aortic smooth muscle
IL-22 modulates inflammatory properties of human primary aortic smooth muscle cells
... Although Th22 cells have been found in the vascular wall, the effect of IL-22 on VSMC has not yet been in- vestigated. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to assess the effect of IL-22 on the inflammatory profile ...
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Repair of protease damaged elastin in neonatal rat aortic smooth muscle cell cultures
... The objective of this study was to investigate the elastin repair process in the rat aortic smooth muscle cell culture after proteolytic injury. Although little studied in vivo, elastin repair is ...
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Somite derived cells replace ventral aortic hemangioblasts and provide aortic smooth muscle cells of the trunk
... promote smooth muscle cell differentiation; PDGFB- and PDGFR  -deficient mice exhibit impaired VSM cell recruitment (Lindahl et ...2003). Smooth muscle cells are also thought to derive from ...
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A comparative study of toxicity of TiO<sub>2</sub>, ZnO, and Ag nanoparticles to human aortic smooth-muscle cells
... The present study compared the toxicity of TiO 2 , ZnO, and Ag NPs to human aortic SMCs (HASMCs) in vitro. To link the physicochemical properties of metal-based NPs to the toxic effects to HASMCs, the present ...
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Rat aortic smooth muscle cells in culture express kallikrein, kininogen, and bradykininase activity
... We have studied rat vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells in culture for the presence of key elements of the glandular kallikrein-kinin system. Direct radioimmunoassay (RIA) using antiserum against rat urinary ...
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Interaction of atriopeptin III and vasopressin on calcium kinetics and contraction of aortic smooth muscle cells
... The cellular mechanism of the vasodilatory action of atriopeptin III (APIII) on vasopressin (AVP)-induced Ca2+ mobilization and cell shape change in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) was studied. ...
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Effects of cocaine on excitation contraction coupling of aortic smooth muscle from the ferret
... control muscle was significantly larger than that in muscle from ferrets pretreated with ...reduced muscle tone by decreasing the Ca++ sensitivity of the contractile proteins; and (c) ...
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Original Article Aortic vascular reactivity to angiotension II is modulated by down-regulation of TRPC in renal hypertensive rats
... RHR aortic and mesenteric vascular smooth muscle ...vascular smooth muscle to Ang ...cular smooth muscle in response to Ang II led to a contraction involving the ...
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Abnormality of calmodulin activity in hypertension Evidence of the presence of an activator
... cultured aortic smooth muscle cells from SHR, indicating that the anomaly was not a mere consequence of elevated blood pressure but rather a genetic expression of cells of hypertensive ...
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Characterization of angiotensin II receptors in cultured adult rat cardiac fibroblasts Coupling to signaling systems and gene expression
... Adult rat cardiac fibroblasts, porcine aortic smooth muscle cells, porcine aortic endothelial cells, and neonatal rat cardiomyocytes were grown in Lab-Tek tissue culture chamber/slides a[r] ...
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Endothelial cell injury due to copper catalyzed hydrogen peroxide generation from homocysteine
... 5"Cr-labeled bovine aortic endothelial cells -, human umbilical vein endothelial cells x, and human aortic smooth muscle cells - were incubated in 10% FCS in Waymouth's medium containing[r] ...
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Actin expression in smooth muscle cells of rat aortic intimal thickening, human atheromatous plaque, and cultured rat aortic media
... of smooth muscle cells of rat and human aortic media shows a predominance of the ...rat aortic intimal thickening, in human atheromatous plaque, and in cultured aortic smooth ...
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Epidermal growth factor, a vascular smooth muscle mitogen, induces rat aortic contraction
... vascular smooth muscle proliferation is a prominent feature of atherosclerosis, we postulated that vasoactive agonists and smooth muscle mitogens may share certain common cellular mechanisms ...
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From depolarization-dependent contractions in gastrointestinal smooth muscle to aortic pulse-synchronized contractions
... gastrointestinal smooth muscle cells is sufficiently narrow, and that the diffusion of calcium across the plasma membrane is sufficient, to support contractile ...gastrointestinal smooth ...
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An essential role for Notch in neural crest during cardiovascular development and smooth muscle differentiation
... patterning defects, pulmonary artery stenosis, and ventricular septal defects. We show that Notch plays a critical, cell-autonomous role in the differentiation of cardiac neural crest precursors into smooth ...
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Localization and differential regulation of angiotensinogen mRNA expression in the vessel wall
... the aortic medial smooth muscle layer as well as the periaortic ...the smooth muscle, as analyzed by quantitative slot blot ...medial smooth muscle layer is sodium ...
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Exploring smooth muscle phenotype and function in a bioreactor model of abdominal aortic aneurysm
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Exploring smooth muscle phenotype and function in a bioreactor model of abdominal aortic aneurysm
... Of the animal models, porcine arterial vessels exhibit a similar structure to man [14]. An in vivo porcine model has also been previously generated by aortic perfusion of a combination of collagenase and elastase ...
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Heat shock protein 27 plays a protective role in thoracic aortic dissection by promoting cell proliferation and inhibiting apoptosis
... The aortic samples were obtained during surgi- cal repair, which is performed for end-stage disease, introducing a selection bias and resulting in a type II error because of the great differences between patients ...
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Alpha 1 adrenergic receptor induced c fos gene expression in rat aorta and cultured vascular smooth muscle cells
... While growth of blood vessels is important in hypertension, relatively little is known about the contribution of catecholamines. Using isolated rat aorta and cultured smooth muscle cells, we examined ...
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