Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs) in Blood Vessel Tissue Engineering: The Use of Differentiated Cells or Stem Cells as VSMC Precursors
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.77108" target="_blank" >10.5772/intechopen.77108</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs) in Blood Vessel Tissue Engineering: The Use of Differentiated Cells or Stem Cells as VSMC Precursors
Original language description
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) play important roles in the physiology and pathophysiology of the blood vessels. In a healthy adult organism, VSMCs are quiescent, but after a blood vessel injury, they undergo phenotypic modulation from the contractile phenotype to the synthetic phenotype, characterized by high activity in migration, proliferation and proteosynthesis. This behavior of VSMCs can lead to stenosis or obliteration of the vascular lumen. For this reason, VSMCs have tended to be avoided in the construction of blood vessel replacements. However, VSMCs are a physiological and the most numerous component of blood vessels, so their presence in novel advanced vascular replacements is indispensable. Either differentiated VSMCs or stem cells as precursors of VSMCs can be used in the reconstruction of the tunica media in these replacements. VSMCs can be obtained from blood vessels (usually from subcutaneous veins) taken surgically from the patients and can be expanded in vitro. During in vitro cultivation, VSMCs lose their differentiation markers, at least partly. These cells should therefore be re-differentiated by seeding them on appropriate scaffolds by composing cell culture media and by mechanical stimulation in dynamic bioreactors. Similar approaches can also be applied for differentiating stem cells, particularly adipose tissue-derived stem cells, toward VSMCs for the purposes of vascular tissue engineering.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30402 - Technologies involving the manipulation of cells, tissues, organs or the whole organism (assisted reproduction)
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Project
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Muscle Cell and Tissue : Current Status of Research Field
ISBN
978-1-78984-006-3
Number of pages of the result
20
Pages from-to
289-308
Number of pages of the book
357
Publisher name
IntechOpen
Place of publication
London
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