Inhibition of arterial medial calcification and bone mineralization by extracellular nucleotides: The same functional effect mediated by different cellular mechanisms
(2018)
Journal Article
Patel, J. J., Zhu, D., Opdebeeck, B., D'Haese, P., Millán, J. L., Bourne, L. E., …Orriss, I. R. (2018). Inhibition of arterial medial calcification and bone mineralization by extracellular nucleotides: The same functional effect mediated by different cellular mechanisms. Journal of Cellular Physiology, 233(4), 3230-3243. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.26166
Arterial medial calcification (AMC) is thought to share some outward similarities to skeletal mineralization and has been associated with the transdifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) to an osteoblast‐like phenotype. ATP and UTP ha... Read More about Inhibition of arterial medial calcification and bone mineralization by extracellular nucleotides: The same functional effect mediated by different cellular mechanisms.