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Mechanisms of Disease
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Volume 330:1431-1438 May 19, 1994 Number 20
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The Emerging Concept of Vascular Remodeling
Gary H. Gibbons, and Victor J. Dzau

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The vessel wall is an active, integrated organ composed of endothelial, smooth-muscle, and fibroblast cells coupled to each other in a complex autocrine-paracrine set of interactions. The vasculature is capable of sensing changes within its milieu, integrating these signals by intercellular communication, and changing itself through the local production of mediators that influence structure as well as function. Vascular remodeling is an active process of structural alteration that involves changes in at least four cellular processes -- cell growth, cell death, cell migration, and production or degradation of extracellular matrix -- and is dependent on a dynamic interaction between locally . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Endothelium as a Sensor and Transducer of Signals

Hemodynamic Stimuli

Endothelium-Specific Receptor-Coupled Events

Endothelium and Mediator-Effector Molecules Involved with Remodeling

Role of Matrix Modulators in Vascular Remodeling

The Clinical Implications of Vascular Remodeling

Vein Bypass Grafts

Ductus Arteriosus

Pulmonary Hypertension

Systemic Hypertension

Atherosclerosis

Restenosis after Angioplasty

Conclusions


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From the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Falk Cardiovascular Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, 300 Pasteur Dr., Stanford, CA 94305-5246, where reprint requests should be addressed to Dr. Dzau.

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