Lipid biosynthesis in cultured arterial smooth muscle cells is related to their phenotype.

doi:10.1007/BF02536051

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Lipid biosynthesis in cultured arterial smooth muscle cells is related to their phenotype.

Lipids - 1 Jul 1993

Dusserre E, Bourdillon M C, Ciavatti M, Covacho C, Renaud S

Abstract excerpt

During the atherogenic process in vivo, arterial smooth muscle cells (SMC) undergo changes in their phenotype. In the present study, rat SMC from primary cultures and from subcultures before 10 and after 200 passages, showing contractile-like, synthetic and transformed phenotypes, respectively, w...

Topics

Animals
Aorta, Thoracic
Cells, Cultured
Cholesterol
Lipids
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
Phenotype
Phospholipids
Rats

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