Vascular smooth muscle cells: Isolation, culture, and characterization

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 843, Issue , 2012, Pages 169-176

  Metz, Richard P ^a   Patterson, Jan L ^a   Wilson, Emily ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Explant; Isolation; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL SEPARATION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOUSE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL SEPARATION; MICE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR;

EID: 84856248237     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-523-7_16     Document Type: Article

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