Human foetal lung (IMR-90) cells: Myofibroblasts with smooth muscle- like contractile properties

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 288-298

  Ehler, Elisabeth ^a,b   Babiychuk, Eduard ^a,c   Draeger, Annette ^a,d  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c TARAS SHEVCHENKO NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF KYIV   (Ukraine)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

contraction; differentiation; metavinculin; myofibroblast; smooth muscle; vinculin

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; VINCULIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FETUS; FETUS LUNG; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MYOFIBROBLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

3T3 CELLS; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CELL LINE; CHICKENS; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; LUNG; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C3H; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH;

EID: 0029757130     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1996)34:4<288::AID-CM4>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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