The smooth muscle cell directly drives the contraction of the vascular wall and hence
regulates the size of the blood vessel lumen. We review here the current understanding of …

Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) possess remarkable phenotypic plasticity that allows rapid
adaptation to fluctuating environmental cues, including during development and progression …

The focus of this review is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of
molecular mechanisms/processes that control differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells …

The vascular smooth muscle cell (SMC) in mature animals is a highly specialized cell whose
principal function is contraction. The fully differentiated or mature SMC proliferates at an …

The molecular regulation of smooth muscle cell (SMC) behavior is reviewed, with particular
emphasis on stimuli that promote the contractile phenotype. SMCs can shift reversibly along …

We aimed to determine if and how endothelial cells (EC) recruit precursors of smooth
muscle cells and pericytes and induce their differentiation during vessel formation …

Haematopoietic and vascular cells are thought to arise from a common progenitor called the
haemangioblast. Support for this concept has been provided by embryonic stem (ES) cell …

Even in the 21st century, studies aimed at characterizing the pathological paradigms
associated with the development and progression of central nervous system diseases are …

SM22α is a calponin-related protein that is expressed specifically in adult smooth muscle. To
begin to define the mechanisms that regulate the establishment of the smooth muscle …

Calponin is an actin filament-associated regulatory protein expressed in smooth muscle and
many types of non-muscle cells. Three homologous genes, CNN1, CNN2 and CNN 3 …