Coronary Smooth Muscle Cells
Apoptosis of human vascular smooth muscle cells derived from normal vessels and coronary atherosclerotic plaques
... protected smooth muscle cells from apoptosis, although there was no detectable difference in endogenous bcl-2 expression between cells from plaques or normal ...vascular smooth ...
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Co-culture of Smooth Muscle Cells and Endothelial Cells on Porous 3D Polyurethane Scaffolds for Vascular Tissue Engineering
... commonly become thrombogenic causing SMCs to proliferate and migrate to the intima resulting in restenosis and eventual graft failure 27 . Recent studies have shown that SV graft failure may be reduced up to 70% with the ...
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Upregulation of fibronectin synthesis by interleukin 1 beta in coronary artery smooth muscle cells is associated with the development of the post cardiac transplant arteriopathy in piglets
... a coronary arteriopathy characterized by increased immunostaining for fibronectin and interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta) in the vessel ...culture smooth muscle cells from donor and host ...
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The Effect of Chlamydia pneumoniae on the Expression of Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor γ in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
... Purpose: This study was designed to investigate the change of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPAR ) γ after the infection of the human coronary artery smooth muscle cells ...
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Molecular regulation of the expression of leptin by hypoxia in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells
... Leptin is a hypoxia-inducible hormone. Its expression in increased by hypoxic conditions in various tissues such as placenta, pancreas, human skin dermal fibro- blasts, adipocytes, and heart [4,19-22]. In fact, leptin is ...
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Heat shock protein 27 plays a protective role in thoracic aortic dissection by promoting cell proliferation and inhibiting apoptosis
... and coronary diseases, although the antibody levels in patients with coronary diseases were not asso- ciated with known coronary risk factors ...and cells, and that its relationship with NADPH ...
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Pioglitazone modulates the proliferation and apoptosis of vascular smooth muscle cells via peroxisome proliferators-activated receptor-gamma
... Thiazolidinediones (TZDs), synthetic ligands of PPAR γ , have anti-proliferative and pro-apoptotic effects on VSMCs, which prevent the formation and progression of atherosclerosis and restenosis following percutaneous ...
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Arterial pole progenitors interpret opposing FGF/BMP signals to proliferate or differentiate
... by smooth muscle ...myocardium, smooth muscle and endothelium with nearly 60% expressing more than one cardiovascular cell type marker, suggesting the existence of a multipotent ...
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Fibrous Cap Smooth Muscle Cells in Atherosclerotic Coronary Arteries Do Not Express Pluripotent Stem Cell Markers
... Male New Zealand White rabbits at three months of age were fed a normal rabbit chow diet supplemented with 0.5% cholesterol plus 1% methionine plus 5% peanut oil for 4 weeks and then a normal chow diet for 9 weeks to ...
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Effect of L-Ascorbic Acid and All-trans Retinoic Acid on Smooth Muscle Cells Cultured on PCL Scaffolds
... when coronary artery smooth muscle cells were cultured on 3D polycaprolactone (PCL) ...Second, smooth muscle cells were cultured on these scaffolds to evaluate elastin ...
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Endothelium dependent hyperpolarization caused by bradykinin in human coronary arteries
... vascular smooth muscle in human coronary arteries, and if so, to define the contribution of this hyperpolarization to endothelium-dependent ...arterial smooth muscle cells ...
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The effects of modified low density lipoprotein on coronary artery endothelial and smooth muscle cells
... ristic cells w ith in th e fatty streak are lipid laden m a c ro p h a g e fo am ...oam cells are deriv ed from circ u latin g m ono cy tes, w hich a d h e re to th e v essel w all b e fo re m ig ratin g ...
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Original Article Smooth muscle homeostasis in human atherosclerotic plaques through interleukin 15 signalling
... of cells and stability of ...vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC), which are the dominant type of cells in most atherosclerotic plaques, it could be important in maintaining plaque tissue ...
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The angiotensin AT2 receptor mediates inhibition of cell proliferation in coronary endothelial cells
... vascular smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts but little is known about its influence on growth in endothelial ...rat coronary endothelial cells (CEC) and rat vascular smooth ...
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Insulin and insulin like growth factor I differentially induce alpha1 adrenergic receptor subtype expression in rat vascular smooth muscle cells
... Elucidation of metabolic cardiovascular risk factors in the development of coronary and peripheral atherosclerosis is highly clinically relevant. There is growing recognition that in- sulin resistance is an ...
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Biomimetic Poly(ester amide) Biomaterials for Vascular Tissue Engineering
... properties that are capable of eliciting specific cellular responses and directing new tissue formation. Synthetic poly(este r amide)s (PEAs) containing α -amino acid residues have the potential to elicit favourable ...
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Original Article Histopathologic characteristics and immunotypes of perivascular epithelioid cell tumors (PEComa)
... the cells (Figure ...epithelioid cells displayed larger granular eosin- ophilic cytoplasm, a round vesicular nucleus, and prominent nucleoli, when compared with those of the kidney ...epithelioid ...
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Nicotinamide Riboside and the Aortic Response to Angiotensin II Infusion in Mice
... Senescent cells promote pathology by disrupting normal tissue structure and function, while secreting pro-inflammatory cytokines and matrix-degrading enzymes 179 ...
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Bovine endothelial cells in culture produce thromboxane as well as prostacyclin
... prostaglandin F1 alpha and thromboxane B2 in a ratio of 5:1 to 10:1. The same ratio of these metabolites of arachidonic acid ws also found when prostaglandin production from endogenous arachidonic acid was stimulated in ...
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Adhesion molecules of detrusor muscle cells are influenced by a hypercholesterolemic diet or bladder outlet obstruction in a wistar rat model
... All groups were still fed their particular diet (groups 1 and 2 with the normal diet and group 3 with the HCD). Six weeks later, for a total of ten weeks of study, choles- terol, LDL cholesterol and body weight were ...
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