Organ culture as a useful method for studying the biology of blood vessels and other smooth muscle tissues.
The benefit of organ culture is to retain the original structural relationship between various cell species and their interactions and enable us to study the long-term effects of exogenous stimuli. Organ culture methods have been used especially in the studies of the proliferative vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and restenosis. We describe here that organ culture is a useful in vitro method to study the biology of vascular and other smooth muscle organs.
Department of Veterinary Pharmacology, Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan. aozaki@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Hiroshi
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Ozaki
Hideaki
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Karaki
D000818:Animals; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009130:Muscle, Smooth / Q000502:physiology*; D009924:Organ Culture Techniques