Isolation and differential transcriptome of vascular smooth muscle cells and mid-capillary pericytes from the rat

Stéphanie Chasseigneaux1,2,3, Yasmine Moraca1,2,3, Véronique Cochois-Guégan1,2,3

  • 1Inserm, U1144, Paris, F-75006, France.

Scientific Reports
|August 18, 2018
PubMed

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