title: Smooth muscle cell signal transduction: implications of vascular biology for vascular surgeons.
abstract: Vascular smooth muscle cells exhibit varied responses after vessel injury and surgical interventions, including phenotypic switching, migration, proliferation, protein synthesis, and apoptosis. Although the source of the smooth muscle cells that accumulate in the vascular wall is controversial, possibly reflecting migration from the adventitia, from the circulating blood, or in situ differentiation, the intracellular signal transduction pathways that control these processes are being defined. Some of these pathways include the Ras-mitogen-activated protein kinase, phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase-Akt, Rho, death receptor-caspase, and nitric oxide pathways. Signal transduction pathways provide amplification, redundancy, and control points within the cell and culminate in biologic responses. We review some of the signaling pathways activated within smooth muscle cells that contribute to smooth muscle cell heterogeneity and development of pathology such as restenosis and neointimal hyperplasia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Akihito
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Muto
authors.forename: Tamara N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Fitzgerald
authors.forename: Jose M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Pimiento
authors.forename: Stephen P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Maloney
authors.forename: Desarom
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Teso
authors.forename: Jacek J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Paszkowiak
authors.forename: Tormod S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Westvik
authors.forename: Fabio A
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Kudo
authors.forename: Toshiya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nishibe
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dardik
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017209:Apoptosis; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002465:Cell Movement; D049109:Cell Proliferation; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D005109:Extracellular Matrix / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D009131:Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / Q000293:injuries / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D032389:Myocytes, Smooth Muscle / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D010641:Phenotype; D011494:Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013234:Stem Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D014656:Vascular Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D011494:Protein Kinases