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Smooth Muscle Cells from Adult Human Aorta

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Cell Culture Techniques in Heart and Vessel Research

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Cultures of animal aortic cells have found wide application in the investigation of cellular aspects of atherogenesis. However, culture of human aortic cells is a more adequate model since atherosclerotic lesions occurring in human vessels differ from those induced in experimental animals.

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Smirnov, V.N., Orekhov, A.N. (1990). Smooth Muscle Cells from Adult Human Aorta. In: Piper, H.M. (eds) Cell Culture Techniques in Heart and Vessel Research. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75262-9_18

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