Do vascular smooth muscle cells differentiate to macrophages in atherosclerotic lesions?

Circ Res. 2014 Sep 12;115(7):605-6. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.114.304925.

Authors

Filip K Swirski¹, Matthias Nahrendorf²

Affiliations

¹ From the Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
² From the Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. mnahrendorf@mgh.harvard.edu fswirski@mgh.harvard.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; atherosclerosis; macrophages; vascular smooth muscle cells.

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
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MeSH terms

Animals
Cell Transdifferentiation*
Macrophages / pathology*
Muscle, Smooth, Vascular / pathology*
Myocytes, Smooth Muscle / pathology*
Plaque, Atherosclerotic / pathology*

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