Vascular structure, smooth muscle cell phenotype and growth in hypertension.

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Vascular structure, smooth muscle cell phenotype and growth in hypertension.

Journal of human hypertension - 1 Jun 1995

Lindop G B, Boyle J J, McEwan P, Kenyon C J

Abstract excerpt

The media of most blood vessels is occupied by vascular smooth muscle cells. In areas they may be replaced by glomus cells, pericytes or renin-secreting myoepithelioid cells. These cells may be regarded as phenotypic variants of vascular smooth muscle cells. In disease, ordinary vascular smooth m...

Topics

Aging
Animals
Arteries
Blood Vessels
Cell Division
Humans
Hypertension
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
Phenotype
Ploidies
Vasoconstriction

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