Smooth-muscle contraction without smooth-muscle myosin

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 371-375

  Morano, Ingo ^a,b   Chai, Gui Xuan ^a   Baltas, Leonidas G ^a   Lamounier Zepter, Valeria ^a   Lutsch, Gudrun ^a   Kott, Monika ^a   Haase, Hannelore ^a   Bader, Michael ^a  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER MUSCLE; CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HOMEOSTASIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; MUSCLE GROWTH; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CELLS, CULTURED; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; INTESTINES; ISOENZYMES; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUTATION; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RENIN; RNA, MESSENGER; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0033771883     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35014065     Document Type: Article

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