The results of flow cytometry also confirmed that the expression rates of ACTA2 and MYH11, the major markers of smooth muscle cells, increased to 57.2±11.9% and 48.0±7.7%, respectively.

Advances have been made in this field, by our study group and others, which show that proteins such as smooth muscle myosin heavy chain, elastin and D-dimer could be useful as biomarkers of aortic ...

SMA = smooth muscle antibodies; anti-LKM1 = antibodies to liver/kidney microsome type 1; AMA = antimitochondrial antibodies; IgG = serum immunoglobulin G level; AST = aspartate aminotransferase ...