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Migration and growth are attenuated in vascular smooth muscle cells with type VIII collagen-null alleles.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Jan 2006
Adiguzel Eser, Hou Guangpei, Mulholland Diane, Hopfer Ulrike, Fukai Naomi, Olsen Bjorn, Bendeck Michelle
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Type VIII collagen is upregulated after vascular injury and in atherosclerosis. However, the role of type VIII collagen endogenously expressed by smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and in the context of the vascular matrix microenvironment, which is rich in type I collagen, is not known. To address this, we have compared aortic SMCs from wild-type (WT) mice to SMCs from type VIII collagen-deficient (KO) mice...
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