Atherosclerosis
Volume 186, Issue 1 , Pages 20-28 , May 2006

Effects of Vitamin D analogs on gene expression profiling in human coronary artery smooth muscle cells

Received 17 February 2005 ,Revised 21 June 2005 ,Accepted 23 June 2005.

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 Some of the expression profiling data were presented at the 2005 Keystone Symposium on “The Cellular Biology of Atherosclerosis”.

PII: S0021-9150(05)00446-6

doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2005.06.046

Atherosclerosis
Volume 186, Issue 1 , Pages 20-28 , May 2006