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High RhoA activity maintains the undifferentiated mesenchymal cell phenotype, whereas RhoA down-regulation by laminin-2 induces smooth muscle myogenesis.
The Journal of cell biology - 4 Mar 2002
Beqaj Safedin, Jakkaraju Sandhya, Mattingly Raymond R, Pan Desi, Schuger Lucia
Abstract excerpt
Round embryonic mesenchymal cells have the potential to differentiate into smooth muscle (SM) cells upon spreading/elongation (Yang, Y., K.C. Palmer, N. Relan, C. Diglio, and L. Schuger. 1998. Development. 125:2621-2629; Yang, Y., N.K. Relan, D.A. Przywara, and L. Schuger. 1999. Development. 126:3027-3033; Yang, Y., S. Beqaj, P. Kemp, I. Ariel, and L. Schuger. 2000. J. Clin. Invest. 106:1321-1330). In the...
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