Highly effective non-viral gene transfer into vascular smooth muscle cells of cultured resistance arteries demonstrated by genetic inhibition of sphingosine-1-phosphate-induced vasoconstriction

Journal of Vascular Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 399-405

  Bolz, Steffen Sebastian ^a   Pohl, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Plasmids; Rho kinase; RhoA; Transfection

Indexed keywords

4 (1 AMINOETHYL) N (4 PYRIDYL)CYCLOHEXANECARBOXAMIDE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NORADRENALIN; PLASMID DNA; PROTEIN; RHO KINASE; RHOA GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; SPHINGOSINE 1 PHOSPHATE; TRANSFERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY MUSCLE; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HAMSTER; ISOLATED ARTERY; NONHUMAN; NONVIRAL GENE DELIVERY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; ARTERIES; CELLS, CULTURED; CRICETINAE; GENE TRANSFER TECHNIQUES; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HYPERTENSION; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPIDS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; SPHINGOSINE; TRANSFECTION; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 0141505044     PISSN: 10181172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072830     Document Type: Article

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