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Markers of airway smooth muscle cell phenotype.
The American journal of physiology - 1 Jun 1996
Halayko A J, Salari H, MA X, Stephens N L
Abstract excerpt
Airway smooth muscle plays a principal role in the pathogenesis of asthma. Primary cultures are being used to investigate airway myocyte proliferation and cellular pathways regulating contraction. Airway smooth muscle cells (SMC) modulate from a contractile to a noncontractile phenotype in culture, but no systematic study of the concomitant changes in expression of cytocontractile and cytoskeletal proteins has...
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