Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Stiffness and Adhesion to Collagen I Modified by Vasoactive Agonists

Zhongkui Hong; Kimberley J. Reeves; Zhe Sun; Zhaohui Li; Nicola J. Brown; Gerald A. Meininger

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0119533

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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Stiffness and Adhesion to Collagen I Modified by Vasoactive Agonists

Zhongkui Hong ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongkui Hong, Kimberley J. Reeves

Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Kimberley J. Reeves ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Zhongkui Hong, Kimberley J. Reeves

Current address: Breakthrough Breast Cancer Research Unit, Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, Paterson Building, the University of Manchester, Manchester, M20 4BX, United Kingdom

Affiliation Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Zhe Sun,

Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Zhaohui Li,

Affiliation Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Nicola J. Brown,

Affiliation Department of Oncology, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
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Gerald A. Meininger

* E-mail: Meiningerg@missouri.edu

Affiliations Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States of America
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Vascular Smooth Muscle Cell Stiffness and Adhesion to Collagen I Modified by Vasoactive Agonists

Zhongkui Hong,
Kimberley J. Reeves,
Zhe Sun,
Zhaohui Li,
Nicola J. Brown,
Gerald A. Meininger

Published: March 6, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0119533

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