Adherent monocytes and infiltrated monocyte-derived macrophages locally release a myriad of cytokines, vasoactive agents, matrix metalloproteinases, and growth factors to induce vascular and tissue ...

Step 4: p-cMGP is secreted into the extracellular matrix or the circulation to inhibit soft tissue calcification, VSMC (vascular smooth muscle cell) trans-differentiation into OPC (osteochondrogenic ...

Hong Kong Center for Cerebro-Cardiovascular Health Engineering, Building 19W, Hong Kong Science Park, Hong Kong 999077, China ...

Objective To investigate the associations between a comprehensive set of retinal vascular parameters and incident stroke to unveil new associations and explore its predictive power for stroke risk.

newly innovative methodologies with vascular tissue engineering such as electrospinning, decellularization, lyophilization, and 3D printing, and novel polymers have been developed. This review article ...

Cardiac muscle tissue, or myocardium, is a type of muscle tissue that forms the heart. It contracts and releases involuntarily and keeps the heart pumping blood around the body. The human body ...