Vascular Endothelial Cells Exposed to Sustained Hydrostatic Pressure: A Three Dimensional Evaluation of Cytoskeletal Rearrangement

1996 ◽  
pp. 319-319
Author(s):  
S. Salwen ◽  
D. H. Szarowski ◽  
J. N. Turner ◽  
R. Bizios
1983 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
D de Bono ◽  
C. Green

The interactions between human or bovine vascular endothelial cells and fibroblast-like vascular intimal spindle-shaped cells have been studied in vitro, using species-specific antibodies to identify the different components in mixed cultures. Pure cultures of endothelial cells grow as uniform, nonoverlapping monolayers, but this growth pattern is lost after the addition of spindle cells, probably because the extracellular matrix secreted by the latter causes the endothelial cells to modify the way they are attached to the substrate. The result is a network of tubular aggregates of endothelial cells in a three-dimensional ‘polylayer’ of spindle-shaped cells. On the other hand, endothelial cells added to growth-inhibited cultures of spindle-shaped cells will grow in sheets over the surface of the culture. Human endothelial cells grown in contact with spindle-shaped cells have a reduced requirement for a brain-derived endothelial growth factor. The interactions of endothelial cells and other connective tissue cells in vitro may be relevant to the mechanisms of endothelial growth and blood vessel formation in vivo, and emphasize the potential importance of extracellular matrix in controlling endothelial cell behaviour.


1999 ◽  
Vol 248 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-508 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masafumi Kuzuya ◽  
Shosuke Satake ◽  
Miguel A. Ramos ◽  
Shigeru Kanda ◽  
Teruhiko Koike ◽  
...  

1998 ◽  
Vol 244 (3) ◽  
pp. 642-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shosuke Satake ◽  
Masafumi Kuzuya ◽  
Miguel A. Ramos ◽  
Shigeru Kanda ◽  
Akihisa Iguchi

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 28-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calogero Fiorica ◽  
Fabio S. Palumbo ◽  
Giovanna Pitarresi ◽  
Mario Allegra ◽  
Roberto Puleio ◽  
...  

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