Article
Expression of connexin43 gap junctions between cultured vascular smooth muscle cells is dependent upon phenotype.
Cell and tissue research - 1 Feb 1993
Rennick R E, Connat J L, Burnstock G, Rothery S, Severs N J, Green C R
Abstract excerpt
The smooth muscle cell is the predominant cell type of the arterial media. In the adult vascular system, smooth muscle cells are found primarily in the contractile phenotype, but following injury or during atherosclerotic plaque formation the secretory synthetic phenotype is expressed. Recently i...
Topics
- Animals
- Aorta, Thoracic
- Cells, Cultured
- Connexins
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique
- Freeze Fracturing
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Intercellular Junctions
- Membrane Proteins
- Muscle Proteins
- Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
- Myosins
- Phenotype
- Rabbits
- Rats
- Rats, Wistar