Asthma-associated prostate enlargement and bladder smooth muscle hypercontractility: unveiling a potential link to LUTS by Peibin Cen, Ming Chen, Xin Qiu, Wenbin Guo, Hongyu Lan, Xingyu Zhou, Ming Lei, Guohua Zeng, Qingfeng Yu

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Leiomyoma of the palatine tonsil - report of a rare and unusual tumor at this site by Andleeb Abrari, Aarti Tyagi, Urmi Mukherjee

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Mechanism and Pharmacodynamic Substance Basis of Raw and Wine-Processed Evodia rutaecarpa on Smooth Muscle Cells of Dysmenorrhea Mice by Yeqian Liu, Hong Li, Lei Chen, Hongxia Zhao, Jian Liu, Shan Gong, Danfeng Ma, Chunming Chen, Shuiqing Zeng, Hongping Long, Weiqiong Ren

“…Afterwards, the uterine smooth muscle cells were isolated from the uterine tissue of dysmenorrhea and normal mice. …”
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Contractile Protein Expression and Phosphorylation and Contractility of Gastric Smooth Muscles from Obese Patients and Patients with Obesity and Diabetes by Wen Li, Kent C. Sasse, Yulia Bayguinov, Sean M. Ward, Brian A. Perrino

“…The altered contractile responses and the protein expression and phosphorylation in gastric muscles of obese patients with diabetes illustrate the importance of understanding how smooth muscle Ca2+ sensitization mechanisms contribute to gastric motility.…”
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Protease-activated receptors in vascular smooth muscle cells: a bridge between thrombo-inflammation and vascular remodelling by Anxhela Habibi, Wolfram Ruf, Leon Schurgers

“…During vascular repair, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) will switch from a contractile to a synthetic reparative phenotype. …”
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hsa_circWDR37_016 Regulates Hypoxia-Induced Proliferation of Pulmonary Arterial Smooth Muscle Cells by Shan-Shan Li, Shuang Liang, Yao Long, Xu Chen, Xin Jin

“…Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by abnormal remodeling of pulmonary vessel walls caused by excessive pulmonary arterial smooth muscle cell (PASMC) proliferation. Our previous clinical studies have demonstrated the importance of the downregulated circRNA in PAH. …”
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Degraded products generated by iron stent inhibit the vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation by downregulating AP-1 by Jiabing Huang, Bingjian Liu, Chunguang Zhao, Jing Li, Dongxu Qiu

“…Current evidence indicates that neointimal hyperplasia driven by uncontrolled proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) is a major cause of restenosis. …”
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Maslinic acid improves mitochondrial function and inhibits oxidative stress and autophagy in human gastric smooth muscle cells by Zheng Xiaoying, Zhang Shuning, Chen Qiaobin

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Senegalin-2: A Novel Hexadecapeptide from <i>Kassina senegalensis</i> with Antibacterial and Muscle Relaxant Activities, and Its Derivative Senegalin-2BK as a Bradykinin Antagonist by Yueyang Lu, Yanguo Zhu, Chengbang Ma, Lei Wang, Mei Zhou, Tianbao Chen, Xiaonan Ma, Xu Zhang, Zhimin Fan

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Regulation of (Pro)Renin Receptor in Renin-Positive Smooth Muscle Cells of Kidney Arterioles in Rats with STZ-Induced Diabetes by Zsolt Razga, Gabor Kovacs, Nikolett Bódi, Petra Talapka, Mária Bagyánszki

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Leptin Inhibits the Proliferation of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Induced by Angiotensin II through Nitric Oxide-Dependent Mechanisms by Amaia Rodríguez, Javier Gómez-Ambrosi, Victoria Catalán, Ana Fortuño, Gema Frühbeck

“…This study was designed to investigate whether leptin modifies angiotensin (Ang) II-induced proliferation of aortic vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) from 10-week-old male Wistar and spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), and the possible role of nitric oxide (NO). …”
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Ginger protects against vein graft remodeling by precisely modulating ferroptotic stress in vascular smooth muscle cell dedifferentiation by Xiaoyu Yu, Weiwei Wu, Jingjun Hao, Yuxin Zhou, Deyang Yu, Wei Ding, Xuejuan Zhang, Gaoli Liu, Jianxun Wang

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Hepatic Steatosis Aggravates Vascular Calcification via Extracellular Vesicle‐Mediated Osteochondrogenic Switch of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells by Zhao‐Lin Zeng, Zhi‐Bo Zhao, Qing Yuan, Shi‐Qi Yang, Zhen‐Xing Wang, Zuo Wang, Shi‐Yu Zeng, An‐Qi Li, Qian Chen, Guo‐Qiang Zhu, Xin‐Hua Xiao, Guang‐Hua Luo, Hai‐Yan Luo, Jiao‐Yang Li, Xu‐Yu Zu, Hui Xie, Jiang‐Hua Liu

“…Steatotic hepatocytes are found to release more EVs, which are able to reach the vascular tissue, be taken up by vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs), and promote their osteogenic differentiation. …”
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Smooth Muscle Cell Alignment and Phenotype Control by Melt Spun Polycaprolactone Fibers for Seeding of Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels by Animesh Agrawal, Bae Hoon Lee, Scott A. Irvine, Jia An, Ramya Bhuthalingam, Vaishali Singh, Kok Yao Low, Chee Kai Chua, Subbu S. Venkatraman

“…A method has been developed to induce and retain a contractile phenotype for vascular smooth muscle cells, as the first step towards the development of a biomimetic blood vessel construct with minimal compliance mismatch. …”
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Geranylgeranyl Transferase-I Knockout Inhibits Oxidative Injury of Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells and Attenuates Diabetes-Accelerated Atherosclerosis by Guo-Ping Chen, Jian Yang, Guo-Feng Qian, Wei-Wei Xu, Xiao-Qin Zhang

“…The proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) induced by oxidative injury is one of the main features in diabetes-accelerated atherosclerosis. …”
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BMSCs Interactions with Adventitial Fibroblasts Display Smooth Muscle Cell Lineage Potential in Differentiation and Migration That Contributes to Neointimal Formation by Y. Wendan, J. Changzhu, S. Xuhong, C. Hongjing, S. Hong, Y. Dongxia, X. Fang

“…BMSCs from rats were indirectly cocultured with adventitial fibroblasts in a transwell chamber apparatus for 7 days, and clonogenic assays demonstrated that BMSCs could be differentiated into smooth muscle-like cells with this process, including smooth muscle α-actin (α-SMA) expression by immunofluorescence staining. …”
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Piezo1 promotes vibration-induced vascular smooth muscle injury by regulating the NF-κB/p65 axis by Yingshan Zeng, Zhiquan Wu, Mengtian Xiong, Zhishan Liang, Ziyu Chen, Huimin Huang, Hongyu Yang, Qingsong Chen

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Long-Pulse Gastric Electrical Stimulation Repairs Interstitial Cells of Cajal and Smooth Muscle Cells in the Gastric Antrum of Diabetic Rats by Yan Chen, Hongcai Wang, Hai Li, Shi Liu

“…The damage of interstitial cells of Cajal and smooth muscle cells has far-reaching implications in the pathogenesis of gastroparesis in diabetic patients. …”
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Evidence That ADAM17 Mediates the Protective Action of CGRP against Angiotensin II-Induced Inflammation in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells by Si-yu Zeng, Li Yang, Chen-liang Hong, Hui-qin Lu, Qiu-jiang Yan, Yan Chen, Xu-ping Qin

“…Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) has a potent protective action on the cardiovascular system; however, little is known about the role of CGRP in angiotensin II- (Ang II-) induced inflammation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs). This study is aimed at determining the anti-inflammatory effect of CGRP in Ang II-treated VSMCs and whether a disintegrin and metalloproteinase 17 (ADAM17) modulates this protective action. …”
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miR-145 Alleviates Smooth Muscle Cell Phenotype Transition via ADAM17-Mediated ACE2 Shedding by Juan Wen, Baiyi Tang, Lan Guo, Wei Chen, Xiaohong Tang

“…It has been shown that miR-145 is involved in the differentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and may regulate vascular remodeling. …”
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