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SUBMITTER: Swaminathan G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4827279 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Swaminathan Ganesh G Sivaraman Balakrishnan B Moore Lee L Zborowski Maciej M Ramamurthi Anand A
Tissue engineering. Part C, Methods 20160318 4
Abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA) represent abnormal aortal expansions that result from chronic proteolytic breakdown of elastin and collagen fibers by matrix metalloproteases. Poor elastogenesis by adult vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) limits regenerative repair of elastic fibers, critical for AAA growth arrest. Toward overcoming these limitations, we recently demonstrated significant elastogenesis by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell-derived SMCs (BM-SMCs) and their proelastogenesis and ant ...[more]