Life‐threatening diseases of the cardiovascular system, like atherosclerosis, are
exacerbated by unwanted inflammation within the structures of large blood vessels. This …

We have shown previously that gingipains from Porphyromonas gingivalis W83 can induce
cell detachment, cell adhesion molecule (CAM) cleavage, and apoptosis in endothelial cells; …

Advanced age is a major risk factor of peripheral artery disease. We examined the effects of
the aging-suppressor gene klotho on angiogenesis in response to ischemia by introducing …

The junctional membrane protein vascular endothelial (VE)–cadherin mediates contact
inhibition of growth and inhibits apoptosis of endothelial cells. In this article we show that VE …

The mechanism by which tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFα) increases endothelial
permeability is unclear. Vascular endothelial (VE) cadherin (cadherin 5) is an important …

A layer of endothelial cells attached to their underlying matrices by complex transmembrane
structures termed focal adhesion (FA) proteins maintains the barrier property of …

Vascular endothelial activation is an early step during leukocyte/endothelial adhesion and
transendothelial leukocyte migration in inflammatory states. Leukocyte transmigration occurs …

Angiogenesis is very important for vascularized tissue engineering. In this study, we found
that a two-dimensional co-culture of human bone marrow stromal cell (HBMSC) and human …

Sphingolipids are a ubiquitous family of essential lipids with an increasingly understood role
as biologically active mediators in numerous physiologic and pathologic processes. Two …

Endothelial interactions with the extracellular matrix (ECM) play important roles in
angiogenesis but whether specific ECM signals can determine specific cellular …