“…Hypoxic conditions may profoundly affect endothelial cells through a cascade of reactions involving neutrophils (Sumagin et al, 2006(Sumagin et al, , 2008Butler et al, 2008;Carpenter and Alexander, 2008;Hu et al, 2008) and smooth muscle cells (Michiels et al, 2000;Aley et al, 2008;Jernigan et al, 2008;Mayr et al, 2008;Osada-Oka et al, 2008a, 2008bSheshgiri et al, 2008). Hypoxia regulates the expression of many genes, and the list of hypoxiarelated genes is growing (Yoshida et al, 2006;Eckardt et al, 2007;Said et al, 2007;Wang et al, 2007;Chen et al, 2008;Furuta et al, 2008;Yang et al, 2008).…”