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Essential role for thymosin β4 in regulating vascular smooth muscle cell development and vessel wall stability.
Circulation research - 3 Aug 2012
Rossdeutsch Alex, Smart Nicola, Dubé Karina N, Turner Martin, Riley Paul R
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RATIONALE: Compromised development of blood vessel walls leads to vascular instability that may predispose to aneurysm with risk of rupture and lethal hemorrhage. There is currently a lack of insight into developmental insults that may define the molecular and cellular characteristics of initiating and perpetrating factors in adult aneurismal disease. OBJECTIVE: To investigate a role for the actin-binding protein...
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