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Molecular diversity of cardiac endothelial cells in vitro and in vivo.
Physiological genomics - 4 Oct 2004
Hendrickx Jan, Doggen Kris, Weinberg Ellen O, Van Tongelen Pascale, Fransen Paul, De Keulenaer Gilles W
Abstract excerpt
In addition to a number of common features, cardiovascular endothelium displays structural, functional, and genetic differences according to its position in the cardiovascular tree. In the heart, endocardial and cardiac microvascular endothelia (CMVE) interact directly with surrounding cardiomyocytes, whereas the endothelium within blood vessels interacts with smooth muscle cells. In this study, we investigated...
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