Article: Fed: Breakthrough holds promise for asthma cure

Article: Altered cytoskeleton in smooth muscle of aganglionic bowel
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......motility is under the control of smooth muscle cells, enteric plexus, and hormonal...bodies in the sarcolemma of the smooth muscle cells. Objective.-To examine the...investigated the influence of smooth muscle cells on neuronal development by...

Article: Scientists turn fat tissue into muscle cells
The Hindustan Times;  July 25, 2006 ;     405 words ......from human fat tissue, into smooth muscle cells, which help the normal function...researchers to engineer and repair smooth muscle cells, which are found within the...prove a reliable source of smooth muscle cells that we can use to regenerate...

Article: Smooth Muscle Cells May Hold Key
USA Today;  October 1, 2005 ;     334 words ......A basic mechanism by which smooth muscle cells that line blood vessels can...skeletal and cardiac muscles, smooth muscle cells either can rest in their final...several signals that can stop smooth muscle cells from dividing and enable them...

Article: Scientists Create Muscle Cells From Stem Cells.
The Korea Times (Seoul, Korea);  August 7, 2008 ;     251 words ......transformed human stem cells into smooth muscle cells that control blood pressure...and differentiated them into smooth muscle cells. The chemical phingosylphosphorylcholine...converting stem cells into smooth muscle cells. This is expected to help...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- LOS ANGELES RESEARCHERS TRANSFORM STEM CELLS FOUND IN HUMAN FAT INTO SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......taken from human adipose or fat tissue into smooth muscle cells, which help the normal function of a multitude...characteristics, as well as the functionality, of smooth muscle cells. Smooth muscle cells are found within the human body in the walls...

Article: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES RESEARCHERS TRANSFORM STEM CELLS FOUND IN HUMAN FAT INTO SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......taken from human adipose or fat tissue into smooth muscle cells, which help the normal function of a multitude...characteristics, as well as the functionality, of smooth muscle cells. Smooth muscle cells are found within the human body in the walls...

Article: Researchers identify gene as essential for vascular smooth muscle development.
Biotech Week;  April 7, 2004 ;     404 words ......Their work appears in Nature. Smooth muscle cells are essential for the formation...result from abnormal growth of smooth muscle cells, said Dr. Eric Olson, chairman...growth and differentiation of smooth muscle cells. Knowing this mechanism, we...

Article: Understanding role of smooth muscle cells may aid anti-inflammatory research.
Women's Health Weekly;  August 12, 2004 ;     364 words ......Understanding the role of smooth muscle cells may aid research on anti-inflammatory...therapy. The primary function of smooth muscle cells is to contract and alter the...purely structural functions, smooth muscle cells may play important metabolic...

Article: Smooth muscle has a more normal phenotype when grown on homologous substrate.
Health & Medicine Week;  July 28, 2003 ;     353 words ......net) -- An ethanol-fixed base layer of smooth muscle cells permits culture of smooth muscle cells that look and behave closer to what is...system that supports the shortening of smooth muscle cells. Primary rat airway smooth muscle cells...

Article: Antisense Oligonucleotides to Stromelysin mRNA Inhibit Injury-Induced Proliferation of Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells.
Gene Therapy Weekly;  October 18, 1999 ;     480 words ......Proliferation of Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells. Histology and Histopathology...the phenotypic properties of smooth muscle cells, but less is known about the...proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Cultured rat aortic smooth...

Article: Synthetic Gene Delivery Safely Targets Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells.
Gene Therapy Weekly;  February 22, 2001 ;     607 words ......extensive intimal proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Targeting vascular smooth muscle cells by gene therapy techniques offers a possible...that could be used to target vascular smooth muscle cells. They evaluated a 31-amino-acid synthetic...

Article: Lipoprotein link to heart disease revealed. (lipoprotein A may cause proliferation of smooth muscle cells within artery walls) (Brief Article)
Science News;  June 12, 1993 ;     376 words ......the bloodstream may cause smooth muscle cells within the artery wall to...University School of Medicine grew smooth muscle cells taken from healthy human arteries...of this activated factor, smooth muscle cells continue their division unchecked...

Article: Matrix synthesis by bladder smooth muscle cells is modulated by stretch frequency
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......mechanical challenge. Bladder smooth muscle cells were grown on distensible...system, we demonstrated that smooth muscle cells were acutely sensitive to...the secretory phenotype of smooth muscle cells and can result in an altered...

Article: Regulation of Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Migration by [beta]-Adrenergic Receptors
The American Surgeon;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are two events involved...PROLIFERATION of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) are two independent...stented and grafted vessels. Smooth muscle cells first migrate from the media...