Smooth muscle
The contractility of circular and longitudinal intestinal smooth muscle is differentially altered during trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid induced ileitis in guinea pigs
... The contractility of cir- cular and longitudinal intestinal smooth muscle is differentially altered during trinitrobenzenesulfonic acid induced ileitis in guinea pigs. XV Int Symp on Gas[r] ...
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Evidence that CFTR is expressed in rat tracheal smooth muscle cells and contributes to bronchodilation.
... airway smooth mus- cle cell ...and smooth muscle cells are of fundamental importance in regulating airway ...vein smooth muscle ...
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Homodimerization of RBPMS2 through a new RRM-interaction motif is necessary to control smooth muscle plasticity
... digestive smooth mus- cle cells (SMCs) exhibit extensive plasticity in response to exogenous /endogenous stimulation or ...of smooth muscle tissues is achieved through tight and long-term control of ...
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Desert hedgehog-primary cilia cross talk shapes mitral valve tissue by organizing smooth muscle actin.
... Smoothened. However, following treatment of the cultures with anti- bodies against each of the hedgehog ligands to block receptor-ligand interactions, TIAM1 was observed as interacting with Smoothened ( Fig. 6 D). This ...
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The Effect of Resveratrol on the Hyperproliferation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells from Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats : Molecular Mechanisms
... and Use of Laboratory Animals published by the US National Institutes of Health (Guide, NRC 2011). Cell culture VSMCs from 14-week-old SHR and their age-matched WKY rats were cultured from aortas, as described ...
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The first digestive movements in the embryo are mediated by mechanosensitive smooth muscle calcium waves
... Results Calcium waves underlie contractions in the early embryonic gut. I used the cell-permeant intracellular calcium concentration indicator Fluo4-AM. The different histological layers of the gut had to be exposed to ...
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Bitter compounds delayed gastric emptying and induced intestinal smooth muscle relaxation in a pig model
... Bitter compounds induced innate aversion which was reflected in loss of appetite and decreased fat deposition in a pig model reported by our group. However, the mechanism remains unclear. We hypothesized that bitter ...
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Smooth muscle of the male pelvic floor: an anatomic study
... 2 Results: We individualized a middle compartment that contains smooth muscle (SM) cells. This compartment is in close relation with the levator ani muscle (LAM), rectum, and urethra. We describe a ...
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Smooth muscle cell specific deletion of the PKGIα target RGS2 induces vascular dysfunction and hypertension
... vascular smooth muscle cell contractile ...in smooth muscle cells, are necessary to maintain normal vascular tone and blood pressure by attenuating Gq mediated GPCR con- strictive ...
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Immune and Smooth Muscle Cells Interactions in Atherosclerosis: How to Target a Breaking Bad Dialogue?
... Anne Nègre-Salvayre and Muriel Laffargue * Department of Vascular Biology of the Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular Diseases (I2MC), Université de Toulouse 3, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche ...
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Characterization of platelet-activating factor receptors in circular smooth muscle of guinea-pig ileum by (3H)PAF binding
... Version postprint Comment citer ce document : Garcia Villar, R., Jeanneton, O., Botella, A., Martinolle, J.-P., Delvaux, M., Bueno, L. (1994). Characterization of platelet-activating factor receptors in circular ...
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Redox regulation of ET-1-induced activation of ERK1/2, PKB and Pyk2 signaling in A-10 vascular smooth muscle cells
... Calcium-dependent epidermal growth factor receptor transactivation mediates the angiotensin II induced mitogen-activated protein kinase activation in vascular smooth muscle ceils. Yamagu[r] ...
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New Fibrous PET Structures for Vascular Grafts: Effect of Fiber Structure on Endothelial and Smooth Muscle Cell Attachment and Growth
... aortic smooth muscle cells (AoSMC) to attach and proliferate on five different discoidal materials characterized by various fibre diameter ranges and structure ...
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β-Adrenergic cAMP Signals Are Predominantly Regulated by Phosphodiesterase Type 4 in Cultured Adult Rat Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells
... In the second part of the work, we analyzed the functional contribution of these PDE isoforms in controlling intracellular cAMP concentration. For this purpose, we took advantage of the FRET technique using an ...
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The activation function-1 of estrogen receptor alpha prevents arterial neointima development through a direct effect on smooth muscle cells
... On the basis of both experimental and clinical data, we found that estrogens have been proposed to exert several protective arterial effects. In particular, 17β-estradiol (E2), the main endogenous estrogen, has a dual ...
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TSHZ3 and SOX9 regulate the timing of smooth muscle cell differentiation in the ureter by reducing myocardin activity
... Immunological and in situ hybridization analysis Tissues were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde/PBS. Immuno- staining was performed either on 10 mm cryosections of tissues or on paraffin embedded sections after quenching ...
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Endothelin-1 and H2O2-induced signaling in vascular smooth muscle cells : modulation by CaMKII and Nitric oxide
... the smooth muscle by mediating the formation of cGMP that acts as a second messenger and activates the cGMP-dependent protein kinases (protein kinase G) (375;377), which in turn, facilitates the ...
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The implication of tone on airway responsiveness in vivo in mice and on the contractile capacity of airway smooth muscle
... Chapter 3 focuses on an article entitled The gain of smooth muscle’s contractile capacity induced by tone on in vivo airway responsiveness in mice . I participated in the discussion leading to the design of the ...
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Characterisation of Calcium Phosphate Crystals on Calcified Human Aortic Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Potential Role of Magnesium
... To our knowledge, for the first time, the crystal formation and the possible role of Mg 2+ in VC through an in vitro model of primary human aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (HAVSMC) was investigated in ...
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Isolation and differential transcriptome of vascular smooth muscle cells and mid-capillary pericytes from the rat brain
... Current procedures to isolate them cannot specifically separate their distinct subtypes, in particular vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and mid-capillary pericytes (mcPCs), which d[r] ...
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