Does rANKL promote osteoblastic activity in vascular smooth muscle cells by upregulating endothelial BMP-2 release?
RANKL promotes VC by inducing BMP-2 release from HAECs, which in turn appears to act in a paracrine fashion on the adjacent HASMC population to increase osteoblastic activity.
The highly co-ordinated variation of roots and leaves in terms of traits and potential decomposition rate suggests that changes in the functional composition of communities in response to anthropogenic changes will strongly affect biogeochemical cycles at the ecosystem level.