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Ureter smooth muscle cell orientation in rat is predominantly longitudinal. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
In ureter peristalsis, the orientation of the contracting smooth muscle cells is essential, yet current descriptions of orientation and composition of the smooth muscle layer in human as well as in rat ureter are inconsistent.
Bart Spronck, Jort J Merken, Koen D Reesink, Wilco Kroon, Tammo Delhaas   +4 more
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Single-cell sequencing reveals PHLDA1-positive smooth muscle cells promote local invasion in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

Translational Oncology
Background: Smooth muscle cells within the tumor microenvironment play a crucial role in cancer progression. However, their involvement in the local invasion of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma remains poorly understood.
Bing Guo, Xutao Wen, Shun Yu, Jun Yang
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Changes of smooth muscle contractile filaments in small bowel atresia [PDF]

, 2012
AIM: To investigate morphological changes of intestinal smooth muscle contractile fibres in small bowel atresia patients. METHODS: Resected small bowel specimens from small bowel atresia patients (n = 12) were divided into three sections (proximal ...
Rolle, Udo, Metzger, Roman, Fiegel, Henning C., Gfrörer, Stefan, Ramachandran, Priya   +4 more
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Smooth Muscle Cells: To Be or Not To Be? [PDF]

Circulation Research, 2013
The conversion of contractile vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) to a synthetic or proliferative phenotype is thought to play a major role in vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and restenosis.1–3 Our recent work presents evidence that challenges this widely accepted dogma. Our findings suggest that multipotent vascular stem cells (MVSCs) are a
Zhenyu, Tang, Aijun, Wang, Dong, Wang, Song, Li   +3 more
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Resident phenotypically modulated vascular smooth muscle cells in healthy human arteries. [PDF]

, 2012
Vascular interstitial cells (VICs) are non-contractile cells with filopodia previously described in healthy blood vessels of rodents and their function remains unknown.
Reddy, M, Szewczyk, K, Greenwood, IA, Vasilikostas, G, Harhun, MI, Wan, A, Khong, TK, Ratnasingham, K, Moss, RF, Huggins, CL, Raje, D   +10 more
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Vascular smooth muscle cell dysfunction in neurodegeneration

Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are the key moderators of cerebrovascular dynamics in response to the brain’s oxygen and nutrient demands. Crucially, VSMCs may provide a sensitive biomarker for neurodegenerative pathologies where vasculature is ...
Genevieve Hayes, Joana Pinto, Sierra N. Sparks, Congxiyu Wang, Congxiyu Wang, Sana Suri, Sana Suri, Daniel P. Bulte   +7 more
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Outgrowing endothelial and smooth muscle cells for tissue engineering approaches

Journal of Tissue Engineering, 2017
In recent years, circulating progenitors of endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells were identified in the peripheral blood. In our study, we evaluated the utilization of both cell types isolated and differentiated from peripheral porcine blood in ...
Moritz Kolster, Mathias Wilhelmi, Claudia Schrimpf, Andres Hilfiker, Axel Haverich, Thomas Aper   +5 more
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Smooth muscle cell progenitors are primed to muscularize in pulmonary hypertension

Science Translational Medicine, 2015
During the onset of pulmonary hypertension, a single specialized preexisting smooth muscle cell located at each muscularized-unmuscularized pulmonary arteriole border migrates distally and clonally expands, giving rise to the pathological distal ...
Abdul Q. Sheikh, A. Misra, I. Rosas, R. Adams, Daniel M. Greif   +4 more
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ANO1 channels are expressed in mouse urethral smooth muscle but do not contribute to agonist or neurally evoked contractions

Scientific Reports
Anoctamin-1 Ca2+-activated Cl− channels (ANO1) are proposed to modulate contractility of urethra smooth muscle cells (USMC), but their cellular expression and contribution to agonist/neural evoked activity is unclear.
Neha Gupta, Salah A. Baker, Kenton M. Sanders, Kaneez E. Rabab, Denzel KF. Thean, Tuleen Alkawadri, Caoimhin S. Griffin, Gerard P. Sergeant, Mark A. Hollywood, Keith D. Thornbury, Bernard T. Drumm   +10 more
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Microtissues Enhance Smooth Muscle Differentiation and Cell Viability of hADSCs for Three Dimensional Bioprinting

Frontiers in Physiology, 2017
Smooth muscle differentiated human adipose derived stem cells (hADSCs) provide a crucial stem cell source for urinary tissue engineering, but the induction of hADSCs for smooth muscle differentiation still has several issues to overcome, including a ...
Jin Yipeng, Xu Yongde, Wu Yuanyi, Sun Jilei, Guo Jiaxiang, Gao Jiangping, Yang Yong   +6 more
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