Sentences with phrase «smooth muscle dysfunction»

Endothelial cell activation, vascular smooth muscle dysfunction, oxidative stress, and inflammation, mechanisms which underlie heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension, are all variables which can precipitate or perpetuate immune imbalances in autoimmune disease.

«One way of treating patients with limb - girdle muscular dystrophy might be to use a gene transfer approach to treat the muscular dystrophy, and a pharmacological approach to treat the smooth muscle dysfunction,» he said.

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In addition to LOX - 1 mediated vascular inflammation, oxLDL / LOX -1 internalization triggers endothelial / vascular smooth muscle cell dysfunction, apoptosis, cellular senescence, or osteoblastic differentiation.

Vascular endothelial dysfunction promotes vasoconstriction and favors platelet aggregation, white blood cell adhesion, and smooth muscle cell proliferation.