Wall shear stress effects on endothelial-endothelial and endothelial-smooth muscle cell interactions in tissue engineered models of the vascular wall

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Shav, Dalit ^a   Gotlieb, Ruth ^a   Zaretsky, Uri ^a   Elad, David ^a   Einav, Shmuel ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 37; CONNEXIN 43; FOCAL ADHESION KINASE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL CADHERIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CELL ADHESION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; COCULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SHEAR STRESS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; ANTIGENS, CD; CADHERINS; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COCULTURE TECHNIQUES; CONNEXIN 43; ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FOCAL ADHESION PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; HUMAN UMBILICAL VEIN ENDOTHELIAL CELLS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; SHEAR STRENGTH; STRESS FIBERS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TISSUE ENGINEERING; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 84895790632     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088304     Document Type: Article

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