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'Proliferative' and 'synthetic' airway smooth muscle cells are overlapping populations.
Immunology and cell biology - 1 Oct 2004
Sukkar Maria B, Stanley Anthony J, Blake Anita E, Hodgkin Philip D, Johnson Peter R A, Armour Carol L, Hughes J Margaret
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The extension of airway smooth muscle cell (ASMC) functions, from just contractile, to synthetic and/or proliferative states, is an important component of airway remodelling and inflammation in asthma. Whereas all these functions have been demonstrated in ASM, currently, it is not known whether ASMC can be differentiated on the basis of their proliferative and synthetic functions. We used flow-cytometric...
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