Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation: Model Systems, Regulatory Mechanisms, and Vascular Diseases

Journal of Cellular Physiology

Volumn 231, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 777-787

  Shi, Ning ^a   Chen, Shi You ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; NOTCH RECEPTOR; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE PHOSPHATE OXIDASE 4; RETINOID; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCIFICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EMBRYOID BODY; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EPIGENETICS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; HYPERTENSION; IN VITRO STUDY; JOMA1 CELL; MESODERM; NEURAL CREST CELL; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; RESTENOSIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR DISEASE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYOCYTES, SMOOTH MUSCLE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84944399616     PISSN: 00219541     EISSN: 10974652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jcp.25208     Document Type: Review

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