Close relation of arterial ICC-like cells to the contractile phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cell

This work aimed to establish the lineage of cells similar to the interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC), the arterial ICC-like (AIL) cells, which have recently been described in resistance arteries, and to study their location in the artery wall. Segments of guinea-pig mesenteric arteries and single AIL...

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Main Authors: Pucovský, Vladimír, Harhun, Maksym I, Povstyan, Oleksandr V, Gordienko, Dmitri V, Moss, Ray F, Bolton, Thomas B
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2007
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2121184/