Smooth Muscle Actin
Immunohistochemical assessment of odontogenic tumors using smooth muscle actin - A short study
... The myofibroblast represents a good candidate for playing an important role in such an interaction; the recently described possibility of modulating myofibroblast behavior using new tools, such as the smooth ...
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Immunohistochemical Evaluation of Stromal Myofibroblasts by Alpha Smooth Muscle Actin in Potentially Malignant and Malignant Lesions of the Oral Cavity: A Retrospective study
... 16 | P a g e Significant of mean percentage of myofibroblasts and percentage classification of myofibroblasts between OSCCs and NOM suggest increased presence of these cells in OSCCs and probably their role in tissue ...
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Alpha Smooth Muscle Actin Expression in a Case of Ameloblastic Carcinoma: a Case Report
... alpha smooth muscle actin may help in establishing an early diagnosis and chemotherapeutic agents against stromal myofibroblasts can be used as an adjunct to the surgery in planning the treatment for ...
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Expression of smooth muscle cell phenotype by rat mesangial cells in immune complex nephritis Alpha smooth muscle actin is a marker of mesangial cell proliferation
... alpha-smooth muscle actin in a mesangial pattern, correlating with the onset of proliferation, and persisting until day ...the actin-positive cells were mesangial cells, and double ...
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EMPHASIZING MYOFIBROBLASTS THROUGH ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN IN ORAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA
... This cross-sectional study was approved by the local ethics committee. 80 samples were taken from patients presenting with oral squamous cell carcinomas. All the specimens obtained will be studied using routine ...
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Triiodothyronine induces over expression of alpha smooth muscle actin, restricts myofibrillar expansion and is permissive for the action of basic fibroblast growth factor and insulin like growth factor I in adult rat cardiomyocytes
... -smooth muscle ( a -sm) actin mRNA and ...-sm actin immunoreactive cells increased from 1% in controls to 29 and 62% in ARC treated with 5 and 100 nM ...-sm actin in ARC cultured with ...
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Original Article All-trans retinoic acid in combination with collagen IV induces the differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells into smooth muscle cells
... α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and smooth muscle myosin heavy chain (SM-MHC) expression, reverse transcription was per- formed by using a Reverse Transcriptase M- MLV (Takara, Dalian, ...
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Activation of rat liver perisinusoidal lipocytes by transforming growth factors derived from myofibroblastlike cells A potential mechanism of self perpetuation in liver fibrogenesis
... enhanced and furthermore PL transformation (measured by expression of iso-alpha smooth muscle actin and loss of retinylpalmitate) was accelerated. Preincubation of this medium with neutralizing ...
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Myofibroblasts and colonic anastomosis healing in Wistar rats
... contain smooth muscle myosin isoforms in addition to a -smooth muscle actin ( a -SMA), the requisite machinery for contraction and/or motility, respond to proinflamma- tory cytokines ...
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PAX7 is required for patterning the esophageal musculature
... anti-sarcomeric actin (5C5; 1:1000; Sigma-Aldrich), rabbit anti–α-smooth muscle actin (1:200; Abcam), rabbit anti-MyoD (1:500; Santa Cruz Biotechnology, ...
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Specialized mouse embryonic stem cells for studying vascular development
... and smooth muscle cell from a common progenitor is not ...and smooth muscle devel- opment in ...alpha-smooth muscle actin ...and smooth muscle myosin heavy ...
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Hemangiopericytoma of Buccal Mucosa: Report of a Rare Case with Review of Literature
... alpha-smooth muscle actin, desmin, myoglobin, low-molecular weight cytokeratin, high- molecular weight cytokeratin, or epithelial membrane ...
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Protective Role for Properdin in Progression of Experimental Murine Atherosclerosis
... anti-human smooth muscle actin (SMA, Dako M0851, 1:150, 1 h), purified anti-mouse CD206 (Biolegend 123001, rat IgG2ak, 1:100, 1 h RT), (trypsination for antigen retrieval: ...
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Hedgehog signaling controls mesenchymal growth in the developing mammalian digestive tract
... MBL), smooth muscle actin (1:2000, Sigma), Muc5AC (45M1, 1:150, Novocastra), BrdU (G3G4, 1:100, Developmental Studies Hybridoma Bank; developed under the auspices of the NICHD and maintained by the ...
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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, ...
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Transforming growth factor beta1 targets estrogen receptor signaling in bronchial epithelial cells
... ACTA2: Alpha smooth muscle actin; ACTB: Beta-actin; BEAS-2Bs: Bronchial epithelial cells; CDH1: E-cadherin; CDH2: N-cadherin; CLIC3: Chloride intracellular channel 3; CRABP4: Cellular re[r] ...
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Morphological assessment of enteric neuromuscular disease causing intestinal pseudo-obstruction
... gamma muscle isoactins, are unknown but HHF35 appears less specific than CGA7 in that it recognises actins of skeletal and cardiac muscle, as well as smooth muscle (Gown et ...circular ...
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Caldesmon regulates the motility of vascular smooth muscle cells by modulating the actin cytoskeleton stability
... the actin- binding sites at the C-terminal region of CaD, thereby decreasing its effectiveness of actin binding, as well as its stabilizing action on the actin ...
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Endothelin antagonism in experimental hepatic fibrosis Implications for endothelin in the pathogenesis of wound healing
... 5). Smooth muscle a-actin, assessed by immunoblot and cell counting, was also reduced, confirm- ing the inhibitory effects of bosentan on stellate cell activation ...
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The roles and regulation of the actin cytoskeleton, intermediate filaments and microtubules in smooth muscle cell migration
... the actin “mesh” is also facilitated by ...cing actin depolymerization and debranching ...the actin meshwork [28, ...of actin filament polymerization and branching [4, 28, ...airway ...
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