The immediate early gene products of human cytomegalovirus increase vascular smooth muscle cell migration, proliferation, and expression of PDGF beta-receptorY F Zhou
Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, 20010, USA
Biochem Biophys Res Commun 256:608-13. 1999
..These findings identify further mechanisms by which CMV may contribute to the development of atherosclerosis and restenosis...
Cytomegalovirus infection of rats increases the neointimal response to vascular injury without consistent evidence of direct infection of the vascular wallY F Zhou
Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Circulation 100:1569-75. 1999
..To determine a potential causal role of CMV in these disease processes, we assessed whether CMV infection increases the neointimal response to injury of the rat carotid artery...
Chronic non-vascular cytomegalovirus infection: effects on the neointimal response to experimental vascular injuryY F Zhou
Washington Hospital Center, Vascular Biology Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA
Cardiovasc Res 45:1019-25. 2000
..The present investigation was designed to determine whether chronic persistent RCMV infection, more relevant to the clinical situation, also exacerbates the response to injury and, if so, whether similar mechanisms are operative...
Therapeutic interventions for enhancing collateral development by administration of growth factors: basic principles, early results and potential hazardsS E Epstein
Cardiovascular Research Institute of the MedStar Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC
Cardiovasc Res 49:532-42. 2001
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Infection and atherosclerosis: emerging mechanistic paradigmsS E Epstein
Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
Circulation 100:e20-8. 1999
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Transendocardial delivery of autologous bone marrow enhances collateral perfusion and regional function in pigs with chronic experimental myocardial ischemiaS Fuchs
Cardiovascular Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 37:1726-32. 2001
..We also defined, in vitro, whether bone marrow (BM) cells secrete vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and macrophage chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1)...
Serum of cytomegalovirus-infected mice induces monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression by endothelial cellsD Rott
Cardiovascular Research Institute, MedStar Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center, 110 Irving Street NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA
J Infect Dis 184:1109-13. 2001
..If these changes in EC function also occur in vivo in response to infection, they could exacerbate atherogenesis...