Article
Changes in three-dimensional architecture of microfilaments in cultured vascular smooth muscle cells during phenotypic modulation.
Tissue & cell - 1 Jun 1998
Song J, Rolfe B E, Campbell J H, Campbell G R
Abstract excerpt
To investigate changes in the three-dimensional microfilament architecture of vascular smooth muscle cells (SMC) during the process of phenotypic modulation, rabbit aortic SMCs cultured under different conditions and at different time points were either labelled with fluorescein-conjugated probes to cytoskeletal and contractile proteins for observation by confocal laser scanning microscopy, or extracted with...
Topics
- Actin Cytoskeleton
- Animals
- Cells, Cultured
- Culture Media, Serum-Free
- Microscopy, Confocal
- Microscopy, Electron, Scanning
- Microscopy, Fluorescence
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Phenotype
- Rabbits
