Smooth Muscle Cell Heterogeneity

The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis

1976 • 2,000 citations

The smooth muscle cell in culture

1979 • 1,546 citations

Kinetics of cellular proliferation after arterial injury. I. Smooth muscle growth in the absence of endothelium.

1983 • 1,441 citations

The pathogenesis of atherosclerosis

1972 • 1,376 citations

The Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis

1976 • 1,169 citations

The Intima

1995 • 984 citations

Evidence for a Monoclonal Origin of Human Atherosclerotic Plaques

1973 • 900 citations

Replication of smooth muscle cells in vascular disease.

1986 • 770 citations

Apoptosis of human vascular smooth muscle cells derived from normal vessels and coronary atherosclerotic plaques.

1995 • 700 citations

High expression of genes for calcification-regulating proteins in human atherosclerotic plaques.

1994 • 616 citations

SM22α, a Marker of Adult Smooth Muscle, Is Expressed in Multiple Myogenic Lineages During Embryogenesis

1996 • 397 citations

Smooth muscle myosin heavy chain exclusively marks the smooth muscle lineage during mouse embryogenesis.

1994 • 392 citations

Smooth muscle phenotypic changes in arterial wall homeostasis: Implications for the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis

1985 • 366 citations

Isolation of gene markers of differentiated and proliferating vascular smooth muscle cells.

1993 • 321 citations

Smooth Muscle Lineage Diversity in the Chick Embryo

1996 • 307 citations

A Transforming Growth Factor β (TGFβ) Control Element Drives TGFβ-induced Stimulation of Smooth Muscle α-Actin Gene Expression in Concert with Two CArG Elements

1997 • 297 citations

Rat carotid neointimal smooth muscle cells reexpress a developmentally regulated mRNA phenotype during repair of arterial injury.

1992 • 256 citations

Phenotypic features of smooth muscle cells during the evolution of experimental carotid artery intimal thickening. Biochemical and morphologic studies.

1991 • 224 citations

Smooth muscle phenotypic expression in human carotid arteries. I. Comparison of cells from diffuse intimal thickenings adjacent to atheromatous plaques with those of the media.

1985 • 224 citations

A Serum Response Factor-Dependent Transcriptional Regulatory Program Identifies Distinct Smooth Muscle Cell Sublineages

1997 • 211 citations

Antibodies defining rat endothelial cells: RECA-1, a pan-endothelial cell-specific monoclonal antibody.

1992 • 209 citations

Phenotypic Heterogeneity of Rat Arterial Smooth Muscle Cell Clones

1996 • 207 citations

Monoclonality of smooth muscle cells in human atherosclerosis.

1997 • 190 citations

The aortic tunica media of the developing rat. I. Quantitative stereologic and biochemical analysis.

1975 • 156 citations

Expression of the Smooth Muscle Cell Calponin Gene Marks the Early Cardiac and Smooth Muscle Cell Lineages during Mouse Embryogenesis

1996 • 131 citations

Differentiated vascular myocytes: are they involved in neointimal formation?

1996 • 131 citations

Rat aortic smooth muscle cells isolated from different layers and at different times after endothelial denudation show distinct biological features in vitro.

1994 • 127 citations

Angiotensin II–Induced Stimulation of Smooth Muscle α-Actin Expression by Serum Response Factor and the Homeodomain Transcription Factor MHox

1997 • 126 citations

Is vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation beneficial?

1996 • 114 citations

Developmental Pattern of Expression and Genomic Organization of the Calponin-h1 Gene

1996 • 111 citations

Developmentally timed expression of an embryonic growth phenotype in vascular smooth muscle cells.

1994 • 109 citations

Myocyte Enhancer Binding Factor-2 Expression and Activity in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

1996 • 106 citations

Identification of Osteoglycin as a Component of the Vascular Matrix

1997 • 90 citations

Cultured aortic smooth muscle cells from newborn and adult rats show distinct cytoskeletal features

1992 • 89 citations

H19, a developmentally regulated gene, is reexpressed in rat vascular smooth muscle cells after injury.

1994 • 89 citations

Age influences the replicative activity and the differentiation features of cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cell populations and clones.

1993 • 85 citations

Morphometric study of early postnatal development of the thoracic aorta in the rat.

1980 • 82 citations

Cellular retinol-binding protein-1 is expressed by distinct subsets of rat arterial smooth muscle cells in vitro and in vivo.

1997 • 82 citations

Cloning and analysis of the promoter region of the rat SM22α gene

1995 • 40 citations

A Novel Smooth Muscle-specific Enhancer Regulates Transcription of the Smooth Muscle Myosin Heavy Chain Gene in Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

1995 • 39 citations

Regulation of smooth muscle alpha-actin promoter by vasopressin and platelet-derived growth factor in rat aortic vascular smooth muscle cells.

1994 • 35 citations

Polyubiquitin is a new phenotypic marker of contractile vascular smooth muscle cells

1997 • 19 citations

Water channels in health and disease

1996 • 18 citations

Osteopontin Is Not a Marker for Proliferating Human Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells

1995 • 15 citations

Gene Expression in Graft Vascular Disease

2015 • 2 citations