... rudimentary blood vessels, and vascular smooth muscle cells, the specialized cells that line blood vessel walls. Once mature ...
... its shape) of compliant poly(carbonate-urea)urethane and incorporated human vascular smooth muscle cells and epithelial cells from umbilical cords ...
... lining of the vessels (the vascular endothelium). The release of NO causes a relaxation of the vascular smooth muscle cells with a subsequent dilation of the vessel ...
... , forms many components of the heart: heart muscle cells, vascular smooth muscle cells, and the endothelial ... a progenitor's choice—to become a fibroblast, a smooth muscle cell, or a cardiomyocyte—and develop ways of "biasing ...
... . "This study provides new insights that clarify the role of specific proteins and the vascular smooth muscle cells that control the mechanical activity ...
... , have optimized ceramide for both cancer and vascular disease. Their groups found that by using human vascular smooth muscle cells in vitro, ceramide encapsulated in calcium ...
... , inhibits the genes necessary for the quiescence of vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs), which line blood vessels. Vascular smooth muscle cells undergo a process in diseases such as atherosclerosis or normal tissue ...
... necessary to turn a stem cell into a vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC), but could also affect VSMCs ... of miR-145 to efficiently direct the cell fate of vascular smooth muscle cells from stem ...
... of blood vessels contain muscle cells known as vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). These cells contract and relax to modulate blood pressure and distribute ...
... of blood vessels, i.e., vascular smooth muscle cells. Specifically, the acquisition and/or maintenance of the ability of VSMCs to contract and relax, thereby ...
... surgeon in UCSD's Department of Surgery, and colleagues describe the genetic pathway by which vascular smooth muscle cells associated with pulmonary arterial ...
... in the blood vessel wall known as vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) upregulated expression ... -dependent acute Rantes production in vascular smooth muscle cells modulates inflammation following ...
... affected cultures of vascular smooth muscle cells. Vascular smooth muscle cells are an integral ... angiotensin II activity in the cultured vascular smooth muscle cells. This suggests that the subaleurone layer ...
... hepatocytes from the liver, vascular smooth muscle cells, and various cultured cells lines," says Foskett. Autophagy is important for clearing ...
... and first author of "Rare Copy Variants Disrupt Genes Regulating Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Adhesion and Contractibility in Sporadic ...