The phrase "alter vessel" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to changing or modifying a ship, container, or any object that holds something.
Example: "The engineers were tasked to alter the vessel to improve its fuel efficiency."
Alternatives: "modify the container" or "change the ship".
Results also showed how variations in the mechanisms of cellular persistence alter vessel growth.
Furthermore, abnormal vessel wall function with loss of tensile forces and increased intramural pressure may alter vessel integrity increasing tortuosity.
Hypoxia and macrophages within atherosclerotic plaques may promote intraplaque and intra vessel wall angiogenesis and alter vessel wall microcirculation [ 36].
In growth delay experiments I-III, VE-822 therapy, alone or with XRT, did not alter vessel density (Supplementary Figures S7A and B).
These alter vessel diameter by promoting either smooth muscle relaxation, which increases vessel diameter, or smooth muscle contraction, which decreases vessel diameter (reviewed by Attwell et al., 2010).
In growth delay experiment V, a significantly reduced vessel density was observed after therapy with gemcitabine, whereas addition of VE-822 and/or XRT to gemcitabine did not alter vessel density significantly.
However, modified expression of ADAMTS1 did not influence the degree of pericyte coverage, indicating that altered vessel stabilization by pericytes is not involved in the altered blood vessel morphology observed.
Barbels allowed to regenerate for longer than 7 days also had altered vessel morphologies, but did not depart from this basic regenerative pattern.
At an early time-point (day 14), loss of CD34 on non-hematopoietic cells affected tumor vasculature resulting in decreased tumor size, increased vascular leakage and altered vessel morphology.
In support of the second hypothesis, we found increased tissue carbocyanine leakage, altered vessel morphology and increased tumor cell extravasation in the lungs of Cd34−/− mice, compared to wildtype animals.
Up-regulation of inflammatory mediators and adhesion molecules are early features of diabetic retinopathy[6], leading to accumulation of leukocytes, altered vessel reactivity and subsequent activation of receptors and transcription factors, ultimately resulting in apoptosis or proliferation of various cell types in the retina[5], [7], e.g., loss of pericytes and proliferation of endothelial cells.
