Vascular smooth muscle cell phenotypic modulation in culture is associated with reorganisation of contractile and cytoskeletal proteins

Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 130-145

  Worth, Nathalie F ^a   Rolfe, Barbara E ^a   Song, Jian ^a   Campbell, Gordon R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contractile proteins; Cytoskeleton; Phenotype; Smooth muscle cell

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BETA ACTIN; CALPONIN; CONTRACTILE PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN; VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOSKELETON; DENSE BODY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MUSCLE FIBER CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RABBIT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ACTININ; ACTINS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CONTRACTILE PROTEINS; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RABBITS; VIMENTIN; VINCULIN;

ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 0034908219     PISSN: 08861544     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cm.1027     Document Type: Article

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