Current knowledge suggests that intimal smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in native
atherosclerotic plaque derive mainly from the medial arterial layer. During this process …

During atheromatous plaque formation or restenosis after angioplasty, smooth muscle cells
(SMCs) migrate from the media toward the intima, where they proliferate and undergo …

J. Chen, CM Kitchen, JW Streb and JM Miano. Myocardin: A Component of a Molecular
Switch for Smooth Muscle Differentiation. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology …

Bamboo is a medicinal plant, and has long been used as a traditional/folk medicine and a
food preservative in Japan. Bamboo leaf contains many active ingredients with medicinal …

Early morphological and biochemical studies indicated that vascular smooth muscle cells
(VSMCs) exhibited two distinct phenotypes and that a change from the contractile to the …

All blood vessels are lined by endothelium and, except for the capillaries, surrounded by
one or more layers of smooth muscle cells. The origin of the embryonic vascular smooth …

A further reason to revisit the mesodermal origin of SMC is the evidence that has turned up
from in vivo experiments in which it was shown that the first layers of SM α-actin–expressing …

Intimal thickening induced after endothelial denudation of rat aorta is though to be due to
migration and proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMC). When the reendothelialization is …

Osteochondral lesions due to injury or other pathology commonly result in the development
of osteoarthritis and progressive joint destruction. Bioengineered scaffolds are widely …

The smooth muscle cell is the sole cell type normally found in the media of mammalian
arteries. In the adult, it is a terminally differentiated cell that expresses cytoskeletal marker …