Transdifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells to macrophage-like cells during atherogenesis

Circulation Research

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 662-667

  Feil, Susanne ^a   Fehrenbacher, Birgit ^a   Lukowski, Robert ^a   Essmann, Frank ^a   Schulze Osthoff, Klaus ^a   Schaller, Martin ^a   Feil, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Cell transdifferentiation; Macrophages; Muscle; Smooth; Vascular

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CRE RECOMBINASE; TAMOXIFEN; TRANSGELIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CELL CLONE; CELL EXPANSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPORTER GENE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL; ANIMAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; MACROPHAGES; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR;

ANIMALS; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CELL TRANSDIFFERENTIATION; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE PROTEINS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC;

EID: 84910137512     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.304634     Document Type: Article

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