Identifying proteomic signatures of insulin resistance in fasting muscle offers insights for personalized type 2 diabetes ...

Axon guidance cues direct nerves in the heart during development, disease and regeneration. These cues determine cardiac innervation patterning by regulating the balance between chemo-attraction and ...

How do muscle cells grow after a workout ... Mexican cave turns out to be 500-year-old artifacts from a little-known culture ...

Vascular smooth muscle cells and macrophages play dominant roles in atherosclerosis ... which is challenging and has revealed inconsistencies. Cells in culture have undergone phenotypic transition and ...

To apply cyclic mechanical stretch to smooth muscle cells, flexible-bottomed six-well culture plates from Flexcell International Corporation were used. First, the VSMCs were starved for 24 h with ...

VSMCs in the normal arterial media express a range of SMC markers, conventionally including smooth muscle cell myosin heavy chain (MYH11), 22-kDa SMC lineage-restricted protein (SM22α/tagln), ACTA2, ...

The images show that the single-culture SPC treatment decreased the ... knockdown VECs were increased by SPC In rat aortic smooth muscle cells, the translocation of ROCK from the cytosol to ...

the absence of reliable methods to culture pulmonary venous smooth muscle cells (PVSMCs) has greatly delayed the related research. Thus, there is a need for an easy, reliable and widely accepted ...

A simple and economical technique was developed to isolate and culture human arterial smooth muscle cells from chorionic plate vessels. Placentas from healthy women were collected at the time of term ...