Polyubiquitin is a new phenotypic marker of contractile vascular smooth muscle cells

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 416-421

  Adam, Paul J ^a   Weissberg, Peter L ^a   Cary, Nathaniel R B ^b   Shanahan, Catherine M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b PAPWORTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

contractile function; differentiation marker; gene expression; human, VSMC; polyubiquitin; rat, vascular smooth muscle cells; ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

POLYUBIQUITIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AORTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOPOLYMERS; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CELLS, CULTURED; DNA; GENETIC MARKERS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; POLYUBIQUITIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; UBIQUITINS;

EID: 0031017232     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(96)00220-9     Document Type: Article

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