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Isolation and Functional Studies of Rat Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells

Migration, proliferation, and collagen synthesis by vascular smooth muscle cells are thought to be key events involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. Following endothelial injury, smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in the intima

Culture of Human Smooth Muscle Cells

The wall of a human artery consists of three distinct tunics. The tunica intima is lined by a layer of endothelial cells facing the lumen. Smooth muscle cells (SMCs) are the predominant cell type in the tunica media of arteries

Isolation and Culture of Human Airway Smooth Muscle Cells

cell. The study of smooth muscle cell immunobiology has been facilitated by the development of a technique for isolating and maintaining nontransformed human airway smooth muscle cells (1 ). These cells retain the physiologic responsiveness to a wide