The origin of intimal smooth muscle cells: Are we on a steady road back to the past?

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-8

  De Geest, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE MARROW; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; EDITORIAL; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; GENOTYPE; ILIAC ARTERY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; INFLAMMATORY CELL; INTIMA; IRRADIATION; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PARABIOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC RAT; VASCULAR DISEASE; WILD TYPE;

ACTINS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ANIMALS; BONE MARROW CELLS; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; RATS; STEM CELLS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 57749209303     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: 17553245     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cvr/cvn305     Document Type: Editorial

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