Human endothelial progenitor cells induce extracellular signal-regulated kinase-dependent differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into smooth muscle cells upon cocultivation

Tissue Engineering - Part A

Volumn 18, Issue 23-24, 2012, Pages 2395-2405

  Goerke, Sebastian M ^a   Plaha, Julia ^a   Hager, Sven ^a   Strassburg, Sandra ^a   Torio Padron, Nestor ^a   Stark, G Björn ^a   Finkenzeller, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CO-CULTIVATION; CORD BLOOD; DIFFERENT ORIGINS; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELLS; EXTRACELLULAR; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED KINASE; FUNCTIONAL CHARACTERISTICS; GAP JUNCTIONS; HUMAN BONES; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; MESENCHYMAL STEM CELL; MUSCLE ACTINS; NEOVASCULARIZATION; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PERIPHERAL BLOOD; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS; TIME-DEPENDENT;

BLOOD; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENZYMES; FLOWCHARTING; GENE EXPRESSION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; PROTEINS; STEM CELLS; TISSUE;

CELL CULTURE;

18ALPHA GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; 18ALPHA-GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; 2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; ACTIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; CALPONIN; CONNEXIN 43; DIFFERENTIATION ANTIGEN; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLAVONOID; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COCULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; GAP JUNCTION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HUMAN; MESENCHYMAL STROMA CELL; METABOLISM; PERICYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELL;

ACTINS; ADULT; ANTIGENS, DIFFERENTIATION; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; FIBROBLASTS; FLAVONOIDS; GAP JUNCTIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLYCYRRHETINIC ACID; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PERICYTES; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIMARY CELL CULTURE; PROTEIN PROCESSING, POST-TRANSLATIONAL;

EID: 84869760954     PISSN: 19373341     EISSN: 1937335X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ten.tea.2012.0147     Document Type: Article

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