Article
Fibronectin and the basement membrane components laminin and collagen type IV influence the phenotypic properties of subcultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells differently.
Cell and tissue research - 1 May 1994
Thyberg J, Hultgårdh-Nilsson A
Abstract excerpt
A substrate of the extracellular matrix protein fibronectin has previously been found to promote the modulation of freshly isolated rat aortic smooth muscle cells from a contractile to a synthetic phenotype early in primary culture. In contrast, substrates of the basement membrane proteins lamini...
Topics
- Actin Cytoskeleton
- Actins
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Aorta
- Basement Membrane
- Becaplermin
- Cells, Cultured
- Collagen
- Culture Media, Serum-Free
- DNA Replication
- Fibronectins
- Laminin
- Male
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Oligopeptides
- Phenotype