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Synthetic smooth muscle cell phenotype is associated with increased nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase activity: effect on collagen secretion.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Feb 2006
Patel Rajendra, Cardneau Jeffry D, Colles Scott M, Graham Linda M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) from prosthetic vascular grafts secrete higher levels of collagen than aortic SMCs under basal conditions and during incubation with oxidized low-density lipoprotein. We postulated that reactive oxygen species (ROS) contributed to the observed difference. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of ROS on collagen secretion by aortic and graft SMCs and explore the...
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