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Gender differences in growth of vascular smooth muscle cells isolated from hypertensive and normotensive rats.
Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) - 1 Jan 2000
Bacáková L, Kunes J
Abstract excerpt
Higher male sensitivity to atherosclerotic and hypertensive events was a reason to study sex differences in migration and proliferation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) isolated from male and female spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) and Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) controls. Outgrowth of cells from explants, doubling time, curves of cumulative labeling and the length of cell cycle were measured in aortic VSMC....
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