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CREB depletion in smooth muscle cells promotes medial thickening, adventitial fibrosis and elicits pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary Circulation, 2020
Levels of the cAMP-responsive transcription factor, CREB, are reduced in medial smooth muscle cells in remodeled pulmonary arteries from hypertensive calves and rats with chronic hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension.
Chrystelle V. Garat, Susan M. Majka, Timothy M. Sullivan, Joseph T. Crossno, Jane E.B. Reusch, Dwight J. Klemm   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Micropatterned Biphasic Printed Electrodes for High‐Fidelity on‐Skin Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Micropatterned biphasic printed electrodes achieve unprecedented skin conformity and low impedance by combining liquid‐metal droplets with microstructured 3D lattices. This scalable approach enables high‐fidelity detection of ECG, EMG, and EEG signals, including alpha rhythms from the forehead, with long‐term comfort and stability.
Manuel Reis Carneiro, Telmo Lopes, André F. Silva, Carmel Majidi, Mahmoud Tavakoli   +4 more
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Involvement of STAT3 in Bladder Smooth Muscle Hypertrophy Following Bladder Outlet Obstruction [PDF]

, 2006
We examined the involvement of the signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) in bladder outlet obstruction (BOO)-induced bladder smooth muscle hypertrophy using a rat in vivo and in vitro study.
Asanuma, Masato, Fujita, Osamu, Kumon, Hiromi, Miyazaki, Ikuko, Ogawa, Norio, Yokoyama, Teruhiko   +5 more
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Patterning the Void: Combining L‐Systems with Archimedean Tessellations as a Perspective for Tissue Engineering Scaffolds

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a novel multi‐scale scaffold design using L‐fractals arranged in Archimedean tessellations for tissue regeneration. Despite similar porosity, tiles display vastly different tensile responses (1–100 MPa) and deformation modes. In vitro experiments with hMSCs show geometry‐dependent growth and activity. Over 55 000 tile combinations
Maria Kalogeropoulou, Kenny A. van Kampen, Pierpaolo Fucile, Carlos Mota, Lorenzo Moroni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implanted Mouse Bone Marrow-Derived Cells Reconstruct Layered Smooth Muscle Structures in Injured Urinary Bladders

Cell Transplantation, 2008
This study is a preliminary investigation to determine if bone marrow-derived cells, when implanted into freeze-injured urinary bladders, differentiate into smooth muscle cells and reconstruct smooth muscle layers.
Tetsuya Imamura, Yoshiaki Kinebuchi, Osamu Ishizuka, Satoshi Seki, Yasuhiko Igawa, Osamu Nishizawa   +5 more
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Gigantic Stomach: A Rare Manifestation of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy [PDF]

, 2019
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is characterized by degeneration and atrophy of skeletal, cardiac, and smooth muscles after a latent period of apparently normal development and function. The gastrointestinal manifestations start in the second decade of
Dhaliwal, Amaninder, Dhindsa, Banreet S., Hassen, Getaw W., Madiraju, Sarvani, Rochling, Fedja A.   +4 more
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Smart, Bio‐Inspired Polymers and Bio‐Based Molecules Modified by Zwitterionic Motifs to Design Next‐Generation Materials for Medical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bio‐based and (semi‐)synthetic zwitterion‐modified novel materials and fully synthetic next‐generation alternatives show the importance of material design for different biomedical applications. The zwitterionic character affects the physiochemical behavior of the material and deepens the understanding of chemical interaction mechanisms within the ...
Theresa M. Lutz, Jonas De Breuck, Sahar Salehi, Meike N. Leiske   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Airway Remodeling and Airway Smooth Muscle in Asthma

Allergology International, 2006
Airway remodeling in asthma has been recognized as structural changes of airways such as smooth muscle hypertrophy (an increase in size of airway smooth muscle cells) and hyperplasia (an increase in the number of airway smooth muscle cells), thickening ...
Mitsuru Munakata
doaj   +1 more source

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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Light‐Responsive Enzyme‐Loaded Nanoparticles for Tunable Adhesion and Mechanical Wound Contraction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a photoactivatable enzyme‐loaded mesoporous nanoparticle system (MPDA_PaTy) that enables light‐triggered tunable tissue adhesion and facilitates mechanical wound contraction. Controlled enzymatic crosslinking at tissue or hydrogel interfaces allows on‐demand adhesion.
Junghyeon Ko, Hyeon‐Jin Kim, Jeong‐Uk Kim, Seh Ri Oh, Tae Hoon Kang, Junghwan Byun, Uk‐Jae Lee, Minglin Ma, Su‐Hwan Kim, Byung‐Gee Kim, Nathaniel S. Hwang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source