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11120352

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
12
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-2-20
pubmed:abstractText
Vascular endothelial cells play an important role in coagulation regulation of vascular tone and in a variety of synthetic and metabolic functions. Endothelial cells also have a pivotal role in immunological diseases atherogenesis and tumor angiogenesis. Endothelial cells are often used as system to study the pathophysiology of late complications in diabetes mellitus atherosclerotic damages and leukocyte adhesion in inflammatory diseases. Most of the studies have been performed on primary arterial and venous endothelial cell cultures with problems such as availability of autoptic material and reproducibility of cell cultures. We have isolated and characterized a novel system of proliferating long-term cultures of human aortic endothelial cells that maintain their differentiated characteristics for many generations in vitro. They produce antithrombotic and thrombotic factors such as t-PA and PAI-1 and respond to TNFalpha, an important factor correlated with the inflammatory process by modifying growth characteristics by producing cytokines such as GM-CSF by expressing ICAM-1 on the surface and by producing large amounts of nitric oxide and endothelin. This new system may be very useful to understand and study the molecular mechanisms involved in many vascular alteration pathologies and in the aging process.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0300-9084
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
82
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1107-14
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
A new model of human aortic endothelial cells in vitro.
pubmed:affiliation
Dipartimento di Patologia e Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica, Universita' degli Studi di Udine, P. le Santa Maria della Misericordia, 33100, Udine, Italy. donnini@dpmsc.uniud.it
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't