Article: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - LOS ANGELES RESEARCHERS TRANSFORM STEM CELLS FOUND IN HUMAN FAT INTO SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS

Article: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- LOS ANGELES RESEARCHERS TRANSFORM STEM ...
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: Synthetic Gene Delivery Safely Targets Vascular Smooth ...
Blood Weekly;  February 22, 2001 ;     700+ 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: Effect of high glucose concentration on collagen synthesis and ...
Experimental Diabetes Research;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... cholesterol level in cultured aortic smooth muscle cells of Psammomys were investigated. For collagen biosynthesis, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) were incubated in ... Chains; Glucose; Psammomys; Smooth Muscle Cells The smooth muscle cells (SMCs ...

Article: Effect of erythromycin on homocysteine-induced extracellular ...
Indian Journal of Medical Research;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). Methods: Effects ... latent proenzymes by aortic smooth muscle cells and both are involved in arterial ... production in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) has not been studied ...

Article: Antisense Oligonucleotides to Stromelysin mRNA Inhibit ...
Gene Therapy Weekly;  October 18, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Induced Proliferation of Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells." Histology and Histopathology ... the phenotypic properties of smooth muscle cells, but less is known about the ... and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. Cultured rat aortic smooth ...

Article: Basic fibroblast growth factor regulates extracellular matrix and ...
In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... differentiation in vascular smooth muscle cells. Basic FGF promotes some features ... recognized mitogen for, vascular smooth muscle cells (16,44). The concomitant ... Studies in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells have documented an inverse ...

Article: The [alpha].sub.1D -adrenergic receptor is expressed ...
Journal of Molecular Signaling;  February 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... receptors such as vascular smooth muscle cells has not been well studied ... the difficulty of tranfecting smooth muscle cells. To overcome this obstacle ... AR. Infection of aortic smooth muscle cells with virus expressing the ...