Mechanotransduction of rat aortic vascular smooth muscle cells requires RhoA and intact actin filaments

Circulation Research

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-11

  Numaguchi, Kotaro ^a   Eguchi, Satoru ^a   Yamakawa, Tadashi ^a   Motley, Evangeline D ^b   Inagami, Tadashi ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEHARRY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin filament; Cell growth; Mitogen activated protein kinase; RhoA; Vascular smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

2 (2 AMINO 3 METHOXYPHENYL)CHROMONE; ACTIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN A; CYTOCHALASIN D; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; RHO FACTOR;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CELL HYPERPLASIA; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVATION; HYPERTENSION; MECHANICAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE;

EID: 0033538615     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.RES.85.1.5     Document Type: Article

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