Tumor cells transform fibroblasts into cancer-associated fibroblasts, which have an important immunosuppressive activity on which growth, invasion, and metastasis depend. These activated fibroblasts ...

Vascular. 2007;15(5):242-249. The various alterations that lead to the changes observed in varicose veins and their implications for therapeutic management are depicted in Figure 1.

Extracellular recording is an electrophysiology technique that uses an electrode inserted into living tissue to measure electrical activity coming from adjacent cells, usually neurons. The ...

SLC3A2 is a membrane protein, and LAMC1 is the gamma subunit of laminin 1, a key component of the extracellular matrix. The conclusion was that exposure to hyperglycemia induced secretion of ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell-secreted lipid bilayer delimited particles that ...

Positive remodeling (PR) is an atherosclerotic plaque feature defined as an increase in arterial caliber at the level of an atheroma, in response to increasing plaque burden. The mechanisms that lead ...

Lung and Vascular Inflammation Section, Laboratory of Allergic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health ...