Evidence From a Novel Human Cell Clone That Adult Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells Can Convert Reversibly Between Noncontractile and Contractile Phenotypes
- 20 August 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation Research
- Vol. 85 (4) , 338-348
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.res.85.4.338
Abstract
—Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) perform diverse functions that can be categorized as contractile and synthetic. A traditional model holds that these distinct functions are performed by the same...Keywords
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