Article
What controls smooth muscle phenotype?
Atherosclerosis - 1 Jan 2000
Chamley-Campbell J H, Campbell G R
Abstract excerpt
Enzyme-dispersed smooth muscle cells from the adult pig aortic media in the first few days of primary culture are in the contractile phenotype and do not divide when challenged with 5% WBS. After 6--8 days the isolated cells spontaneously undergo a change in phenotype where contraction cannot be...
Topics
- Animals
- Aorta
- Cell Communication
- Cell Division
- Cells, Cultured
- Heparin
- Muscle Contraction
- Muscle, Smooth
- Phenotype
- Swine