TY - CHAP AU - Lucie Bacakova AU - Martina Travnickova AU - Elena Filova AU - Roman Matejka AU - Jana Stepanovska AU - Jana Musilkova AU - Jana Zarubova AU - Martin Molitor ED - Kunihiro Sakuma Y1 - 2018-10-10 PY - 2018 T1 - Vascular Smooth Muscle Cells (VSMCs) in Blood Vessel Tissue Engineering: The Use of Differentiated Cells or Stem Cells as VSMC Precursors N2 - In order to complete tissue regeneration, various cells (neuronal, skeletal and smooth) interact coordinately with each other. This book, Muscle Cell and Tissue - Current Status of Research Field, deals with current progress and perspectives in a variety of topics on the skeletal and smooth muscle, stem cells, regeneration, disease or therapeutics. Novel applications for cell and tissue engineering including cell therapy, tissue models and disease pathology modeling are introduced. This book also deals with the differentiation/de-differentiation process of vascular smooth muscle cells in health and disease. Furthermore, natural products to reverse metabolic syndromes are descriptively reviewed. These chapters can be interesting for graduate students, teachers, physicians, executives and researchers in the field of molecular biology and regenerative medicine. BT - Muscle Cell and Tissue SP - Ch. 14 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.77108 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.77108 SN - 978-1-78984-006-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-24 ER -