Preparation of primary cultured mesenteric artery smooth muscle cells for fluorescent imaging and physiological studies

Nature Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2681-2687

  Golovina, Vera A ^a   Blaustein, Mordecai P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL SEPARATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MALE; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; CELLS, CULTURED; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MICE; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 34548862849     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2006.425     Document Type: Article

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