Article
Cks1 mediates vascular smooth muscle cell polyploidization.
The Journal of biological chemistry - 22 Dec 2000
Hixon M L, Obejero-Paz C, Muro-Cacho C, Wagner M W, Millie E, Nagy J, Hassold T J, Gualberto A
Abstract excerpt
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) at capacitance arteries of hypertensive individuals and animals undergo dramatic polyploidization that contributes toward their hypertrophic phenotype. We report here the identification of a defective mitotic spindle cell cycle checkpoint in VSMC isolated from capacitance arteries of pre-hypertensive rats. These cells demonstrated a high predisposition to polyploidization in...
Topics
- Animals
- Cyclin-Dependent Kinases
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Phenotype
- Polyploidy
- Rats
- Rats, Inbred SHR
- Rats, Inbred WKY
