Differential processes of vascular smooth muscle cell differentiation within elastic and muscular arteries of rats and rabbits: An immunofluorescence study of desmin and vimentin distribution

Histochemical Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-61

  Kacem, Kamel ^a   Seylaz, Jacques ^a   Aubineau, Pierre ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTA, THORACIC; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DESMIN; FEMORAL ARTERY; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FLUORESCENT DYES; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHENOTYPE; RABBITS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RHODAMINES; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VIMENTIN;

EID: 0029987791     PISSN: 00182214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02331427     Document Type: Article

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