human smooth muscle cells
Culture of Human Endothelial Cells Derived from Umbilical Veins IDENTIFICATION BY MORPHOLOGIC AND IMMUNOLOGIC CRITERIA
... Endothelial cells were isolated from freshly obtained human umbilical cords by collagenase digestion of the interior of the umbilical ...The cells were grown in tissue culture as a homogeneous ...
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Decreased type II/type I TGF beta receptor ratio in cells derived from human atherosclerotic lesions Conversion from an antiproliferative to profibrotic response to TGF beta1
... normal human smooth muscle cells are growth inhibited by TGF-beta1, a potent wound healing agent, and show little induction of collagen synthesis to TGF-beta1, yet cells grown from ...
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Immune interferon inhibits proliferation and induces 2' 5' oligoadenylate synthetase gene expression in human vascular smooth muscle cells
... vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) contributes to formation of the complicated human atherosclerotic ...T cells secrete immune IFN-gamma locally in the ...adult human blood ...
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Human airway smooth muscle cell proliferation from asthmatics is negatively regulated by semaphorin3A
... [3]. Several signaling pathways could be activated in parallel or as a cascade upon stimulation of ASM cells with mitogens [4]. It has been previously shown that Ras- related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1 (Rac1) ...
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Calcium currents in isolated human detrusor smooth muscle cells
... bladder smooth muscle provided a detailed description of the membrane currents of guinea-pig detrusor myocytes (Klockner and Isenberg, 1985a) and this study also set out to compare the electrophysiology of ...
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A human plasma derived supplement preserves function of human vascular cells in absence of fetal bovine serum
... in smooth muscle cells to the blood torrent triggers the coagula- tion ...in smooth muscle ...in cells surrounding the injury area, and such cells migrated towards the ...
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Biomimetic Poly(ester amide) Biomaterials for Vascular Tissue Engineering
... of smooth muscle progenitor cells, which were differentiated into SMCs, ultimately improving the elastic modulus and ultimate tensile strength of the ...recombinant human platelet- derived ...
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-induced injury of human vascular smooth muscle cells (HVSMCs)
... High level of IL-6 and TNFα induced inflamma- tory response apoptosis in cells. ELISA was per- formed to examine the concentration of IL-6 and TNFα in HVSMC culture supernatant. As shown in Figure 3, compared with ...
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NOX4 downregulation leads to senescence of human vascular smooth muscle cells
... β-gal-positive cells correlated inversely with the level of NOX4 expression obtained after transfection with different siRNA sequences (Figure 3C, ...control cells (Figure 4A). Moreover, cells with ...
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Differential regulation of neurotrophin expression in human bronchial smooth muscle cells
... that cells from the airways may be poor at producing NT-3 compared to other neurotrophins ...airway smooth muscle cells, although Freund and co-workers reported a maximal upregulation at ...
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Localization of P2X receptor subtypes 2, 3 and 7 in human urinary bladder
... of smooth muscle cells upon nerve stimu- lation [26] and to be of importance for contractile re- sponses ...Interstitial cells are of mesenchymal origin and vimentin has extensively been used ...
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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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Specific binding of endothelin on human vascular smooth muscle cells in culture
... endothelial cells. The binding of endothelin was studied on cultured human vascular smooth muscle cells obtained from umbilical ...per smooth muscle ...cultured ...
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Electrospinning of poly (ester amide) fibres for mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation
... the cells with 10 -5 M of all-trans RA for 5 days to differentiate them to a VSMC phenotype prior to seeding onto porous freeze-dried PLLA ...and smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM- MHC) over 2 ...
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PM2.5 promotes human bronchial smooth muscle cell migration via the sonic hedgehog signaling pathway
... the cells were washed and transferred to ...the cells were harvested with trypsin-EDTA and counted using a Zeiss Coulter ...5000 cells per well and cultured in SMGM overnight. The cells were ...
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Oxidative stress-dependent activation of collagen synthesis is induced in human pulmonary smooth muscle cells by sera from patients with scleroderma-associated pulmonary hypertension
... SSc patients enrolled in the study were mainly middle age, white women. Subjects with PAH were slightly older (64.0 ± 9.4 vs 53.3 ± 11.6; p = 0.009) and had longer disease duration (18.5 ± 9.5 vs 10.5 ± 7.3 years; p = ...
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Replication of cytomegalovirus in human arterial smooth muscle cells.
... Comparative effects of CMV on smooth muscle and on fibroblast cell cultures of human origin Cell culture Cytopathic effect IMR-90a + SMCb +; Delayed, Time of complete dsrcin CVatgn deteM[r] ...
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Original Article Smooth muscle homeostasis in human atherosclerotic plaques through interleukin 15 signalling
... sclerosis. However, not all atherosclerotic plaques are inflammatory lesions, and many plaques in humans contain fibrous tissue, calci- fications and smooth muscle cells (SMC) as their dominant ...
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Histological Study of the Elastic Artery, Muscular Artery, and Their Junction in Neonate Dog
... is smooth muscle cells, but in the avian species not only smooth muscle cells but also connective tissue cells as second major cell type are found ...mast cells is ...
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Endothelial cell injury due to copper catalyzed hydrogen peroxide generation from homocysteine
... normal human serum in a concentration- dependent manner. Using cultured human and bovine endothelial cells, we found that homocysteine plus copper could lyse the cells in a dose-dependent ...
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