Perianal Basal Cell Carcinoma Successfully Managed with Excisional Biopsy by Paola C. Aldana, Harris G. Yfantis, Preeti R. John

“…Immunohistochemical staining confirmed the diagnosis: it showed diffuse and strong positivity for smooth muscle actin (SMA) and monoclonal antibody BER-Ep4 and was negative for carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), pancytokeratin (AE1/AE3), and epithelial membrane antigen (EMA). …”
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Epidemiological Research Advances in Vascular Calcification in Diabetes by Haipeng Yao, Zhen Sun, Guangyao Zang, Lili Zhang, Lina Hou, Chen Shao, Zhongqun Wang

“…Vascular calcification is the transformation of arterial wall mesenchymal cells, particularly smooth muscle cells (SMCs), into osteoblast phenotypes by various pathological factors. …”
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Associations of NF-kappaB and Bax with Apoptosis in Varicose Veins of Women of Different Age Groups by Helle Evi Simovart, Andres Arend, Jüri Lieberg, Marina Aunapuu

“…The study aimed at detecting apoptotic endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) together with determining expression of NF-kappaB (p105/p50) and Bax in varicose vein walls. …”
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Angiomyolipoma of the Thoracic Wall: An Extremely Rare Diagnostic Challenge by Georgios Gemenetzis, Eleni Kostidou, Kalliroi Goula, Vassilios Smyrniotis, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos

“…Histologically, the lesion consisted of convoluted thick-walled blood vessels without an elastic layer, interlacing fascicles of smooth muscle, and mature adipose tissue, features consistent with an angiomyolipoma. …”
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Modulation of miRNAs in Pulmonary Hypertension by Sudhiranjan Gupta, Li Li

“…The pathology of PH involves vascular cell remodeling including pulmonary arterial endothelial cell (PAEC) dysfunction and pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell (PASMC) proliferation. There is no cure for this disease. …”
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Inflammatory Myoglandular Polyps: A Case Series of Four Patients and Review of the Literature by Shoji Hirasaki, Hiromitsu Kanzaki, Minoru Matsubara, Seiyuu Suzuki

“…Histologic confirmation of the inflammatory granulation tissue in the lamina propria, proliferation of smooth muscle, and hyperplastic glands with variable cystic changes formed the criteria for the selection of patients. …”
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Prostacyclin Synthase: Upregulation during Renal Development and in Glomerular Disease as well as Its Constitutive Expression in Cultured Human Mesangial Cells by Thomas Klein, Günther Klaus, Martin Kömhoff

“…In the normal adult kidney, PGIS-immunoreactive protein and mRNA appear to localize to mesangial fields and endothelial and smooth muscle cells of arteries and peritubular capillaries. …”
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Stress-Induced Changes in the Gastrointestinal Motor System by Victor Plourde

“…Recent evidence suggests that chronic or possibly permanent changes develop in enteric smooth muscle properties in response to stress. In animals, the most consistent findings include retardation of gastric emptying in response to various stressors; acceleration of gastric emptying upon cold stress, presumably through the secretion of brain thyroglobulin-hormone; acceleration of intestinal transit; and stimulation of colonic transit and fecal output. …”
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Arterial Stiffness and Dialysis Calcium Concentration by Fabrice Mac-Way, Amélie Leboeuf, Mohsen Agharazii

“…This calcium dependant increase in arterial stiffness is potentially explained by increased vascular smooth muscle tone of the conduit arteries and is not solely explained by changes in mean blood pressure. …”
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Vascular Remodeling in Experimental Hypertension by Norma R. Risler, Montserrat C. Cruzado, Roberto M. Miatello

“…The vascular wall is an active, flexible, and integrated organ made up of cellular (endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, adventitia cells, and fibroblasts) and noncellular (extracellular matrix) components, which in a dynamic way change shape or number, or reorganize in response to physiological and pathological stimuli, maintaining the integrity of the vessel wall in physiological conditions or participating in the vascular changes in cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension. …”
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Airway Inflammation and the Pathogenesis of Asthma by Paul M O'Byrne

“…Lastly, the persisting inflammatory cell infiltrate and products re leased from these cells arc very likely the cause or the airway structural changes characteristic of asthma, such as epithelial damage, goblet cell hyperplasia. smooth muscle thickening and deposition of collagen below the basement membrane. …”
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Leiomyoma of the Cheek by Ricardo Roberto de Souza Fonseca, Mário Augusto Ramos Junior, Douglas Baruchi, Tabata Resque Beckmann Carvalho, Andresa Borges Soares, Silvio Augusto Fernandes de Menezes, João de Jesus Viana Pinheiro, Jorge Nazareno Ferreira Fadul

“…Leiomyomas are rare benign tumors that grow in the tunica media of smooth muscle cells. Leiomyomas occur most frequently in the uterus or gastrointestinal tract and only very rarely in the area of the cheek. …”
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Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Human Adipose-Derived Stromal Cells Identifies a Contractile Cell Subpopulation by Elize Wolmarans, Juanita Mellet, Chrisna Durandt, Fourie Joubert, Michael S. Pepper

“…A major subpopulation was identified as contractile cells which, based on gene expression patterns, are likely to be pericytes and/or vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs).…”
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Human Cardiospheres as a Source of Multipotent Stem and Progenitor Cells by Lucio Barile, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurenţiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli

“…Because CSs contain both primitive cells and committed progenitors for the three major cell types present in the heart, that is, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells, and because they are derived from percutaneous endomyocardial biopsies, they represent an attractive cell source for cardiac regeneration. …”
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Glycyrrhizin Attenuates Toll Like Receptor-2, -4 and Experimental Vasospasm in a Rat Model by Chih-Zen Chang, Shu-Chuan Wu, Aij-Lie Kwan

“…Morphologically, deformed endothelium, tortuous elastic lamina, and smooth muscle necrosis were observed in the SAH rats, but were absent in the glycyrrhizin pretreatment group. …”
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Ginkgolide B Blocks Vascular Remodeling after Vascular Injury via Regulating Tgfβ1/Smad Signaling Pathway by Quan Wang, Shuai Ni, Li Ling, Siqi Wang, Hanbin Xie, Zhanhong Ren

“…Additional experiments reveal that GB exerts a protective effect on vascular remodeling and further restenosis through modulation of the Tgfβ1/Smad signaling pathway in vivo and in human vascular smooth muscle cells (HVSMAs) but not in human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) in vitro. …”
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Fractional-Order PI Control of First Order Plants with Guaranteed Time Specifications by F. J. Castillo-Garcia, A. San Millan-Rodriguez, V. Feliu-Batlle, L. Sanchez-Rodriguez

“…Because CSs contain both primitive cells and committed progenitors for the three major cell types present in the heart, that is, cardiomyocytes, endothelial cells, and smooth muscle cells, and because they are derived from percutaneous endomyocardial biopsies, they represent an attractive cell source for cardiac regeneration. …”
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Epicardial Fat: Physiological, Pathological, and Therapeutic Implications by Juan Salazar, Eliana Luzardo, José Carlos Mejías, Joselyn Rojas, Antonio Ferreira, José Ramón Rivas-Ríos, Valmore Bermúdez

“…When proinflammatory adipokines are released from the epicardial fat, this can lead to a decrease in insulin sensitivity, low adiponectin production, and an increased proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells. These adipokines move from one compartment to another by either transcellular passing or diffusion, thus having the ability to regulate cardiac muscle activity, a phenomenon called vasocrine regulation. …”
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Spindle Cell Hemangioma in the Mucosa of the Upper Lip: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Kazuhiro Murakami, Kazuhiko Yamamoto, Tsutomu Sugiura, Tadaaki Kirita

“…CD31, CD34, factor VIII, smooth muscle actin, and Wilms tumor-1 reacted with endothelial cells lining the cavernous spaces. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Epoxyeicosatrienoic Acids by Scott J. Thomson, Ara Askari, David Bishop-Bailey

“…EETs have been shown to have a diverse range of effects on the vasculature including relaxation of vascular tone, cellular proliferation, and angiogenesis as well as the migration of smooth muscle cells. This paper will highlight the growing evidence that EETs also mediate a number of anti-inflammatory effects in the cardiovascular system. …”
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