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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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Mechanism of progesterone promoting uterine smooth muscle contraction through RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway

陆军军医大学学报, 2022
Objective To investigate the mechanism of progesterone affecting the contractions of uterine smooth muscle through RhoA/ROCK signaling pathway. Methods The tissues of uterine smooth muscle were collected from 5 cases in labor and another 5 of non-labor ...
YAN Xiaoli, CHEN Cheng, WANG Dan, CHANG Qing   +3 more
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Forkhead box F2 Regulation of Platelet-Derived Growth Factor and myocardin/Serum Response Factor Signaling is Essential for Intestinal Development [PDF]

, 2015
Alterations in the forkhead box F2 gene expression have been reported in numerous pathologies, and Foxf2−/− mice are perinatal lethal with multiple malformations; however, molecular mechanisms pertaining to Foxf2 signaling are severely lacking.
Bolte, Craig, Herring, B. Paul, Hoggatt, April, Kalin, Tanya V., Kalinichenko, Vladimir V., Pradhan, Arun, Ren, Xiaomeng, Tomley, Tatiana, Ustiyan, Vladimir   +8 more
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Differentiation of Murine Bone Marrow-Derived Smooth Muscle Progenitor Cells Is Regulated by PDGF-BB and Collagen. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are key regulators of vascular disease and circulating smooth muscle progenitor cells may play important roles in vascular repair or remodelling.
Clifford Lin, Yifan Yuan, David W Courtman   +2 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.
Alves-Lopes, Rheure, Anagnostopoulou, Aikaterini, Arner, Anders, De Lucca Camargo, Livia, Montezano, Augusto C., Rios, Francisco J., Touyz, Rhian M.   +6 more
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Lack of α8 integrin leads to morphological changes in renal mesangial cells, but not in vascular smooth muscle cells

BMC Cell Biology, 2010
Background Extracellular matrix receptors of the integrin family are known to regulate cell adhesion, shape and functions. The α8 integrin chain is expressed in glomerular mesangial cells and in vascular smooth muscle cells.
Hilgers Karl F, Goppelt-Struebe Margarete, Özcan Zehra, Zürn Christina, Fahlbusch Fabian, Jahn Angelika, Volkert Gudrun, Marek Ines, Rascher Wolfgang, Hartner Andrea   +9 more
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Silencing of NOTCH3 Signaling in Meniscus Smooth Muscle Cells Inhibits Fibrosis and Exacerbates Degeneration in a HEYL‐Dependent Manner

Advanced Science, 2023
The mechanisms of meniscus fibrosis and novel ways to enhance fibrosis is unclear. This work reveals human meniscus fibrosis initiated at E24 weeks. Smooth muscle cell cluster is identified in embryonic meniscus, and the combined analysis with previous ...
Hao Sun, Fangzhou Liu, Zhencan Lin, Zongrui Jiang, Xingzhao Wen, Jie Xu, Zhiqi Zhang, Ruofan Ma   +7 more
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Immunohistochemical characterization of the 'intimal proliferation' phenomenon in Sneddon's syndrome and essential thrombocythaemia [PDF]

, 1994
Cellular changes were immunocytochemically characterized in skin vessels of five patients with idiopathic generalized racemose livedo (Sneddon's syndrome), and one patient with localized racemose livedo associated with essential thrombocythaemia ...
Jungkunz, W., Marsch, W. C., Tamm, Ernst R., Wolter, M.   +3 more
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Fibronectin matrix polymerization regulates smooth muscle cell phenotype through a Rac1 dependent mechanism. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
Smooth muscle cells are maintained in a differentiated state in the vessel wall, but can be modulated to a synthetic phenotype following injury. Smooth muscle phenotypic modulation is thought to play an important role in the pathology of vascular ...
Feng Shi, Xiaochun Long, Allison Hendershot, Joseph M Miano, Jane Sottile   +4 more
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MMP-1 activation contributes to airway smooth muscle growth and asthma severity [PDF]

, 2016
Introduction: Matrix metalloproteinase-1 and mast cells are present in the airways of people with asthma. We hypothesised that matrix metalloproteinase-1 could be activated by mast cells and increase asthma severity.
Berger P, Catherine Reynolds, Charlotte K. Billington, Christopher Philp, David J. Jackson, Debbie Clements, Dominick E. Shaw, Hasaneen NA, Irshad Soomro, Johnson S, Karlinsky JB, Naveed S, Rajah R, Sebastian L. Johnston, Shams-un-nisa Naveed, Simon R. Johnson, Timothy W. Harrison   +16 more
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