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Collagen synthesis by cultured rabbit aortic smooth-muscle cells. Alteration with phenotype.
The Biochemical journal - 15 Jan 1990
Ang A H, Tachas G, Campbell J H, Bateman J F, Campbell G R
Abstract excerpt
Enzymically isolated rabbit aortic smooth-muscle cells (SMC) in the first few days of primary culture express a 'contractile phenotype', but with time these cells modulate to a 'synthetic phenotype'. Synthetic-state SMC are able to proliferate, and, provided that they undergo fewer than 5 cumulative population doublings, return to the contractile phenotype after reaching confluency [Campbell, Kocher, Skalli,...
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