Smooth muscle cell estrogen receptor alpha promotes arterial stiffness in mice exposed to low estradiol levels.
These findings support that SMC-ERα contributes to arterial stiffening in female and male mice in situations where the vasculature is exposed to low levels of estradiol.
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