c-Ha-ras(EJ) transfection in vascular smooth muscle cells circumvents PKC requirement during mitogenic signaling

American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology

Volumn 273, Issue 4 42-4, 1997, Pages

  Weber, Thomas J ^a   Ramos, Kenneth S ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular differentiation; Growth programs; Protein phosphorylation; Ras signaling

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE C; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGENIC AGENT; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN);

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA SYNTHESIS INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE ACTIVATION; HYDROLYSIS; MITOGENICITY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE RAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHOSPHORYLATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CA(2+)-CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CELLS, CULTURED; GENES, RAS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGENS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0031255582     PISSN: 03636135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpheart.1997.273.4.h1920     Document Type: Article

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