... that line the inner surface of blood vessels, and adjacent vascular mural cells, including smooth muscle cells and pericytes. Despite recent progress in elucidating the signalling pathways controlling their crosstalk, much debate remains with regard to how mural cells influence endothelial cell biology...

...Jennifer Kurz; Anna-Carina Weiss; Timo H.-W. Lüdtke; Lena Deuper; Mark-Oliver Trowe; Hauke Thiesler; Herbert Hildebrandt; Joerg Heineke; Stephen A. Duncan; Andreas Kispert ABSTRACT Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are a crucial component of the mesenchymal wall of the ureter, as they account...

...Moritz Jakab; Hellmut G. Augustin ABSTRACT Blood vessels have long been considered as passive conduits for delivering blood. However, in recent years, cells of the vessel wall (endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells and pericytes) have emerged as active, highly dynamic components that orchestrate...

...Nurullah Aydoğdu; Carsten Rudat; Mark-Oliver Trowe; Marina Kaiser; Timo H. Lüdtke; Makoto Mark Taketo; Vincent M. Christoffels; Anne Moon; Andreas Kispert ABSTRACT The organized array of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and fibroblasts in the walls of visceral tubular organs arises by patterning...

...Yixin Wang; Yi Jin; Maarja Andaloussi Mäe; Yang Zhang; Henrik Ortsäter; Christer Betsholtz; Taija Mäkinen; Lars Jakobsson Tissue fluid drains through blind-ended lymphatic capillaries, via smooth muscle cell (SMC)-covered collecting vessels into venous circulation. Both defective SMC recruitment...

...Mark-Oliver Trowe; Rannar Airik; Anna-Carina Weiss; Henner F. Farin; Anna B. Foik; Eva Bettenhausen; Karin Schuster-Gossler; Makoto Mark Taketo; Andreas Kispert Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are a key component of many visceral organs, including the ureter, yet the molecular pathways that regulate...

...Masahiro Shin; Hiroki Nagai; Guojun Sheng During embryonic development in amniotes, the extraembryonic mesoderm,where the earliest hematopoiesis and vasculogenesis take place, also generates smooth muscle cells (SMCs). It is not well understood how the differentiation of SMCs is linked...