Smooth muscle myosin heavy chain isoforms and their role in muscle physiology

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 532-540

  Babu, Gopal J ^a   Warshaw, David M ^b   Periasamy, Muthu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Isoforms; Muscle contraction and physiology; Myosin heavy chain; Smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CHAINS; GENES;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO TERMINUS; CARBOXYL TERMINUS; DEVELOPMENT; ISOFORMS; MUSCLE CONTRACTION AND PHYSIOLOGY; MUSCLE CONTRACTIONS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLES;

MUSCLE;

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; MOUSE; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE CONTRACTION;

ANIMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034665405     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0029(20000915)50:6<532::AID-JEMT10>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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