Cytochemical detection of a senescence-associated β-galactosidase in endothelial and smooth muscle cells from human and rabbit blood vessels

Experimental Cell Research

Volumn 241, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 309-315

  Van Der Loo, Bernd ^a   Fenton, Mark J ^a   Erusalimsky, Jorge D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Atherosclerosis; Endothelial cells; Replicative senescence; Vascular smooth muscle cells; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD VESSEL; CELL SIZE; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KERATINOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0032526762     PISSN: 00144827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/excr.1998.4035     Document Type: Article

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