Retrovirally mediated overexpression of versican V3 by arterial smooth muscle cells induces tropoelastin synthesis and elastic fiber formation in vitro and in neointima after vascular injury

Circulation Research

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 481-487

  Merrilees, Mervyn J ^a   Lemire, Joan M ^b   Fischer, Jens W ^b   Kinsella, Michael G ^b   Braun, Kathleen R ^b   Clowes, Alexander W ^b   Wight, Thomas N ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HOPE HEART INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Artery; Elastin; Smooth muscle cells; Vascular injury; Versican

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ELASTIN; TROPOELASTIN; VERSICAN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CELL CULTURE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; ELASTIC FIBER; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSDUCTION; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROVIRUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; BALLOON DILATATION; CAROTID ARTERIES; CELLS, CULTURED; ELASTIC TISSUE; ELASTIN; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MALE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEOCHONDROITIN SULFATES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCTION, GENETIC; TROPOELASTIN; TUNICA INTIMA; VERSICANS;

EID: 0037040826     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hh0402.105791     Document Type: Article

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