Exogenous caldesmon promotes relaxation of guinea-pig skinned taenia coli smooth muscles: Inhibition of cooperative reattachment of latch bridges?

Pflugers Archiv European Journal of Physiology

Volumn 434, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 534-542

  Albrecht, Kerstin ^a   Schneider, Alexandra ^a   Liebetrau, Claudia ^a   Rüegg, J Caspar ^a   Pfitzer, Gabriele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caged ATP; Caldesmon; Calponin; Latch crossbridges; Skinned smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CALDESMON; CALPONIN; PHOSPHATE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLON MOTILITY; COLON TENIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; GUINEA PIG; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE RELAXATION;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CALMODULIN-BINDING PROTEINS; COLON; GUINEA PIGS; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCLE RELAXATION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOFIBRILS; OCTOXYNOL; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTOLYSIS; RABBITS;

EID: 0030810668     PISSN: 00316768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004240050433     Document Type: Article

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