Phosphorus may induce phenotypic transdifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells through the reduction of microrna-145

This study has been funded by Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII; PI17/00715, PI20/00753, PI20/00633, PI22/00195, co-funded by the European Union), the ISCIII Retic REDinREN (RD16/0009/0017), the ISCIII Red de Investigación Cooperativa Orientada a Resultados en Salud RICORS2040 (RD21/0005/0004 and RD21/0005/0019, Next Generation EU; Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan), Plan Estatal de I+D+I 2013–2016, Plan de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación 2013–2017 y 2018–2022 del Principado de Asturias (GRUPIN14-028, IDI-2018-000152, IDI/2021/000080), Fundación Renal Iñigo Álvarez de Toledo (FRIAT) and SEIOMM. S.F.-V. and B.M.-C. were supported by a graduate fellowship from the Gobierno del Principado de Asturias (“Severo Ochoa” program: BP20-081, BP19-057 respectively), J.M.-V. by a graduate fellowship from the Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (FPU program: FPU2019-00483), C.A-M. by RICORS2040 (Kidney Disease), N.C.-L by IDI-2018-000152 and IDI-2021-000080 and S.P. was supported by Fundación para la Investigación Biosanitaria de Asturias (FINBA).