[HTML][HTML] Redox-regulated signaling by lactosylceramide in the proliferation of human aortic smooth muscle cells

AK Bhunia, H Han, A Snowden, S Chatterjee - Journal of Biological …, 1997 - ASBMB
Previously, our laboratory reported that lactosylceramide (LacCer) stimulated human aortic
smooth muscle cell proliferation via specific activation of p44 mitogen-activated protein
kinase (MAPK) in the p21 ras/Raf-1/MEK2 pathway and induced expression of the
transcription factor c-fos downstream to the p44 MAPK signaling cascade (Bhunia AK, Han,
H., Snowden, A., and Chatterjee S.(1996) J. Biol. Chem. 271, 10660–10666). In the present
study, we explored the role of free oxygen radicals in LacCer-mediated induction of cell …