High expression of the focal adhesion- and microfilament-associated protein VASP in vascular smooth muscle and endothelial cells of the intact human vessel wall

Basic Research in Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 337-343

  Markert, T ^a   Krenn, V ^b   Leebmann, J ^b   Walter, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; cGMP dependent protein kinase; Human endothelium; Human vascular smooth muscle; VASP

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

ARTICLE; CELL MOTILITY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEART; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MICROFILAMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THROMBOCYTE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0029829858     PISSN: 03008428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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