A new model of human aortic endothelial cells in vitro

D Donnini, G Perrella, G Stel, FS Ambesi-Impiombato… - Biochimie, 2000 - Elsevier
Vascular endothelial cells play an important role in coagulation regulation of vascular tone
and in a variety of synthetic and metabolic functions. Endothelial cells also have a pivotal
role in immunological diseases atherogenesis and tumor angiogenesis. Endothelial cells
are often used as system to study the pathophysiology of late complications in diabetes
mellitus atherosclerotic damages and leukocyte adhesion in inflammatory diseases. Most of
the studies have been performed on primary arterial and venous endothelial cell cultures …