TY - JOUR AU - Lachaud, Christian Claude AU - Pezzolla, Daniela AU - Domínguez-Rodríguez, Alejandro AU - Smani, Tarik AU - Soria, Bernat AU - Hmadcha, Abdelkrim PY - 2013 DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0055181 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10668/2414 T2 - PloS One AB - In mammalian visceral organs, vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) originate from an epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) of embryonic mesothelial cells (MCs). The ability of adult MCs to recapitulate EMT and to acquire smooth muscle (SM)... LA - en PB - Public Library of Science KW - Immunofluorescence KW - Muscarinic acetylcholine receptors KW - Flow cytometry KW - Carbachol KW - Fibroblasts KW - Oxytocin KW - Fluorescence imaging KW - Desmin KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors::Biological Markers::Antigens, Differentiation::Antigens, CD29 KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors::Biological Markers::Biomarkers KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors::Antigens::Antigens, Surface::Cell Adhesion Molecules::Cadherins KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors::Blood Coagulation Factors::Calcium KW - Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Cell Physiological Phenomena::Cell Physiological Processes::Cell Differentiation KW - Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Cell Physiological Phenomena::Cell Physiological Processes::Cell Transdifferentiation::Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition KW - Medical Subject Headings::Check Tags::Female KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Biological Factors::Biological Markers::Antigens, Differentiation::Antigens, CD::Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 KW - Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Rodentia::Muridae::Murinae::Mice KW - Medical Subject Headings::Phenomena and Processes::Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena::Musculoskeletal Physiological Phenomena::Musculoskeletal Physiological Processes::Muscle Contraction KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins::Proteins::Contractile Proteins::Muscle Proteins KW - Medical Subject Headings::Anatomy::Tissues::Muscles::Muscle, Smooth::Muscle, Smooth, Vascular KW - Medical Subject Headings::Anatomy::Cells::Muscle Cells::Myocytes, Smooth Muscle KW - Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Rodentia::Muridae::Murinae::Rats KW - Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals::Chordata::Vertebrates::Mammals::Rodentia::Muridae::Murinae::Rats::Rats, Wistar KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins::Proteins::Membrane Proteins::Receptors, Cell Surface::Receptors, G-Protein-Coupled::Receptors, Endothelin KW - Medical Subject Headings::Anatomy::Urogenital System::Genitalia::Genitalia, Female::Uterus KW - Medical Subject Headings::Chemicals and Drugs::Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins::Proteins::Transcription Factors::beta Catenin KW - Medical Subject Headings::Organisms::Eukaryota::Animals TI - Functional vascular smooth muscle-like cells derived from adult mouse uterine mesothelial cells. TY - research article ER -