Atherosclerotic plaque-derived extracellular vesicles mediate smooth muscle cell phenotypic switching and promote vascular remodeling : EVs promote VSMC phenotypic switching.

Cell Mol Life Sci · 2026 · PMC12979814 · PMID 41784666

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The contractile gene set showed a trend of being lower compared to control VSMCs, whereas phenotypic switching gene set showed the opposite trend (Fig.

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