α-smooth muscle actin is crucial for focal adhesion maturation in myofibroblasts

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2508-2519

  Hinz, Boris ^a   Dugina, Vera ^b   Ballestrem, Christoph ^c   Wehrle Haller, Bernhard ^a   Chaponnier, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; BETA3 INTEGRIN; FIBRONECTIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; PAXILLIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL FRACTIONATION; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FIBROBLAST CULTURE; FOCAL ADHESION; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ACTINS; ANIMALS; CYTOPLASM; FIBROBLASTS; FOCAL ADHESIONS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; RATS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0037632844     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-11-0729     Document Type: Article

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