Preventing intimal thickening of vein grafts in vein artery bypass using STAT-3 siRNA

Journal of Translational Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Jiangbin ^a,b   Zheng, Jinhua ^b   Ling, Kaitelynne H ^c   Zhao, Keyan ^a   Xie, Zhongshang ^a   Li, Bo ^a   Wang, Tiance ^a   Zhu, Zhicheng ^a   Patel, Amit N ^d   Min, Weiping ^c,e   Liu, Kexiang ^a   Zheng, Xiufen ^c,e,f  

^a JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Lawson Institute of Health Research   (Canada)

^f XINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Intimal thickening; STAT 3, siRNA; Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs)

Indexed keywords

CYCLIN D1; CYCLINE; KI 67 ANTIGEN; LIPOFECTAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN BCL 2; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; STAT3 PROTEIN; STAT3 PROTEIN, RAT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIPROLIFERATIVE ACTIVITY; APOPTOSIS; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CAROTID ARTERY; CELL ASSAY; CELL ISOLATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; MITOSIS INHIBITION; NICK END LABELING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA INTERFERENCE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VEIN ARTERY BYPASS; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN TRANSPLANTATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; GENETICS; INTIMA; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANIMALS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CYCLIN D1; DOWN-REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GENE SILENCING; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PROLIFERATING CELL NUCLEAR ANTIGEN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-BCL-2; RATS; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; STAT3 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TUNICA INTIMA; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84855284102     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-10-2     Document Type: Article

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