Molecular and physiological effects of α-tropomyosin ablation in the mouse

Circulation Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 116-123

  Rethinasamy, Prabhakar ^a   Muthuchamy, Mariappan ^b   Hewett, Tim ^c   Boivin, Greg ^a   Wolska, Beata M ^d   Evans, Christian ^d   Solaro, R John ^d   Wieczorek, David F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Knockout mouse; Translational regulation; Tropomyosin

Indexed keywords

TROPOMYOSIN;

ACTIN MYOSIN INTERACTION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MYOFILAMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THIN FILAMENT; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EID: 0031908697     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.82.1.116     Document Type: Article

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