017
There are two primary components that produce pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); aberrant structural changes (smooth muscle cell proliferation, smooth muscle cell hypertrophy, and the deposition of matrix proteins within the media of pulmonary ...
Melissa A. Lyle, Jonathan P. Davis, Frank V. Brozovich   +2 more
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