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Genetic modification of smooth muscle cells to control phenotype and function in vascular tissue engineering.
Tissue engineering - 1 Jan 2000
Stegemann Jan P, Dey Nupur B, Lincoln Thomas M, Nerem Robert M
Abstract excerpt
Rat smooth muscle cells (SMCs) stably transfected with the gene for the phenotype regulating protein cyclic guanosine monophosphate-dependent protein kinase (PKG) were used as a cell source in the preparation of three-dimensional (3D) collagen type I vascular constructs. PKG-transfected cells expressed severalfold higher levels of the contractile protein smooth muscle alpha-actin (SMA), relative to untransfected...
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