The cytoskeleton of the vertebrate smooth muscle cell

Acta Physiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 341-348

  Small, J V ^a   Gimona, M ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Actin; Calponin; Cytoskeleton; Desmin; Intermediate filaments

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; CALPONIN; DESMIN;

ACTIN FILAMENT; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BINDING SITE; BIOMECHANICS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SHAPE; CELL SURFACE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DENSE BODY; DEVELOPMENT; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; INTERMEDIATE FILAMENT; MOUSE; MUSCLE FORCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; VERTEBRATE; VISCERA;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; HUMANS; MICE; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0032446186     PISSN: 00016772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-201X.1998.00441.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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