“…Injury to the endothelium has been caused experimentally by a variety of traumas (Baumgartner and Studer, 1966;Veress et al, 1969;Stemerman and Ross, 1972;Bjorkerud and Bondjers, 1973;Knieriem et al, 1973;Fishman et al, 1975;Schwartz et al, 1975;van Pelt-Verkuil et al, 1983). Small wounds heal without stimulation of smooth muscle replication (Reidy and Schwartz, 1984).…”