Diversity of phenotype and function of vascular smooth muscle cells.

doi:10.1016/s0022-2143(96)90142-0

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Diversity of phenotype and function of vascular smooth muscle cells.

The Journal of laboratory and clinical medicine - 1 Jun 1996

Archer S L

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Recent observations indicate that cell-to-cell and segment-to-segment variation occur in the morphology and function of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) cells in pulmonary and systemic arteries. This diversity includes differences in cell phenotype and in expression of cytoskeletal proteins as well a...

Topics

Animals
Arteries
Cytoskeletal Proteins
Hypoxia
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular
Phenotype
Potassium Channels
Pulmonary Artery

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