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The effect of phenotype on mechanical stretch-induced vascular smooth muscle cell apoptosis.
Journal of vascular research - 1 Jan 2006
Su Baogen Y, Shontz Kimberly M, Flavahan Nicholas A, Nowicki Philip T
Abstract excerpt
The present study evaluated mechanical stretch-induced apoptosis in swine vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMC) of different phenotypes. We demonstrated that differentiated VSMC express a greater level of Bcl-2-associated death factor (BAD) and have a significant cell loss when exposed to mechanical stretch (10% elongation, 1 Hz) for 24 h. We further demonstrated that apoptosis was significantly increased only in...
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