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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Large multidimensional digital images of cancer tissue are becoming prolific, but many challenges exist to automatically extract relevant information from them using computational tools. We describe publicly available resources that have been developed jointly by expert and non‐expert computational biologists working together during a virtual hackathon
Sandhya Prabhakaran +16 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 +4 more
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The role of p53 in the alternation of vascular functions
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Ageing is a risk factor for many degenerative diseases. Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are usually big burdens for elderly, caregivers and the health system.
Gabriel Hoi-Huen Chan +7 more
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A computational framework for pharmaco-mechanical interactions in arterial walls using parallel monolithic domain decomposition methods [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 A computational framework is presented to numerically simulate the effects of antihypertensive drugs, in particular calcium channel blockers, on the mechanical response of arterial walls. A stretch-dependent smooth muscle model by Uhlmann and Balzani is modified to describe the interaction of pharmacological drugs and the inhibition of smooth muscle ...
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The first digestive movements in the embryo are mediated by mechanosensitive smooth muscle calcium waves [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences, Royal Society, The, 2018, 373 (1759), pp.20170322, 2019 Peristalsis enables transport of the food bolus in the gut. Here, I show by dynamic ex-vivo intra-cellular calcium imaging on living embryonic gut transverse sections that the most primitive form of peristalsis that occurs in the embryo is the result of inter-cellular, gap-junction dependent calcium waves that propagate in the circular smooth muscle ...
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Prostate cancer is a leading malignancy with significant clinical heterogeneity in men. An 11‐gene signature derived from dysregulated epithelial cell markers effectively predicted biochemical recurrence‐free survival in patients who underwent radical surgery or radiotherapy.
Zhuofan Mou, Lorna W. Harries
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Inflammation signals airway smooth muscle cell proliferation in asthma pathogenesis
Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2013 Background Airway inflammation stimulates proliferation of airway smooth muscle cell, which contributes to the development of hyperplasia and hypertrophy of smooth muscle cell. The increase in airway smooth muscle cell mass is believed to be due to an up-
Khan Mohammad Afzal
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022 Smooth muscle cells contribute to cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death worldwide. The capacity of these cells to undergo phenotypic switching in mature arteries of the systemic circulation underlies their pathogenic role in atherosclerosis ...
Dario F. Riascos-Bernal +4 more
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cancer stem cells are associated with aggressive disease, but a deep characterization of such markers is lacking in endometrial cancer. This study uses imaging mass cytometry to explore putative cancer stem cell markers in endometrial tumors and corresponding organoid models.
Hilde E. Lien +7 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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