Developmental biology of the vascular smooth muscle cell: Building a multilayered vessel wall

Journal of Vascular Research

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 2-27

  Hungerford, Jill E ^a   Little, Charles D ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Differentiation; Extracellular matrix; Vascular smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANGIOGENESIS; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CHICKEN; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HEMODYNAMICS; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0032972405     PISSN: 10181172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000025622     Document Type: Review

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