Muscle, Smooth
Defining smooth muscle cells and smooth muscle injury
... responses to injury. In this issue of the JCI, Hendrix et al. offer a far more precise approach to examining the mechanisms of SMC responses to injury, focused not on general changes in phenotype but on effects of injury ...
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Fgf10 expression identifies parabronchial smooth muscle cell progenitors and is required for their entry into the smooth muscle cell lineage
... cardiac muscle (data not ...in-vitro smooth muscle cell differentiation in primary cultures of embryonic lung mesenchymal cells (Yang et ...the smooth muscle cells of the Mlc1v-nLacZ-24 ...
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Immune interferon inhibits proliferation and induces 2' 5' oligoadenylate synthetase gene expression in human vascular smooth muscle cells
... Proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) contributes to formation of the complicated human atherosclerotic plaque. These lesions also contain macrophages, known to secrete SMC mitogens, and T ...
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Prevention of smooth muscle cell outgrowth from human atherosclerotic plaque by a recombinant cytotoxin specific for the epidermal growth factor receptor
... on smooth muscle cell outgrowth from human atherosclerotic ...human smooth muscle cells proliferating in culture and can prevent smooth muscle cell outgrowth from "growth- ...
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Patent ductus arteriosus in mice with smooth muscle specific Jag1 deletion
... with smooth muscle-specific deletion of Jag1 exhibit defects in contractile smooth muscle cell differentiation in the vascular wall of the ductus arteriosus and adjacent descending ...
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CArG elements control smooth muscle subtype–specific expression of smooth muscle myosin in vivo
... Expression of smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC) is tightly controlled depending on the differentiated state of smooth muscle cells (SMCs). To better understand the mechanisms that reg- ...
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Extrauterine adenomyoma of the liver with a focally cellular smooth muscle component occurring in a patient with a history of myomectomy: case report and review of the literature
... of smooth muscle and benign glands and stroma. The smooth muscle component consisted of whorled intersecting bundles of typical smooth muscle cells with bland nuclei and was ...
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Evidence for a functional role of endogenously produced somatomedinlike peptides in the regulation of DNA synthesis in cultured human fibroblasts and porcine smooth muscle cells
... somatomedinlike peptides and secrete them into the surrounding microenvironment. This production has been linked to their ability to replicate. The objective of this study was to determine if a specific ...
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Co-culture of Smooth Muscle Cells and Endothelial Cells on Porous 3D Polyurethane Scaffolds for Vascular Tissue Engineering
... . Smooth muscle α-actin (SM-α-actin), smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (MHC), smoothelin-B, h-caldesmon and calponin are among the cytoskeletal proteins expressed by these cells 58 ...cardiac ...
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Localization of P2X receptor subtypes 2, 3 and 7 in human urinary bladder
... the muscle layer. This observation was confirmed by the low correlation between vimentin and P2X7 immunore- activity in the smooth muscle layer of the human urinary bladder (Fig. 1c-d). By ...
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumour and hypoglycemia in a Fjord pony: Case report
... for smooth muscle actin (mouse monoclonal antihuman smooth muscle actin visualized by staining with AEC (3- amino-9ethylcarbazole) labelled secondary antibody, Dako Cytomation, Glostrup, ...
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Electrospinning of poly (ester amide) fibres for mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation
... muscle differentiation analysis include A19 cell and C3H10T1/2 (10T1/2 cells). Hirschi et al. 115 studied if and how ECs recruit mural cell progenitor 10T1/2 cells and induce their differentiation during neovessel ...
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MicroRNAs in cardiovascular disease: from pathogenesis to prevention and treatment
... of smooth muscle–enriched miR-143/145 to treat essential hypertension and confer metabolic improvement in diabetic patients would ideally result in minimal on-target effects in other ...
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Myolipoma Affecting the Erector Spinae: A Case Report in a Child
... well-differentiated smooth muscle tissue. The smooth muscle nature of the nonfatty component was demonstrated by a diffuse and strong immunoreactivity for smooth muscle actin and ...
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Localization of distinct F2 isoprostanes in human atherosclerotic lesions
... ized by the presence of an atheromatous core of variable size with cholesterol clefts and lipid droplets. The core was covered by a fibrous cap, consisting of smooth muscle cells and intersti- tial tissue, ...
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Histological Study of the Elastic Artery, Muscular Artery, and Their Junction in Neonate Dog
... We know that during systole, blood enters the large elastic arteries with considerable force, and these arter- ies distend. They are able to do so because of the large amount of elastic tissue in their walls, and during ...
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The paradoxical patent ductus arteriosus
... DA smooth muscle development is not as advanced in premature infants as in their full-term counterparts, DA smooth muscle immaturity may not be the pri- mary cause for the lack of DA constric- ...
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adrenoceptor in rat thoracic aorta contractility
... The relaxant effect of BRL 37344 had been investigated in isolated common carotid arter- ies of the rat [33] and smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal tract before [34, 35]. However, the localization of β 3 ...
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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
... detrusor muscle cells of DO and BOO patients, and concluded that such CAMs are not involved in smooth muscle cell adhesion in these pathological con- ditions ...detrusor muscle cells may ...
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Hedgehog signaling controls mesenchymal growth in the developing mammalian digestive tract
... Homeostasis of the vertebrate digestive tract requires interactions between an endodermal epithelium and mesenchymal cells derived from the splanchnic mesoderm. Signaling between these two tissue layers is also crucial ...
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