Vascular Remodeling in Experimental Hypertension by Norma R. Risler, Montserrat C. Cruzado, Roberto M. Miatello

“…The vascular wall is an active, flexible, and integrated organ made up of cellular (endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, adventitia cells, and fibroblasts) and noncellular (extracellular matrix) components, which in a dynamic way change shape or number, or reorganize in response to physiological and pathological stimuli, maintaining the integrity of the vessel wall in physiological conditions or participating in the vascular changes in cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension. …”
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Airway Inflammation and the Pathogenesis of Asthma by Paul M O'Byrne

“…Lastly, the persisting inflammatory cell infiltrate and products re leased from these cells arc very likely the cause or the airway structural changes characteristic of asthma, such as epithelial damage, goblet cell hyperplasia. smooth muscle thickening and deposition of collagen below the basement membrane. …”
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Leiomyoma of the Cheek by Ricardo Roberto de Souza Fonseca, Mário Augusto Ramos Junior, Douglas Baruchi, Tabata Resque Beckmann Carvalho, Andresa Borges Soares, Silvio Augusto Fernandes de Menezes, João de Jesus Viana Pinheiro, Jorge Nazareno Ferreira Fadul

“…Leiomyomas are rare benign tumors that grow in the tunica media of smooth muscle cells. Leiomyomas occur most frequently in the uterus or gastrointestinal tract and only very rarely in the area of the cheek. …”
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Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Human Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells Identifies a Contractile Cell Subpopulation by Elize Wolmarans, Juanita Mellet, Chrisna Durandt, Fourie Joubert, Michael S. Pepper

“…A major subpopulation was identified as contractile cells which, based on gene expression patterns, are likely to be pericytes and/or vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs).…”
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GATA2 participates in protection against hypoxia-induced pulmonary vascular remodeling. by Yuko Shirota, Shin'ya Ohmori, James Douglas Engel, Takashi Moriguchi

“…The G2-CKO mice exhibited augmented pulmonary vascular remodeling, with enhanced α-smooth muscle actin accumulation and increased apoptotic cells in the vascular wall upon chronic hypoxia. …”
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Human Cardiospheres as a Source of Multipotent Stem and Progenitor Cells by Lucio Barile, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurenţiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli

“…Because CSs contain both primitive cells and committed progenitors for the three major cell types present in the heart, that is, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells, and because they are derived from percutaneous endomyocardial biopsies, they represent an attractive cell source for cardiac regeneration. …”
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Glycyrrhizin Attenuates Toll Like Receptor-2, -4 and Experimental Vasospasm in a Rat Model by Chih-Zen Chang, Shu-Chuan Wu, Aij-Lie Kwan

“…Morphologically, deformed endothelium, tortuous elastic lamina, and smooth muscle necrosis were observed in the SAH rats, but were absent in the glycyrrhizin pretreatment group. …”
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Ginkgolide B Blocks Vascular Remodeling after Vascular Injury via Regulating Tgfβ1/Smad Signaling Pathway by Quan Wang, Shuai Ni, Li Ling, Siqi Wang, Hanbin Xie, Zhanhong Ren

“…Additional experiments reveal that GB exerts a protective effect on vascular remodeling and further restenosis through modulation of the Tgfβ1/Smad signaling pathway in vivo and in human vascular smooth muscle cells (HVSMAs) but not in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) in vitro. …”
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Fractional-Order PI Control of First Order Plants with Guaranteed Time Specifications by F. J. Castillo-Garcia, A. San Millan-Rodriguez, V. Feliu-Batlle, L. Sanchez-Rodriguez

“…Because CSs contain both primitive cells and committed progenitors for the three major cell types present in the heart, that is, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells, and because they are derived from percutaneous endomyocardial biopsies, they represent an attractive cell source for cardiac regeneration. …”
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Epicardial Fat: Physiological, Pathological, and Therapeutic Implications by Juan Salazar, Eliana Luzardo, José Carlos Mejías, Joselyn Rojas, Antonio Ferreira, José Ramón Rivas-Ríos, Valmore Bermúdez

“…When proinflammatory adipokines are released from the epicardial fat, this can lead to a decrease in insulin sensitivity, low adiponectin production, and an increased proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. These adipokines move from one compartment to another by either transcellular passing or diffusion, thus having the ability to regulate cardiac muscle activity, a phenomenon called vasocrine regulation. …”
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Spindle Cell Hemangioma in the Mucosa of the Upper Lip: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Kazuhiro Murakami, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sugiura, Tadaaki Kirita

“…CD31, CD34, factor VIII, smooth muscle actin, and Wilms tumor-1 reacted with endothelial cells lining the cavernous spaces. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids by Scott J. Thomson, Ara Askari, David Bishop-Bailey

“…EETs have been shown to have a diverse range of effects on the vasculature including relaxation of vascular tone, cellular proliferation, and angiogenesis as well as the migration of smooth muscle cells. This paper will highlight the growing evidence that EETs also mediate a number of anti-inflammatory effects in the cardiovascular system. …”
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Generation and characterization of three induced pluripotent stem cell lines for modeling coronary artery vasospasm by Ines Ross Tacco, Joseph Olshausen, Tse Yuan Chan, Naima Turbes, Ming-Yow Hung, Chi-Tai Yeh, Patricia K. Nguyen, Karim Sallam, Nazish Sayed, Ian Y. Chen

“…Further differentiation of these cell lines into endothelial and smooth muscle cells will allow mechanistic investigation of their relative contributions to CAV in cell culture.…”
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Up-Regulation of Endothelin Receptors Induced by Cigarette Smoke — Involvement of MAPK in Vascular and Airway Hyper-Reactivity by Yaping Zhang, Lars Edvinsson, Cang-Bao Xu

“…In the vasculature and airways, the main functional consequences of up-regulated endothelin receptors by cigarette smoke exposure are enhanced contraction and proliferation of the smooth muscle cells, which subsequently result in abnormal contraction (spasm) and adverse proliferation (remodeling) of the vasculature and airways. …”
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Primary Sarcoma of the Specialised Prostatic Stroma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Rosanna Zamparese, Francesco Corini, Antonio Braccischi, Antonella D'Angelo, Lucilla Diamanti, Marina Del Vecchio, Willy Giannubilo, Vladimiro Mambelli

“…Immunohistochemically, the neoplastic cells express diffusely CD34 and focally progesterone whereas no immunoreactivity was seen for cytocheratin, desmin, S-100, Bcl-2, chromogranin, CD117, and actin smooth muscle. A final diagnosis of low-grade prostatic stromal sarcoma (LG-PS) was made. …”
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Plac8 regulates the fibrogenic ability of cardiac fibroblasts in mice with myocardial infarction by Ting Fu, Jianping Gong, Lei Xu, Ningning Ji

“…Western blot showed increased protein expression level of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), and transwell assay and wound-healing assay collectively suggested enhanced cell migration. …”
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Autoimmunity and Extrahepatic Manifestations in Treatment-Naïve Children with Chronic Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Giuseppe Indolfi, Elisa Bartolini, Biagio Olivito, Chiara Azzari, Massimo Resti

“…Nonorgan specific auto-antibodies development is part of the natural course of chronic hepatitis C in children. Smooth muscle autoantibody is the most common autoantibody found, while liver-kidney microsomal type-1 antibody positivity is the most peculiar autoimmune feature of children with HCV infection. …”
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Visfatin/Nampt: An Adipokine with Cardiovascular Impact by Tania Romacho, Carlos F. Sánchez-Ferrer, Concepción Peiró

“…Visfatin/Nampt effects on cytokine and chemokine secretion, macrophage survival, leukocyte recruitment by endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle inflammation and plaque destabilization make of this adipokine an active factor in the development and progression of atherosclerosis. …”
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Pathology of the Gastrointestinal Tract in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism by I. A. Baranova, A. V. Baranov

“…Hyperparathyroidism has been shown to cause smooth muscle atony with specific upper and lower GI symptoms such as nausea, heartburn and constipation. …”
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Effects of Pentoxifylline in a Rat Model of Manganism: Evaluation of the Possible Toxicity by Romina Tanideh, Omid Farshad, Akram Jamshidzadeh, Aida Iraji

“…Pentoxifylline (PTX) administration attracts much attention considering the beneficial properties of PTX, as an anti-inflammatory and smooth muscle relaxation agent. This in vivo study aims to evaluate the effect of PTX on manganism in rat model. …”
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