Aortic smooth muscle cells contain vimentin instead of desmin.
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Dispersed Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells
Studies on hormone induced contraction of vascular smooth muscle strips in vitro have yielded a large body of pharmacological and biochemical data (1). Unfortunately, vascular strips possess inherent limitations for answering certain questions concerning sites of hormone binding on their constituent smooth muscle cells. Diffusion barriers in the tissue may hinder the use of macromolecular recep...
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The gap-junctional protein, connexin43, is differentially expressed in vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) according to phenotype. Previous studies suggest that desmin-negative SMCs are characterized by high levels of connexin43, whereas desmin-positive SMCs (of a more contractile phenotype) typically have low connexin43 levels. In this study, we examine systematically the inverse relationship ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1981
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.78.5.3020