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Transcription profiling of human microvascular endothelial cells in systemic sclerosis

ABSTRACT: Patients with the diffuse avascular form of Systemic Sclerosis (SSc) and healthy controls (N) were used as sources of microvascular endothelial cells (MVEC). MVEC were obtained from biopsies of involved skin of the hands in 6 SSc patients and from 6 healthy patients undergoing surgery for traumatic events at the hands. The controls were matched by age and sex to the SSc cases. All patients fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology criteria for SSc, as well as the criteria for the diffuse form of the disease.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

DISEASE(S): normal

SUBMITTER: Bashar Kahaleh

PROVIDER: E-MEXP-417 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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The antiangiogenic tissue kallikrein pattern of endothelial cells in systemic sclerosis.

Giusti Betti B Serratì Simona S Margheri Francesca F Papucci Laura L Rossi Luciana L Poggi Filippo F Magi Alberto A Del Rosso Angela A Cinelli Marina M Guiducci Serena S Kahaleh Bashar B Matucci-Cerinic Marco M Abbate Rosanna R Fibbi Gabriella G Del Rosso Mario M

Arthritis and rheumatism 20051101 11

<h4>Objective</h4>Postnatal angiogenesis relies on a proper response of endothelial cells to angiogenic stimuli. In systemic sclerosis (SSc), endothelial cells are unresponsive to angiogenic factors. Since circumstantial and experimental evidence points to tissue kallikreins as powerful effectors of the angiogenic response, we undertook this study to investigate the kallikrein pattern of normal and SSc endothelial cells in order to identify differences that can account for defective angiogenesis ...[more]

PMID: 16255054

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Transcription profiling of human microvascular endothelial cells in systemic sclerosis

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The antiangiogenic tissue kallikrein pattern of endothelial cells in systemic sclerosis.

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