Title : Pioglitazone enhances cytokine-induced apoptosis in vascular smooth muscle cells and reduces intimal hyperplasia.

Pub. Date : 2001 Jul 24

PMID : 11468209






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1 METHODS AND RESULTS: Pioglitazone (0.1 to 10 micromol/L) significantly enhanced cytokine-induced expression of iNOS and NO production in a dose-dependent manner in rat VSMCs, but 15-deoxy-Delta(12,14)-prostaglandin J2 (up to 10 micromol/L), a native peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma ligand, showed no effect. Pioglitazone nitric oxide synthase 2 Rattus norvegicus