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A Magneto‐Mechanically Activated Nerve Guidance Conduit Promotes Peripheral Nerve Regeneration via TIMP1‐Mediated Membrane Tension Transfer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a magneto‐mechanical strategy that incorporates FP@MSCs into an aligned PCL/GelMA nerve guidance conduit. Magnetic stimulation increases membrane tension in FP@MSCs, triggering cytoskeletal remodeling, Schwann cell‐like differentiation, and TIMP1 secretion. TIMP1 activates ITGB1/CD63–FAK signaling in NE‐4C cells, increasing membrane
Xinyu Zhu, Yumin Wu, Xiang Gao, Tianlu Wang, Wanting Jia, Xueying Mei, Huanzhong Ji, Zongxi Wu, Yujie Liang, Xiang Li, Kan Li, Jingyuan Li, Guangsen Zheng, Guiqing Liao, Siyong Gao   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Syndecan-1 regulates vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype.

PLoS ONE, 2014
ObjectiveWe examined the role of syndecan-1 in modulating the phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells in the context of endogenous inflammatory factors and altered microenvironments that occur in disease or injury-induced vascular remodeling.Methods ...
Somali Chaterji, Christoffer H Lam, Derek S Ho, Daniel C Proske, Aaron B Baker   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ablation of smooth muscle myosin heavy chain SM2 increases smooth muscle contractility and results in postnatal death in mice [PDF]

, 2008
The smooth muscle myosin heavy chains (SMHC) are motor proteins powering smooth muscle contraction. Alternate splicing of SHMC gene at the C-terminus produces SM1, and SM2 myosin isoforms; SM2 (200 kDa) contains a unique 9-amino-acid sequence at the ...
Mei Chi, Gopal Babu, Yingbi Zhou, Muthu Periasamy, Srikanth Vedamoorthyrao   +4 more
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A Systematic Study of GelMA‐Carbopol Bioinks for High‐Fidelity Extrusion 3D Bioprinting at Physiological Temperatures

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Gonzalez Martinez and collaborators develop a strategy to formulate high performance GelMA‐based bioinks with low solids contents. The resulting bioinks enable 3D bioprinting at 37 °C of high‐fidelity structures with tunable mechanical properties that support high cell viability and function.
David A. González‐Martínez, Aidee V. Arizpe Tafoya, Eduardo González‐Martínez, Mabel Barreiro Carpio, Laura Daniela Serrano Andrade, Christopher T. N. Chow, Mohammadhossein Dabaghi, Jeremy A. Hirota, Jose M. Moran‐Mirabal   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

MicroRNA26 attenuates vascular smooth muscle maturation via endothelial BMP signalling.

PLoS Genetics, 2019
As small regulatory transcripts, microRNAs (miRs) act as genetic 'fine tuners' of posttranscriptional events, and as genetic switches to promote phenotypic switching. The miR miR26a targets the BMP signalling effector, smad1.
Charlene Watterston, Lei Zeng, Abidemi Onabadejo, Sarah J Childs   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz, Manuel P. Kainz, Niklas Haider, Theresa Rienmüller, Kerstin Lenk, Rupert Kargl, Michele Terzano, Gerhard Sommer, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Julia Fuchs   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Vascular smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis

Circulation Research, 2016
The historical view of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in atherosclerosis is that ‘aberrant’ proliferation of VSMCs promotes plaque formation, but that VSMCs in advanced plaques are entirely beneficial, for example preventing rupture of the fibrous ...
M. Bennett, S. Sinha, G. Owens
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Spatially Controlled Embedded Bioprinting of Prevascularized Spheroids‐Containing Biopatch Enables Functional Skin Regeneration

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A spatially controlled embedded bioprinting strategy enables precise engineering of prevascularized multicellular spheroids within skin‐derived dECM bioinks. Optimized spheroid size, composition, and spacing promote vascular maturation, paracrine signaling, and tissue integration, resulting in enhanced angiogenesis, blood perfusion, and functional skin
Minjun Ahn, Gyu Tae Park, Dongjun Lee, Sik Yoon, Sae‐Ock Oh, Jae Ho Kim, Byoung Soo Kim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generation of myogenic progenitor cell-derived smooth muscle cells for sphincter regeneration

Stem Cell Research & Therapy, 2020
Background Degeneration of smooth muscles in sphincters can cause debilitating diseases such as fecal incontinence. Skeletal muscle-derived cells have been effectively used in clinics for the regeneration of the skeletal muscle sphincters, such as the ...
Marco Thurner, Martin Deutsch, Katrin Janke, Franka Messner, Christina Kreutzer, Stanislav Beyl, Sébastien Couillard-Després, Steffen Hering, Jakob Troppmair, Rainer Marksteiner   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

MAPK phosphorylation of connexin 43 promotes binding of cyclin E and smooth muscle cell proliferation

, 2012
<p>Rationale: Dedifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) leading to a proliferative cell phenotype significantly contributes to the development of atherosclerosis.
Columbus, L., Koval, M., Johnstone, S.R., Kroncke, B.M., Isakson, B.E., Dunn, C.A., Nakamoto, R.K., Straub, A.C., Best, A.K., Lampe, P.D., Lo, C.W., Peskova, Y., Mitchell, L.A.   +12 more
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