Smooth muscle phenotypic modulation--a personal experience.

نویسندگان

  • Julie H Campbell
  • Gordon R Campbell
چکیده

The idea that smooth muscle cells can exist in multiple phenotypic states depending on the functional demands placed upon them has been around for >5 decades. However, much of the literature today refers to only recent articles, giving the impression that it is a new idea. At the same time, the current trend is to delve deeper and deeper into transcriptional regulation of smooth muscle genes, and much of the work describing the change in biology of the cells in the different phenotypic states does not appear to be known. This loss of historical perspective regarding the biology of smooth muscle phenotypic modulation is what the current article has tried to mitigate.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology

دوره 32 8  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012