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Directed Differentiation of Skin-Derived Precursors Into Functional Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells
19 Aug 2011
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OBJECTIVE: The goal of this study was to characterize the factors and conditions required for smooth muscle cell (SMC)-directed differentiation of Sox2(+) multipotent rat and human skin-derived precursors (SKPs) and to define whether they represent a source of fully functional vascular SMCs for applications in vivo. METHODS AND RESULTS: We found that rat SKPs can differentiate almost exclusively into SMCs by...
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