[Modulation of arterial smooth muscle cells in culture and cholesterol exchange].

Article

[Modulation of arterial smooth muscle cells in culture and cholesterol exchange].

Annales d'endocrinologie - 1 Jan 1991

Bourdillon M C, Dusserre E, Covacho C, Berthezène F

Abstract excerpt

The phenotypic modulation and the enhanced proliferation of smooth muscle cells (SMC) as well as their foam transformation are major processes in arterial pathophysiology and during atherogenesis. Arterial SMC play a crucial role, in response to several stimuli: the SMC "activation" is an essenti...

Topics

Animals
Cells, Cultured
Cholesterol
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
Phenotype
Rats

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