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Regulation of smooth muscle cells in development and vascular disease: current therapeutic strategies.
Expert review of cardiovascular therapy - 1 Nov 2006
Cai Xinjiang
Abstract excerpt
Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) exhibit extensive phenotypic diversity and rapid growth during embryonic development, but maintain a quiescent, differentiated state in adult. The pathogenesis of vascular proliferative diseases involves the proliferation and migration of medial vascular SMCs into the vessel intima, possibly reinstating their embryonic gene expression programs. Multiple mitogenic stimuli induce...
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