… Phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells is closely associated with vasculogenesis, …
During phenotypic modulation, smooth muscle cells change their morphology, cell function …

… induce a change in the phenotype of smooth muscle cells in vitro and then stimulate their …
to induce a change in the phenotypic expression of smooth muscle cells. Our results further …

The phenotype of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) is … In a cellular process known as
phenotype switching, VSMCs alternate between a contractile and synthetic phenotype state. …

… accumulation of a myofibroblast-like synthetic phenotype. These synthetic SMCs may be
derived from medial myocytes that undergo phenotypic modulation from a contractile state (15, …

… in nonmuscle tissues and cells. Therefore, the … smooth muscles. We then examined the
expressional changes of two caldesmons during phenotypic modulation of smooth muscle cells (…

… the process of SMC phenotypic modulation is associated not … However, with modulation to
the synthetic phenotype and loss … in cell function associated with SMC phenotypic change is …

… the smooth muscle cells must be stimulated to phenotypically modulate to … cells after they
have modulated. In the body of the media a substance is produced by the smooth muscle cells …

… phenotypic modulation, suggesting that these molecules could function as atherogenic factors.
The phenotypic modulation of vascular smooth muscle cells (… results in cell proliferation …

… into a ‘synthetic’ migratory phenotype, so-called phenotypic modulation, whilst plaque …
cells. Recently, these views have been challenged, with reports that SMC phenotypic modulation …

… cellular responses. However, the potential role of Foxo proteins in phenotypic modulation
of … Here we investigate the effect of Foxo4 on phenotypic modulation of vascular SMCs. We …