Article
Phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells during the formation of neointimal thickenings in the rat carotid artery after balloon injury: an electron-microscopic and stereological study.
Cell and tissue research - 1 Sept 1995
Thyberg J, Blomgren K, Hedin U, Dryjski M
Abstract excerpt
The formation of neointimal thickenings in the rat carotid artery after balloon injury was studied by a combination of electron-microscopic and stereological methods. All smooth muscle cells in the normal media had a contractile phenotype, the cytoplasm being dominated by myofilaments. Seven days after endothelial denudation, the smooth muscle cells in the innermost part of the media had assumed a synthetic...
Topics
- Animals
- Carotid Arteries
- Catheterization
- Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Golgi Apparatus
- Lysosomes
- Male
- Microscopy, Electron
- Mitochondria
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Phenotype