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New insights into elastin and vascular disease.
Trends in cardiovascular medicine - 1 Jul 2003
Brooke Benjamin S, Bayes-Genis Antoni, Li Dean Y
Abstract excerpt
Elastin is synthesized and secreted by vascular smooth muscle cells and is the major extracellular matrix component deposited in the arterial wall. When last reviewed by this journal in 1994, the link between elastin and a rare occlusive vascular disease had just been established. Since that time...
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