Upregulation of small GTPase RhoA in the basilar artery from diabetic (mellitus) rats

Life Sciences

Volumn 71, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1175-1185

  Miao, L ^a   Calvert, J W ^a   Tang, J ^a   Zhang, J H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral arteries; Diabetes; Rho kinase; RhoA

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; MESSENGER RNA; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BINDING ASSAY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEUROPATHY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ASSAY; MALE; MEMBRANE BINDING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STREPTOZOCIN DIABETES; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BODY WEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; INSULIN; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHO GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 0037178608     PISSN: 00243205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-3205(02)01827-1     Document Type: Article

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