Concurrent Session I B: Molecular, Developmental and Cellular Biology of the Vessel Wall

11:05 a.m.

Clonal Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Expansion in Disease

Helle F. Jørgensen, PhD, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Oral Abstract Presentations

11:35

Klf4 Dependent Plasticity of Perivascular Cells Regulates Obesity Induced Inflammation and Endothelial Cell Polarization in Adipose Tissue (106)

Gamze B Bulut, Univ of Virginia, Glen Allen, VA; Gary K Owens, Univ of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Gabriel Alencar, Univ of Virginia, Charlottesvle, VA

11:45

Endothelial Deficiency of Nogo-B Receptor Induces Cerebral Hemorrhage via Histone Acetylation Regulated Ccm1/2 Expression (107)

Zhi Fang, Wenquan Hu, Xiang Wang, Qing Robert Miao, NYU Winthrop Hosp, Mineola, NY

11:55

High Throughput Screening Identifies the DNMT1 Inhibitor, 5-azacytidine, as a Potent Inducer of Smooth Muscle Phosphatase and Tensin Homolog (PTEN): A Central Role Mediating 5-azacytidine Protection Against Pathological Vascular Remodeling (108)

Keith Strand, Univ of Colorado-Anschutz, Aurora, CO; Sizhao Lu, Univ of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO; Qiong Zhou, Univ of Colorado-Anschutz, Aurora, CO; Marie Mutryn, Univ of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, CO; Rebecca Tucker, UC Denver, Aurora, CO; Austin Jolly, Univ of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, CO; Allison Dubner, Univ of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, CO, Aurora, CO; Raphael A Nemenoff, Univ of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO; Karen Moulton, Univ of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, CO; Keith Koch, Univ of Colorado-Anschutz, Aurora, CO; Daniel Vincent LaBarbera, Univ of Colorado, Aurora, CO; Mary Cm Weiser-Evans, Univ of Colorado Health Scien, Denver, CO

12:05

Positional Transcriptomics to Clarify Site-Specific Pathologies of the Vessel Wall (109)

Milagros C Romay, Feiyang Ma, Univ of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Todd Haswell Kimball, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; Gloria Hernandez, Margaret Ramirez, Andrew Reyes, Matteo Pellegrini, Univ of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; M Luisa Iruela-arispe, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL