Microtubule depolymerization facilitates contraction of rat aorta via activation of Rho-kinase

Vascular Pharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 157-161

  Chitaley, Kanchan ^a,b   Webb, R Clinton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microtubule depolymerization; Rho kinase; Vasoconstriction

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; COLCHICINE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; NOCODAZOLE; PACLITAXEL; RHO KINASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLYMERIZATION; DRUG INHIBITION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; MALE; MICROTUBULE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; VASCULAR RING; VASODILATATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AORTA, THORACIC; COLCHICINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MICROTUBULES; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; NOCODAZOLE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0036524571     PISSN: 15371891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1537-1891(02)00163-5     Document Type: Article

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