Alternative splicing and cycling kinetics of myosin change during hypertrophy of human smooth muscle cells

Journal of Cellular Biochemistry

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-181

  Morano, Ingo ^a,b   Koehlen, Stefan ^b   Haase, Hannelore ^a   Erb, Gunter ^b   Baltas, Leonidas G ^a   Rimbach, Stephan ^b   Wallwiener, Diethelm ^b   Bastert, Gunther ^b  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

alternative splicing; hypertrophy; myoma; myometrium; myosin heavy chains; myosin light chains; smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MYOMETRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RNA SPLICING; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ADULT; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMERISM; KINETICS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOMETRIUM; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031031031     PISSN: 07302312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4644(199702)64:2<171::AID-JCB1>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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