What does VSM stand for?

Vascular Smooth Muscle

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Patricia Thistlethwaite and colleagues have described the genetic pathway by which vascular smooth muscle cells linked with pulmonary arterial hypertension are switched on to proliferate by a receptor protein called Notch-3.

Key protein behind pulmonary arterial hypertension identified

Responses of vascular smooth muscle cells to toxic insult: cellular and molecular perspectives for environmental toxicants.

Environmental links to heart disease

This allowed him to study the effects of drugs on vascular smooth muscle.

Viagra developer Furchgott dead at 92: report

The others were endothelial cells, which form rudimentary blood vessels, and vascular smooth muscle cells, which line blood vessel walls.

Heart cells created in laboratory

These associations may occur in part because vitamin D receptors are found in a range of tissues including vascular smooth muscle tissue, the lining of the interior surface of blood vessels, and heart muscle tissue.

Inadequate vitamin D may set the stage for heart disease

The researchers used genetically altered mice that produce excessive amounts of the human profilin 1 gene in the vascular smooth muscle cells and observed the changes to the vessels that followed, which led to high blood pressure by the time the mice were 6 months old – the rough equivalent to middle age in humans.

Researchers Find Gene Implicated in High Blood Pressure

2+] sensitization in vascular smooth muscle (Niiro and Ikebe 2001; Endo et al.

Staurosporine inhibition of zipper-interacting protein kinase ...

Prostacyclin and nitric oxide, produced by normal endothelium, inhibit platelet activation and relax vascular smooth muscle, promoting normal blood flow.

The impact of diabetes mellitus on endothelial dysfunction