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Vascular smooth muscle cells are responsible for a prothrombotic phenotype of spontaneously hypertensive rat arteries.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Apr 2015
Ait Aissa Karima, Lagrange Jérémy, Mohamadi Amel, Louis Huguette, Houppert Bénédicte, Challande Pascal, Wahl Denis, Lacolley Patrick, Regnault Véronique
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OBJECTIVE: The hypothesis that hypertension induces a hypercoagulable state arises from the complications associated with hypertension: stroke and myocardial infarction. Here, we determine whether hypertension causes changes in the thrombin-generating capacity of the vascular wall. APPROACH AND RESULTS: We used spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) compared with Wistar rats. The addition of thoracic aortic rings...
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