Characterization of cloned aortic smooth muscle cells from young rats.

Single-Step Method of RNA Isolation by Acid Guanidinium Thiocyanate–Phenol–Chloroform Extraction

1987 • 64,270 citations

A monoclonal antibody against alpha-smooth muscle actin: a new probe for smooth muscle differentiation.

1986 • 1,644 citations

The myoD Gene Family: Nodal Point During Specification of the Muscle Cell Lineage

1991 • 1,564 citations

Mesenchymal derivatives of the neural crest: analysis of chimaeric quail and chick embryos

1975 • 966 citations

Evidence for a Monoclonal Origin of Human Atherosclerotic Plaques

1973 • 900 citations

DNA methylation and gene expression

1991 • 685 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor promotes smooth muscle migration and intimal thickening in a rat model of balloon angioplasty.

1992 • 681 citations

Osteopontin is elevated during neointima formation in rat arteries and is a novel component of human atherosclerotic plaques.

1993 • 642 citations

Regulation of differentiated properties and proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells.

1990 • 556 citations

Developmental mechanisms underlying pathology of arteries

1990 • 445 citations

PDGF ligand and receptor gene expression during repair of arterial injury.

1990 • 431 citations

Production of platelet-derived growth factor-like molecules by cultured arterial smooth muscle cells accompanies proliferation after arterial injury.

1986 • 393 citations

Osteopontin promotes vascular cell adhesion and spreading and is chemotactic for smooth muscle cells in vitro.

1994 • 392 citations

Mechanical strain induces growth of vascular smooth muscle cells via autocrine action of PDGF.

1993 • 368 citations

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

1985 • 366 citations

cDNA cloning of a myosin heavy chain isoform in embryonic smooth muscle and its expression during vascular development and in arteriosclerosis

1991 • 290 citations

Phenotypic changes of human smooth muscle cells during development: Late expression of heavy caldesmon and calponin

1992 • 277 citations

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

1992 • 256 citations

Platelet-derived growth factor gene expression in human atherosclerotic plaques and normal artery wall.

1988 • 245 citations

Cytoskeleton of rat aortic smooth muscle cells. Normal conditions and experimental intimal thickening.

1984 • 241 citations

Expression and developmental control of platelet-derived growth factor A-chain and B-chain/Sis genes in rat aortic smooth muscle cells.

1988 • 214 citations

Molecular cloning and characterization of 2B7, a rat mRNA which distinguishes smooth muscle cell phenotypes and is identical to osteopontin (secreted phosphoprotein I, 2aR)

1991 • 191 citations

Myosin heavy chain isoform diversity in smooth muscle is produced by differential RNA processing

1989 • 187 citations

Modulation of human aorta smooth muscle cell phenotype: a study of muscle-specific variants of vinculin, caldesmon, and actin expression.

1988 • 178 citations

Developmental changes in isoactin expression in rat aortic smooth muscle cells in vivo. Relationship between growth and cytodifferentiation.

1986 • 150 citations

Relation between Activated Smooth-Muscle Cells in Coronary-Artery Lesions and Restenosis after Atherectomy

1993 • 126 citations

Cytoskeletal remodeling of rat aortic smooth muscle cells in vitro: relationships to culture conditions and analogies to in vivo situations.

1986 • 105 citations

Aging and arteriosclerosis. The increased proliferation of arterial smooth muscle cells isolated from old rats is associated with increased platelet-derived growth factor-like activity.

1988 • 104 citations

Induction of tenascin in rat arterial injury. Relationship to altered smooth muscle cell phenotype.

1991 • 102 citations

Spontaneous and experimentally induced arterial lesions. I. An ultrastructural survey of the normal chicken aorta.

1970 • 101 citations

Induction of polyploidy in cultures of neonatal rat aortic smooth muscle cells.

1986 • 89 citations

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

1992 • 89 citations

Derivation and properties of platelet-derived growth factor-independent rat smooth muscle cells.

1990 • 81 citations

Evidence implicating nonmuscle myosin in restenosis. Use of in situ hybridization to analyze human vascular lesions obtained by directional atherectomy.

1992 • 68 citations

Technique for cloning bovine aortic endothelial cells

1983 • 68 citations

The development expression of the rat alpha-vascular and gamma-enteric smooth muscle isoactins: isolation and characterization of a rat gamma-enteric actin cDNA.

1988 • 67 citations

Hypertension-induced changes of platelet-derived growth factor receptor expression in rat aorta and heart.

1991 • 66 citations

Focal smooth muscle proliferation in the aortic intima produced by an initiation-promotion sequence.

1985 • 63 citations

Myosin isoforms and cell heterogeneity in vascular smooth muscle

1990 • 62 citations

The nucleotide sequence of a rat vascular smooth muscle α-actin cDNA

1988 • 60 citations

Smooth Muscle Diversity in Arterial Wound Repair*

1990 • 57 citations

Developmentally regulated cytochrome P-450IA1 expression in cultured rat vascular smooth muscle cells

1991 • 57 citations

Serum deprivation of vascular smooth muscle cells enhances collagen gene expression.

1988 • 56 citations

Phenotypic changes of human aortic smooth muscle cells during development and in the adult vessel

1991 • 54 citations

Concerted modulation of alpha 1(XI) and alpha 2(V) collagen mRNAs in bovine vascular smooth muscle cells.

1991 • 46 citations

Anatomy and histology of aorta of White Carneau pigeon.

1975 • 45 citations

Cell density and proliferation modulate collagen synthesis and procollagen mRNA levels in arterial smooth muscle cells

1992 • 42 citations

Identification of three types of PDGF-A chain gene transcripts in rabbit vascular smooth muscle and their regulated expression during development and by angiotensin II

1992 • 39 citations

Specific growth stimulation of cultured smooth muscle cells from spontaneously hypertensive rats by platelet-derived growth factor A-chain homodimer.

1990 • 31 citations

Heterogeneity in smooth muscle cell population accumulating in the neointimas and the media of poststenotic dilatation of the rabbit carotid artery

1992 • 30 citations

Isolation and characterization of clonal vascular smooth muscle cell lines from spontaneously hypertensive and normotensive rat aortas

1991 • 30 citations

An electron microscopic study of pigeon aorta cell cultures

1977 • 22 citations

Basic fibroblast growth factor has a differential effect on MyoD conversion of cultured aortic smooth muscle cells from newborn and adult rats.

1993 • 13 citations

Effect of ploidy on transcription levels in cultured rat aortic smooth muscle cells

1992 • 7 citations