Congratulations to Dr Aleksandra Babicheva and colleagues on their recent publication describing a novel and critical role of store-operated calcium entry and STIM1/Orai1 in TGF-β1-induced endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition in human lung endothelial cells.
www.pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40331589/
Store-operated Ca2+ entry is involved in endothelium-to-mesenchymal transition in lung vascular endothelial cells - PubMed
Endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EndMT) is a biological process that converts endothelial cells to mesenchymal cells with increased proliferative and migrative abilities. EndMT has been implicat...