Smooth Muscle Cells
Defining smooth muscle cells and smooth muscle injury
... rial smooth muscle cells (SMCs) to injury have led to confusion, in part because of the as-yet-unconfirmed implication that terms such as dedifferentiation, synthetic pheno- type, and phenotypic ...
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Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells
... airway smooth muscle cells (primary and immortalized cell ...airway smooth muscle cells that express muscarinic M 3 ...these cells, methacholine also significantly ...
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Stretching Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells on Micropatterned Surfaces
... artery smooth muscle cells, ...Vascular smooth muscle cells produce their own reticular network of ECM protein fibers, including elastin and collagen types I and III 26 ...
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A constitutive model for cytoskeletal contractility of smooth muscle cells
... A model is developed to extend the one-dimensional constitutive equations for two- dimensional and three-dimensional cytoskeletal networks of smooth muscle cells. The two-dimensional version of the ...
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Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase In Smooth Muscle Cells And Aortic Integrity
... in smooth muscle cells is required to maintain vascular integrity by maintaining genomic ...aortic smooth muscle cells were isolated from the aortas of 3 Nampt flox/flox ...
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-induced injury of human vascular smooth muscle cells (HVSMCs)
... Received October 11, 2017; Accepted October 30, 2017; Epub December 1, 2017; Published December 15, 2017 Abstract: Thoracic aortic dissection is a catastrophic acute aortic disease with a high postoperative mortality. ...
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Dexamethasone induces apoptosis in pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cells
... [16]. To our knowledge immunosuppressive therapy has not been formally tested in patients with idiopathic PAH, although cases have been reported [18]. We have recently demonstrated that the glucocorticoid (GC) ...
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The Effect of Iron Oxide Magnetic Nanoparticles on Smooth Muscle Cells
... Received: 17 September 2008 / Accepted: 29 October 2008 / Published online: 2 December 2008 Ó to the authors 2008 Abstract Recently, magnetic nanoparticles of iron oxide (Fe 3 O 4 , c-Fe 2 O 3 ) have shown an increasing ...
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Regulation of intracellular calcium in isolated vascular smooth muscle cells
... ventricular cells exposed to La^^ despite cell relaxation (Peeters et al, ...endothelial cells suggesting that these cells have no Na-Ca exchange similar to that observed in cardiac ...in ...
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Calcium currents in isolated human detrusor smooth muscle cells
... detrusor muscle strip contractility is also unknown and suggests an underlying difference between bladder and other smooth muscle ...detrusor smooth muscle from different pathological ...
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TGF-β1-induced differentiation of SHED into functional smooth muscle cells
... Contractility is a key characteristic and distinguishing property of mature SMCs, which enables blood vessels to control appropriate blood pressure through alteration of the luminal diameter by contraction and relaxation ...
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Differential regulation of neurotrophin expression in human bronchial smooth muscle cells
... between smooth muscle cells, neurones, inflammatory cells and structural cells in the vicinity, in which neurotrophins derived from bron- chial smooth muscle may promote ...
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The Influence of Caldesmon Suppression on Proliferation and Motilities of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
... vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) from the media to intima constitutes a critical step in the development of proliferative vascular ...control cells; third, the specific role of CaD on ...
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Plk1 regulates MEK1/2 and proliferation in airway smooth muscle cells
... Thus, it is likely that the MAPK cascade is mediated by the Ras-Raf pathway in smooth muscle. Although the role of Plk1 in cell division/proliferation is well recognized, the studies on Plk1 are largely ...
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Spatial Distribution of Cytoskeletal Mechanical Properties in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
... This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract The mechanical properties on a whole basis of cell are extensively studied ...
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Induction of cyclin A gene expression by homocysteine in vascular smooth muscle cells
... Treatment of quiescent RASMCs with 1 mM homocysteine or 2% calf serum for 36 h increased cyclin A mRNA levels by 8- and 14-fold, respectively, whereas homocysteine plus serum increased cyclin A mRNA levels by 40-fold, ...
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Atrial natriuretic polypeptide inhibits hypertrophy of vascular smooth muscle cells
... RASM cells, ANP (10(-7), 10(-6) M) significantly suppressed the basal incorporations of 3H-uridine and leucine by 50 and 30%, ...vascular smooth muscle ...
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NOX4 downregulation leads to senescence of human vascular smooth muscle cells
... vascular smooth muscle ...of cells with DPI, a known inhibitor of flavoenzymes, as well as silencing of NOX4 lead to decreased production of ROS and induction of permanent growth arrest characterized ...
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Specific binding of endothelin on human vascular smooth muscle cells in culture
... vascular smooth muscle cells obtained from umbilical ...per smooth muscle ...endothelial cells inhibited the binding of 125I-endothelin dose ...vein smooth muscle ...
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Sources and regulation of nitric oxide synthesis in uterus smooth muscle cells
... of smooth muscle contractile func- tion that is involved in the maintenance of normal functioning of internal organs, in particular, the genitourinary system [1, ...uterine smooth muscle ...
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