The unique 5'-flanking region of the human basic calponin gene

Hypertension Research - Clinical and Experimental

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-193

  Kitami, Yutaka ^a   Maguchi, Motofumi ^a   Nishida, Wataru ^b   Okura, Takafumi ^a   Kohara, Katsuhiko ^a   Hiwada, Kunio ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

cis acting element; Gene transcription; Human basic calponin; Promoter activity; Vascular smooth muscle cells

Indexed keywords

CALPONIN; CIS ACTING ELEMENT; LUCIFERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

EID: 0032845296     PISSN: 09169636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1291/hypres.22.187     Document Type: Article

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