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Advancing Human Skin Equivalents: The Crucial Role of Neurovascular Integration
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review discusses the importance of integrating vascular and peripheral nerve systems into human skin equivalents (HSEs) to better recapitulate native skin physiology. Recent advances in vascularized, innervated, and neurovascularized HSEs are highlighted, together with emerging bioengineering strategies, current challenges, and future ...
Hao Wu +4 more
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miR-145 and miR-143 Regulate Smooth Muscle Cell Fate Decisions
Nature, 2009 MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are regulators of myriad cellular events, but evidence for a single miRNA that can efficiently differentiate multipotent stem cells into a specific lineage or regulate direct reprogramming of cells into an alternative cell fate has ...
Kimberly R. Cordes +9 more
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Vascular smooth muscle contraction in hypertension [PDF]
, 2018 Hypertension is a major risk factor for many common chronic diseases, such as heart failure, myocardial infarction, stroke, vascular dementia, and chronic kidney disease.
Aikaterini Anagnostopoulou +6 more
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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Magnetically responsive nanoparticles enable remote control over biomaterials, cells, and engineered tissues. This review summarizes material design, biological safety, fabrication and actuation strategies, computational validation, and translational pathways that support the development of magnetic tissue‐engineering platforms and future magnetically ...
Konstantinos Ioannidis +8 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 Endothelial dysfunction has been linked to vascular inflammation and foam cell formation but the underlying mechanisms still remain unclear. We sought to define the factors inducing inflammation and smooth muscle foam cell formation under endothelial ...
Bongkun Choi +14 more
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Effects of Rosa damascena and its compounds on smooth muscle contractility
Rosa damascena, a member of the Rosaceae family, is an ancient holy plant. This ornamental plant is famous for its beneficial effects. R. damascena has been used as a traditional medicinal plant since ancient times because of its therapeutic activity ...
Sinag, Ipek Nazli, Demirel, Sadettin
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Nongenomic effects of aldosterone on phosphocreatine levels in human calf muscle during recovery from exercise. [PDF]
, 1996 Nongenomic in vitro effects of aldosterone on the sodium-proton antiport and intracellular second messengers have been described in human mononuclear leukocytes, vascular smooth muscle cells, and endothelial cells.
Wehling, Martin +10 more
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Optical Detection of Cellular Signals at Material Interfaces
Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.Emerging functional materials are transforming optical detection of cellular signals. This review highlights optical techniques that exploit the unique optical properties of diverse materials to detect and quantify cellular electrical, chemical, and mechanical signals, and discusses key opportunities and challenges.
Xuchen Ren +5 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular DiseaseBackground Coronary artery disease due to atherosclerosis is the leading cause of death worldwide. Recent studies revealed an important role of smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotypic switching in atherogenesis.
Susanne Feil +8 more
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Human eosinophil–airway smooth muscle cell interactions
Mediators of Inflammation, 2000 Eosinophils are present throughout the airway wall of asthmatics. The nature of the interaction between human airway smooth muscle cells (ASMC) and eosinophils was investigated in this study. We demonstrated, using light microscopy, that freshly isolated
J. Margaret Hughes +6 more
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