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Regulation of differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells.

Physiological Reviews, 1995
The vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) in mature animals is a highly specialized cell whose principal function is contraction. The fully differentiated or mature SMC proliferates at an extremely low rate and is a cell almost completely geared for ...
G. Owens
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Leptin and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Current Pharmaceutical Design, 2014
This review concerns the influence of leptin on vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC). VSMC express different isoforms of the leptin receptor (Ob-R) able to activate a wide range of intracellular signalling pathways, mediating many relevant biological actions.
TROVATI, Mariella   +5 more
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Vascular smooth muscle cell in atherosclerosis

Acta Physiologica, 2015
AbstractVascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) exhibit phenotypic and functional plasticity in order to respond to vascular injury. In case of the vessel damage, VSMCs are able to switch from the quiescent ‘contractile’ phenotype to the ‘proinflammatory’ phenotype.
Dimitry A. Chistiakov   +4 more
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The Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell In Culture [PDF]

open access: possibleThrombosis and Haemostasis, 1981
When smooth muscle from the aortic media of adult pigs, monkeys and rabbits are dispersed into single cells and seeded into primary culture they are in the contractile phenotype and do not undergo cell division when challenged with 5 or 10% whole blood serum.
G R Campbell, J H Chamley-Campbell
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MicroRNA and Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

2011
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) exhibit extraordinary plasticity during postnatal development. Vascular injury initiates VSMC phenotypic switch from the contractile to proliferative phenotype, which plays a central role in vascular lesion formation and diverse vascular diseases.
Y. Eugene Chen   +2 more
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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

2002
Smooth muscle is present in one form or another in most organs, and its contractile activity is vital for normal functioning of the body. To be able to perform the multitude of tasks required of the organs, smooth muscle cells vary widely in their patterns of activity.
Campbell, G. R.   +2 more
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Production of Endothelin by Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 1991
Endothelin (ET) production by cultured vascular smooth muscle cells isolated from rat and rabbit aortae was measured by a specific radioimmunoassay. Vascular smooth muscle cells released ET at a rate of 0.6 (range of 0.1-1) fmol/10(5) cells/24 h compared to 45 (range of 10-80) fmol/10(5) cells/h for endothelial cells.
KANSE SM   +6 more
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Pathophysiological Role of the Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell

Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, 1990
The vascular smooth muscle cell of the arterial media plays a predominant role in functional and structural alterations of the arterial wall in pathophysiological processes such as arterial hypertension, atheroma, or normal aging. The observed alterations are related to the three activities of the vascular smooth muscle cell, namely contractility ...
Michel Jb   +5 more
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