Article
Phenotypic changes of human aortic smooth muscle cells during development and in the adult vessel.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Oct 1991
Glukhova M A, Frid M G, Koteliansky V E
Abstract excerpt
To characterize phenotypic expression of human aortic smooth muscle cells (SMCs), we have studied the content of cytodifferentiation-related cytoskeletal proteins, and of fibronectin (FN) variants in the samples of media from the fetal, child, and adult aorta and in the subendothelial intima of the normal and atherosclerotic aorta. Mature SMCs from the adult aortic media contained high amounts of alpha-SM-actin,...
Topics
- Adult
- Aging
- Aorta
- Arteriosclerosis
- Biomarkers
- Cell Differentiation
- Contractile Proteins
- Cytoskeletal Proteins
- Embryonic and Fetal Development
- Fibronectins
- Humans
