OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of overexpression of receptor activity modifying protein 1 (RAMP1) on distribution of the calcitonin receptor like receptor (CRLR) in vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) in order to reveal the antiproliferative mechanism of calcitonin gene-related peptide(CGRP) for VSMC. METHODS: pCDNA3.1 (+)-RAMP1 eukaryon expression vector was successfully constructed by digestion, ligation, transform and transfected to the mouse VSMC cell line A10. After that the normal cells, pCDNA3.1 (+) cells and pCDNA3.1 (+)-RAMP1 cells were treated by Ang II, CGRP and CGRP + Ang II f...