Morphological changes of aortal smooth muscle cells exposed to calcitriol in culture

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 668-674

  Tukaj, C ^a   Kubasik Juraniec, J ^a   Kraszpulski, M ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Calcitriol; Culture; Electron microscopy; SMCs

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL;

ANIMAL CELL; AORTA MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MICROSCOPY; MICROVILLUS; MORPHOMETRICS; MUSCLE FIBER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY;

ANIMALS; CALCITRIOL; CELL DIVISION; CELLS, CULTURED; FREEZE ETCHING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHENOTYPE; RATS;

EID: 0033856795     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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