Expression of the High-affinity Choline Transporter CHT1 in Rat and Human Arteries

Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1645-1654

  Lips, Katrin Susanne ^a   Pfeil, Uwe ^a   Reiners, Katja ^a   Rimasch, Christoph ^a   Kuchelmeister, Klaus ^a   Braun Dullaeus, Ruediger C ^a   Haberberger, Rainer V ^a   Schmidt, Rupert ^a   Kummer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Artery; Choline transporter; Choline uptake; Endothelial cell; Vascular smooth muscle

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CARRIER PROTEIN; CHOLINE TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA; ARTERY; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING AFFINITY; CHOLINE UPTAKE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FIBROBLAST; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTIMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; TUNICA MEDIA; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0345725016     PISSN: 00221554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/002215540305101208     Document Type: Article

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