Human smooth muscle cells

Grainger (G20) reports that Lp(a) promotes proliferation of human smooth muscle cells by inhibition of the activation of plasminogen and activating effect of plasmin on latent transforming growth factor-(3. 

Cohen, L.H., et al. (1999). Inhibition of human smooth muscle cell proliferation by farnesyl pyrophosphate analogues, inhibitors of in vitro protein farnesyl transferase. Biochem Pharmacol 57 365-373. 

Maclellan, D.L., Steen, H., Adam, R.M., Garlick, M., Zurakowski, D., Gygi, S.P., Freeman, M.R. and Solomon, K.R. (2005) A quantitative proteomic analysis of growth factor-induced compositional changes in lipid rafts of human smooth muscle cells. Proteomics 5, 4733-4742, Published on-line. 

Dluz SM, Higashiyama S, Damm D, Abraham JA, Klagsbrun M (1993) Heparinbinding growth factor-like growth factor expression in cultured fetal human smooth muscle cells. Induction of mRNA levels and secretion of active mitogen. J Biol Chem 268 18330-18334. 

Cardiovascular Effects. PAHs are contained in cigarette smoke, and smoking is a well-established risk factor in the development of atherosclerosis. Arterial smooth muscle cell proliferation, collagen synthesis, lipid accumulation, and cellular necrosis are all involved in the pathogenesis of the atherosclerotic plaque. In v//ro studies conducted using bovine, rabbit, and human smooth muscle cells from arteries demonstrated that benzopyrene affects some of the aforementioned processes. 

Frid MG, Shekhonin BV, Koteliansky VE, Glukhova MA (1992) Phenotypic changes of human smooth muscle cells during development late expression of heavy caldesmon and calponin. Dev Biol 153 185-193... 

GlukhovaM, KotelianskyVE, FondacciC, Marotte F, RappaportL (1993) Laminin variants and integrin laminin receptors in developing and adult human smooth muscle cells. Dev Biol 157 437-447... 

DupPa C, Couffinhal T, Dufourcq P, Lianas B, Moreau C, Bonnet J (1997) The integrin very late antigen-4 is expressed in human smooth muscle cell. Circ Res 80 159-169... 

Miano JM, Firulli AB, Olson EN, Hara P, Giachelli CM, Schwartz SM (1996) Restricted expression of homeobox genes distinguishes fetal from adult human smooth muscle cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 93 900-905... 

Kunzelman U, Dartsch PC (1992) Expression of smooth muscle alpha-actin and the proliferative activity of human smooth muscle cells in culture is influenced by endothelial- cell and fibroblast-conditioned medium. Cell Physiol Biochem 2 49-56... 

Soderberg-Naucler C, Fish KN, Nelson JA (1997) Reactivation of latent human cytomegalovirus by allogeneic stimulation of blood cells from healthy donors. Cell 91 119 126 Speir E, Shibutani T, Yu ZX, Ferrans V, Epstein SE (1996) Role of reactive oxygen intermediates in cytomegalovirus gene expression and in the response of human Smooth muscle cells to viral infection. Circ Res 79 1143 1152... 

Viedt, C., Vogel, J., Athanasiou, T., Shen, W., Orth, S. R., Kubler, W., and Kreuzer, J. (2002). Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 induces proliferation and interleukin-6 production in human smooth muscle cells by differential activation of nuclear factor-kappaB and activator protein-1. Arterioscler. Thromb. Vase. Biol 22, 914-920. 

Gupta B, Plummer C, Bisson I, Frey P, Hilbom J. Plasma-induced graft polymerization of acrylic acid onto poly(ethylene terephthalate) films characterization and human smooth muscle cell growth on grafted films. Biomaterials 2002 23 863-71. 

VILLACORTA, L., GRACA-SOUZA, A. V., RICCIARELLI, R., ZINGG, J. M. AZZI, A. 2003. Alpha-tocopherol induces expression of connective tissue growth factor and antagonizes tumor necrosis factor-alpha-mediated downregulation in human smooth muscle cells. Circ Res, 92,104-10. 

Torzewski J, Oldroyd R, Lachmann P, et al. Complement-induced release of monocyte chemotactic protein-1 from human smooth muscle cells. A possible initiating event in atherosclerotic lesion formation. Arterioscler Thromb Vase Biol 1996 16 673-677. 

DiMflla, P.A., Stone, J.A., Quinn, J.A. et al.. Maximal migration of human smooth muscle cells on fibronectin and type IV coUagen occurs at an intermediate attachment strength, /. Cell Biol. 122, 729,1993. 

In Vitro Biological Activity of Synthetic Biodegradable Biomaterials on Human Smooth Muscle Cells. 

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