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Activation of the ESC pluripotency factor OCT4 in smooth muscle cells is atheroprotective

There are controversial claims that the embryonic stem cell (ESC) pluripotency factor OCT4 is activated in somatic cells, but there is no evidence it plays a functional role in these cells. Herein we demonstrate that smooth muscle cell (SMC)-specific conditional knockout of Oct4 within Apoe(−/−) mic...

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Autores principales: Cherepanova, Olga A., Gomez, Delphine, Shankman, Laura S., Swiatlowska, Pamela, Williams, Jason, Sarmento, Olga F., Alencar, Gabriel F., Hess, Daniel L., Bevard, Melissa H., Greene, Elizabeth S., Murgai, Meera, Turner, Stephen D., Geng, Yong-Jian, Bekiranov, Stefan, Connelly, Jessica J., Tomilin, Alexey, Owens, Gary K.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4899256/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27183216
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nm.4109