Molecular mechanisms of β-adrenergic relaxation of airway smooth muscle

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 58, Issue , 1996, Pages 115-141

  Kotlikoff, Michael I ^a   Kamm, Kristine E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

calcium activated potassium channel; G proteins; myosin light chain kinase; phosphatase; phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; CALCIUM ION; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC GMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; POTASSIUM CHANNEL; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN);

BETA ADRENERGIC STIMULATION; BREATHING MUSCLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; EXCITATION CONTRACTION COUPLING; HYPERPOLARIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

EID: 0029993420     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ph.58.030196.000555     Document Type: Review

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