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| Barbosa de Oliveira,L.C.; Rocha Oliveira,C.J.; Fries,D.M.; Stern,A.; Monteiro,H.P.. |
| Previous studies have shown that exogenously generated nitric oxide (NO) inhibits smooth muscle cell proliferation. In the present study, we stimulated rabbit vascular smooth muscle cells (RVSMC) with E. coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a known inducer of NO synthase transcription, and established a connection between endogenous NO, phosphorylation/dephosphorylation-mediated signaling pathways, and DNA synthesis. Non-confluent RVSMC were cultured with 0, 5, 10, or 100 ng/ml of the endotoxin. NO release was increased by 86.6% (maximum effect) in low-density cell cultures stimulated with 10 ng/ml LPS as compared to non-stimulated controls. Conversely, LPS (5 to 100 ng/ml) did not lead to enhanced NO production in multilayered (high density) RVSMC. DNA... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Nitric oxide; Lipopolysaccharide; Protein tyrosine phosphatases; Mitogen-activated protein kinases; DNA synthesis; Cell density. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2002000200006 |
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| Barreto,F.; Rezende,D.C.; Scaramello,C.B.V.; Silva,C.L.M.; Cunha,V.M.N.; Caricati-Neto,A.; Jurkiewicz,A.; Noël,F.; Quintas,L.E.M.. |
| The regulatory function of α1B-adrenoceptors in mammalian heart homeostasis is controversial. The objective of the present study was to characterize the expression/activity of key proteins implicated in cardiac calcium handling (Na+/K+-ATPase and Ca2+-ATPases) and growth (ERK1/2, JNK1/2 and p38) in mice with cardiac-selective overexpression of constitutively active mutant α1B-adrenoceptor (CAMα1B-AR), which present a mild cardiac hypertrophy phenotype. Immunoblot assays showed that myocardial plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase (PMCA) expression was increased by 30% in CAMα1B-AR mice (N = 6, P < 0.05), although there was no change in sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase (SERCA2) expression. Moreover, total Ca2+-ATPase activity was not modified, but a... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Α1B-adrenoceptors; Ca2+-ATPases; Cardiac hypertrophy; Na+/K+-ATPase; Mitogen-activated protein kinases. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2010000500012 |
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