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miR-145 micelles mitigate atherosclerosis by modulating vascular smooth muscle cell phenotype.
Biomaterials - 1 Jun 2021
Chin Deborah D, Poon Christopher, Wang Jonathan, Joo Johan, Ong Victor, Jiang Zhangjingyi, Cheng Kayley, Plotkin Anastasia, Magee Gregory A, Chung Eun Ji
Abstract excerpt
In atherosclerosis, resident vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in the blood vessels become highly plastic and undergo phenotypic switching from the quiescent, contractile phenotype to the migratory and proliferative, synthetic phenotype. Additionally, recent VSMC lineage-tracing mouse models of atherosclerosis have found that VSMCs transdifferentiate into macrophage-like and osteochondrogenic cells and make up...
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