Article
Rat carotid neointimal smooth muscle cells reexpress a developmentally regulated mRNA phenotype during repair of arterial injury.
Circulation research - 1 Oct 1992
Majesky M W, Giachelli C M, Reidy M A, Schwartz S M
Abstract excerpt
Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) cultured from the neointima of injured rat carotid arteries have a different shape and organization in vitro than SMCs from the uninjured media. The morphology of neointimal SMCs from adult rats strongly resembles that of a subset of medial SMCs from 12-day-old rat pups. In the present study, we show that adult carotid neointimal SMCs in vitro express the platelet-derived growth factor...
Topics
- Age Factors
- Animals
- Animals, Newborn
- Carotid Arteries
- Carotid Artery Injuries
- Cells, Cultured
- Extracellular Matrix
- Gene Expression
- Male
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Phenotype
