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• Rosiglitazone reduces the development and rupture of experimental aortic aneurysms.

  BACKGROUND: Development and rupture of aortic aneurysms involve a combination of complex biological processes. Rosiglitazone, a peroxisome proliferato…

  Authors: Alun Jones, Rajdeep Deb, Evelyn Torsney, Franklyn Howe, Mathew Dunkley, Yanosha Gnaneswaran, David Gaze, Hosaam Nasr, Ian M Loftus, Mathew M Thompson,…

  Source: Circulation. 2009 Jun 23

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• Thrombosis and neointima formation in vein grafts are inhibited by locally applied aspirin through endothelial protection.

  Vein graft failure within the first month after bypass surgery is largely because of thrombosis. However, systemic study of thrombus formation in vein…

  Authors: Evelyn Torsney, Ursula Mayr, Yiping Zou, W Douglas Thompson, Yanhua Hu, Qingbo Xu

  Source: Circulation research. 2004 Jun 11

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• Mouse model for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia has a generalized vascular abnormality.

  BACKGROUND: Mutations in endoglin or activin like kinase-1, both involved in the endothelial transforming growth factor-beta signaling pathway, cause …

  Authors: Evelyn Torsney, Richard Charlton, Austin G Diamond, John Burn, James V Soames, Helen M Arthur

  Source: Circulation. 2003 Apr 1

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• Adventitial progenitor cells contribute to arteriosclerosis.

  Accumulating evidence indicates the involvement of vascular progenitor cells in the development of arteriosclerosis, including transplant arterioscler…

  Authors: Evelyn Torsney, Yanhua Hu, Qingbo Xu

  Source: Trends in cardiovascular medicine. 2005 Feb

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• Characterisation of progenitor cells in human atherosclerotic vessels.

  Recent data from animal models has demonstrated that both endothelial and smooth muscle progenitor cells contribute to the development of atherosclero…

  Authors: Evelyn Torsney, Kaushik Mandal, Alison Halliday, Marjan Jahangiri, Qingbo Xu

  Source: Atherosclerosis. 2007 Apr

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• Gene expression profile of abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture.

  To search for novel transcriptional pathways that are activated in abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture, cDNA microarrays were used to compare global mRN…

  Authors: Edward Choke, Matthew M Thompson, Alun Jones, Evelyn Torsney, Joseph Dawson, Kenneth Laing, Hosaam Nasr, Ian M Loftus, Gillian W Cockerill

  Source: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2006 Nov

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• Association of high intracellular, but not serum, heat shock protein 70 with postoperative atrial fibrillation.

  BACKGROUND: Atrial fibrillation is a common arrhythmia, after cardiac surgery. Reperfusion injury and inflammation associated with cardiac surgery are…

  Authors: Kaushik Mandal, Evelyn Torsney, Jan Poloniecki, A John Camm, Qingbo Xu, Marjan Jahangiri

  Source: The Annals of thoracic surgery. 2005 Mar

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• Abundant progenitor cells in the adventitia contribute to atherosclerosis of vein grafts in ApoE-deficient mice.

  Recent evidence indicates that vascular progenitor cells may be the source of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) that accumulate in atherosclerotic lesions, b…

  Authors: Yanhua Hu, Zhongyi Zhang, Evelyn Torsney, Ali R Afzal, Fergus Davison, Bernhard Metzler, Qingbo Xu

  Source: The Journal of clinical investigation. 2004 May

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