Critical role of Rho-kinase pathway for cardiac performance and remodeling in failing rat hearts

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 757-767

  Kobayashi, Naohiko ^a   Horinaka, Shigeo ^a   Mita, Shin ichiro ^a   Nakano, Shigefumi ^a   Honda, Takeaki ^a   Yoshida, Kohtaro ^a   Kobayashi, Tsutomu ^a   Matsuoka, Hiroaki ^a  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contractile function; G proteins; Heart failure; Remodeling; Signal transduction

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAIN; PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITOR; RHO KINASE; RHO KINASE INHIBITOR; S6 KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PATHOGENESIS; PHOSPHORYLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTO ONCOGENE; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AMIDES; ANIMALS; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOSIN LIGHT CHAINS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE III; PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; PYRIDINES; RATS; RATS, INBRED DAHL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHO FACTOR; RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 KINASES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 0036045056     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(02)00457-1     Document Type: Article

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