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    The endothelium (pl.: endothelia) is a single layer of squamous endothelial cells that line the interior surface of blood vessels and lymphatic vessels...
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    The corneal endothelium is a single layer of endothelial cells on the inner surface of the cornea. It faces the chamber formed between the cornea and...
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  • Hemogenic endothelium or haemogenic endothelium is a special subset of endothelial cells scattered within blood vessels that can differentiate into haematopoietic...
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  • The lymphatic endothelium refers to a specialized subset of endothelial cells located in the sinus systems of draining lymph nodes. Specifically, these...
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  • In blood vessels Endothelium-Derived Hyperpolarizing Factor or EDHF is proposed to be a substance and/or electrical signal that is generated or synthesized...
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    The Endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF) is a strong vasodilator produced by cardiac endothelial cells in response to stress signals such as high...
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    endothelial pump function. FECD is a degenerative disease of the corneal endothelium with accumulation of focal outgrowths called guttae (meaning a drop-like...
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    proportions could lead to anemia and long-term blood loss. Permeability of the endothelium is pivotal in the release of nutrients to the tissue. It is also increased...
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    specialised form of epithelium, endothelium, forms the inner lining of blood vessels and the heart, and is known as vascular endothelium, and lining lymphatic vessels...
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    injured endothelium. Because of the infusion of lipids into the sub-endothelium, the repair has to end up with altered remodeling of the local endothelium. This...
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    aqueous and corneal stromal compartments. (The term endothelium is a misnomer here. The corneal endothelium is bathed by aqueous humor, not by blood or lymph...
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    diseases, endothelial dysfunction is a systemic pathological state of the endothelium. The main cause of endothelial dysfunction is impaired bioavailability...
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    tumors derived from cells of the vascular or lymphatic vessel walls (endothelium) or derived from cells of the tissues surrounding these vessels. Angiomas...
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    Microvascular Endothelium cells transfected with pRSV-T 5A (HuLEC-5a or HuLECs) are a cell line derived from the pulmonary endothelium of a human male...
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  • exercise is understood to promote mitochondrial biogenesis in the vascular endothelium indicating the benefits regular exercise may have on vascular function...
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    by flattened cells of the endothelium and many of them are surrounded by contractile cells called pericytes. The endothelium provides a smooth surface...
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    vascular disease, just as L-arginine is considered a sign of a healthy endothelium. The amino acid side-chain of arginine consists of a 3-carbon aliphatic...
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    including bacteria, plants, fungi, and animal cells. Nitric oxide, an endothelium-derived relaxing factor (EDRF), is biosynthesized endogenously from L-arginine...
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  • prevent platelet aggregation with nitric oxide and prostacyclin. When endothelium of a blood vessel is damaged, the endothelial cells stop secretion of...
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    epithelium and covers heart chambers and valves. It is continuous with the endothelium of the veins and arteries of the heart, and is joined to the myocardium...
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    via filtration or diffusion. Simple squamous epithelia are found in endothelium (lining of blood and lymph capillaries), mesothelium (coelomic epithelium/peritoneum)...
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    [page needed] Endothelium is a thin layer of simple squamous epithelial cells that line the interior of both blood and lymph vessels. The endothelium that lines...
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    Sadeghipour H, Ghasemi M, Ebrahimi F, Dehpour AR (2007). "Effect of lithium on endothelium-dependent and neurogenic relaxation of rat corpus cavernosum: role of...
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    cellular and extracellular elements. Damage to the blood vessel lining or endothelium may occur. These processes are the same for any type of ischemic tissue...
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    been postulated. Neoplasm – Nevi and melanomatous tumors. Iridocorneal endothelium syndrome Iris ectropion syndrome Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis –...
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    in this modulatory role. Thus, the cardiac endothelium (both the endocardial endothelium and the endothelium of the myocardial capillaries) controls the...
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    DAG --> activation of IP3 receptor in SR --> ↑intracellular Ca2+ On endothelium: endothelin synthesis open VDCCs --> ↑intracellular Ca2+ Asymmetric dimethylarginine...
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    homeostasis by providing characteristics similar to those of native endothelium. The DNA binding sites on RNA polymerase can be occupied by heparin,...
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    pathogenesis of thrombus formation: Endothelial injury: Injury to the endothelium (interior surface of blood vessel), causing platelet activation and aggregation;...
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  • including serotonin, are vasodilatory when the endothelium is intact and are vasoconstrictive when the endothelium is damaged.[citation needed] Cholinergic...
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