Tubular paramyxovirus-like structures in synovial vascular endothelium.

Tubular paramyxovirus-like structures in synovial vascular endothelium.

Acceleration of Vascular Sprouting from Fabricated Perfusable Vascular-Like Structures

Fabrication of vascular networks is essential for engineering three-dimensional thick tissues and organs in the emerging fields of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. In this study, we describe the fabrication of perfusable vascular-like structures by transferring endothelial cells using an electrochemical reaction as well as acceleration of subsequent endothelial sprouting by two sti...

Localisation of xanthine oxidase to synovial endothelium.

The presence of the xanthine oxidase enzyme system has been demonstrated in the rheumatoid synovium. This supplies a reactive oxygen species generating system to synovium that is subjected to hypoxic-reperfusion cycles (cf inflamed rheumatoid synovium). An antibody to bovine milk xanthine oxidase has been used to localise the enzyme by immunohistochemistry to synovial endothelium. This implicat...

The Vascular Endothelium in Diabetes

Key Points • The endothelium is a key participant in the homeostasis of the vessel wall. • Nitric oxide (NO) plays a key role in regulating healthy vascular function. • Reduced local NO bioavailability is a characteristic hallmark of vascular endothelial dysfunction. • Endothelial dysfunction is chiefly driven by oxidative stress and inflammation. • A number of techniques for assessing endothel...

Tubular structures of GaS

In this Brief Report we demonstrate, using density-functional tight-binding theory, that gallium sulfide ~GaS! tubular nanostructures are stable and energetically viable. The GaS-based nanotubes have a semiconducting direct gap which grows towards the value of two-dimensional hexagonal GaS sheet and is in contrast to carbon nanotubes largely independent of chirality. We further report on the me...