Calcium spots: Elementary signals in response to mechanical stress in vascular endothelial cells

Circulation Research

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 852-854

  Tanaka, Hideo ^a   Takamatsu, Tetsuro ^a  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Calcium; Confocal microscopy; Endothelium; Lysophosphatidic acid; Mechanotransduction

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; CALCIUM; LYSOPHOSPHATIDIC ACID; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTACYCLIN;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; EDITORIAL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FLOW RATE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0035843898     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/hh0901.091207     Document Type: Editorial

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