Microvascular Contractile Dysfunction Associates with a Synthetic Phenotype of Human Intramyocardial Artery Smooth Muscle Cells

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim A. Dora ◽  
Lyudmyla Borysova ◽  
Xi Ye ◽  
Chloe Powell ◽  
Timea Z. Beleznai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Contractile Dysfunction ◽  
Synthetic Phenotype

Oxidative Stress Produced with Cell Migration Increases Synthetic Phenotype of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (11) ◽  
pp. 1546-1554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hak-Joon Sung ◽  
Suzanne G. Eskin ◽  
Yumiko Sakurai ◽  
Andrew Yee ◽  
Noriyuki Kataoka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Cell Migration ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Synthetic Phenotype

scholarly journals Immunocytochemical characteristics of submucosal uterine myomas

2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (12) ◽  
pp. 977-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandra Mladenovic-Mihailovic ◽  
Zorica Mladenovic-Bogdanovic ◽  
Predrag Mitrovic ◽  
Irena Tanaskovic ◽  
Slavica Usaj-Knezevic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Smooth Muscle Actin ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Synthetic Activity ◽  
Benign Tumors ◽  
Paraffin Sections ◽  
Weak Reaction ◽  
Synthetic Phenotype

Background/Aim. Myomas of the uterus, the most common benign tumors, have been studied for decades from the aspects of different basic and clinical disciplines. Despite this fact, their pathogenesis is still poorly understood. The aim of this study was to determine immunocytochemical characteristics of smooth muscle cells and connective tissue components of submucosal myomas of the uterus. Method. During the course of this study, 25 samples of submucosal myomas of the uterus were analyzed, all of them obtained during the surgery, after abdominal histerctomy by Aldridge. The samples were fixed in 4% formalin and embedded in paraffin. Sections of 5 ?m thickness were stained immunocytochemically using the DAKO LSAB+/HRP technique to identify ?- smooth muscle actin (?-SMA), vimentin, desmin, CD34, CD45, CD68 and PCNA (DAKO specification). Results. Our results suggest that submucosal myomas of the uterus are build-up of smooth muscle cells which are immunoreactive to ?-SMA and desmin, but also to a certain number of smooth muscle cells which are immunoreactive to ?-SMA and vimentin. Some of vimentin-immunoreactive cells also show an immunoreactivity of PCNA. In the build-up of connective stroma CD34-immunoreactive fibroblasts and neovascular formations are also present. By examining the distribution of CD45 antigen, at all the analyzed samples we observed a weak reaction. Conclusion. Submucosal myomas of the uterus are made-up of smooth muscle cells of the highly differentiated contractile phenotype (?-SMA- and desminimmunoreactivity), as well as smooth muscle cell of the synthetic phenotype which proliferate (?-SMA-, vimentin- and PCNA-immunoreactivity). In submucosal myoma of the uterus there is a significant presence of connective tissue as a result of synthetic activity of fibroblasts, which clearly differ in their immunocytochemical characteristics from smooth muscle cells of the synthetic phenotype.

scholarly journals LRP1 promotes synthetic phenotype of pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells in pulmonary hypertension

2019 ◽  
Vol 1865 (6) ◽  
pp. 1604-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marius M. Zucker ◽  
Lukasz Wujak ◽  
Anna Gungl ◽  
Miroslava Didiasova ◽  
Djuro Kosanovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Hypertension ◽  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Pulmonary Artery ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle ◽  
Synthetic Phenotype

scholarly journals Loss of the Mechanotransducer Zyxin Promotes a Synthetic Phenotype of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhajit Ghosh ◽  
Branislav Kollar ◽  
Taslima Nahar ◽  
Sahana Suresh Babu ◽  
Agnieszka Wojtowicz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smooth Muscle ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle ◽  
Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells ◽  
Muscle Cells ◽  
Synthetic Phenotype
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