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ABSTRACT:
ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus
SUBMITTER: Jan Hendrickx
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-1478 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
Hendrickx Jan J Doggen Kris K Weinberg Ellen O EO Van Tongelen Pascale P Fransen Paul P De Keulenaer Gilles W GW
Physiological genomics 20040810 2
In addition to a number of common features, cardiovascular endothelium displays structural, functional, and genetic differences according to its position in the cardiovascular tree. In the heart, endocardial and cardiac microvascular endothelia (CMVE) interact directly with surrounding cardiomyocytes, whereas the endothelium within blood vessels interacts with smooth muscle cells. In this study, we investigated whether cardiac endothelial cells were distinct from aortic endothelial (AE) cells at ...[more]