Involvement of calcineurin in angiotensin II-induced cardiomyocyte hypertrophy and cardiac fibroblast hyperplasia of rats

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 283-288

  Fu, Mingui ^a   Xu, Song ^a   Zhang, Jifeng ^a   Pang, Yongzheng ^a   Liu, Naikui ^a   Su, Jingyi ^a   Tang, Chaoshu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Angiotensin II; Calcineurin; Cardiac hypertrophy; Cultured neonatal rat cardiac myocyte and fibroblast; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN; ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CALCINEURIN; CYCLOSPORIN; DNA; FURA 2 ACETOXYMETHYL ESTER; LOSARTAN; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CELL HYPERPLASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FIBROBLAST; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RAT; RNA ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0033513352     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03257240     Document Type: Article

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