Article
Phenotype and differentiation of bone marrow-derived smooth muscle progenitor cells.
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 Sept 2011
Liu Yi, Liu Manling, Niu Wen, Luo Ying, Zhang Bo, Li Zhichao
Abstract excerpt
1. Smooth muscle progenitor cells (SPC) are undifferentiated vascular smooth muscle cells implicated in many hyperplastic diseases of the blood vessels. However, few in vitro studies have investigated the characteristics of SPC. 2. In the present study, we constructed a recombinant plasmid with the enhanced green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene and a rat SM22α promoter, which was exclusively promoted in a smooth...
Topics
- Actins
- Animals
- Becaplermin
- Bone Marrow
- Bone Marrow Cells
- Calmodulin
- Cell Differentiation
- Cell Lineage
- Cells, Cultured
- Green Fluorescent Proteins
- Microfilament Proteins
