Abstract:The present study aimed to assess the role of urocortin II (UII) in the process of vascular calcification in vitro by using a calcification model, and to detect the changes in the mRNA and protein levels of associated markers in rat adventitial fibroblasts (AFs) during their phenotypic transformation to osteoblast cells, and clarify the main signal transduction pathway of UII responsible for regulating vascular calcification and AF phenotypic transformation of osteoblast cells and prove that UII was an endogen… Show more
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