… Brain pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells (vSMCs) are a critical component … cerebral
blood flow and blood-brain barrier integrity. Identification of subtypes of mural cells in tissue …

… The origin of vascular pericytes (PCs) and smooth muscle cells (vSMCs) in the brain has …
We transplanted complete halves of brain anlagen, or dorsal (presumptive neural crest [NC]…

… human brain pericytes (HBPs) as a model system of pericyte activation. The cells were …
On the other hand, our results show that smooth muscle cells in vitro are FXIIIpositive. This …

… Pericytes in brain capillaries completely lack expression of smooth muscle actin (SMA),
consistent with our finding that only microvessels enveloped by mural cells with a circumferential …

… -brain barrier and regulation of the cerebral blood … smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) and
mid-capillary pericytes (mcPCs), which differ among others by their expression of smooth muscle …

… have contributed to better understanding of the role of pericytes in the brain. Here, we …
causing loss of pericytes and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) in the developing brain. We …

… alpha-Smooth muscle (alpha-sm) actin, an isoform typical of smooth muscle cells (SMC)
and present in high amounts in vascular SMC, was demonstrated in the cytoplasm of pericytes …

… Pericytes share cell markers with smooth muscle cells and with mesenchymal stem …
cells toward the smooth muscle cell/pericyte lineage with changes in phenotype- and cell-specific …

… cells or in pericytes. In conclusion, the a-actin mRNA is expressed in brain microvascular
pericytes in tissue … protein is not expressed in brain microvascular pericytes in vivo. These data …

… tion that brain pericytes might represent a unique cell population which differs … smooth
muscle cells. It seems likely that similar transitions of midcapillary pericytes to smooth muscle cells …