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Mitral valve endothelial cells with osteogenic differentiation potential.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Mar 2011
Wylie-Sears Jill, Aikawa Elena, Levine Robert A, Yang Jeong-Hee, Bischoff Joyce
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OBJECTIVE: Cardiac valvular endothelium is unique in its ability to undergo endothelial-to-mesenchymal transformation, a differentiation process that is essential for valve development and has been proposed as mechanism for replenishing the interstitial cells of mature valves. We hypothesized that the valvular endothelium contains endothelial cells that are direct precursors to osteoblastic valvular interstitial...
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