Role of the extracellular matrix and its receptors in smooth muscle cell function: implications in vascular development and disease

Summary, in English

By regulating migration, proliferation and apoptosis as well as extracellular matrix synthesis and assembly, proteoglycans, integrins and the dystrophin-glycoprotein complex may be of great importance both during development and in vascular disease.

• Författare: Anna Hultgardh-Nilsson; Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt
• Avdelning/ar: Muskelbiologi
• Publiceringsår: 2007
• Språk: Engelska
• Sidor: 540-545
• Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie: Current Opinion in Lipidology
• Volym: 18
• Issue: 5
• Länkar: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MOL.0b013e3282ef77e9
• Dokumenttyp: Artikel i tidskrift
• Förlag: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Ämne: Cell and Molecular Biology
• Nyckelord: proteoglycans; VSMC; dystrophin-glycoprotein complex; integrins; atherosclerosis
• Status: Published
• Forskningsgrupp: Muscle Biology
• ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt: ISSN: 1473-6535