Huge Intravascular Tumor Extending to the Heart: Leiomyomatosis by Suat Doganci, Erkan Kaya, Murat Kadan, Kubilay Karabacak, Gökhan Erol, Ufuk Demirkilic

“…Intravenous leiomyomatosis (IVL) is a rare neoplasm characterized by histologically benign-looking smooth muscle cell tumor mass, which is growing within the intrauterine and extrauterine venous system. …”
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p104 Binds to Rac1 and Reduces Its Activity during Myotube Differentiation of C2C12 Cell by Ki Young Choi, Min Sup Lee, Young Jun Cho, Myong Ho Jeong, Seung Jin Han, Seung Hwan Hong

“…Based on these results, we conclude that p104 is involved in muscle cell differentiation by modulating the Rac1 activity.…”
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Impact of Notch3 Activation on Aortic Aneurysm Development in Marfan Syndrome by Kathryn Jespersen, Chenxin Li, Rishi Batra, Christopher A. Stephenson, Paul Harding, Kylie Sestak, Ryan T. Foley, Harrison Greene, Trevor Meisinger, Jason R. Cook, B. Timothy Baxter, Wanfen Xiong

“…However, the role of Notch signaling in aortic pathology and aortic smooth muscle cell (SMC) differentiation in Marfan syndrome (MFS) is not completely understood. …”
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Lipotoxicity and metabolic disorders at obesity by V. T. Ivashkin, M. V. Mayevskaya

“…In this aspect it is necessary to focus on glitazones (PPARs ligands), metformin among pharmacological substances, which has no influence on insulin secretion, however it has a lot of extrapancreatic effects by which it reduces increased concentrations of glucose in blood, improves tissue sensitivity to insulin and, thus, increases uptake of glucose by liver and muscles cells. In 2009 results of clinical and experimental researches which show significant efficacy of ursodeoxycholic acid at a dose of 30 mg/kg in treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and major therapeutic potential of silibinin and silibinin/phosphatidylcholine complex at non-alcoholic fatty liver disease were submitted.…”
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MicroRNA-101-3p Suppresses mTOR and Causes Mitochondrial Fragmentation and Cell Degeneration in COPD by Lei Fang, Xinggang Wang, Ming Zhang, Petra Khan, Michael Tamm, Michael Roth

“…Cigarette smoke is assumed to cause the loss of airway wall structure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) by reducing airway smooth muscle cell (ASMC) function. It also modifies mTOR activity, microRNA (miR)-101-3p expression, and mitochondria function. …”
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Interleukin-18 Expression Increases in the Aorta and Plasma of Patients with Acute Aortic Dissection by Haiying Hu, Guangtai Zhang, Huanli Hu, Wenjing Liu, Jixiang Liu, Shuanli Xin, Xiufeng Zhao, Liying Han, Liping Duan, Xinshun Huang, Chao Chang

“…The effects of IL-18 on macrophage differentiation and smooth muscle cell (SMC) apoptosis were investigated in vitro. …”
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Development of an in vitro model to study muscle maladaptation to overtraining by Giuseppe Sirago, Clément Lanfranchi, Justin Carrard, Vincent Gremeaux, Nadège Zanou, Nicolas Place

“…., 2021), we electrically stimulated C2C12 myotubes (a mouse skeletal muscle cell line) to simulate endurance exercise (Zanou et al., 2021). …”
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Fhl1, a new spatially specific protein, regulates vein graft neointimal hyperplasia by Chaoqun Wang, Jiantao Chen, Zicong Feng, Bohao Jian, Suiqing Huang, Kangni Feng, Haoliang Liu, Zhuoming Zhou, Ziyin Ye, Jing Lu, Mengya Liang, Zhongkai Wu

“…Neointimal cells originated from newly generated α‐SMA(+) repair cells located outside the grafted vein, displaying a hybrid fibroblast‐smooth muscle cell phenotype. Spatial transcriptomics identified stable and sustained Fhl1 expression within the neointima throughout the entire NIH phase. …”
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