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Smooth muscle cells and vascular diseases [PDF]
Cardiovascular Research, 2012 Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are the stromal cells of the vascular wall, and, due to their myosin/actin interactions, they are also responsible for arterial contractile tonus and regulating blood pressure and flow in relation to specific metabolic demands.
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Vascular smooth muscle cells in atherosclerosis [PDF]
Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2019 Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are a major cell type present at all stages of an atherosclerotic plaque. According to the 'response to injury' and 'vulnerable plaque' hypotheses, contractile VSMCs recruited from the media undergo phenotypic conversion to proliferative synthetic cells that generate extracellular matrix to form the fibrous cap and ...
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Smooth Muscle Cells for Vascular Engineering [PDF]
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 2011 In the first decade of this century, ever-increasing scientific and technological advances are revolutionizing our approaches to developing therapies that bring about the promise of personalized medicine and the possibility of regenerative interventions.
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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells [PDF]
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, 2016 Decades of work have shown that vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) phenotypes are controlled by cues received from the local environment.1–3 When nestled into a cage of cross-linked collagen and elastin of its own making,4 medial SMCs exhibit a fully differentiated phenotype conferred by the transcriptional activity of myocardin and serum response ...
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Differentiation of multipotent vascular stem cells contributes to vascular diseases. [PDF]
, 2012 It is generally accepted that the de-differentiation of smooth muscle cells, from the contractile to the proliferative/synthetic phenotype, has an important role during vascular remodelling and diseases.
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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells in Atherosclerosis [PDF]
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 cap.
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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.
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iPLA2β overexpression in smooth muscle exacerbates angiotensin II-induced hypertension and vascular remodeling. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Calcium independent group VIA phospholipase A(2) (iPLA(2)β) is up-regulated in vascular smooth muscle cells in some diseases, but whether the up-regulated iPLA(2)β affects vascular morphology and blood pressure is unknown.
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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.
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Redox Biology, 2022 Prevention of phenotype switching of vascular smooth muscle cells is an important determinant of normal vascular physiology. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) promotes osteogenic differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells through expression of Runt related ...
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