Improved arterial wall model by coculturing vascular endothelial and smooth muscle cells

In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Animal

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-20

  Niwa, Koichi ^a   Sakai, Jiro ^b   Watanabe, Toshihiro ^a   Ohyama, Tohru ^a   Karino, Takeshi ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artery; Coculture; Endothelial cell; In vitro model; Smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; COLLAGEN TYPE 4;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL SURFACE; COCULTURE; COLLAGEN SYNTHESIS; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COW; CULTURE MEDIUM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; HISTOLOGY; IN VITRO STUDY; MODEL; MONOLAYER CULTURE; NONHUMAN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; THICKNESS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CATTLE; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR;

BOVINAE;

EID: 34447624480     PISSN: 10712690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11626-006-9003-3     Document Type: Article

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