SMC, Smooth muscle cells
Immune interferon inhibits proliferation and induces 2' 5' oligoadenylate synthetase gene expression in human vascular smooth muscle cells
... stimulated with the well-defined mitogens IL 1 (from 15.3 +/- 0.7 to 6.2 +/- 0.7 dpm X 10(- 3)/24 h) or platelet-derived growth factor (PDGF) (from 18.5 +/- 1.0 to 7.3 +/- 0.7 dpm X 10(- 3)/24 h). Kinetic and nuclear ...
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Fibronectin glycation increases IGF-I induced proliferation of human aortic smooth muscle cells
... immortalized SMC line (AALTR-16) was kindly pro- vided by ...These cells did not show any tumorigenic activity in irradiated nude mice [29] and their characterization by immunocytochemical studies and elec- ...
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FMN-Coated Fluorescent USPIO for Cell Labeling and Non-Invasive MR Imaging in Tissue Engineering
... endothelial cells, and a mixed popula- tion of smooth muscle cells (SMC)/fibroblasts, were harvested from explanted ovine carotid arteries as described previously in detail ...(27). ...
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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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Interleukin 1: a mitogen for human vascular smooth muscle cells that induces the release of growth inhibitory prostanoids
... There is much interest in defining the signals that initiate abnormal proliferation of cells in a variety of states characterized by the presence of mononuclear phagocytes. Since IL-1 is a major secretory product ...
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Interaction of monocytes with cocultures of human aortic wall cells involves interleukins 1 and 6 with marked increases in connexin43 message
... EC/COL, endothelial cells grown on a layer of collagen on a filter; EC/COL/SMC, a multilayer of smooth muscle cells grown on a filter, covered with a layer of collagen, with an endotheli[r] ...
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Defining smooth muscle cells and smooth muscle injury
... other SMC- specific genes, including MYH11 (encod- ing SM myosin heavy chain), SMTNA/B (encoding smoothelin A/B), SM22α, and CHF-1 (encoding HEY2), are distinct from the canonical CArG sequences responsible for ...
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The regulation of myocardin factor dependent transcription in vascular smooth muscle
... Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) play a critical role in vasculogenesis and angiogenesis, and provide mature vessels with the capacity for contraction necessary for proper maintenance of ...
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RNAi therapy to the wall of arteries and veins: anatomical, physiologic, and pharmacological considerations
... arranged smooth muscle cells with inter- spersed reticular and elastic ...of SMC in larger arteries pro- vides a greater challenge for a homogenous, transmu- ral transfection when compared to ...
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Production of transforming growth factor beta 1 during repair of arterial injury
... that smooth muscle cells (SMC) in injured rat carotid arteries are stimulated to produce type- 1 transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta 1) during neointima formation in ...
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Cyclosporine induced synthesis of endothelin by cultured human endothelial cells
... endothelial cells (EC), causes a decreased renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate and an increased mean arterial pressure when infused in ...causes smooth muscle cell (SMC) ...
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Mangum_unc_0153D_16869.pdf
... aortic SMC (HuAoSMC) on Jagged-1 ligand, as described ...the smooth muscle-myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC) promoter ...in cells that express RBPJ and Cre. Because SM-MHC is a smooth ...
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Electrospinning of poly (ester amide) fibres for mesenchymal progenitor cell differentiation
... In 2001, this research group began to use autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM- MNC) from the anterior superior spine, which were available on the day of surgery. TEVGs were implanted in 25 pediatric ...
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Descot, Arnaud (2010): Identification and Functional Characterisation of Genes regulated by Monomeric Actin. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... adherent cells containing floating cells was first ...Adherent cells were then washed with PBS that was then added to the floating cells previously ...adherent cells were then ...
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Localization of distinct F2 isoprostanes in human atherosclerotic lesions
... of smooth muscle cells and intersti- tial tissue, often infiltrated by a variable number of macro- phage-like foam ...foam cells were clustered close to the lipid necrotic core, together with ...
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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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Histological Study of the Elastic Artery, Muscular Artery, and Their Junction in Neonate Dog
... the smooth muscle cells of the tunica media ...by smooth muscle cells in the renal artery can serve as a physiological ...
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Heat shock protein 27 plays a protective role in thoracic aortic dissection by promoting cell proliferation and inhibiting apoptosis
... This study is not without limitations. 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 ...
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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 smooth muscle cells are important in bladder dysfunction ...of muscle fibres that are caused by loss of intercellular adhesion has been demonstrated to be the morphological ...
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The bHLH transcription factor Tcf21 is required for lineage specific EMT of cardiac fibroblast progenitors
... Tcf21 is expressed in the mesenchyme of many different tissues (Lu et al., 1998; Robb et al., 1998; Quaggin et al., 1999), and chimeric analysis has suggested a cell autonomous role for Tcf21 in the differentiation of ...
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