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. 2017 Feb;6(1):20–27. doi: 10.21037/tau.2016.11.18

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Aging related events ongoing in the vascular smooth muscle cell. Aging induces oxidative stress which leads to apoptosis of the smooth muscle cells and induction of iNOS. NO from iNOS combats the oxidative stress and helps retard the apoptotic process within the cell.